HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate TA-002-P Updated Dumps – Help You Pass

1. True or False? terraform init cannot automatically download Community providers.

2. What are the benefits of using Infrastructure as Code? (select five)

3. In order to make a Terraform configuration file dynamic and/or reusable, static values should be converted to use what?

4. After executing a terraform apply, you notice that a resource has a tilde (~) next to it .

What does this infer?

5. 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?

6. Select the operating systems which are supported for a clustered Terraform Enterprise:

(select four)

7. Provider dependencies are created in several different ways. Select the valid provider dependencies from the following list: (select three)

8. From the code below, identify the implicit dependency:

9. In order to reduce the time it takes to provision resources, Terraform uses parallelism.

By default, how many resources will Terraform provision concurrently?

10. When configuring a remote backend in Terraform, it might be a good idea to purposely omit some of the required arguments to ensure secrets and other important data aren't inadvertently shared with others .

What are the ways the remaining configuration can be added to Terraform so it can initialize and communicate with the backend? (select three)

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How would you define the cidr_block for us-east-1 in the aws_vpc resource using a variable?

12. resource "aws_s3_bucket" "example" { bucket = "my-test-s3-terraform-bucket" ...} resource "aws_iam_role" "test_role" { name = "test_role" ...}

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?

13. Complete the following sentence:

The terraform state command can be used to ____

14. While Terraform is generally written using the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), what other syntax can Terraform are expressed in?

15. 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?

16. When Terraform needs to be installed in a location where it does not have internet access to download the installer and upgrades, the installation is generally known as to be

__________.

17. Which statements best describes what the local variable assignment is doing in the following code snippet:

18. In the following code snippet, the block type is identified by which string?

19. What is a downside to using the Vault provider to read secrets from Vault?

20. From the answers below, select the advantages of using Infrastructure as Code.

21. Which of the below backends support state locking?

22. When using parent/child modules to deploy infrastructure, how would you export a value from one module to import into another module.

For example, a module dynamically deploys an application instance or virtual machine, and you need the IP address in another module to configure a related DNS record in order to reach the newly deployed application.

23. Named workspaces are not a suitable isolation mechanism for strong separation between staging and production?

24. Given the Terraform configuration below, in which order will the resources be created?

25. Select the most accurate statement to describe the Terraform language from the following list.

26. You have configured an Auto Scaling group in AWS to automatically scale the number of instances behind a load balancer based on the instances CPU utilization. The instances are configured using a Launch Configuration. You have observed that the Auto Scaling group doesn't successfully scale when you apply changes that require replacing the Launch Configuration .

Why is this happening?

27. A variable az has the following default value .

What will be the datatype of the variable?

az=["us-west-1a","us-east-1a"]

28. Why might a user opt to include the following snippet in their configuration file?

29. 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?

30. What is the result of the following terraform function call?

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32. What Terraform feature is shown in the example below?

33. Which of the following commands will launch the Interactive console for Terraform interpolations?

34. Which of the following statements best describes the Terraform list(...) type?

35. Which of the following terraform subcommands could be used to remove the lock on the state for the current configuration?

36. True or False? By default, Terraform destroy will prompt for confirmation before proceeding.

37. What resource dependency information is stored in Terraform's state?

38. Select the answer below that completes the following statement: Terraform Cloud can be managed from the CLI but requires __________?

39. Which of the following actions are performed during a terraform init?

40. In terraform, most resource dependencies are handled automatically .

Which of the following statements describes best how terraform resource dependencies are handled?

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42. Terraform Cloud is more powerful when you integrate it with your version control system (VCS) provider. Select all the supported VCS providers from the answers below. (select four)

43. Which feature of Terraform allows multiple state files for a single configuration file depending upon the environment?

44. Your company has a lot of workloads in AWS, and Azure that were respectively created using CloudFormation, and AzureRM Templates. However, now your CIO has decided to use Terraform for all new projects, and has asked you to check how to integrate the existing environment with terraform code .

What should be your next plan of action?

45. What feature of Terraform Cloud and/or Terraform Enterprise can you publish and maintain a set of custom modules which can be used within your organization?

46. What does the command terraform fmt do?

47. The following is a snippet from a Terraform configuration file:

Which, when validated, results in the following error:

Fill in the blank in the error message with the correct string from the list below.

