VA-002-P HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate - Practice Questions

Question 1

In a Consul cluster, participating nodes can be only one of two types. Select the valid types. (select two)

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follower
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secondary
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active
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primary
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leader
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passive

Reference / correct answer:

follower

leader

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Within each datacenter, we have a mixture of clients and servers. It is expected that there be between three to five servers. This strikes a balance between availability in the case of failure and performance, as consensus gets progressively slower as more machines are added. However, there is no limit to the number of clients, and they can easily scale into the thousands or tens of thousands.

Server or Leader - It indicates whether the agent is running in server or client mode. Server nodes participate in the consensus quorum, storing cluster state, and handling queries. At any given time, the peer set elects a single node to be the leader. The leader is responsible for ingesting new log entries, replicating to followers, and managing when an entry is considered committed.

Client or Follower - Client nodes make up the majority of the cluster, and they are very lightweight as they interface with the server nodes for most operations and maintain a very little state of their own.

Reference link:- https://www.consul.io/docs/internals/architecture.html

Question 2

What are some of the problems of how infrastructure was traditionally managed before

Infrastructure as Code? (select three)

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Requests for infrastructure or hardware required a ticket, increasing the time required to deploy applications
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Traditional deployment methods are not able to meet the demands of the modern business where resources tend to live days to weeks, rather than months to years
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Traditionally managed infrastructure can't keep up with cyclic or elastic applications
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Pointing and clicking in a management console is a scalable approach and reduces human error as businesses are moving to a multi-cloud deployment model

Reference / correct answer:

Requests for infrastructure or hardware required a ticket, increasing the time required to deploy applications

Traditional deployment methods are not able to meet the demands of the modern business where resources tend to live days to weeks, rather than months to years

Traditionally managed infrastructure can't keep up with cyclic or elastic applications

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Businesses are making a transition where traditionally-managed infrastructure can no longer meet the demands of today's businesses. IT organizations are quickly adopting the public cloud, which is predominantly API-driven.

To meet customer demands and save costs, application teams are architecting their applications to support a much higher level of elasticity, supporting technology like containers and public cloud resources. These resources may only live for a matter of hours; therefore the traditional method of raising a ticket to request resources is no longer a viable option Pointing and clicking in a management console is NOT scale and increases the change of human error.

Question 3

Select all features which are exclusive to Terraform Enterprise. (select three)

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Audit Logs
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Cost Estimation
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Sentinel
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Clustering
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SAML/SSO

VA-002-P – HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate