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

A Terraform provider is not responsible for:

Terraform provisioners can be added to any resource block.

What is terraform refresh intended to detect?

A Terraform local value can reference other Terraform local values.

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

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

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

How can terraform plan aid in the development process?

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?

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

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?

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?

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.

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?

How is terraform import run?

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?

Which of these options is the most secure place to store secrets for connecting to a Terraform remote backend?

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?

Which backend does the Terraform CLI use by default?

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

You write a new Terraform configuration and immediately run terraform apply in the CLI using the local backend. Why will the apply fail?

What features stops multiple admins from changing the Terraform state at the same time?

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?

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

A terraform apply can not _________ infrastructure.

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?

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?

Terraform provisioners that require authentication can use the ______ block.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Which statement describes a goal of infrastructure as code?

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

You need to deploy resources into two different cloud regions in the same Terraform configuration. To do that, you declare multiple provider configurations as follows:

What meta-argument do you need to configure in a resource block to deploy the resource to the “us- west-2” AWS region?

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?

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

Terraform init can indeed be run only a few times, because, every time terraform init will initialize the project , and download all plugins from the internet repository , regardless of whether they were present or not , and this increases the waiting time

The Terraform language does not support user-defined functions, and so only the functions built in to the language are available for use

Which of the below configuration file formats are supported by Terraform? (Select TWO)

Please identify the offerings which are unique to Terraform Enterprise, and not available in either Terraform OSS, or Terraform Cloud. Select four.

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

terraform refresh command will not modify infrastructure, but does modify the state file.

Which of the following clouds does not have a provider maintained HashiCorp?

You have declared a variable name my_var in terraform configuration without a value associated with it.

variable my_var {}

After running terraform plan it will show an error as variable is not defined.

Environment variables can be used to set variables. The environment variables must be in the format "____"_<variablename>. Select the correct prefix string from the following list.

The terraform init command is always safe to run multiple times, to bring the working directory up to date with changes in the configuration. Though subsequent runs may give errors, this command will never delete your existing configuration or state.