Hashicorp Certified Vault Associate 002 · Free Practice Question Easy
Question 7
You are deploying Vault in a local data center, but want to be sure you have a secondary Vault cluster in the event the primary cluster goes offline. In the secondary data center, you have applications that are running, as they are architected to run active/active. Which type of replication would be best in this scenario?
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A
performance replication
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B
disaster recovery replication
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
In this scenario, the key to answering is that there are applications actively running the secondary data center. Because of this, you can deploy Performance Replication and the applications can now use the Vault cluster in their respective data center. This reduces network latency for your applications and provides you with a secondary cluster for redundancy.
https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/enterprise/replication
A. Performance replication is designed to ensure high availability and consistent performance across multiple clusters. In this scenario, where applications are running actively in the secondary data center, performance replication would be the best choice to maintain the required performance levels and availability in case the primary cluster goes offline.
B. Disaster recovery replication is typically used for scenarios where the primary cluster fails and needs to be restored in a separate location. In this scenario, where active/active applications are running in the secondary data center, performance replication would be more suitable as it focuses on maintaining consistent performance and availability across multiple clusters.
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