Practice Consul-Associate Exam Online

Question 1

Which of the following is responsible for managing membership and broadcasting messages to the cluster?

A : Raft (Paxos)

B : Discovery chain

C : Serf (SWIM)

D : Prepared Queries

Answer: C

Question 2

Given the following screenshot, what path would you use to access the value shown?

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A : key/values/app1/config

B : kv/app1/config

C : app1/config/database

D : app1/config

Answer: C

Question 3

True or False? A service definition can include multiple health checks.

A : false

B : true

Answer: B

Question 4

You need to deny communication between the customer-db service and the payment service using an intention. You open the command line and issue the following

command:

$ consul intention create customer-db payment

However, the two services can still initiate new connections even after the intention is created. What would explain this?

A : the default behavior of the command issued is allow

B :

the mTLS certificates are both signed by the same CA, therefore the connectivity is permitted regardless of an intention

C : the services are communicating over HTTP rather than HTTPS

D : there is an identical intention that is permitting the connectivity

Answer: A

Question 5

You have a Consul cluster running production workloads in your environment. However, you've discovered that the cluster was initially deployed without gossip

encryption configured, which means that traffic is being sent in cleartext. The security team has requested this to be updated ASAP. However, you can't take an outage on

the Consul service right now, knowing the server nodes will stop communicating once you start editing the configuration files one by one.

How can you enable gossip encryption on the existing cluster without affecting the services it is currently providing the business?

A :

Generate the new encryption key using consul keygen. Update all the Consul server agent configuration files with the new encryption key. Using a scheduling tool,

execute the consul reload command for all nodes at the same time. This will ensure that there is minimal downtime for the Consul service.

B :

Generate the new encryption key using consul keygen. Update each Consul agent configuration file with the new configuration and set additional parameters to

verify incoming and outgoing encryption to false. Use rolling updates to walk through the steps of ultimately setting the parameters to true.

C :

Generate the new encryption key using consul keygen. Use the command consul keyring -install <key> and push the new encryption key out to all participating

nodes in the cluster. Finally, use the command consul keyring -use <key> to instruct Consul to use the key for encryption

D :

Generate the new encryption key using consul keygen. Update the Consul server agent configuration files with the new encryption key and issue a kill -HUP

<process ID> command so the Consul service reloads and picks up the new gossip configuration. Update and restart as a rolling update across the cluster so only a

single node is offline at a time.

Answer: B

Name:	HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate
Exam Code:	Consul-Associate
Certification:	HashiCorp Networking Automation
Vendor:	HashiCorp
Total Questions:	174
Last Updated:	Apr 22, 2024

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