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VAULT-ASSOCIATE-002 · Question #51

Unsealing a single Vault server in a cluster unseals all Vault servers in that cluster.

The correct answer is B. False. In a Vault cluster, each server must be unsealed individually by providing its own unseal keys or through auto-unseal mechanisms; unsealing one server does not unseal others.

Submitted by haru.x· Apr 18, 2026Understand Vault Architecture

Question

Unsealing a single Vault server in a cluster unseals all Vault servers in that cluster.

Options

  • ATrue
  • BFalse

How the community answered

(35 responses)
  • A
    6% (2)
  • B
    94% (33)

Why each option

In a Vault cluster, each server must be unsealed individually by providing its own unseal keys or through auto-unseal mechanisms; unsealing one server does not unseal others.

ATrue

Unsealing one Vault server in a cluster does not automatically unseal the other servers; each server requires its own unseal operation.

BFalseCorrect

In a Vault cluster, each individual Vault server maintains its own master key and must be unsealed independently, either manually with unseal keys or automatically via an auto-unseal mechanism, to decrypt its portion of the data. Unsealing one node does not automatically unseal others.

Concept tested: Vault cluster unsealing

Source: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/concepts/seal#unseal

Topics

#Unsealing#Vault Cluster#High Availability#Seal Status

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