Author: Guy Cert

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Published: 2020-09-30

Total Pages: 240

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This book contains 116 unique practice questions and answers to help you prepare for the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate exam.Each question is annotated with the specific objective to which it pertains and links to website content where you can find more information about the topic covered by the question.This is not a brain dump and these are not the actual questions on the exam, but they are representative of the types of questions and of the information you will need to know to pass the exam.The practice test contains questions based on the following exam objectives:1 - Understand Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts 1a - Explain what IaC is 1b - Describe advantages of IaC patterns2 - Understand Terraform's purpose (vs other IaC) 2a - Explain multi-cloud and provider-agnostic benefits 2b - Explain the benefits of state3 - Understand Terraform basics 3a - Handle Terraform and provider installation and versioning 3b - Describe plug-in based architecture 3c - Demonstrate using multiple providers 3d - Describe how Terraform finds and fetches providers 3e - Explain when to use and not use provisioners and when to use local-exec or remote-exec4 - Use the Terraform CLI (outside of core workflow) 4a - Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform fmt to format code 4b - Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform taint to taint Terraform resources 4c - Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform import to import existing infrastructure into your Terraform state 4d - Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform workspace to create workspaces 4e - Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform state to view Terraform state 4f - Given a scenario: choose when to enable verbose logging and what the outcome/value is5 - Interact with Terraform modules 5a - Contrast module source options 5b - Interact with module inputs and outputs 5c - Describe variable scope within modules/child modules 5d - Discover modules from the public Terraform Module Registry 5e - Defining module version6 - Navigate Terraform workflow 6a - Describe Terraform workflow ( Write -> Plan -> Create ) 6b - Initialize a Terraform working directory (terraform init) 6c - Validate a Terraform configuration (terraform validate) 6d - Generate and review an execution plan for Terraform (terraform plan) 6e - Execute changes to infrastructure with Terraform (terraform apply) 6f - Destroy Terraform managed infrastructure (terraform destroy)7 - Implement and maintain state 7a - Describe default local backend 7b - Outline state locking 7c - Handle backend authentication methods 7d - Describe remote state storage mechanisms and supported standard backends 7e - Describe effect of Terraform refresh on state 7f - Describe backend block in configuration and best practices for partial configurations 7g - Understand secret management in state files8 - Read, generate, and modify configuration 8a - Demonstrate use of variables and outputs 8b - Describe secure secret injection best practice 8c - Understand the use of collection and structural types 8d - Create and differentiate resource and data configuration 8e - Use resource addressing and resource parameters to connect resources together 8f - Use Terraform built-in functions to write configuration 8g - Configure resource using a dynamic block 8h - Describe built-in dependency management (order of execution based)9 - Understand Terraform Cloud and Enterprise capabilities 9a - Describe the benefits of Sentinel, registry, and workspaces 9b - Differentiate OSS and Terraform Cloud workspaces 9c - Summarize features of Terraform Cloud