HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (TA-002-P) Free Practice Test

Question 1

Which command must you first run before performing further Terraform operations in a working directory?

A. terraform import

B. terraform workspace

C. terraform init

D. terraform plan

Correct Answer: C

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Question 2

You must use different Terraform commands depending on the cloud provider you use.

A. False

B. True

Correct Answer: A

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Question 3

What Terraform command always causes a state file to be updated with changes that might have been made outside of Terraform?

A. Terraform plan target-state

B. Terraform apply -lock-false

C. Terraform plan -refresh-only

D. Terraform show -json

Correct Answer: C

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Question 4

Which command add existing resources into Terraform state?

A. All of these

B. Terraform import

C. Terraform init

D. Terraform plan

E. Terraform refresh

Correct Answer: B

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Question 5

Why does this backend configuration not follow best practices?

A. The backend configuration should contain multiple credentials so that more than one user can execute terraform plan and terraform apply

B. You should use the local enhanced storage backend whenever possible

C. An alias meta-argument should be included in backend blocks whenever possible

D. You should not store credentials in Terraform configuration

Correct Answer: D

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Question 6

A module can always refer to all variables declared in its parent module.

A. False

B. True

Correct Answer: A

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Question 7

Which backend does the Terraform CU use by default?

A. Remote

B. Local

C. HTTP

D. Depends on the cloud provider configured

E. Terraform Cloud

Correct Answer: B

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Question 8

How does Terraform determine dependencies between resources?

A. Terraform automatically builds a resource graph based on resources provisioners, special meta-parameters, and the stale file (if present}

B. Terraform requires all dependencies between resources to be specified using the depends_on parameter

C. Terraform requires resources in a configuration to be listed m the order they will be created to determine dependencies

D. Terraform requires resource dependencies to be defined as modules and sourced in order

Correct Answer: A

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Question 9

Which command should you run to check if all code in a Terraform configuration that references multiple modules is properly formatted without making changes?

A. terraform fmt -write-false

B. terraform fmt -check

C. terraform fmt -list -recursive

D. terraform fmt -check -recursive

Correct Answer: D

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Question 10

You want to define a single input variable to capture configuration values for a server. The values must represent memory as a number, and the server name as a string.
Which variable type could you use for this input?

A. Terraform does not support complex input variables of different types

B. Object

C. List

D. Map

Correct Answer: B

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