TA-002-P Online Practice Questions and Answers

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

Which of the following would achieve this?

A. Set the environment variable TF_LOG=TRACE

B. Set verbose logging for each provider in your Terraform configuration

C. Set the environment variable TF_VAR_log=TRACE

D. Set the environment variable TF_LOG_PATH

Why would you use the terraform taint command?

A. When you want to force Terraform to destroy a resource on the next apply

B. When you want to force Terraform to destroy and recreate a resource on the next apply

C. When you want Terraform to ignore a resource on the next apply

D. When you want Terraform to destroy all the infrastructure in your workspace

Which of the following represents a feature of Terraform Cloud that is NOT free to customers?

A. Roles and Team Management

B. WorkSpace Management

C. Private Module Registry

D. VCS Integration

Dawn has created the below child module. Without changing the module, can she override the instance_type from t2.micro to t2.large form her code while calling this module?

1.

resource "aws_instance" "myec2"

2.

{

3.

ami = "ami-082b5a644766e0e6f"

4.

instance_type = "t2.micro

5.

}

A. YES

B. No

What does state locking accomplish?

A. Copies the state file from memory to disk

B. Encrypts any credentials stored within the state file

C. Blocks Terraform commands from modifying the state file

D. Prevents accidental deletion of the state file

In terraform, most resource dependencies are handled automatically. Which of the following statements describes best how terraform resource dependencies are handled?

A. Resource dependencies are identified and maintained in a file called resource.dependencies. Each terraform provider is required to maintain a list of all resource dependencies for the provider and it's included with the plugin during initialization when terraform init is executed. The file is located in the terraform.d folder.

B. The terraform binary contains a built-in reference map of all defined Terraform resource dependencies. Updates to this dependency map are reflected in terraform versions. To ensure you are working with the latest resource dependency map you much be running the latest version of Terraform.

C. Resource dependencies are handled automatically by the depends_on meta_argument, which is set to true by default.

D. Terraform analyses any expressions within a resource block to find references to other objects, and treats those references as implicit ordering requirements when creating, updating, or destroying resources.

You are creating a Terraform configuration which needs to make use of multiple providers, one for AWS and one for Datadog.

Which of the following provider blocks would allow you to do this?

A. Option A

B. Option B

C. Option C

You have modified your Terraform configuration to fix a typo in the Terraform ID of a resource from aws_security_group.http to aws_security_group.http

Which of the following commands would you run to update the ID in state without destroying the resource?

A. terraform refresh

B. terraform apply

C. terraform mv aws-security-group.htp aws-security-group.http

What are the benefits of using Infrastructure as Code? (select five)

A. Infrastructure as Code is relatively simple to learn and write, regardless of a user's prior experience with developing code

B. Infrastructure as Code provides configuration consistency and standardization among deployments

C. Infrastructure as Code is easily repeatable, allowing the user to reuse code to deploy similar, yet different resources

D. Infrastructure as Code gives the user the ability to recreate an application's infrastructure for disaster recovery scenarios

E. Infrastructure as Code easily replaces development languages such as Go and .Net for application development

F. Infrastructure as Code allows a user to turn a manual task into a simple, automated deployment (Correct)

A user creates three workspaces from the command line-prod, dev, and test. Which of the following commands will the user run to switch to the dev workspace?

A. terraform workspace dev

B. terraform workspace select dev

C. terraform workspace-switch dev

D. terraform workspace switch dev