Consul Certification Exam Passed!

I am happy to close out my recent learning binge with passing the Consul Associate certification exam. I’m just going to ramble a bit about the exam and how I feel about it here in a moment, but first I want to say that having the hat trick of HashiCorp certifications is a great feeling. I went this direction rather than going straight for cloud certs because I thought cloud-agnostic tools just make so much sense. After seeing everything put together, I see the value in it.

The Study Material

For study material I used Udemy courses again. They were very well put together and gave me the confidence I needed. There are 2 resources in particular:

• HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate
• HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate Practice Exam

The course gave me the foundation, then the practice exams helped me to fill in gaps. I just referenced official documentation, or random YouTube videos, to fill in those gaps.

The Exam

I honestly found this exam the strangest. Maybe my preparation was inadequate, or maybe the exam was updated recently and I didn’t pay attention. There were some features that I definitely didn’t see in my studying. Although, I was able to take what I did know about Consul and in general figure it out. I was fairly confident in most of my answers, but there were a few that I was just guessing on. My only advice for someone going down this path as well is to look at some of the Consul auditing features — how to enable them, what they log, etc. At least at the time of writing this, it wasn’t covered in anything I studied.