Validates knowledge of HashiCorp Consul for service networking, covering Consul architecture and deployment, service registration and discovery, health checking, service mesh with intentions and traffic management, and the key/value store for configuration management.

Validates knowledge of infrastructure as code concepts and the ability to use HashiCorp Terraform in production, covering resource lifecycle management, HCL configuration, providers and modules, state management, and collaborative workflows with HCP Terraform.

Validates knowledge of HashiCorp Vault for secrets management and data protection, covering authentication methods, policies and tokens, lease management, static and dynamic secrets engines, encryption as a service, and Vault architecture including high availability.