Cognizant
American multinational information technology services and consulting company.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Medium
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
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Interview Question Bank
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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hard
Walk me through exactly what happens in the control plane when you run `kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml`.
#Kubernetes
#Architecture
#API Server
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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easy
Explain the difference between a ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer service in Kubernetes.
#Kubernetes
#Networking
#Services
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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hard
How do you implement autoscaling in Kubernetes? Discuss the differences between HPA, VPA, and Cluster Autoscaler.
#Kubernetes
#Autoscaling
#Performance
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