Terraform Associate Exam Guide Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Terraform Associate Exam Guide Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Which of the following commands will launch the Interactive console for Terraform
interpolations? - CORRECT ANSWER- terraform console
When using providers that require the retrieval of data, such as the HashiCorp Vault provider,
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Terraform Associate Exam Guide Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Which of the following commands will launch the Interactive console for Terraform
interpolations? - CORRECT ANSWER- terraform console
When using providers that require the retrieval of data, such as the HashiCorp Vault provider,
in what phase does Terraform actually retrieve the data required? - CORRECT ANSWER-
terraform init
Due to the way that the application code is written , the s3 bucket must be created before the
test role is created , otherwise there will be a problem.
How can you ensure that? - CORRECT ANSWER- Add explicit dependency using
depends_on . This will ensure the correct order of resource creation.
Which of the below backends support state locking? - CORRECT ANSWER- - S3
- consul
- azurerm
Which of the following value will be accepted for my_var?
variable "my_var"
{
type = string
,} - CORRECT ANSWER- - 15
- '15'
After creating a new workspace "PROD" you need to run the command terraform select
PROD to switch to it. - CORRECT ANSWER- False
Your manager has instructed you to start using terraform for your day-to-day operations, but
your security team is concerned about the terraform state files.
They have heard it contains confidential information, and are worried that it will not be
securely protected.
What should be your response to the security team in this regard? - CORRECT ANSWER-
Ensure that the state is managed in a remote backend, preferably an enterprise grade state
management system like Terraform Cloud.
Terraform can run on Windows or Linux, but it requires a Server version of the Windows
operating system. - CORRECT ANSWER- False
How would you reference the "name" value of the second instance of this fictitious resource?
resource "aws_instance" "web" {
count = 2
name = "terraform-${count.index}"
} - CORRECT ANSWER- aws_instance.web[1].name
Terraform providers are always installed from the Internet? - CORRECT ANSWER- False
Terraform provisioners can be added to any resource block? - CORRECT ANSWER- True
Complete the following sentence:For local state, the workspaces are stored directly in a
___________. - CORRECT ANSWER- directory called terraform.tfstate.d
What is the name assigned by Terraform to reference this resource?
resource "azurerm_resource_group" "dev" {
name = "test"
,location = "westus"
} - CORRECT ANSWER- test
A variable az has the following default value.
What will be the datatype of the variable?
az=["us-west-1a","us-east-1a"] - CORRECT ANSWER- List
Your developers are facing a lot of problem while writing complex expressions involving
difficult interpolations . They have to run the terraform plan every time and check whether
there are errors , and also check terraform apply to print the value as a temporary output for
debugging purposes.
What should be done to avoid this? - CORRECT ANSWER- Use terraform console
command to have an interactive UI with full access to the underlying terraform state to run
your interpolations , and debug at real-time.
Provisioners should only be used as a last resort. - CORRECT ANSWER- True
The terraform.tfstate file always matches your currently built infrastructure. - CORRECT
ANSWER- False
You have provisioned some aws resources in your test environment through Terraform for a
POC work. After the POC, now you want to destroy the resources but before destroying them
you want to check what resources will be getting destroyed through terraform. what are the
options of doing that? - CORRECT ANSWER- - Use terraform plan -destroy command.
- Use terraform destroy command
You have a simple Terraform configuration containing one virtual machine (VM) in a cloud
provider. You run terraform apply and the VM is created successfully.
What will happen if you delete the VM using the cloud provider console, and run terraform
apply again without changing any Terraform code? - CORRECT ANSWER- Terraform will
not make any changes
, By default, provisioners that fail will also cause the Terraform apply itself to error. How can
you change this default behavior within a provisioner? - CORRECT ANSWER- provisioner
"local-exec" { on_failure = "continue" }
You should store secret data in the same version control repository as your Terraform
configuration. - CORRECT ANSWER- False
What is the default backend for Terraform? - CORRECT ANSWER- local
Talal is a DevOps engineer and he has deployed the production infrastructure using
Terraform. He is using a very large configuration file to maintain and update the actual
infrastructure.
As the infrastructure have grown to a very complex and large, he has started experiencing
slowness when he run runs terraform plan. What are the options for him to resolve this
slowness? - CORRECT ANSWER- - Use -refresh=false flag as well as the -target flag with
terraform plan in order to work around this.
- Break large configurations into several smaller configurations that can each be
independently applied.
Which of the following represents a feature of Terraform Cloud that is NOT free to
customers? - CORRECT ANSWER- Roles and Team Management
Your team has started using terraform OSS in a big way, and now wants to deploy multi
region deployments (DR) in aws using the same terraform files.
You want to deploy the same infra (VPC,EC2 ...) in both us-east-1 ,and us-west-2 using the
same script , and then peer the VPCs across both the regions to enable DR traffic. But , when
you run your script , all resources are getting created in only the default provider region.
What should you do? Your provider setting is as below -
# The default provider configuration provider "aws" { region = "us-east-1" } - CORRECT
ANSWER- Use provider alias functionality , and add another provider for us-west region .
While creating the resources using the tf script , reference the appropriate provider (using the
alias).
John is writing a module and within the module, there are multiple places where he has to use
the same conditional expression but he wants to avoid repeating the same values or
expressions multiple times in a configuration,. What is a better approach to dealing with this?
- CORRECT ANSWER- Local Values
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