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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

By : Ravi Mishra
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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

By: Ravi Mishra

Overview of this book

Terraform is a highly sought-after technology for orchestrating infrastructure provisioning. This book is a complete reference guide to enhancing your infrastructure automation skills, offering up-to-date coverage of the HashiCorp infrastructure automation certification exam. This book is written in a clear and practical way with self-assessment questions and mock exams that will help you from a HashiCorp infrastructure automation certification exam perspective. This book covers end-to-end activities with Terraform, such as installation, writing its configuration file, Terraform modules, backend configurations, data sources, and infrastructure provisioning. You'll also get to grips with complex enterprise infrastructures and discover how to create thousands of resources with a single click. As you advance, you'll get a clear understanding of maintaining infrastructure as code (IaC) in Repo/GitHub, along with learning how to create, modify, and remove infrastructure resources as and when needed. Finally, you'll learn about Terraform Cloud and Enterprise and their enhanced features. By the end of this book, you'll have a handy, up-to-date desktop reference guide along with everything you need to pass the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate exam with confidence.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: Core Concepts
10
Section 3: Managing Infrastructure with Terraform
14
Chapter 11: Terraform Glossary

Questions

The answers to the following questions can be found in the Assessments section at the end of this book:

  1. How many spaces of indentation are recommended for each nesting level in the Terraform configuration file?

A. One

B. Two

C. Three

D. Four

  1. With which of the following ways can you place comments in the Terraform configuration file?

A. #

B. !

C. </

D. />

  1. Which command can be dedicatedly used to perform a syntax check of the Terraform configuration file?

A. terraform validate

B. terraform syntax

C. terraform fmt

D. terraform plan

  1. Suppose you have written a Terraform configuration file for Azure that will provision a storage account in Azure. How can you validate the name of the storage account that was provisioned?

A. Define output values in the outputs.tf file.

B. Manually go inside the state file and look for those specific values.

C. Run the terraform show command.

D. Run...