service cloud consultant questions Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

You operate a 5-server Consul cluster across two availability zones. A network partition isolates two servers in AZ-B from the other three servers in AZ-A for several minutes. During the incident, application teams report intermittent failures reading from the KV store. Which behavior should you expect from Consul in this scenario?

Your organization has multiple application teams managing service definitions. You want to reduce the risk of typos causing services to register with inconsistent names and tags, while still allowing teams to manage their own local service definitions. Which approach best addresses this in Consul?

A service registers with a TTL health check. After a deployment, the process is healthy but the check starts failing because heartbeats are not being sent. You need Consul to automatically mark the service unhealthy quickly when heartbeats stop, and recover immediately when heartbeats resume. Which check type and behavior best matches this requirement?

A web service depends on a "payments" service. You want the web service to discover only healthy instances and to prefer instances in the same datacenter, but still fail over to a secondary datacenter if none are available locally. Which Consul feature best fits this requirement?

You are troubleshooting why a client is receiving traffic to an unhealthy instance. The service has two checks: an HTTP check that is passing and a script check that is critical. The query being used is the standard service lookup (not a prepared query). What is the most likely reason the unhealthy instance is still being returned?

You are enabling Consul service mesh with sidecar proxies. A team wants to enforce that all service-to-service communication is encrypted in transit and uses service identity for authentication without modifying application code. Which combination of Consul features accomplishes this?

A service mesh deployment uses centralized configuration. You want all new sidecar proxies to use a consistent upstream connection behavior (for example, protocol settings and global defaults) while allowing specific services to override when necessary. Which Consul configuration mechanism is designed for this?

Your security team requires that applications authenticate to Consul using short-lived credentials and that access be limited to only the service registration and health update operations for that service. Which approach best meets these requirements?

You have enabled ACLs and mTLS for the service mesh. A sidecar proxy fails to start because it cannot retrieve its proxy configuration from Consul. The agent logs show permission denied errors on reading config entries. What is the most likely misconfiguration?

A Consul cluster experiences slow convergence after node failures. Operators suspect overly aggressive failure detection is causing flapping, while too conservative settings slow detection. Which operational tuning area is most directly related to balancing detection speed and stability for node health?