A proposed exercise starts with a representative service and the path its client requests follow. Engineers inspect the Deployment, probes, Service selection, ingress, and relevant external dependency.
The instructor introduces a failed relationship and asks which observation identifies it. The group distinguishes the application's behavior from a platform integration or access problem.
For an EKS-focused course, the agreed example can include an AWS traffic or identity integration. For restricted infrastructure, the emphasis can be artifact availability or permitted evidence. We select the variation from your brief rather than assume one lab fits every environment.