# Which of the following is a unique capability of Cilium compared to traditional CNI plugins?

Cilium, Medium (Advanced), Networking. https://k8wiz.com/uquiz/which-of-the-following-is-a-unique-capability-of-cilium-compared-to-traditional-cni-plugins

- A. Basic pod-to-pod connectivity
- B. Support for Kubernetes services
- C. Application protocol awareness (L7 policies)
- D. IP address management

**Answer:** Application protocol awareness (L7 policies)

**Explanation:** While most CNI plugins provide basic connectivity, service support, and IP management, Cilium's ability to understand and filter traffic based on application protocols (L7) is a distinguishing feature. This allows for more fine-grained security policies based on HTTP methods, paths, DNS queries, and other application-layer attributes.