Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) Practice Exam
Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) Practice Exam
About Certified Backstage Associate (CBA)
The Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) is a Linux Foundation and CNCF certification designed to validate foundational knowledge of Backstage, an open platform for building developer portals. It covers key concepts such as software catalogs, templates, plugins, TechDocs, and platform configuration. The certification helps professionals understand how Backstage can streamline software development workflows, improve developer experience, and provide centralized access to engineering tools and resources. It is suitable for developers, platform engineers, DevOps professionals, and cloud practitioners working with modern development environments. The CBA provides a vendor-neutral credential demonstrating knowledge of Backstage and developer portal fundamentals.
Course Outline
The Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) Exam covers the following topics -
Domain 1 - Backstage Development Workflow 24%
- Build and run Backstage projects locally
- Understand local development workflows
- Compile a Backstage project with TypeScript
- Download and install dependencies for a Backstage project with NPM/Yarn
- Use Docker to build a container image of a Backstage project
Domain 2 - Backstage Infrastructure 22%
- Understand the Backstage framework
- Configure Backstage
- Deploy Backstage to production
- Understand Backstage client-server architecture
Domain 3 - Backstage Catalog 22%
- Understand how/why to use Backstage Catalog
- Populate Backstage Catalog
- Using annotations
- Working with manually registered entity locations
- Troubleshooting entity ingestion
- Working with automated ingestion
Domain 4 - Customizing Backstage 32%
- Understand frontend versus backend plugins
- Customizing Backstage plugins
- Make changes to React code in Backstage App
- Using Material UI components
