Free HashiCorp Consul-Associate Exam Questions

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Question 1

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 : 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 : services are communicating over HTTP rather than HTTPS

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

Answer: A

Question 2

What command can be used for new Consul agents to become a member of an existing cluster?

A : nsul join

B : nsul cluster -join

C : nsul exec -join

D : nsul connect

Answer: A

Question 3

You have two Consul datacenters and you want to enable federation so services in dc1 can discover services in dc2. You run the consul join wan node2.example.com.

However, servers in dc1 can not communicate with servers in dc2 and vice versa. Based on the snippets of the server configuration files can be found below, why would

this be assuming network connectivity is working as expected?

dc1 configuration

1. "datacenter": "dc1",

2. "server": true,

3. "key_file": "/etc/consul.d/cert.key",

4. "cert_file": "/etc/consul.d/client.pem",

5. "ca_file": "/etc/consul.d/chain.pem",

6. "verify_incoming": true,

7. "verify_outgoing": true,

8. "verify_server_hostname": true,

9. "ui": true,

10. "encrypt": "XIUEktl3YjG9KPJfaBU1xE69IZ0XhsNCSH423FyknJE=",

11. "bootstrap_expect": 5,

12. "enable_syslog": true,

dc2 configuration

1. "datacenter": "dc2",

2. "server": true,

3. "key_file": "/etc/consul.d/cert.key",

4. "cert_file": "/etc/consul.d/client.pem",

5. "ca_file": "/etc/consul.d/chain.pem",

6. "verify_incoming": true,

7. "verify_outgoing": true,

8. "verify_server_hostname": true,

9. "ui": true,

10. "encrypt": "LSBSOZI5+9EX/kdY8u27mX50rk1ywcprfUCoSZjnpUg=",

11. "bootstrap_expect": 5,

12. "enable_syslog": false,

A : gossip keys need to match between federated datacenters

B : verify_incoming setting should be set to false before WAN federation can be configured

C : client certificates are issued from different CAs

D : syslog configurations do not match

Answer: A

Question 4

Scenario: You are storing configuration settings for your application in Consul's K/V store, and each setting is critical to the successful implementation of the application.

A developer recently updated the value for app1, causing the deployment to fail.

What Consul feature can be used to monitor the K/V store for updates and automatically take action to remediate the issue?

A : t up an ACL to automatically restart the Consul service when a value is changed

B : configure a watch and execute a script to update the application

C : t up health checks to monitor for changes to the K/V store

D : the raft consensus protocol to replicate the changes from the other nodes when a value is changed

Answer: A

Question 5

True or False? A prepared query can be used to assist with service failover between multiple federated Consul datacenters.

A : lse

B : ue

Answer: B

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Total 174 Questions | Updated On: Dec 06, 2025

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