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Question 1

What are two ways that a client or service can programmatically discover healthy nodes for a service registered in a local Consul cluster? (select two)

A : DNS

B : User Interface (UI)

C : HTTP API

D : federation

Answer: A,C

Question 2

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?

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 3

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

A : Raft (Paxos)

B : Discovery chain

C : Serf (SWIM)

D : Prepared Queries

Answer: C

Question 4

Scenario: You are storing configuration settings for your application in Consul's K/V store, and each setting is critical to the successful implementation of the application.

A developer recently updated the value for app1, causing the deployment to fail.

What Consul feature can be used to monitor the K/V store for updates and automatically take action to remediate the issue?

A : set up an ACL to automatically restart the Consul service when a value is changed

B : configure a watch and execute a script to update the application

C : set up health checks to monitor for changes to the K/V store

D : use the raft consensus protocol to replicate the changes from the other nodes when a value is changed

Answer: A

Question 5

Stephen is using Consul for service discovery, but he also wants to store data in the Consul K/V for application variables that need to be retrieved at runtime. However,

the application is currently architected to read data directly from a local file, not from a remote K/V service like Consul.

What Consul feature can Stephen use to retrieve data from Consul without re-architecting the application?

A : consul-template

B : API

C : consul watch

D : envconsul

Answer: A

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