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CNCF GitOps Associate (CGOA)

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Practice exam for the CNCF GitOps Associate (CGOA) certification. Covers GitOps terminology, principles, related practices, and ArgoCD.

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Sample Questions — CNCF GitOps Associate (CGOA)

5 free sample questions from this practice exam. Correct answers are highlighted.

1. According to the OpenGitOps specification, what are the four core GitOps principles?

A Push-based, containerized, monitored, and peer-reviewed
B Automated, secure, scalable, and observable
C Declarative, versioned and immutable, pulled automatically, and continuously reconciled ✓ Correct
D Immutable, atomic, idempotent, and convergent

2. A platform team wants to understand how GitOps differs from a traditional push-based CI/CD pipeline. Which characteristic uniquely identifies a GitOps approach?

A Automated testing before deployment
B Use of container images for packaging
C Automated deployments triggered by code commits
D A controller within the cluster pulls desired state from Git ✓ Correct

3. A developer is creating an ArgoCD Application manifest. Which field in `spec.source` specifies the Git branch, tag, or commit SHA to use?

A targetRevision ✓ Correct
B repoURL
C path
D server

4. Which ArgoCD sync hook runs before the sync operation begins and is typically used for pre-deployment tasks such as database migrations?

A PostSync
B PreSync ✓ Correct
C SyncFail
D Sync

Information

Questions 322
Time 1h 30min
Difficulty Medium
Passing Score 75.00%


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The CNCF GitOps Associate (CGOA) passing score is 75%. CertLand scores every practice attempt the same way and breaks your results down by domain, so you know exactly where you stand before exam day.

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