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 makes 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. It was very well put together and gave me the confidence I needed. There are 2 resources in particular:
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 advise for someone going down this path as well is to look at some of the Consul auditing features, how to enable what it logs etc. At least at the time of writing this, it wasn’t covered in anything I studied.