Question 1

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

Options :

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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Options :

A : key/values/app1/config

B : kv/app1/config

C : app1/config/database

D : app1/config

Answer: C

Question 3

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?

Options :

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 4

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

Options :

A : consul join

B : consul cluster -join

C : consul exec -join

D : consul connect

Answer: A

Question 5

When storing data in the Consul K/V, what type of nodes will replicate the Consul K/V data to ensure high availability.

Options :

A : all servers, including servers in all Consul federated datacenters

B : clients within the local Consul datacenter

C : servers within the local Consul datacenter

D : both clients and servers within the local Consul datacenter

Answer: C