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Consul service mesh Questions

Practice questions for Consul service mesh topic in HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate (003). 32 questions covering this domain.

32 questions5 easy15 medium12 hard
Q1
hard

A platform engineer deploys a Consul service mesh and wants to enforce mTLS for all service-to-service communication. They notice that after enabling ...

Q2
easy

What is the default sidecar proxy used by Consul service mesh to handle all inbound and outbound traffic for a registered service?

Q3
medium

An operator configures an upstream block in a sidecar proxy registration for the `frontend` service. The upstream points to the `backend` service on l...

Q4
easy

In a Consul service mesh, what does a `deny` intention between service A and service B enforce?

Q5
medium

A service mesh operator wants to allow all services to communicate with each other unless an explicit deny intention exists. Which default intention b...

Q6
hard

A Consul operator wants to implement traffic management by directing 20% of requests from `frontend` to a new canary version of `backend-v2` and 80% t...

Q7
hard

A Consul service mesh operator notices that an `allow` intention between `web` and `api` is defined, but `web` still cannot connect to `api`. The Cons...

Q8
medium

A developer wants to start a Consul sidecar proxy for a service named `web` that was already registered in Consul. Which `consul` CLI command should t...

Q9
medium

A security engineer changes an L4 intention from allow to deny between two TCP services. What happens to already established connections?

Q10
hard

In normal service mesh traffic flow, which component actually enforces intentions on inbound connections or requests?

Q11
easy

What determines whether an intention is enforced as an L4 rule or an L7 rule?

Q12
medium

How many intentions can control authorization between the same source and destination service pair at one point in time?

Q13
hard

A new datacenter enables service mesh without explicitly configuring a CA provider. What happens when leadership is established and the CA has not bee...

Q14
medium

A Consul server becomes temporarily unreachable during an outage. What happens to intention-based authorization in the data path?

Q15
medium

Which setting defines whether mesh communication is allow-by-default or deny-by-default when no matching intention exists?

Q16
hard

Two L7 intention rules match the same request with equal specificity, but one says allow and the other says deny. Which action wins?

Q17
medium

How does a secondary datacenter obtain the signing material it uses for service mesh leaf certificates?

Q18
easy

Which HTTP API endpoint lists the currently trusted service mesh root certificates and shows the active root?

Q19
hard

Which statement correctly matches Consul's two service mesh leaf certificate uses?

Q20
hard

A terminating gateway on VMs uses certificate files on disk to connect to linked external services. The certificates are rotated. What must the operat...

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