Which method for sharing Terraform modules fulfills the following criteria:

Keeps the module configurations confidential within your organization.

Supports Terraform's semantic version constraints.

Provides a browsable directory of your modules.

Your root module contains a variable named num_servers. Which is the correct way to pass its value to a child module with an input named servers?

When you include a module block in your configuration that references a module from the Terraform Registry, the "version" attribute is required.

Where in your Terraform configuration do you specify a state backend?

terraform validate confirms that your infrastructure matches the Terraform state file.

A developer accidentally launched a VM (virtual machine) outside of the Terraform workflow and ended up with two servers with the same name. They don't know which VM Terraform manages but do have a list of all active VM IDs.
Which of the following methods could you use to discover which instance Terraform manages?

Which command must you first run before performing further Terraform operations in a working directory?

Outside of the required_providers block, Terraform configurations always refer to providers by their local names.

When does Sentinel enforce policy logic during a Terraform Cloud run?

Terraform providers are always installed from the Internet

What feature stops multiple users from operating on the Terraform state at the same time?

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

When should you write Terraform configuration files for existing infrastructure that you want to start managing with Terraform?

What does the default "local" Terraform backend store?

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?

Variables declared within a module are accessible outside of the module.

How can you trigger a run in a Terraform Cloud workspace that is connected to a Version Control System (VCS) repository?

Once you configure a new Terraform backend with a terraform code block, which command(s) should you use to migrate the state file?

If you update the version constraint in your Terraform configuration, Terraform will update your lock file the next time you run terraform Init.

Your security team scanned some Terraform workspaces and found secrets stored in plaintext in state files. How can you protect that data?

What does Terraform use the .terraform.lock.hc1 file for?

Module variable assignments are inherited from the parent module and you do not need to explicitly set them.

Why does this backend configuration not follow best practices?

Your DevOps team is currently using the local backend for your Terraform configuration. You would like to move to a remote backend to store the state file in a central location.
Which of the following backends would not work?

What does Terraform not reference when running a terraform apply -refresh-only ?

You decide to move a Terraform state file to Amazon S3 from another location. You write the code below into a file called backend.tf.

Which command will migrate your current state file to the new S3 remote backend?

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

You must use different Terraform commands depending on the cloud provider you use.

As a developer, you want to ensure your plugins are up to date with the latest versions.
Which Terraform command should you use?

You have deployed a new webapp with a public IP address on a cloud provider. However, you did not create any outputs for your code.
What is the best method to quickly find the IP address of the resource you deployed?

Which command should you run to check if all code in a Terraform configuration that references multiple modules is properly formatted without making changes?

As a member of an operations team that uses infrastructure as code (lac) practices, you are tasked with making a change to an infrastructure stack running in a public cloud.
Which pattern would follow laC best practices for making a change?

You ate making changes to existing Terraform code to add some new infrastructure.
When is the best time to run terraform validate?

How would you reference the volume IDs associated with the ebs_block_device blocks in this configuration?

What kind of configuration block will create an infrastructure object with settings specified within the block?

What is the Terraform style convention for indenting a nesting level compared to the one above it?

When do changes invoked by terraform apply take effect?

You have never used Terraform before and would like to test it out using a shared team account for a cloud provider. The shared team account already contains 15 virtual machines (VM). You develop a Terraform configuration containing one VM. perform terraform apply, and see that your VM was created successfully.
What should you do to delete the newly-created VM with Terraform?

Which backend does the Terraform CU use by default?

What is one disadvantage of using dynamic blocks in Terraform?

You can develop a custom provider to manage its resources using Terraform.

What is the workflow for deploying new infrastructure with Terraform?

How does Terraform manage most dependencies between resources?

It is best practice to store secret data in the same version control repository as your Terraform configuration.

_______backends support state locking.

You want to define a single input variable to capture configuration values for a server. The values must represent memory as a number, and the server name as a string.
Which variable type could you use for this input?

Which of the following statements about Terraform modules is not true?

When you use a remote backend that needs authentication, HashiCorp recommends that you:

You can reference a resource created with for_each using a Splat ( *) expression.

Setting the TF_LOG environment variable to DEBUG causes debug messages to be logged into stdout.

Only the user that generated a plan may apply it.

You cannot install third party plugins using terraform init.

A Terraform provider is NOT responsible for:

In a Terraform Cloud workpace linked to a version control repository speculative plan rum start automatically commit changes to version control.

How does the Terraform cloud integration differ from other state backends such as S3, Consul,etc?

Which command add existing resources into Terraform state?