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HashiCorp Vault Certified Associate Preparation Guide

Ned Bellavance

Prepare yourself for the HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate exam with this guide! HashiCorp Ambassador, Ned Bellavance reviews the certification objectives, provides insight from real-world experience, and gives key takeaways for to help you focus on what matters most.

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HashiCorp Vault provides full lifecycle management for sensitive information like cloud credentials, API keys, and certificates. Open source and cloud agnostic, Vault has quickly become a leading solution in its category. To help prove your acumen with the technology, HashiCorp has introduced the Vault Associate certification. This book serves as a guide to prepare you for the certification exam. Author and HashiCorp Ambassador, Ned Bellavance provides an overview of the certification objectives, detailed examples, and key takeaways to aid you in studying for the exam. Get Vault, get the guide, and get certified!

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Ned Bellavance

Ned is an IT professional with almost 20 years of experience in the field. He has been a helpdesk operator, systems administrator, cloud architect, and product manager. In his newest incarnation, he is the Founder of Ned in the Cloud LLC. As a one-man-tech-juggernaut, he develops courses for Pluralsight, runs a podcast for Packet Pushers, runs a podcast for himself, and creates original content for technology vendors.

Ned has been a Microsoft MVP since 2017 and holds a bunch of industry certifications that have no bearing on anything beyond his exceptional ability to take exams and pass them.

Ned has three guiding principles:

  • Embrace discomfort
  • Fail often
  • Be nice

You can learn more about Ned on his website https://nedinthecloud.com.

Contents

Table of Contents

About the Author

  1. Ned Bellavance

Tech Reviewers

  1. Reviewer 1
  2. Reviewer 2

Exam Overview

  1. Setting Expectations
  2. Prerequisites
  3. Product Version Tested
  4. Chapter Summary

Exam Objectives

  1. High-Level Objectives
  2. Chapter Layout
  3. Chapter Summary

Objective 1: Compare Authentication Methods

  1. 1A: Describe authentication methods
  2. 1B: Choose an authentication method based on use case
  3. 1C: Differentiate human vs. system auth methods
  4. Chapter Summary

Objective 2: Create Vault policies

  1. 2A: Illustrate the value of Vault policy
  2. 2B: Describe Vault policy syntax: path
  3. 2C: Describe Vault policy syntax: capabilities
  4. 2D: Craft a Vault policy based on requirements
  5. Chapter Summary

Objective 3: Assess Vault tokens

  1. 3A: Describe Vault token
  2. 3B: Differentiate between service and batch tokens. Choose one based on use-case
  3. 3C: Describe root token uses and lifecycle
  4. 3D: Define token accessors
  5. 3E: Explain time-to-live
  6. 3F: Explain orphaned tokens
  7. 3G: Create tokens based on need
  8. Chapter Summary

Objective 4: Manage Vault leases

  1. 4A: Explain the purpose of a lease ID
  2. 4B: Renew leases
  3. 4C: Revoke leases
  4. Chapter Summary

Objective 5: Compare and configure Vault secrets engines

  1. 5D: Define secrets engines
  2. 5A: Choose a secret method based on use case
  3. 5B: Contrast dynamic secrets vs. static secrets and their use cases
  4. 5C: Define Transit engine
  5. Chapter Summary

Objective 6: Utilize Vault CLI

  1. CLI Primer
  2. 6A: Authenticate to Vault
  3. 6B: Configure authentication methods
  4. 6C: Configure Vault policies
  5. 6D: Access Vault secrets
  6. 6E: Enable Secret engines
  7. 6F: Configure environment variables
  8. Chapter Summary

Objective 7: Utilize Vault UI

  1. 7A: Authenticate to Vault
  2. 7B: Configure authentication methods
  3. 7C: Configure Vault policies
  4. 7D: Access Vault secrets
  5. 7E: Enable Secret engines
  6. Chapter Summary

Objective 8: Be aware of the Vault API

  1. 8A: Authenticate to Vault via Curl
  2. 8B: Access Vault secrets via Curl
  3. Chapter Summary

Objective 9: Explain Vault architecture

  1. 9A: Describe the encryption of data stored by Vault
  2. 9B: Describe cluster strategy
  3. 9C: Describe storage backends
  4. 9D: Describe the Vault agent
  5. 9E: Describe secrets caching
  6. 9F: Be aware of identities and groups
  7. 9G: Describe Shamir secret sharing and unsealing
  8. 9H: Be aware of replication
  9. 9I: Describe seal/unseal
  10. 9J: Explain response wrapping
  11. 9K: Explain the value of short-lived, dynamically generated secrets
  12. Chapter Summary

Objective 10: Explain encryption as a service

  1. 10A: Configure transit secret engine
  2. 10B: Encrypt and decrypt secrets
  3. 10C: Rotate the encryption key
  4. Chapter Summary

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