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1. A developer accidentally launched a VM (virtual machine) outside of the Terraform workflow and ended up with two servers with the same name. They don't know which VM Terraform manages but do have a list of all active VM IDs.

Which of the following methods could you use to discover which instance Terraform manages?

2. You've used Terraform to deploy a virtual machine and a database. You want to replace this virtual machine instance with an identical one without affecting the database.

What is the best way to achieve this using Terraform?

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

4. If you update the version constraint in your Terraform configuration, Terraform will update your lock file the next time you run terraform Init.

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

6. Variables declared within a module are accessible outside of the module.

7. Outside of the required_providers block, Terraform configurations always refer to providers by their local names.

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

9. What does Terraform use the.terraform.lock.hc1 file for?

10. 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 correct answers.

11. How would you output returned values from a child module in the Terraform CLI output?

12. How do you specify a module’s version when publishing it to the public terraform Module Registry?

13. 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?

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

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

Which of the following would achieve this?

16. What feature stops multiple users from operating on the Terraform state at the same time?

17. You have to initialize a Terraform backend before it can be configured.

18. Which of the following is not a valid Terraform variable type?

19. You cannot install third party plugins using terraform init.

20. Which of the following ate advantages of using infrastructure as code (laC) instead of provisioning with a graphical user interface (GUI)? Choose two correct answers.

21. You have created a main.tf Terraform configuration consisting of an application server, a database and a load balanced. You ran terraform apply and Terraform created all of the resources successfully.

Now you realize that you do not actually need the load balancer, so you run terraform destroy without any flags.

What will happen?

22. You are using a networking module in your Terraform configuration with the name label my-network.

In your main configuration you have the following code:

When you run terraform validate, you get the following error:

What must you do to successfully retrieve this value from your networking module?

23. What does this code do?

terraform { required_providers { aws = ">= 3.0" }}

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

25. How does the Terraform cloud integration differ from other state backends such as S3, Consul,etc?

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

27. _______backends support state locking.

28. You much initialize your working directory before running terraform validate.

29. Terraform variable names are saved in the state file.

30. When using a remote backend or terraform Cloud integration, where does Terraform save resource sate?

31. When using multiple configuration of the same Terraform provider, what meta-argument must you include in any non-default provider configurations?

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

Which of the following backends would not work?

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

How can you protect that data?

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

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

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

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

38. Setting the TF_LOG environment variable to DEBUG causes debug messages to be logged into stdout.

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

40. You have a Terraform configuration that defines a single virtual machine with no references to it, You have run terraform apply to create the resource, and then removed the resource definition from your Terraform configuration file.

What will happen you run terraform apply in the working directory again?