Q6 AKS Domain 1 · 20–25% of exam

How does DAPR simplify microservice development in AKS?

  1. A Replaces Kubernetes networking
  2. B Provides building blocks (state management, pub/sub, service invocation, secrets) via a sidecar API (correct answer)
  3. C Handles node scaling automatically
  4. D Acts as an ingress controller

Shortcut: DAPR injects a sidecar container into pods, exposing a language-agnostic API for state management, pub/sub, service-to-service calls, secrets, and more, abstracting infrastructure complexity.