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KCNA · Question #210

Which of the following are tasks performed by a container orchestration tool?

The correct answer is A. Schedule, scale, and manage the health of containers. Container orchestration tools automate the deployment, scaling, management, and health monitoring of containerized applications.

Submitted by renata2k· May 4, 2026Container Orchestration

Question

Which of the following are tasks performed by a container orchestration tool?

Options

  • ASchedule, scale, and manage the health of containers.
  • BCreate images, scale, and manage the health of containers.
  • CDebug applications, and manage the health of containers.
  • DStore images, scale, and manage the health of containers.

How the community answered

(52 responses)
  • A
    90% (47)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    6% (3)

Why each option

Container orchestration tools automate the deployment, scaling, management, and health monitoring of containerized applications.

ASchedule, scale, and manage the health of containers.Correct

Container orchestration tools like Kubernetes are designed to automate critical functions such as scheduling containers onto appropriate nodes, dynamically scaling the number of container instances up or down based on demand, and continuously monitoring the health of containers, restarting or replacing unhealthy ones.

BCreate images, scale, and manage the health of containers.

Creating container images is a development process typically performed by developers using tools like Docker, not a core automated function of an orchestration tool.

CDebug applications, and manage the health of containers.

Debugging applications is a manual development or troubleshooting task performed by engineers, not an automated function of an orchestration tool.

DStore images, scale, and manage the health of containers.

Storing images is typically handled by a container registry, which is a separate service from the orchestration tool's core functions.

Concept tested: Container orchestration core functions

Source: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/what-is-kubernetes/

Topics

#container orchestration#scheduling#scaling#health management

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