48. Multiple provider instances blocks for AWS can be part of a single configuration file?

49. What are some of the problems of how infrastructure was traditionally managed before Infrastructure as Code? (select three)

50. 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" }

51. Using multi-cloud and provider-agnostic tools provides which of the following benefits?

52. Terraform Enterprise (also referred to as pTFE) requires what type of backend database for a clustered deployment?

53. Your team uses terraform OSS . You have created a number of resuable modules for important, independent network components that you want to share with your team to enhance consistency .

What is the correct option/way to do that?

54. True or False? Each Terraform workspace uses its own state file to manage the infrastructure associated with that particular workspace.

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56. State is a requirement for Terraform to function

57. What Terraform command can be used to inspect the current state file?

58. You have written a terraform IaC script which was working till yesterday, but is giving some vague error from today, which you are unable to understand. You want more detailed logs that could potentially help you troubleshoot the issue, and understand the root cause .

What can you do to enable this setting? Please note, you are using terraform OSS.

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60. In the example below, the depends_on argument creates what type of dependency?

61. True or False? When using the Terraform provider for Vault, the tight integration between these HashiCorp tools provides the ability to mask secrets in the terraform plan and state files.

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63. Which of the following is considered a Terraform plugin?

64. Your organization has moved to AWS and has manually deployed infrastructure using the console. Recently, a decision has been made to standardize on Terraform for all deployments moving forward.

What can you do to ensure that all existing is managed by Terraform moving forward without interruption to existing services?

65. You have created a custom variable definition file my_vars.tfvars .

How will you use it for provisioning infrastructure?

66. During a terraform plan, a resource is successfully created but eventually fails during provisioning .

What happens to the resource?

67. Terraform will sync all resources in state by default for every plan and apply, hence for larger infrastructures this can slow down terraform plan and terraform apply commands?

68. A user runs terraform init on their RHEL based server and per the output, two provider plugins are downloaded: $ terraform init

Initializing the backend...

Initializing provider plugins...

- Checking for available provider plugins...

- Downloading plugin for provider "aws" (hashicorp/aws) 2.44.0...

- Downloading plugin for provider "random" (hashicorp/random) 2.2.1...

:

Terraform has been successfully initialized! Where are these plugins downloaded to?

69. Which one is the right way to import a local module names consul?

70. What is the best and easiest way for Terraform to read and write secrets from HashiCorp Vault?

71. When writing Terraform code, HashiCorp recommends that you use how many spaces between each nesting level?

72. A "backend" in Terraform determines how state is loaded and how an operation such as apply is executed .

Which of the following is not a supported backend type?

73. Select all Operating Systems that Terraform is available for. (select five)

74. What is the result of the following terraform function call?

75. By default, where does Terraform store its state file?

76. What are some of the features of Terraform state? (select three)

77. Select all features which are exclusive to Terraform Enterprise. (Select Three)

78. Which of the following connection types are supported by the remote-exec provisioner? (select two)

79. A user has created a module called "my_test_module" and committed it to GitHub. Over time, several commits have been made with updates to the module, each tagged in GitHub with an incremental version number .

Which of the following lines would be required in a module configuration block in terraform to select tagged version v1.0.4?

80. Given the below resource configuration -

resource "aws_instance" "web" { # ... count = 4 }

What does the terraform resource address aws_instance.web refer to?

81. True or False: Workspaces provide identical functionality in the open-source, Terraform Cloud, and Enterprise versions of Terraform.

82. Which of the following is an invalid variable name?

83. A user creates three workspaces from the command line - prod, dev, and test .

Which of the following commands will the user run to switch to the dev workspace?

84. Which Terraform command will check and report errors within modules, attribute names, and value types to make sure they are syntactically valid and internally consistent?

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

Which of the following would achieve this?

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

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

88. Which task does terraform init not perform?

89. 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?

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

91. If a module declares a variable with a default, that variable must also be defined within the module.

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

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

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

95. Which two steps are required to provision new infrastructure in the Terraform workflow? (Choose two.)

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

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

98. Only the user that generated a plan may apply it.

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

100. 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?

101. What is terraform refresh intended to detect?

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

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

104. 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.)

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

106. terraform validate validates the syntax of Terraform files.

107. 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?

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

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

110. 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?

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

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

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

114. A provider configuration block is required in every Terraform configuration.

Example:

115. 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.

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

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

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

119. terraform init initializes a sample main.tf file in the current directory.

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

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

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

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

124. Terraform can import modules from a number of sources C which of the following is not a valid source?

125. Terraform variables and outputs that set the "description" argument will store that description in the state file.

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

127. Which of the following is not an action performed by terraform init?

128. 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?