VA-003 Manage Vault leases Practice Question
A Vault administrator needs to manage leases for dynamic secrets. Which TWO of the following are valid operations related to lease management?
⚠ Common exam trap
HashiCorp often tests the misconception that lease management endpoints have intuitive names like 'extend' or 'rotate', when in fact Vault uses only three core lease operations: renew, revoke, and list (with no dedicated extend or rotate endpoints).
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Call the sys/leases/renew endpoint to renew a lease.
The `sys/leases/renew` endpoint is the standard Vault API endpoint used to renew the lease of a dynamic secret, extending its time-to-live (TTL) within the maximum allowed limit. Option C is correct because the `sys/leases/revoke` endpoint is the designated API endpoint to immediately invalidate a lease and its associated secret, preventing further use and cleaning up the secret engine's state.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Call the sys/leases/renew endpoint to renew a lease.
Why this is correct
Correct operation to renew a lease.
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Call the sys/leases/list endpoint to disable a lease.
Why it's wrong here
This endpoint lists leases but does not disable them.
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Call the sys/leases/revoke endpoint to revoke a lease.
Why this is correct
Correct operation to revoke a lease.
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Call the sys/leases/extend endpoint to increase the lease duration.
Why it's wrong here
There is no such endpoint; renewal is done via sys/leases/renew.
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Call the sys/leases/rotate endpoint to rotate the secret associated with a lease.
Why it's wrong here
No such endpoint exists.
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