nerdexam
HashiCorp

VAULT-ASSOCIATE-002 · Question #15

Which of the following are replication methods available in Vault Enterprise? (Choose two.)

The correct answer is C. Performance Replication D. Disaster Recovery Replication. Vault Enterprise offers Performance Replication and Disaster Recovery Replication as key methods for multi-datacenter deployment and high availability.

Submitted by weili_xi· Apr 18, 2026Understand Vault Architecture

Question

Which of the following are replication methods available in Vault Enterprise? (Choose two.)

Options

  • ACluster sharding
  • BNamespaces
  • CPerformance Replication
  • DDisaster Recovery Replication

How the community answered

(41 responses)
  • A
    5% (2)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    93% (38)

Why each option

Vault Enterprise offers Performance Replication and Disaster Recovery Replication as key methods for multi-datacenter deployment and high availability.

ACluster sharding

Cluster sharding is not a standard replication method in Vault; Vault typically focuses on active-standby or active-active replication models rather than sharding the data itself across independent clusters for redundancy.

BNamespaces

Namespaces in Vault Enterprise provide multi-tenancy by isolating paths and policies, but they are not a replication method for data between clusters.

CPerformance ReplicationCorrect

Performance Replication in Vault Enterprise provides read-only replicas across data centers, enabling clients to read from a local Vault cluster, reducing latency and scaling read operations.

DDisaster Recovery ReplicationCorrect

Disaster Recovery (DR) Replication in Vault Enterprise provides a mechanism for asynchronously replicating data from a primary cluster to a secondary DR cluster, allowing for failover in case of a catastrophic primary cluster failure.

Concept tested: Vault Enterprise replication methods

Source: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/enterprise/replication

Topics

#Replication#Vault Enterprise#High Availability#Disaster Recovery

Community Discussion

No community discussion yet for this question.

Full VAULT-ASSOCIATE-002 Practice