TA-002-P HashiCorp Exam Questions and Free Practice Test

Question 91

- (Exam Topic 1)
When does terraform apply reflect changes in the cloud environment?

A. Immediately

B. However long it takes the resource provider to fulfill the request

C. After updating the state file

D. Based on the value provided to the -refresh command line argument

E. None of the above

Correct Answer:B

Question 92

- (Exam Topic 4)
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

Correct Answer:A
The constructs in the Terraform language can also be expressed in JSON syntax, which is harder for humans to read and edit but easier to generate and parse programmatically.

Question 93

- (Exam Topic 4)
Your developers are facing a lot of problem while writing complex expressions involving difficult interpolations . They have to run the terraform plan every time and check whether there are errors , and also check terraform apply to print the value as a temporary output for debugging purposes. What should be done to avoid this?

A. Use terraform console command to have an interactive UI with full access to the underlying terraform state to run your interpolations , and debug at real-time.

B. Add a breakpoint in your code, using the watch keyword , and output the value to console for temporary debugging.

C. Use terraform zipmap function , it will be able to easily do the interpolations without complex code.

D. Use terraform console command to have an interactive UI , but you can only use it with local state , and it does not work with remote state.

Correct Answer:A
The terraform console command provides an interactive console for evaluating expressions. This is useful for testing interpolations before using them in configurations, and for interacting with any values currently saved in state.
https://www.terraform.io/docs/commands/console.html

Question 94

- (Exam Topic 1)
Terraform can import modules from a number of sources – which of the following is not a valid source?

A. FTP server

B. GitHub repository

C. Local path

D. Terraform Module Registry

Correct Answer:A
https://www.terraform.io/language/modules/sources

Question 95

- (Exam Topic 2)
Which of the following type of variable allows multiple values of several distinct types to be grouped together as a single value?

A. Map

B. Object

C. Tuple

D. List

Correct Answer:BC
Structural type of variable allows multiple values of several distinct types to be grouped together as a single value. They require a schema as an argument, to specify which types are allowed for which elements.
https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/types.html

Question 96

- (Exam Topic 2)
Which Terraform command will force a marked resource to be destroyed and recreated on the next apply?

A. terraform fmt

B. terraform destroy

C. terraform taint

D. terraform refresh

Correct Answer:C
The terraform taint command manually marks a Terraform-managed resource as tainted, forcing it to be destroyed and recreated on the next apply.
This command will not modify infrastructure, but does modify the state file in order to mark a resource as tainted. Once a resource is marked as tainted, the next plan will show that the resource will be destroyed and recreated and the next apply will implement this change.
Forcing the recreation of a resource is useful when you want a certain side effect of recreation that is not visible in the attributes of a resource. For example: re-running provisioners will cause the node to be different or rebooting the machine from a base image will cause new startup scripts to run.
Note that tainting a resource for recreation may affect resources that depend on the newly tainted resource. For example, a DNS resource that uses the IP address of a server may need to be modified to reflect the potentially new IP address of a tainted server. The plan command will show this if this is the case.
https://www.terraform.io/docs/commands/taint.html

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