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IMPORTANT before enrolling:Actual Istio Certified Associate (ICA) from LinuxFoundation is Time-based and Performance-based (Lab/practical). And this practice question is just to give a familiarity for real time questions of the exam.As current portal is not supporting lab session, only relevant questions with great explanations are updated in this course.As real exam is time-based and lab/practical/performance based - you can get real answer only after submission of test and have a looks on how the solution can be helpful to solve the real exam.Suggestion - For practice lab, you can use your own Kubernetes cluster, and perform the similar exercise on the BookInfo Application, which is already bundled under Istio installation. In case, if you are planning to instructor led training program for the Istio from scratch, feel free to drop message on Instrucor's LinkedIn profile. My team will update you for the next upcoming batches on the same, with details.Actual Exam - ICAThe Istio Certified Associate (ICA) exam demonstrates a solid understanding of Istio principles, terminology, and best practices in order to set up Istio.Who is it for?The ICA is a pre-professional certification designed for engineers, CI/CD practitioners or anyone with special interests in Istio.What does the ICA Demonstrate?An ICA can comprehend GitOps patterns including when and why to use them. They understand the precautions to take around tooling for manifest format and packaging, state store systems, and reconciliation engines to adhere to and extend GitOps principles.Domains and Competencies -Istio Installation, Upgrade and Configuration (7%)Using the Istio CLI to install a basic clusterCustomizing the Istio installation with the IstioOperator APIUsing overlays to manage Istio component settingsTraffic Management (40%)Controlling network traffic flows within a service meshConfiguring sidecar injectionUsing the Gateway resource to configure ingress and egress trafficUnderstanding how to use ServiceEntry resources for adding entries to internal service registryDefine traffic policies using DestinationRuleConfigure traffic mirroring capabilitiesResilience and Fault Injection (20%)Configuring circuit breakers (with or without outlier detection)Using resilience featuresCreating fault injectionSecurity Workloads (20%)Understand Istio security featuresSet up Istio authorization for HTTP/TCP traffic in the meshConfigure mutual TLS at mesh, namespace, and workload levelsAdvanced Scenarios (13%)Understand how to onboard non-Kubernetes workloads to the meshTroubleshoot configuration issues

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