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Consul operations and maintenance Questions

Practice questions for Consul operations and maintenance topic in HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate (003). 12 questions covering this domain.

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Q1
easy

A Consul operator wants to create a point-in-time backup of the Consul cluster state, including ACL tokens, KV data, and service catalog data. Which c...

Q2
medium

A Consul administrator needs to collect a comprehensive diagnostic bundle from a running Consul agent for offline troubleshooting and support. The bun...

Q3
hard

A Consul operator is performing a rolling upgrade of a five-node Consul server cluster from version 1.14 to 1.15. According to HashiCorp's upgrade gui...

Q4
easy

Where does HashiCorp recommend storing Consul snapshots for disaster recovery?

Q5
medium

An engineer wants a smaller debug bundle that captures only selected data instead of everything. Which `consul debug` behavior supports that?

Q6
easy

ACLs are enabled and an engineer wants to run `consul debug` against an agent. Which privilege is required?

Q7
medium

A support engineer plans to upload a consul debug archive to a shared ticket. What security guidance from the command docs should they follow first?

Q8
medium

An operator runs consul debug and wonders whether port reachability is included only when a special capture target is selected. What is correct?

Q9
easy

Besides taking regular snapshots, what disaster recovery practice does HashiCorp recommend for critical Consul systems?

Q10
medium

Which disaster-recovery practice best matches HashiCorp guidance for Consul backups?

Q11
medium

A support engineer plans to share a consul debug archive outside the operations team. What does the command documentation recommend doing first?

Q12
easy

An SRE wants to watch live logs from a running agent and temporarily view debug-level messages even though the agent itself normally runs at a higher ...

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