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HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate (Consul 1.15) (Consul 1.15) Practice Test

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Q1Health Checkinghard
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You are monitoring service health using Consul and want to ensure that a service is automatically removed from the catalog if it remains in a 'critical' state for more than 24 hours. Which configuration key supports this?

Acleanup_interval
Bcritical_timeout
deregister_critical_service_afterCorrect
Dremove_service_after

The deregister_critical_service_after setting in a Consul service definition tells Consul to automatically deregister a service instance if its health check remains in the critical state for longer than the specified duration (e.g., '24h'). This is exactly the built-in mechanism …Read full explanation

Q2Health Checkingmedium
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A service has a TTL check configured with a 30-second TTL. If the application crashes and stops sending heartbeats, when will the service status change to 'critical'?

AAfter 60 seconds
BOnce the agent restarts
CImmediately
After 30 secondsCorrect

A TTL check in Consul marks the service as critical when the TTL interval elapses without a heartbeat update. Since the TTL is set to 30 seconds, the check will transition to critical exactly 30 seconds after the last successful heartbeat. The application crashing means no furthe…Read full explanation

Q3Health Checkingeasy
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When defining a TCP health check, what is the primary indicator that the check is 'passing'?

AThe port is listed in netstat
BThe service responds with a specific string
CThe service returns a 200 OK
The agent receives a successful TCP handshakeCorrect

For a TCP health check, Consul considers the check passing if it can successfully establish a TCP connection to the specified port. This is indicated by a successful TCP handshake (SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK). No application-level response is required.

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