TA-003 — questions

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 (*.tf 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 foe 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 have a Terraform configuration that defines a single virtual machine with no references to it. You have run terraform apply to create the resource, then removed the resource definition from your Terraform configuration file. What will happen when you run terraform apply in the working directory again?

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?