Docker Docker Certified Associate (DCA) Exam DCA Exam Dumps: Updated Questions & Answers (September 2025)

The --privileged flag lifts all the cgroup limitations for a container, as well as other security restrictions imposed by the Docker daemon1. This gives the container full access to the host’s devices, resources, and capabilities, as if it was running directly on the host2. This can be useful for certain use cases that require elevated privileges, such as running Docker-in-Docker or debugging system issues3. However, using the --privileged flag also poses a security risk, as it exposes the host to potential attacks or damages from the container4. Therefore, it is not recommended to use the --privileged flag unless absolutely necessary, and only with trusted images and containers.

The other options are not correct because they do not lift all the cgroup limitations for a container, but only affect specific aspects of the container’s resource allocation or isolation:

•The --cpu-period flag sets the CPU CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler) period for a container, which is the length of a CPU cycle in microseconds. This flag can be used in conjunction with the --cpu-quota flag to limit the CPU time allocated to a container. However, this flag does not affect other cgroup limitations, such as memory, disk, or network.

•The --isolation flag sets the isolation technology for a container, which is the mechanism that separates the container from the host or other containers. This flag is only available on Windows containers, and can be used to choose between process, hyperv, or process-isolated modes. However, this flag does not affect the cgroup limitations for a container, but only the level of isolation from the host or other containers.

•The --cap-drop flag drops one or more Linux capabilities for a container, which are the privileges that a process can use to perform certain actions on the system. This flag can be used to reduce the attack surface of a container by removing unnecessary or dangerous capabilities. However, this flag does not affect the cgroup limitations for a container, but only the capabilities granted to the container by the Docker daemon.

= Distributing seven managers across three datacenters or availability zones as 3-2-2 is not a good way to ensure high availability and fault tolerance. This is because a swarm cluster requires a majority of managers (more than half) to be available and able to communicate with each other in order to maintain the swarm state and avoid a split-brain scenario1. If one of the datacenters or availability zones with three managers goes down, the remaining four managers will not have a quorum and the swarm will stop functioning. A better way to distribute seven managers across three datacenters or availability zones is 3-3-1 or 3-2-1-1, which will allow the swarm to survive the loss of one or two datacenters or availability zones, respectively2. References:

Administer and maintain a swarm of Docker Engines | Docker Docs

How to Create a Cluster of Docker Containers with Docker Swarm and DigitalOcean on Ubuntu 16.04 | DigitalOcean

 = Uninstalling the ‘docker-ce’ package before installing the ‘docker-ee’ package will not upgrade Docker Engine CE to Docker Engine EE. It will only remove the existing Docker Engine CE installation and install a new Docker Engine EE installation. This means that any existing containers, images, volumes, networks, and other Docker resources will be lost. To upgrade Docker Engine CE to Docker Engine EE without losing any data, youneed to use the migration tool provided by Docker1 or follow the steps described in the Docker documentation2 or other online guides34. References:

1: Migrate to Engine 1.10 | Docker Docs

2: Install Docker Engine | Docker Docs

3: Switching Docker 18.09 Community Edition to Enterprise Engine with no …

4: How to upgrade Docker 18.09 Community Edition to Docker Enterprise 18.09

 The purpose of Docker Content Trust is not to indicate an image on Docker Hub is an official image. Docker Content Trust is a feature that allows users to verify the integrity and publisher of container images they pull or deploy from a registry server, signed on a Notary server1. Docker Content Trust uses digital signatures to ensure that the imagesare authentic and have not been tampered with2. Official images are a curated set of Docker repositories that are designed to be the best starting point for most users3. They are not necessarily signed by Docker Content Trust, although some of them are. To indicate an image on Docker Hub is an official image, you can look for the blue "official image" badge on the image page. References:

Content trust in Docker | Docker Docs

Docker Content Trust: What It Is and How It Secures Container Images

Official Images on Docker Hub | Docker Docs

[Docker Hub Quickstart | Docker Docs]

= The command ‘docker run --volume /data:/mydata:ro ubuntu’ will mount the host’s ‘/data’ directory to the ubuntu container in read-only mode. The --volume or -v option allows you to mount a host directory or a file to a container as a volume1. The syntax for this option is:

-v|--volume=[host-src:]container-dest[:]

The host-src can be an absolute path or a name value. The container-dest must be an absolute path. The options can be a comma-separated list of mount options, such as rofor read-only, rw for read-write, z or Z for SELinux labels, etc1. In this case, the host-src is /data, the container-dest is /mydata, and the option is ro, which means the container can only read the data from the volume, but not write to it2. This can be useful for sharing configuration files or other data that should not be modified by the container3. References:

Use volumes | Docker Documentation

Docker run reference | Docker Documentation

Docker - Volumes - Tutorialspoint

= Seccomp is a Linux kernel feature that allows you to restrict the actions available within the container. By using a seccomp profile, you can limit the system calls that a container can make, thus enhancing its security and isolation. Docker has a default seccomp profile that blocks some potentially dangerous system calls, such as mount, reboot, or ptrace. You can also pass a custom seccomp profile for a container using the --security-opt option. Seccomp can limit a container’s access to host resources, such as CPU or memory, by blocking or filtering system calls that affect those resources, such as setpriority, sched_setaffinity, or mlock. References:

Seccomp security profiles for Docker

Hardening Docker Container Using Seccomp Security Profile

The statement is correct. In the provided Docker Compose file, a health check is defined for the service “app”. It uses curl to perform a health check on the application every 10 seconds (as specified by the “interval” parameter). If it fails three times (as specified by the “retries” parameter), then the container is marked as unhealthy. A health check is a way of checking the health of a running container and applying actions based on the result1. It can be used to monitor the status of the service and restart the container if it becomes unhealthy2. References:

Compose file version 3 reference | Docker Docs

Docker Compose & Health Checks – Gabriel’s World

= Provisioning a Docker config object for each environment is a way to provision configuration to containers at runtime. Docker configs allow services to adapt their behaviour without the need to rebuild a Docker image. Services can only access configs when explicitly granted by a configs attribute within the services top-level element. As with volumes, configs are mounted as files into a service’s container’s filesystem1. Docker configs are supported on both Linux and Windows services2. References: Docker Documentation, Configs top-level element

 Resource reservation is a feature that allows you to specify the amount of CPU and memory resources that a service or a container needs. This helps the scheduler to place the service or the container on a node that has enough available resources. However, resource reservation does not control which node the service or the container runs on, nor does it enforce any separation or isolation between different services or containers. Therefore, resource reservation cannot be used to schedule containers to meet the security policy requirements.

= Creating images that contain the specific configuration for every environment is not a way to provision configuration to containers at runtime. This approach violates the principle of separating application code from configuration, and makes the images less portable and reusable across different environments1. It also increases the maintenance overhead and the risk of configuration drift, as any change in the configuration would require rebuilding and redeploying the images2. To provision configuration to containers at runtime, you should use a different mechanism, such as environment variables, command-line arguments, or config maps345. References:

Configuration management with Containers | Kubernetes

Environment variables in Compose | Docker Docs

Override the default command | Docker Docs

Configuration management with Containers | Kubernetes