TA-002-P Online Practice Questions and Answers

When running the command terraform taint against a managed resource you want to force recreation upon, Terraform will immediately destroy and recreate the resource.

A. True

B. False

You have deployed a new webapp with a public IP address on a clod 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?

A. Run terraform output ip_address to view the result

B. In a new folder, use the terraform_remote_state data source to load in the state file, then write an output for each resource that you find the state file

C. Run terraform state list to find the name of the resource, then terraform state show to find the attributes including public IP address

D. Run terraform destroy then terraform apply and look for the IP address in stdout

By default, a defined provisioner is a creation-time provisioner.

A. True

B. False

Your manager has instructed you to start using terraform for the entire infra provisioning of the application stack. There are 4 environments ?DEV , QA , UAT , and PROD. The application team has asked for complete segregation between these environments including the backend , state , and also configurations ,since there will be unique resources in different environments . What is the possible way to structure the terraform code to facilitate that.

A. Completely separate the working directories , keep one for each environment . For each working directory , maintain a separate configuration file , variables file , and map to a different backend.

B. Completely separate the working directories , keep one for each environment . For each working directory , maintain a separate configuration file , variables file , and map to the same backend.

C. Implement terraform workspaces , and map each environment with one workspace.

D. Enable remote backend storage . Configure 4 different backend storages , one for each environment.

You have provisioned some aws resources in your test environment through Terraform for a POC work. After the POC, now you want to destroy the resources but before destroying them you want to check what resources will be getting destroyed through terraform. what are the options of doing that? (Select TWO)

A. Use terraform destroy command

B. This is not possible

C. Use terraform plan command

D. Use terraform plan-destroy command.

In Terraform Enterprise, a workspace can be mapped to how many VCS repos?

A. 5

B. 2

C. 3

D. 1

By default, where does Terraform store its state file?

A. Amazon S3 bucket

B. shared directory

C. remotely using Terraform Cloud

D. current working directory

What are some of the problems of how infrastructure was traditionally managed before Infrastructure as Code? (select three)

A. Requests for infrastructure or hardware required a ticket, increasing the time required to deploy applications

B. Traditional deployment methods are not able to meet the demands of the modern business where resources tend to live days to weeks, rather than months to years

C. Traditionally managed infrastructure can't keep up with cyclic or elastic applications

D. Pointing and clicking in a management console is a scalable approach and reduces human error as businesses are moving to a multi-cloud deployment model

While Terraform is generally written using the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), what other syntax can Terraform are expressed in?

A. JSON

B. YAML

C. TypeScript

D. XML

Which of the below backends support state locking?

A.S3

B. consul

C. azurerm

D. artifactory