Vault-Operations-Professional Exam Information and Outline
Vault Operations Professional
Vault-Operations-Professional Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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Create a working Vault server configuration given a scenario
- Enable and configure secret engines
- Practice production hardening
- Auto unseal Vault
- Implement integrated storage for Community and Enterprise Vault
- Enable and configure authentication methods
- Practice secure Vault initialization
- Regenerate a root token
- Rekey Vault and rotate encryption keys
Monitor a Vault environment
- Monitor and understand Vault telemetry
- Monitor and understand Vault audit logs
- Monitor and understand Vault operational logs
Employ the Vault security model
- Describe secure introduction of Vault clients
- Describe the security implications of running Vault in Kubernetes
Build fault-tolerant Vault environments
- Configure a highly available (HA) cluster
- [Vault Enterprise] Enable and configure disaster recovery (DR) replication
- [Vault Enterprise] Promote a secondary cluster
Understand the hardware security module (HSM) integration
- [Vault Enterprise] Describe the benefits of auto unsealing with HSM
- [Vault Enterprise] Describe the benefits and use cases of seal wrap (PKCS#11)
Scale Vault for performance
- Use batch tokens
- [Vault Enterprise] Describe the use cases of performance standby nodes
- [Vault Enterprise] Enable and configure performance replication
- [Vault Enterprise] Create a paths filter
Configure access control
- Interpret Vault identity entities and groups
- Write, deploy, and troubleshoot ACL policies
- [Vault Enterprise] Understand Sentinel policies
- [Vault Enterprise] Define control groups and describe their basic workflow
- [Vault Enterprise] Describe and interpret multi-tenancy with namespaces
Configure Vault Agent
- Securely configure auto-auth and token sink
- Configure templating