Free HashiCorp HCVA0-003 Practice Test & Real Exam Questions

Exam Code/Number: HCVA0-003
Exam Name/Title: HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate (003)Exam
Certification Provider: HashiCorp
Corresponding Certification: HashiCorp Security Automation

Exam Questions: 328
Updated On: Sep 27, 2026

Question #1

You have been tasked with writing a policy that will allow read permissions for all secrets at path secret/bar.
The users that are assigned this policy should also be able to list the secrets. What should this policy look like?

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Question #2

A Fintech company is using Vault to store its static long-lived credentials so automated processes can quickly retrieve secrets. A user needs to add a new static secret for a new automated job. What CLI commands can be used to store a new static credential? (Select two)

A. vault kv put kv/training/certification/vault @secrets.txt

B. vault kv write kv/training/certification/vault key=username value=bryan

C. vault kv put -mount=secret creds passcode=my-long-passcode

D. vault kv create kv/training/certification/vault @secrets.txt

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Question #3

A policy is shown in the exhibit.
What does this policy do?
Exhibit:
path " secret/data/{{identity.entity.id}}/* " { capabilities = [ " create " , " update " , " read " , " delete " ] } path " secret/metadata/{{identity.entity.id}}/* " { capabilities = [ " list " ] }

A. Grants access for each user to a KV folder, which shares their ID.

B. Allows a user to read data about the secret endpoint identity.

C. Grants access to a special system entity folder.

D. Nothing, this is not a valid policy.

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Question #4

Which of the following are true about Vault policies?
Pick the 2 correct responses below.

A. Vault policies are path-based.

B. Vault policies support regular expressions.

C. Vault policies support wildcards anywhere in the path.

D. Vault policies support globbing wildcards using the * symbol only at the end of the path.

E. A Vault policy must be created for every secret that will be accessed.

F. Vault supports an extensible permission structure that allows new permission types to be added as plugins.

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Question #5

A user logs into Vault through a configured LDAP auth method and notices that re-authentication is needed after every 8 hours.
Why would the user be required to log in again every 8 hours?

A. The LDAP password associated with the user has changed.

B. The time-to-live associated with the existing token lease is up, and the lease has been revoked.

C. The wrong token was provided by the user too many times and has been revoked.

D. The administrator revoked the root token.

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Question #6

You have multiple Vault clusters in your environment, one for test and one for production. You have the CLI installed on your local machine and need to target the production cluster to make configuration changes. What environment variable can you set to target the production cluster?

A. VAULT_REDIRECT_ADDR

B. VAULT_CLUSTER_ADDR

C. VAULT_ADDR

D. VAULT_CAPATH

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Question #7

In Vault, there are two main types of tokens, batch and service. Which of the following is true about the renewable capabilities of each?

A. Both batch and service tokens can be renewed up to the max TTL

B. Service tokens cannot be renewed, but batch can be renewed up to the max TTL

C. Tokens cannot be renewed without reauthenticating to Vault

D. Batch tokens cannot be renewed, but service can be renewed up to the max TTL

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Question #8

You are working on a new project and need to retrieve a secret from Vault. You log into the Vault UI and browse to the path where the secret is stored. Based on the screenshot below, what is true about the secrets stored in this path? (Select four)

A. The secrets engine is mounted at the path developers/

B. The secrets are stored in a KV v1 secrets engine

C. There are four previous versions of the secret

D. The secrets are stored in a KV v2 secrets engine

E. The user does not have permission to delete the secret

F. The user has additional permissions on the path beyond just list and read

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Question #9

Which two interfaces automatically assume the token for subsequent requests after successfully authenticating? (Select two)

A. CLI

B. API

C. UI

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Question #10

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?

A. Performance replication

B. Disaster Recovery replication

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Question #11

Before data is written to the storage backend, the data is encrypted by which Vault feature?

A. Cryptographic barrier

B. Transit secrets engine

C. Unseal keys

D. TLS certificate

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Question #12

What is the correct order that Vault uses to protect data?

A. root key -- > encryption key -- > data

B. root key -- > data

C. encryption key -- > root key -- > data

D. unseal keys -- > root key -- > data

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