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Where can you define health checks in Consul? (Select THREE)

A
Agent configuration files
Global definitions.
B
HTTP API
Dynamic registration.
C
Consul UI
Why wrong: The UI is for monitoring, not creation.
D
Consul KV store
Why wrong: KV is not for check definitions.
E
Service definition files
Standard method.

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Where can you define health checks in Consul? (Select THREE)

When using Consul KV for distributed locking, why is it recommended to use a session?

When using the HTTP health check type, how can you verify that a specific header is included in the health check request?

Which of the following parameters are used in a service health check configuration? (Select THREE)

You need to ensure that a read operation from the KV store is strongly consistent. Which consistency mode should you specify?

When configuring a Service-specific health check, what is the impact of setting the 'expose' field to true?

Which THREE of the following represent potential bottlenecks for Consul KV performance?

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

What happens to a session if the associated node is marked as 'failed' by the Consul health check?

A service is intermittently failing to resolve via DNS because it has multiple health checks, some of which are 'warning'. How do you ensure it is only returned when all checks are 'passing'?

Which THREE network considerations are vital for Consul WAN federation?

Which of the following are true regarding TTL checks? (Select TWO)

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

You observe a 'warning' status for a service. What is the most common reason for this?

If a KV operation returns a 403 Forbidden status, what is the most common cause?

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

If a Consul agent is configured with 'disable_remote_exec = true', how does this affect the KV store?

Which of these are required fields for a TCP health check definition? (Select THREE)

What is the function of the 'retry_join_wan' configuration?

Which TWO of the following are true regarding Consul KV watches?