Terraform Intro 🏗️

Certification Paths

Terraform Associate 003

Infrastructure Automation Certifications

• Exam Time: 60 Min
• Cutoff 70%
• Validity: 2 Year
• 57 Question (1 Min/ Question)
• max 17 question can be failed
• must get 40 Question correct
• Questions type: MCQ, Multiple Answer, Fill in the blank
• Need to know CLI commands

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Terraform Associate 003

1. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts - 5%

• 1a Explain what IaC is
• 1b Describe advantages of IaC patterns.

2. Purpose of Terraform (vs other IaC) - 5%

• 2a Explain multi-cloud and provider-agnostic benefits
• 2b Explain the benefits of state

3. Terraform basics - 11%

• 3a Install and version Terraform providers
• 3b Describe plugin-based architecture
• 3c Write Terraform configuration using multiple providers
• 3d Describe how Terraform finds and fetches providers

4. Use Terraform outside the core workflow - 14%

• 4a Describe when to use terraform import to import existing infrastructure into your Terraform state
• 4b Use terraform state to view Terraform state
• 4c Describe when to enable verbose logging and what the outcome/value is

5. Terraform modules - 11%

• 5a Contrast and use different module source options including the public Terraform Module Registry
• 5b Interact with module inputs and outputs
• 5c Describe variable scope within modules/child modules
• 5d Set module version

6. Core Terraform workflow - 14%

• 6a Describe Terraform workflow ( Write -> Plan -> Create )
• 6b Initialize a Terraform working directory (terraform init)
• 6c Validate a Terraform configuration (terraform validate)
• 6d Generate and review an execution plan for Terraform (terraform plan)
• 6e Execute changes to infrastructure with Terraform (terraform apply)
• 6f Destroy Terraform managed infrastructure (terraform destroy)
• 6g Apply formatting and style adjustments to a configuration (terraform fmt)

7. Implement and maintain state -** 16%**

• 7a Describe default local backend
• 7b Describe state locking
• 7c Handle backend and cloud integration authentication methods
• 7d Differentiate remote state back end options
• 7e Manage resource drift and Terraform state
• 7f Describe backend block and cloud integration in configuration
• 7g Understand secret management in state files

8. Read, generate, and modify configuration - 18%

• 8a Demonstrate use of variables and outputs
• 8b Describe secure secret injection best practice
• 8c Understand the use of collection and structural types
• 8d Create and differentiate resource and data configuration
• 8e Use resource addressing and resource parameters to connect resources together
• 8f Use HCL and Terraform functions to write configuration
• 8g Describe built-in dependency management (order of execution based)

9. Terraform Cloud capabilities - 6%

• 9a Explain how Terraform Cloud helps to manage infrastructure
• 9b Describe how Terraform Cloud enables collaboration and governance