Free HashiCorp Consul-Associate Exam Questions

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Question 1

Complete the sentence:

The main restriction on Consul's K/V store is an object's size, which can be a maximum of _______?

A : 512KB

B : 8KB

C : 64KB

D : 1MB

Answer: A

Question 2

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

A : ft (Paxos)

B : covery chain

C : rf (SWIM)

D : epared Queries

Answer: C

Question 3

You have created a new gossip encryption key using consul keygen and installed it using the command consul keyring -install

TX/1dsj67x/4XdTeSG1Cb5RdC/cbAbv9Hch4H8cL8nk=.

However, when you try and delete the original gossip encryption key, you receive an error. Based on the error message below, what steps need to be taken in order to be

able to remove the old gossip encryption key?

1. $ consul keyring -remove /d+jMNoQWICjMvddXJXzyGPDWiEOFgApvUJcuPRcves=

3. ==> Removing gossip encryption key...

4. error: Unexpected response code: 500 (12 errors occurred:

5. * WAN error: 5/5 nodes reported failure

6. * CONSUL-NODE-A.dc-1: Removing the primary key is not allowed

7. * CONSUL-NODE-C.dc-1: Removing the primary key is not allowed

8. * CONSUL-NODE-B.dc-1: Removing the primary key is not allowed

9. * CONSUL-NODE-D.dc-1: Removing the primary key is not allowed

10. * CONSUL-NODE-E.dc-1: Removing the primary key is not allowed

11. * dc-1 (LAN) error: 5/5 nodes reported failure

12. * CONSUL-NODE-E: Removing the primary key is not allowed

13. * CONSUL-NODE-A: Removing the primary key is not allowed

14. * CONSUL-NODE-D: Removing the primary key is not allowed

15. * CONSUL-NODE-B: Removing the primary key is not allowed

16. * CONSUL-NODE-C: Removing the primary key is not allowed

A : wait until the old key is invalidated by Consul based upon the configured validity date

B : nfigure Consul to use the new key using the consul keyring -use command

C : the original gossip key on a Consul cluster cannot be deleted

D : it for Raft to replicate the new key across all cluster nodes before you can remove it

Answer: A

Question 4

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

A : lse

B : ue

Answer: B

Question 5

Scenario: You have an application that uses Consul service discovery to connect to backend services in order to process data submitted by end-users. The front-end web

service consists of 3 containers, while the backend service consists of 5 static virtual machines. All of the front-end web servers and the backend servers are registered

with Consul.

During normal operations, a user complains that the data processing is taking too long. To troubleshoot, you run a DNS query against the DNS name for the backend

service, but discover that the response only contains three of the virtual machines. Why would Consul only respond with three servers rather than all five?

A : the response only included the three underutilized nodes

B : the DNS query must specify how many nodes to return in the response

C : health check is failing for the other two servers

D : nsul has a maximum response of three nodes in a given DNS query

Answer: C

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