Exam KCSA Topic 2 Question 44 Discussion

Actual exam question for Linux Foundation's KCSA exam
Question #: 44
Topic #: 2
When using a cloud provider's managed Kubernetes service, who is responsible for maintaining the etcd cluster?

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* Inmanaged Kubernetes services(EKS, GKE, AKS), the control plane is operated by thecloud provider
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* This includesetcd, API server, controller manager, scheduler.
* Users manageworker nodes(in some models) and workloads, but not the control plane.
* Exact extract (GKE Docs):
* "The control plane, including the API server and etcd database, is managed and maintained by Google."
* Similarly forEKSandAKS, etcd is fully managed by the provider.
References:
GKE Architecture: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/cluster-architecture EKS Architecture: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eks-architecture.html AKS Docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/concepts-clusters-workloads

by Lauren at Oct 17, 2025, 11:37 PM

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