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The Consul Associate Certification is for Site Reliability Engineers, Solutions Architects, DevOps professionals, or other Cloud Engineers who know the basic concepts and skills to build, secure, and maintain open source HashiCorp Consul. Candidates will be best prepared for this exam if they have professional experience using Consul in production, but performing the exam objectives in a personal demo environment may also be sufficient. This person understands what enterprise features exist and what can and cannot be done using the open source offering. 

Assessment Type: Multiple choice

Format: Online proctored

Duration: 1 hour

Price: $70.50 USD

Language: English

Expiration: 2 years

dentify the components of Consul datacenter, including agents and communication protocols

Prepare Consul for high availability and performance

Identify Consul's core functionality

Differentiate agent roles

Start and manage the Consul process

Interpret a Consul agent configuration

Configure Consul network addresses and ports

Describe and configure agent join and leave behaviors

Interpret a service registration

Differentiate ways to register a single service

Interpret a service configuration with health check

Check the service catalog status from the output of the DNS/API interface or via the Consul UI

Interpret a prepared query

Use a prepared query

Understand the capabilities and limitations of the KV store

Interact with the KV store using both the Consul CLI and UI

Monitor KV changes using watch

Monitor KV changes using envconsul and consul-template

Describe the content of a snapshot

Back up and restore the datacenter

[Enterprise] Describe the benefits of snapshot agent features

Understand Consul Connect service mesh high level architecture

Describe configuration for registering a service proxy

Describe intentions for Consul Connect service mesh

Check intentions in both the Consul CLI and UI

Understanding Consul security/threat model

Differentiate certificate types needed for TLS encryption

Understand the different TLS encryption settings for a fully secure datacenter

Set up and configure a basic ACL system

Create policies

Manage token lifecycle: multiple policies, token revoking, ACL roles, service identities

Perform a CLI request using a token

Perform an API request using a token

Understanding the Consul security/threat model

Configure gossip encryption for the existing data center

Manage the lifecycle of encryption keys

1. A Consul snapshot saves a point-in-time snapshot of the state of the Consul servers, and includes what type of data? (select five)

A. prepared queries

B. sessions

C. consul-template templates

D. ACLs

E. audit log of API requests

F. KV entries

G. the service catalog

Answer: A,B,D,F,G

2. The organization uses a service named phone-book for hitting a web service to lookup client phone numbers. However, users complain that the service is currently unavailable. You perform a manual DNS query of the service and the DNS response includes no value.

What are some reasons that the service does not return any valid hosts? (select three)

A. the service health checks have failed for each registered instance

B. the service was removed from Consul service registry

C. a prepared query was never configured for the service

D. the node health check has failed for each underlying host

Answer: A,B,D

3. Consul uses a gossip protocol that is powered by Serf.

How is this communication protected between all participating servers and clients?

A. shared secret

B. TLS

C. username and password

D. mutual TLS

Answer: A

4. From the options below, select the features that are available in Consul Enterprise, and not available in the open-source offering.

A. Connect (service to service authorization and encryption)

B. OIDC auth method (centralized authentication)

C. Consul snapshot agent (automated backups)

D. Namespaces (datacenter isolation)

E. Sentinel (Policy as Code)

F. Autopilot (automated upgrades)

Answer: B,C,D,E,F

5. Certificates are a critical component of Consul Connect.

Which of the following certificate authorities (CAs) are supported by Consul? (select three)

A. Active Directory-integrated CA

B. Vault

C. built-in Consul CA

D. AWS ACM Private CA

E. OpenSSL running on RedHat

Answer: B,C,D

6. There are two methods to bind the Consul service to a specific IP address.

What are the two ways? (select two)

A. in the command line that is executed when the Consul service is started

B. using the configuration file

C. setting the preferred static IP address on eth0 rather than eth1

D. by using an environment variable

Answer: A,B