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Foundational Consul certification for service networking, architecture, deployment, discovery, service mesh, security, ACLs, observability, and operations.
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About this exam
Validates foundational Consul and service networking knowledge.
Who should take this exam
Cloud engineers, SREs, solution architects, DevOps, and platform engineers.
Career benefits
Demonstrates service discovery, service mesh, Consul security, and operations fundamentals.
How to prepare
Use HashiCorp official objectives and hands-on Consul practice.
Quick facts
Exam cost$70.50 USD plus taxes and fees
Valid for2 years
Length60 minutes
Passing scoreNot publicly disclosed by HashiCorp
FormatMultiple choice; online proctored
Practice questions125
Objectives10
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What's covered
1. Understand the pillars of service networking
- 1a Service discovery and health
- 1b Secure service-to-service communication
- 1c Control access at service entry
- 1d Automate networking tasks
2. Describe Consul architecture
- 2a Datacenter components and protocols
- 2b Server high availability and scalability
- 2c Server agents and data plane components
- 2d Supported Consul platforms
3. Deploy a single datacenter
- 3a Configure and start server agents
- 3b Configure and start client agents
- 3c Configure and start Consul on Kubernetes
- 3d Explain agent join behavior
4. Register services and use service discovery
- 4a Interpret service registration
- 4b Differentiate service registration methods
- 4c Health check configuration and behavior
- 4d Query service catalog
- 4e Interpret and use prepared queries
5. Use Consul service mesh
- 5a Service mesh architecture and benefits
- 5b Intentions and use cases
- 5c Proxy configuration options
6. Secure agent communication
- 6a Consul security and threat model
- 6b TLS certificate types
- 6c TLS encryption settings
- 6d Configure gossip encryption
7. Secure services with ACLs
- 7a ACL system components
- 7b ACL policies and tokens
- 7c Use ACL tokens securely
8. Secure and connect service mesh applications
- 8a Use Consul gateways
- 8b Enable multi-datacenter communication
9. Monitor Consul
- 9a Service mesh observability
- 9b Datacenter observability
10. Operate and maintain Consul
- 10a Manage Consul servers
- 10b Maintain communication security
- 10c Backup and restore cluster state
- 10d Troubleshoot Consul datacenters
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