Explain the benefits of state

Terraform must store state about your managed infrastructure and configuration. This state is used by Terraform to map real world resources to your configuration, keep track of metadata, and to improve performance for large infrastructures.

Is stored by default in a local file named terraform.tfstate.

• terraform import
• terraform state rm

Purpose

• Mapping the Real World
• Metadata
• Performance
• Syncing

Questions examples

• https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/associate-questions?in=terraform/certification
• https://www.whizlabs.com/blog/terraform-certification-exam-questions/
• 250 questions and answers: https://medium.com/bb-tutorials-and-thoughts/250-practice-questions-for-terraform-associate-certification-7a3ccebe6a1a

Related

• terraform_remote_state

See also

• Terraform state: terraform [ state | replace-provider | mv ], backend.tf, Remote state backends to manage Terraform state, State locking, terraform force-unlock
• Certifications: Security certifications, Enterprise architecture, Coursera, AWS certifications, CertiProf, Pearson VUE, Terraform Associate, Freecram, ExamLabs

https://www.terraform.io/language/state