Exam CKS Topic 1 Question 23 Discussion

Actual exam question for Linux Foundation's CKS exam
Question #: 23
Topic #: 1
You can switch the cluster/configuration context using the following command: [desk@cli] $ kubectl config use-context qa Context: A pod fails to run because of an incorrectly specified ServiceAccount Task: Create a new service account named backend-qa in an existing namespace qa, which must not have access to any secret. Edit the frontend pod yaml to use backend-qa service account Note: You can find the frontend pod yaml at /home/cert_masters/frontend-pod.yaml

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[desk@cli] $ k create sa backend-qa -n qa sa/backend-qa created [desk@cli] $ k get role,rolebinding -n qa No resources found in qa namespace. [desk@cli] $ k create role backend -n qa --resource pods,namespaces,configmaps --verb list # No access to secret [desk@cli] $ k create rolebinding backend -n qa --role backend --serviceaccount qa:backend-qa [desk@cli] $ vim /home/cert_masters/frontend-pod.yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata:
name: frontend
spec:
serviceAccountName: backend-qa # Add this
image: nginx
name: frontend
[desk@cli] $ k apply -f /home/cert_masters/frontend-pod.yaml pod created
[desk@cli] $ k create sa backend-qa -n qa serviceaccount/backend-qa created [desk@cli] $ k get role,rolebinding -n qa No resources found in qa namespace. [desk@cli] $ k create role backend -n qa --resource pods,namespaces,configmaps --verb list role.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/backend created [desk@cli] $ k create rolebinding backend -n qa --role backend --serviceaccount qa:backend-qa rolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/backend created [desk@cli] $ vim /home/cert_masters/frontend-pod.yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata:
name: frontend
spec:
serviceAccountName: backend-qa # Add this
image: nginx
name: frontend
[desk@cli] $ k apply -f /home/cert_masters/frontend-pod.yaml pod/frontend created https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-service-account/

by Nigel at May 13, 2026, 09:01 AM

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