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Question 1hardmultiple choice
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A large enterprise runs a microservices architecture on Kubernetes. Each microservice authenticates to Vault using the Kubernetes auth method with a service account token. The Vault administrator configured a role 'microservice-role' with a TTL of 24h and a max TTL of 48h. The microservices renew their tokens every 12 hours via a sidecar. Recently, the security team noticed that some tokens are still valid after 72 hours, causing a security concern. The audit logs show that the tokens were renewed successfully multiple times. The administrator reviews the role configuration and sees that 'token_renewable' is set to true. What is the most likely reason the tokens are exceeding the intended 48h max TTL?

Question 2mediummultiple choice
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A DevOps team is using Vault tokens for authentication in CI/CD pipelines. They notice that tokens are often expired before the pipeline completes, causing failures. Which Vault feature should they use to address this without manual intervention?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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An application uses a Vault token with a policy that grants read access to secrets. The security team wants to ensure that if the application is compromised, the token cannot be used after a certain time even if the attacker has the token. What is the best approach?

Question 4easymultiple choice
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A developer created a token and wants to ensure that the token can only be used to read secrets from the 'secret/data/production' path. Which policy attachment approach should be used?

Question 5mediummultiple choice
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A Vault administrator wants to allow a CI/CD pipeline to create short-lived tokens for deployment jobs. The pipeline itself authenticates with a periodic token. Which token type should the pipeline use to create tokens for jobs, considering the jobs need to be independent and not affected by the pipeline token's lifecycle?

Question 6hardmultiple choice
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An organization uses Vault with AWS IAM auth. After rotating the AWS IAM role credentials, users are unable to authenticate with Vault. The Vault audit logs show 'permission denied' for the AWS auth method. What is the most likely cause?

Question 7easymultiple choice
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A Vault user wants to check the capabilities of their token on a specific path. Which command should they use?

Question 8mediummultiple choice
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A security analyst discovers that a token used by a legacy application is still active long after the application was decommissioned. Which Vault feature should have been used to automatically expire tokens when the application is no longer running?

Question 9hardmultiple choice
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An administrator wants to ensure that a token created by a user cannot be used after 24 hours, even if the user tries to renew it. What should the administrator do?

Question 10mediummulti select
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Which TWO of the following are valid methods to revoke a Vault token?

Question 11hardmulti select
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Which THREE of the following are true about batch tokens?

Question 12easymulti select
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Which TWO of the following are valid token states?

Question 13mediummulti select
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Which THREE of the following are valid sources of token TTL?

Question 14mediummultiple choice
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A DevOps team is using Vault tokens with short TTLs for CI/CD jobs. They notice that some jobs fail intermittently with 'permission denied' errors even though the token policy grants the required capabilities. The token is created with a TTL of 10 minutes and renewed automatically by the client library. What is the most likely cause of the failures?

Question 15hardmulti select
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Which TWO of the following scenarios require the use of a periodic token?

Question 16hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. A developer reports that a token they created using `vault token create -policy=my-policy -ttl=2h` is no longer working after 1 hour. The token lookup output shows the token details. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
$ vault token lookup s.abc123
Key                 Value
---                 -----
accessor            a.xyz789
creation_time       1712345678
expiration_time     1712355678
creation_ttl        2h
display_name        mytoken
entity_id           entity-uuid-123
meta                map[team:dev]
num_uses            0
orphan              true
path                auth/token/create
policies            [default my-policy]
renewable           true
type                service
```
Question 17easymultiple choice
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Your company uses Vault to manage secrets for a fleet of microservices running on Kubernetes. Each microservice has a service account that authenticates to Vault using the Kubernetes auth method and receives a token with a policy granting access to its secrets. Recently, the team noticed that some tokens are being revoked prematurely, causing services to lose access to secrets. The tokens are created with a TTL of 24 hours and are set to be renewable. The Vault servers are configured with a default max_ttl of 24 hours. The tokens are renewed by the client libraries every 12 hours. Despite this, tokens are sometimes invalid before 24 hours. What should the team do to prevent this issue?

Question 18easymulti select
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A DevOps team is troubleshooting token access in Vault. They need to determine which of the following token operations require sudo capability. Which TWO operations require sudo capability?

Question 19mediummultiple choice
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A token has the properties shown in the exhibit. A user attempts to use this token to write a secret to 'secret/data/myapp'. The token fails with a permission denied error. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
$ vault token lookup -accessor 7c7f5d5c-5e5f-4a5b-8c8d-9e0f1a2b3c4d
Key                 Value
---                 -----
accessor            7c7f5d5c-5e5f-4a5b-8c8d-9e0f1a2b3c4d
creation_time       1625097600
creation_ttl        24h
display_name        my-token
explicit_max_ttl    0s
id                  s.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
issue_time          2021-07-01T00:00:00Z
meta                map[user:alice]
num_uses            0
orphan              true
path                auth/token/create
policies            [default my-policy]
ttl                 12h
type                service
```
Question 20hardmultiple choice
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A large enterprise runs Vault in a production environment with hundreds of applications. Each application uses a unique Vault token with a 30-day TTL. The tokens are created by a central CI/CD pipeline using Vault's token auth method. Recently, the security team noticed that several tokens with suspicious activity have been created with a 90-day TTL, and the tokens appear to be long-lived and not revoked after use. The CI/CD pipeline logs show no anomalies. The audit logs reveal that the tokens in question were created by a human user 'jdoe' using a token with the 'admin' policy. The 'admin' policy grants '*' capabilities on all paths. The Vault token accessor shows that the suspicious tokens have a 'creation_ttl' of 2160h (90 days) and 'explicit_max_ttl' of 0s. The Vault configuration uses a default lease TTL of 24h and a max lease TTL of 720h (30 days). Which action should the security team take to prevent such incidents in the future without breaking existing applications?

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