Technical Screening (30–45 mins): Basics of Kubernetes architecture (pods, nodes, services, etc.) Hands-on questions: writing YAML for deployments, services, ConfigMaps, Secrets. Troubleshooting scenarios: pod crashloop, node failure, etc. Networking in Kubernetes: CNI plugins, service discovery, DNS. Technical Deep Dive (45 mins): Managing production clusters: upgrades, backups (etcd), monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana). Questions on Helm, Operators, StatefulSets vs Deployments. Security practices: RBAC, NetworkPolicies, Secrets management.