HashiCorp vault associate 002 practice test

Question 1

As a best practice, the root token should be stored in which of the following ways?

• A. Should be revoked and never stored after initial setup
• B. Should be stored in configuration automation tooling
• C. Should be stored in another password safe
• D. Should be stored in Vault

Question 2

Which Vault secret engine may be used to build your own internal certificate authority?

• A. Transit
• B. PKI
• C. PostgreSQL
• D. Generic

Question 3

Which statement describes the results of this command: $ vault secrets enable transit?

• A. Enables the transit secrets engine at transit path
• B. Requires a root token to execute the command successfully
• C. Enables the transit secrets engine at secret path
• D. Fails due to missing -path parameter
• E. Fails because the transit secrets engine is enabled by default

Question 4

How would you describe the value of using the Vault transit secrets engine?

• A. Vault has an API that can be programmatically consumed by applications
• B. The transit secrets engine ensures encryption in-transit and at-rest is enforced enterprise wide
• C. Encryption for application data is best handled by a storage system or database engine, while storing encryption keys in Vault
• D. The transit secrets engine relieves the burden of proper encryption/decryption from application developers and pushes the burden onto the operators of Vault

Question 5

Security requirements demand that no secrets appear in the shell history. Which command does not meet this requirement?

• A. generate-password | vault kv put secret/password value=-
• B. vault kv put secret/password value=itsasecret
• C. vault kv put secret/password [emailprotected]
• D. vault kv put secret/password value=$SECRET_VALUE

Question 6

Which of the following statements describe the CLI command below?
$ vault login -method=ldap username=mitchellh

• A. Generates a token which is response wrapped
• B. You will be prompted to enter the password
• C. By default, the generated token is valid for 24 hours
• D. Fails because the password is not provided

Question 7

You have a 2GB Base64 binary large object (blob) that needs to be encrypted. Which of the following best describes the transit secrets engine?

• A. A data key encrypts the blob locally, and the same key decrypts the blob locally.
• B. To process such a large blob. Vault will temporarily store it in the storage backend.
• C. Vault will store the blob permanently. Be sure to run Vault on a compute optimized machine.
• D. The transit engine is not a good solution for binaries of this size.

Question 8

What is a benefit of response wrapping?

• A. Log every use of a secret
• B. Load balance secret generation across a Vault cluster
• C. Provide error recovery to a secret so it is not corrupted in transit
• D. Ensure that only a single party can ever unwrap the token and see whats inside

Question 9

Which of the following vault lease operations uses a lease_id as an argument? (Choose two.)

• A. renew
• B. revoke -prefix
• C. create
• D. describe
• E. revoke

Question 10

HOTSPOT Where do you define the Namespace to log into using the Vault UI?

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