HashiCorp terraform associate practice test

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

• A. Versioned infrastructure
• B. Golden images
• C. Idempotence
• D. Self-describing infrastructure

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

• A. True
• B. False

What is the provider for this fictitious resource?

• A. vpc
• B. main
• C. aws
• D. test

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

• A. Run terraform refresh
• B. It will happen automatically
• C. Manually update the state fire
• D. Run terraform import

What is not processed when running a terraform refresh?

• A. State file
• B. Configuration file
• C. Credentials
• D. Cloud provider

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

• A. Required input variables
• B. Optional inputs variables and default values
• C. Outputs
• D. All of the above
• E. None of the above

If a module uses a local variable, you can expose that value with a terraform output.

• A. True
• B. False

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

• A. True
• B. False

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

• A. split
• B. join
• C. slice
• D. chomp

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.)

• A. Provision new VMs using Terraform with the same VM names
• B. Use the terraform import command for the existing VMs
• C. Write Terraform configuration for the existing VMs
• D. Run the terraform import-gcp command