5. Networking

Service Mesh — Quiz

Test your understanding of service mesh with 5 practice questions.

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Practice Questions

Question 1

Which statement best describes a primary benefit of deploying sidecar proxies alongside each microservice in a service mesh?

Question 2

How do you enable automatic sidecar proxy injection for pods in a Kubernetes namespace when using Istio?

Question 3

In Istio, which resource is used to configure circuit breaking settings such as maxConnections, maxRequests, and outlier detection for a service?

Question 4

Which Istio resource allows insertion of raw Envoy proxy configuration for advanced use cases beyond standard CRDs?

Question 5

To implement HTTP request retries and timeouts for specific routes in Istio, which resource must you configure?