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Multi-datacenter connectivity Questions

Practice questions for Multi-datacenter connectivity topic in HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate (003). 16 questions covering this domain.

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Q1
hard

A platform team uses WAN federation to connect three Consul datacenters: dc1, dc2, and dc3. Services in dc1 need to communicate with services in dc3 v...

Q2
medium

A Consul operator manages two independent Consul datacenters and wants services in one datacenter to discover and connect to services in the other dat...

Q3
medium

An operator wants to connect two Consul service meshes managed by different teams, each running a separate Consul cluster. They need service discovery...

Q4
medium

A services team runs Consul on both VMs and Kubernetes. They need services on Kubernetes to communicate with services running on VMs via the Consul se...

Q5
medium

Which statement correctly contrasts cluster peering with WAN federation?

Q6
hard

A secondary datacenter is being added using WAN federation via mesh gateways. Which network sequence must work first?

Q7
medium

How do mesh gateway defaults differ between WAN federation and peered clusters?

Q8
medium

A service owner wants a service in one cluster to be discoverable from a peered cluster. Which Consul artifact is used to make that service available ...

Q9
medium

What does a cluster peering token contribute when two independent Consul clusters are connected?

Q10
easy

What is the default state of cluster peering in supported Consul versions?

Q11
hard

An operator needs to define service intentions for services that communicate across peered clusters. Which workflow matches the cluster peering limita...

Q12
medium

A Kubernetes operator wants multi-datacenter WAN federation without exposing every Consul server pod on a routable address. Which approach does the WA...

Q13
medium

During a new peering setup, operators exchange a peering token between two clusters. What purpose does that token serve?

Q14
medium

A service in one cluster must become discoverable from a peered cluster. Which Consul artifact is used to make that service available to peers?

Q15
hard

A secondary datacenter is being added with WAN federation via mesh gateways. Which connectivity must work first according to the documented sequence?

Q16
easy

Two teams want cross-cluster service connectivity, but neither team wants to share a primary datacenter or replicate ACL and KV global state. Which mo...

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