HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate (003)

Validates foundational knowledge of HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, data protection, and access control. Covers authentication methods, policies, tokens, leases, secrets engines, encryption as a service via the Transit engine, Vault architecture fundamentals, deployment architecture including integrated storage, and access management with Vault Agent. Designed for cloud engineers specializing in security, development, or operations. Tests on Vault 1.16.