Consul
Sample questions - Consul Associate (003)
HashiCorp Associate-level certification exams consist of true or false, multiple choice, and multiple answer question types. Below are some example questions to introduce you to the question format you will encounter on the exam.
The exam questions are not intended to trick you. The exam tests your knowledge of Consul, not how well you spell or how good you are at identifying obscure details.
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True or false questions
True or false questions present you with a statement and ask you to choose whether it is true or false.
Example
When starting the Consul agent with the consul agent -dev command, all core security features will be initialized with the agent.
⬜ True
⬜ False
❌ Incorrect: True
✅ Correct: False
Individual agents are responsible for defining and monitoring their own services.
⬜ True
⬜ False
✅ Correct: True
❌ Incorrect: False
Access Control Lists (ACLs) are used to secure access to the UI, API, CLI, service communications, and agent communications.
⬜ True
⬜ False
✅ Correct: True
❌ Incorrect: False
Multiple choice questions
Multiple choice questions ask you to select one correct answer from a list.
Examples
Which protocol(s) need to be enabled in your network configuration to permit the nodes to communicate over the gossip protocol?
⬜ TCP and UDP
⬜ gRPC
⬜ SSL
⬜ HTTP and HTTPS
⬜ All of the above
✅ Correct: TCP and UDP
❌ Incorrect: gRPC
❌ Incorrect: SSL
❌ Incorrect: HTTP and HTTPS
❌ Incorrect: All of the above
You notice the following error in the Consul UI. What is being indicated by the error?
⬜ The node hosting the Dashboard service is down.
⬜ The proxy in the service mesh has failed.
⬜ The dashboard service failed to register.
⬜ One or more health checks for the Dashboard service have failed.
❌ Incorrect: The node hosting the Dashboard service is down.
❌ Incorrect: The proxy in the service mesh has failed.
❌ Incorrect: The dashboard service failed to register.
✅ Correct: One or more health checks for the Dashboard service have failed.
You navigate to the Intentions page in the Consul UI and see the following content. With this configuration, what will be the behavior of web -> api service communication?
⬜ All service to service communication will be denied, including web -> api.
⬜ The web service will be allowed to communicate with the api service.
⬜ Communication from web -> api can not occur until an api -> web rule is created.
⬜ The api service will be able to send traffic to web.
❌ Incorrect: All service to service communication will be denied, including web -> api.
✅ Correct: The web service will be allowed to communicate with the api service.
❌ Incorrect: Communication from web -> api can not occur until an api -> web rule is created.
❌ Incorrect: The api service will be able to send traffic to web.
Multiple answer
Example
Multiple answer questions ask you to select multiple correct answers from a list. The question indicates how many answers you must choose.
What are the benefits of using the Consul Enterprise feature of adding read replicas in a redundancy zone to your Consul datacenter? Pick the 2 correct responses below
⬜ Read-scalability
⬜ Redundancy
⬜ Increase quorum
⬜ Segment your network
⬜ Disaster recovery
✅ Correct: Read-scalability
✅ Correct: Redundancy
❌ Incorrect: Increase quorum
❌ Incorrect: Segment your network
❌ Incorrect: Disaster recovery
Continue studying
To study all of the objectives tested on the exam, go through the materials in the learning path. For specific study materials that cover a particular exam objective, refer to the content list.