Free DCA Sample Questions — Docker Certified Associate

Docker Certified Associate (DCA) is a associate-level Mirantis certification exam. The questions are drawn from the official exam topics and change in focus depending on the current blueprint. On exam day you face around 58 questions in 90 minutes, in formats such as multiple choice. The 15 questions below are free samples written to match that style: answer each one first, then reveal the correct answer and note which topics you miss. Treat the set as a diagnostic: anything you get wrong points at a topic worth revising before you book the real exam. Because every answer is revealed in place, you can work through the whole set without leaving this page. Work through all 15 samples before deciding whether to buy the full 58+ question PDF.

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Question 1

Is this a function of UCP? enforces the deployment of signed images to the cluster

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
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Correct Answer:
A. Yes
Question 2

A Kubernetes node is allocated a /26 CIDR block (64 unique IPs) for its address space. If every pod on this node has exactly two containers in it, how many pods can this address space support on this node?

  • A. 32
  • B. 32 in every Kubernetes namespace
  • C. 64 for every service routing to pods on this node
  • D. 64
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Correct Answer:
D. 64
Question 3

You configure a local Docker engine to enforce content trust by setting the environment variable DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST=1. If myorg/myimage:1.0 is unsigned, does Docker block this command? docker image inspect myorg/mayimage:1.0

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
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Correct Answer:
B. No
Question 4

Is this the purpose of Docker Content Trust? Enable mutual TLS between the Docker client and server.

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
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Correct Answer:
B. No
Question 5

Seven managers are in a swarm cluster. Is this how should they be distributed across three datacenters or availability zones? 5-1-1

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
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Correct Answer:
B. No
Question 6

Is this a function of UCP? image role-based access control

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
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B. No
Question 7

Seven managers are in a swarm cluster. Is this how should they be distributed across three datacenters or availability zones? 3-2-2

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
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A. Yes
Question 8

A company's security policy specifies that development and production containers must run on separate nodes in a given Swarm cluster. Can this be used to schedule containers to meet the security policy requirements? node affinities

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
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A. Yes
Question 9

Does this command display all the pods in the cluster that are labeled as ‘env: development’? ‘kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -l ‘env in (development)’ ’

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
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B. No
Question 10

Is this a supported user authentication method for Universal Control Plane? X.500

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
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Correct Answer:
B. No
Question 11

You add a new user to the engineering organization in DTR. Will this action grant them read/write access to the engineering/api repository? Add the user directly to the list of users with read/write access under the repository’s Permissions tab.

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
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A. Yes
Question 12

Is this a way to configure the Docker engine to use a registry without a trusted TLS certificate? Pass the ‘--insecure registry’ flag to the daemon at run time.

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
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Correct Answer:
A. Yes
Question 13

Is this an advantage of multi-stage builds? better logical separation of Dockerfile instructions for increased readability

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
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Correct Answer:
A. Yes
Question 14

Is this a way to configure the Docker engine to use a registry without a trusted TLS certificate? Set and export the IGNORE_TLS environment variable on the command line.

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
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B. No
Question 15

Two development teams in your organization use Kubernetes and want to deploy their applications while ensuring that Kubernetes-specific resources, such as secrets, are grouped together for each application. Is this a way to accomplish this? Create one pod and add all the resources needed for each application.

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
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Correct Answer:
B. No

DCA sample questions FAQ

Are these DCA sample questions from the real exam?

No. They are original practice questions written to match the format and topic mix of the Docker Certified Associate exam, which contains around 58 questions. Treat them as representative practice, not leaked exam content.

How many free DCA sample questions do I get?

This page includes 15 questions, each with its correct answer you can reveal in place. The full study PDF expands that to 58+ questions.

Do the sample questions include the correct answers?

Yes. Open the answer panel under each question to see which option is correct. Answer first, then reveal, so the set works as a self-check rather than a reading exercise.

Is 15 sample questions enough to pass the DCA?

Not on its own. Use the samples to find weak topics, revise them against the official domains, then work through the full 58+ question set under timed conditions before booking the exam.

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