Mounting a Secret as a volume results in secret data being available to the container in which form?

• A. The secret data is stored in memory only and not mounted.
• B. The secret data is duplicated to a ConfigMap.
• C. The secret data is exposed to the container as files in the mounted path.
• D. The secret data replaces the container image.

Answer: (C)

When you mount a Secret as a volume, each key in the Secret is exposed as a file inside the mounted directory, and the file contents are the corresponding secret values. This is why the data is available to the container as files in the mounted path—the container reads the secret by accessing those files on disk.

The other ideas don’t fit because mounting as a volume doesn’t keep the data only in memory, nor does it duplicate the secret into a ConfigMap, and it certainly doesn’t replace the container image.