Terraform Associate Practice Test

Terraform Associate Practice Test practice questions, page 2 of 15, with answer review and explanations.

Question 6

You run a local-exec provisioner in a null resource called null_resource.run_script and realize that you need to rerun the script. Which of the following commands would you use first?

  1. terraform taint null_resource.run_script
  2. terraform apply -target=null_resource.run_script
  3. terraform validate null_resource.run_script
  4. terraform plan -target=null_resource.run_script

Question 7

Which provisioner invokes a process on the resource created by Terraform?

  1. remote-exec
  2. null-exec
  3. local-exec
  4. file

Question 8

Which of the following is not true of Terraform providers?

  1. Providers can be written by individuals
  2. Providers can be maintained by a community of users
  3. Some providers are maintained by HashiCorp
  4. Major cloud vendors and non-cloud vendors can write, maintain, or collaborate on Terraform providers
  5. None of the above

Question 9

What command does Terraform require the first time you run it within a configuration directory?

  1. terraform import
  2. terraform init
  3. terraform plan
  4. terraform workspace

Question 10

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

  1. Run terraform output ip_address to view the result
  2. 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
  3. Run terraform state list to find the name of the resource, then terraform state show to find the attributes including public IP address
  4. Run terraform destroy then terraform apply and look for the IP address in stdout