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Multi Datacenter Federation

Practise HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate (Consul 1.15) (Consul 1.15) Multi Datacenter Federation practice questions — original exam-style scenarios with answer choices, explanations, and analysis of common mistakes.

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1

Which TWO of the following are consequences of a primary datacenter outage in a federated environment?

Medium
2

A cross-datacenter service discovery request is failing. You observe the local datacenter can resolve the service via DNS, but the remote datacenter cannot. Which configuration parameter must be checked?

Hard
3

You are troubleshooting a partition between two datacenters. The WAN gossip shows high latency. Which Consul CLI tool provides the best insight into the WAN gossip state?

Hard
4

When configuring ACL replication, where must the 'acl_replication_token' be defined?

Medium
5

How do you enable WAN federation between two Consul datacenters that do not share a network?

Easy
6

What is the role of a Consul server in a non-primary datacenter regarding ACLs?

Medium
7

Which THREE network considerations are vital for Consul WAN federation?

Hard
8

In a multi-datacenter environment, what happens if the 'primary_datacenter' server cluster becomes unavailable?

Medium
9

To verify if two datacenters are connected via WAN, which command shows the remote datacenter's server nodes?

Easy
10

What is the benefit of using a Mesh Gateway in a multi-datacenter deployment with overlapping IP space?

Medium
11

You want to ensure that specific services in a remote datacenter are only accessible to certain local services. How can you achieve this?

Medium
12

A service in datacenter A needs to call a service in datacenter B. If 'prepared_queries' are not used, how does the service discovery query look?

Hard
13

What is the default port used for WAN gossip between Consul servers?

Medium
14

When configuring an ACL policy for cross-datacenter access, what policy rule is necessary to read service information from a remote datacenter?

Hard
15

Which TWO of the following are prerequisites for successful WAN federation?

Medium
16

Which THREE configuration items are part of a complete WAN gossip setup?

Hard
17

What happens to the gossip protocol if the 'encrypt' key is mismatched between two datacenters trying to join via WAN?

Easy
18

When joining a new datacenter to an existing WAN pool, what is the best practice for server versions?

Easy
19

Which TWO of the following are valid ways to troubleshoot inter-datacenter communication issues?

Medium
20

What is the function of the 'retry_join_wan' configuration?

Hard
21

What is the purpose of the 'datacenter' field in the Consul agent configuration?

Medium
22

Which THREE items are required when configuring ACL replication in Consul?

Hard
23

You are joining two Consul datacenters via WAN gossip. Which command must be executed on a Consul server in the secondary datacenter to initiate the federation?

Easy
24

Which THREE items are included in the metadata shared via WAN gossip?

Hard
25

Which THREE features are critical for maintaining ACL consistency across datacenters?

Medium
26

You have enabled ACL replication between a primary and secondary datacenter. What is the effect of changing an ACL policy in the primary datacenter?

Medium
27

Which TWO statements are true regarding Consul Mesh Gateways?

Hard
28

Which file format is used for Consul configuration?

Medium
29

Which TWO of the following are true about Consul datacenters?

Medium
30

Which THREE factors influence cross-datacenter service discovery resolution?

Medium
31

When using 'prepared_queries' for cross-datacenter failover, what does the 'failover' block allow you to specify?

Hard
32

You notice that the KV store is not consistent across datacenters. What is the cause?

Hard
33

When using multiple datacenters, what is the primary role of the 'consul-template' tool?

Medium
34

If you are running Consul Enterprise, what feature simplifies the management of cross-datacenter secrets?

Hard
35

What is the recommended number of Consul servers per datacenter to ensure high availability?

Medium
36

Which protocol do Consul servers use to maintain the WAN gossip pool?

Easy
37

Which file path is standard for storing the Consul server configuration, including WAN settings?

Easy
38

Which TWO of the following accurately describe Consul's WAN gossip protocol behavior?

Hard

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