Terraform example questions

• Which of the features below is available in the free version of Terraform Cloud? (select three)

• What feature does Terraform use to map configuration to resources in the real world?

• What actions does a terraform init performs?

• True or False? Under special circumstances, Terraform can be used without state.

Solution: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/state/purpose

• True or False? Input variables that are marked as sensitive are NOT written to Terraform state.

• True or False? When you are referencing a module, you must specify the version of the module in the calling module block.

• Name two Terraform versions does NOT support Sentinel?

• Can Sentinel be used to manage your infrastructure costs?

• You have a number of different variables in a parent module that calls multiple child modules. Can the child modules refer to any of the variables declared in the parent module?

• True or False? Running a terraform apply will fail if you do not run a terraform plan first.

• Where is the most secure place to store credentials when using a remote backend?

• True or False? In Terraform OSS, workspaces generally use the same code repository while workspaces in Terraform Enterprise/Cloud are often mapped to different code repositories.

• By default, where does Terraform CLI store its state?

• Is terraform cloud-agnostic?

• Can terraform manage dependencies across different clouds provider?

• True or False? In Terraform OSS, workspaces generally use the same code repository while workspaces in Terraform Enterprise/Cloud are often mapped to different code repositories

• True or False? Running a terraform apply will fail if you do not run a terraform plan first.

• [[You have infrastructure deployed with Terraform. A developer recently submitted a support ticket to update a security group to permit a new port. To satisfy the ticket, you update the Terraform configuration to reflect the changes and run a terraform plan. However, a co-worker has since logged into the console and manually updated the security group.]]

What will happen when you run a terraform apply?

• 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 state file

• True or False? Rather than use a state file, Terraform can inspect cloud resources on every run to validate that the real-world resources match the desired state.

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

See also

• Terraform certification