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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. Terraform Sentinel needs to be placed where?

A. After the apply phase

B. After the destroy phase

C. In between the plan and apply phases

D. After the init phase

  1. Which of the following features are available in both Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise?

A. Terraform JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) files

B. Terraform Sentinel

C. terraform fmt

D. terraform plan

  1. What does Terraform Cloud use to keep the state file?

A. Local directory

B. Remote backend in Terraform Cloud itself

C. Remote backend in GitHub

D. Local backend

  1. There is a project team and they are using Terraform to provision their infrastructure, and now they want to provision a VM in Azure in the West Europe location, which is not allowed as per your company standards. You need to ensure that they are not able to create a VM in...