HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Practice Exam

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Practice Exam

The HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification is designed for Cloud Engineers focusing on operations, IT, or development, possessing fundamental knowledge and skills related to HashiCorp Terraform. This individual comprehends the distinctions in functionality among Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise, and Terraform Community.

Who should take the exam?

Candidates for the exam must have basic knowledge of the terminal and a good understanding of on-premises and cloud architecture.

Exam Details

• Exam Code: 003
• Exam Name: HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Exam Languages: English
• Exam Validity: 2 years
• Time Duration: 60 minutes

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Exam Course Outline 

The Exam covers the given topics  - 

Topic 1: Understanding infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts

• Explaining what IaC is
• Describing the advantages of IaC patterns

Topic 2: Understanding the purpose of Terraform (vs other IaC)

• Explaining multi-cloud and provider-agnostic benefits
• Explaining the benefits of state

Topic 3: Understanding Terraform basics

• Installing and versioning Terraform providers
• Describing plugin-based architecture
• Writing Terraform configuration using multiple providers
• Describing how Terraform finds and fetches providers

Topic 4: Using Terraform outside of core workflow

• Describing when to use Terraform import to import existing infrastructure into your Terraform state
• Using Terraform state to view Terraform state
• Describing when to enable verbose logging and what the outcome/value is

Topic 5: Learn about Interacting with Terraform modules

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

Topic 6: Using the core Terraform workflow

• Describe Terraform workflow ( Write -> Plan -> Create )
• Initialize a Terraform working directory (terraform init)
• Validating a Terraform configuration (terraform validate)
• Generate and review an execution plan for Terraform (terraform plan)
• Executing changes to infrastructure with Terraform (terraform apply)
• Destroy Terraform managed infrastructure (terraform destroy)
• Applying formatting and style adjustments to a configuration (terraform fmt)

Topic 7: Implementing and maintaining state

• Describe default local backend
• Describe state locking
• Handle backend and cloud integration authentication methods
• Differentiate remote state back end options
• Manage resource drift and Terraform state
• Describe backend block and cloud integration in configuration
• Understand secret management in state files

Topic 8: Understand about reading, generating, and modifying configuration

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

Topic 9: Understanding Terraform Cloud capabilities

• Explaining how Terraform Cloud helps to manage infrastructure
• Describe how Terraform Cloud enables collaboration and governance