HashiCorp Certified: Vault Operations Professional Online Course

HashiCorp Certified: Vault Operations Professional Online Course

This comprehensive course is designed to help you confidently prepare for and pass the HashiCorp Certified: Vault Operations Professional exam. Through a mix of conceptual lessons and hands-on labs, you’ll develop the skills needed to answer exam questions and perform real-world tasks on Vault nodes and clusters with clarity and confidence.

What You'll Learn

• Vault Server Configuration: Build and configure Vault servers for a variety of deployment scenarios.
• Monitoring: Learn how to effectively monitor Vault environments to ensure reliability and performance.
• Security Model: Apply Vault’s security model to protect sensitive data and manage access.
• High Availability: Design and implement fault-tolerant Vault architectures to handle disruptions.
• HSM Integration: Enhance security by integrating Hardware Security Modules with Vault.
• Performance Scaling: Scale your Vault setup to support growing workloads and traffic.
• Access Control: Configure fine-grained access controls to manage permissions securely.
• Vault Agent: Automate workflows by setting up and managing the Vault Agent.

Key Benefits

• Expert Guidance: Learn from a certified HashiCorp instructor and recognized ambassador for Vault, Consul, and Terraform.
• Hands-On Practice: Gain real-world experience through interactive labs and quizzes using Vault version 1.10 and above.
• Targeted Preparation: Follow a well-structured, exam-focused curriculum covering all key topics and objectives.

Skills You'll Gain

• Set up and configure Vault for multiple use cases
• Monitor and secure your Vault infrastructure
• Design resilient, high-availability Vault systems
• Integrate Vault with HSMs
• Optimize and scale Vault for high performance
• Configure secure access controls and automate with Vault Agent

Course Outline

The HashiCorp Certified: Vault Operations Professional Online Course covers following topics -

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

• Introduction
• HashiCorp Documentation Review

Chapter 2: Create a Working Vault Server Configuration Given a Scenario

• Enable and Configure Secrets Engine
• Key/Value Secrets Engine (Demo: Versions 1 & 2)
• Database Secrets Engine (Demo)
• Identity Secrets Engine (Demo)
• Transit Secrets Engine (Demo)
• PKI Secrets Engine (Demo)
• Cubbyhole Secrets Engine (Demo)
• Vault Security Hardening
• Auto Unsealing Vault (Demo)
• Implementing Integrated Storage (Demo & Snapshots)
• Enable and Configure Auth Methods
• AppRole Auth Method (Demo)
• Userpass Auth Method (Demo)
• Vault Tokens - Auth Method
• Secure Vault Initialization (Demo)
• Regenerating a Root Token (Demo)
• Rekey Vault and Rotate Encryption Keys (Demo)

Chapter 3: Monitor a Vault Environment

• Monitor and Understand Telemetry
• Monitor and Understand Audit Logs (Demo)
• Monitor and Understand Operational Logs (Demo)

Chapter 4: Employ the Vault Security Model

• Secure Introduction of Vault Clients
• Running Vault in Kubernetes

Chapter 5: Build Fault-Tolerant Vault Environments

• Configure a Highly Available Vault Cluster (Demo: Manual, Retry_Join, Auto_Join)
• Enable and Configure Disaster Recovery (DR) Replication (Demo)
• Promote a Secondary Cluster (Demo)

Chapter 6: Understand the Hardware Security Module (HSM) Integration

• Benefits of Auto Unsealing with HSM
• Benefits and Use Cases of Seal Wrapping

Chapter 7: Scale Vault for Performance

• Using Batch Tokens (Demo)
• Performance Standby Nodes
• Enable and Configure Performance Replication (Demo)
• Create a Paths Filter (Demo)

Chapter 8: Configure Access Control

• Vault Identity Entities and Groups
• Vault Policies (Part 1 & 2)
• Understand Sentinel Policies
• Control Groups
• Vault Namespaces (Demo)

Chapter 9: Configure Vault Agent

• Vault Agent Auto-Auth and Token Sink
• Vault Agent Templating (Demo)

Chapter 10: Exam Experience and Expectations

• Exam Experience and Expectations