HashiCorp TA-002-P Dumps Questions [2022] Best Way To Pass HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Exam

1. Terraform can run on Windows or Linux, but it requires a Server version of the Windows operating system.

2. Which of the following is not a valid Terraform collection type?

3. Why would you use the terraform taint command?

4. Which provisioner invokes a process on the resource created by Terraform?

5. Setting the TF_LOG environment variable to DEBUG causes debug messages to be logged into syslog.

6. When running the command terraform taint against a managed resource you want to force recreation upon, Terraform will immediately destroy and recreate the resource.

7. How would you reference the "name" value of the second instance of this fictitious resource?

8. What value does the Terraform Cloud/Terraform Enterprise private module registry provide over the public Terraform Module Registry?

9. Terraform and Terraform providers must use the same major version number in a single configuration.

10. When using Terraform to deploy resources into Azure, which scenarios are true regarding state files? (Choose two.)

11. What information does the public Terraform Module Registry automatically expose about published modules?

12. You have declared an input variable called environment in your parent module.

What must you do to pass the value to a child module in the configuration?

13. You have deployed a new webapp with a public IP address on a clod provider. However, you did not create any outputs for your code.

What is the best method to quickly find the IP address of the resource you deployed?

14. If writing Terraform code that adheres to the Terraform style conventions, how would you properly indent each nesting level compared to the one above it?

15. When using a module block to reference a module stored on the public Terraform Module Registry such as:

How do you specify version 1.0.0?

16. In Terraform 0.13 and above, outside of the required_providers block, Terraform configurations always refer to providers by their local names.

17. Terraform requires the Go runtime as a prerequisite for installation.

18. Where does the Terraform local backend store its state?

19. When does terraform apply reflect changes in the cloud environment?

20. Which of the following is not true of Terraform providers?

21. You have provisioned some virtual machines (VMs) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using the gcloud command line tool. However, you are standardizing with Terraform and want to manage these VMs using Terraform instead.

What are the two things you must do to achieve this? (Choose two.)

22. All standard backend types support state storage, locking, and remote operations like plan.

apply and destroy.

23. If you manually destroy infrastructure, what is the best practice reflecting this change in Terraform?

24. You just scaled your VM infrastructure and realized you set the count variable to the wrong value. You correct the value and save your change.

What do you do next to make your infrastructure match your configuration?

25. Which backend does the Terraform CLI use by default?

26. In contrast to Terraform Open Source, when working with Terraform Enterprise and Cloud Workspaces, conceptually you could think about them as completely separate working directories.

27. Which of these is the best practice to protect sensitive values in state files?

28. When should you use the force-unlock command?

29. A Terraform provider is not responsible for:

30. Which of the following is allowed as a Terraform variable name?

31. The terraform.tfstate file always matches your currently built infrastructure.

32. You write a new Terraform configuration and immediately run terraform apply in the CLI using the local backend.

Why will the apply fail?

33. You should store secret data in the same version control repository as your Terraform configuration.

34. How is terraform import run?

35. Terraform validate reports syntax check errors from which of the following scenarios?

36. Terraform can only manage resource dependencies if you set them explicitly with the depends_on argument.

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Which flag would you add to terraform plan to save the execution plan to a file? Type your answer in the field provided. The text field is not case-sensitive and all variations of the correct answer are accepted.

38. 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?

39. Which of the following is not a key principle of infrastructure as code?

40. You have declared a variable called var.list which is a list of objects that all have an attribute id.

Which options will produce a list of the IDs? (Choose two.)

41. How can you trigger a run in a Terraform Cloud workspace that is connected to a Version Control System (VCS) repository?

42. What is not processed when running a terraform refresh?

43. Terraform provisioners can be added to any resource block.

44. A fellow developer on your team is asking for some help in refactoring their Terraform code. As part of their application’s architecture, they are going to tear down an existing deployment managed by Terraform and deploy new. However, there is a server resource named aws_instance.ubuntu[1] they would like to keep to perform some additional analysis.

What command should be used to tell Terraform to no longer manage the resource?

45. What is the provider for this fictitious resource?

46. Which argument(s) is (are) required when declaring a Terraform variable?

47. You have multiple team members collaborating on infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, and want to apply formatting standards for readability.

How can you format Terraform HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) code according to standard Terraform style convention?

48. Which of the following is available only in Terraform Enterprise or Cloud workspaces and not in Terraform CLI?

49. What is the name assigned by Terraform to reference this resource?

50. You have recently started a new job at a retailer as an engineer. As part of this new role, you have been tasked with evaluating multiple outages that occurred during peak shopping time during the holiday season. Your investigation found that the team is manually deploying new compute instances and configuring each compute instance manually. This has led to inconsistent configuration between each compute instance.

How would you solve this using infrastructure as code?

51. terraform validate validates the syntax of Terraform files.

52. How can terraform plan aid in the development process?

53. Your security team scanned some Terraform workspaces and found secrets stored in a plaintext in state files.

How can you protect sensitive data stored in Terraform state files?

54. A Terraform local value can reference other Terraform local values.

55. You want to know from which paths Terraform is loading providers referenced in your Terraform configuration (files). You need to enable debug messages to find this out.

Which of the following would achieve this?

56. You have never used Terraform before and would like to test it out using a shared team account for a cloud provider. The shared team account already contains 15 virtual machines (VM). You develop a Terraform configuration containing one VM, perform terraform apply, and see that your VM was created successfully.

What should you do to delete the newly-created VM with Terraform?

57. You run a local-exec provisioner in a null resource called null_resource.run_script and realize that you need to rerun the script.

Which of the following commands would you use first?

58. Terraform providers are always installed from the Internet.

59. How is the Terraform remote backend different than other state backends such as S3, Consul, etc.?

60. A terraform apply can not _________ infrastructure.

61. You need to constrain the GitHub provider to version 2.1 or greater.

Which of the following should you put into the Terraform 0.12 configuration’s provider block?

62. Which of the following is not a valid string function in Terraform?

63. HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) supports user-defined functions.

64. Which option can not be used to keep secrets out of Terraform configuration files?

65. You have used Terraform to create an ephemeral development environment in the cloud and are now ready to destroy all the infrastructure described by your Terraform configuration. To be safe, you would like to first see all the infrastructure that will be deleted by Terraform.

Which command should you use to show all of the resources that will be deleted? (Choose two.)

66. What is the name assigned by Terraform to reference this resource?

67. What type of block is used to construct a collection of nested configuration blocks?

68. When you initialize Terraform, where does it cache modules from the public Terraform Module Registry?

69. What is the workflow for deploying new infrastructure with Terraform?

70. What command does Terraform require the first time you run it within a configuration directory?

71. Which of the following is the correct way to pass the value in the variable num_servers into a module with the input servers?

72. What does the default "local" Terraform backend store?

73. You’re building a CI/CD (continuous integration/ continuous delivery) pipeline and need to inject sensitive variables into your Terraform run.

How can you do this safely?

74. Your DevOps team is currently using the local backend for your Terraform configuration. You would like to move to a remote backend to begin storing the state file in a central location.

Which of the following backends would not work?

75. Where in your Terraform configuration do you specify a state backend?

76. You would like to reuse the same Terraform configuration for your development and production environments with a different state file for each.

Which command would you use?

77. Module variable assignments are inherited from the parent module and do not need to be explicitly set.

78. One remote backend configuration always maps to a single remote workspace.

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What is the name of the default file where Terraform stores the state?

Type your answer in the field provided. The text field is not case-sensitive and all variations of the correct answer are accepted.

80. What is one disadvantage of using dynamic blocks in Terraform?