Free Practice Questions for HashiCorp Terraform-Associate-004 Exam

Purpose of Refresh-Only Mode: Running Terraform inrefresh-only modeupdates Terraform's state file with the current state of resources in your infrastructure without making changes to the resources themselves.

Context of Terraform Import: When usingterraform import, you’re adding existing resources to the state file, and running Terraform in refresh-only mode before this operation can ensure that any initial configuration syncs precisely with the actual state.

For more on refresh-only mode in relation to terraform import, refer to Terraform's import documentation.

From the Terraform Provider Requirements:

">= 3.0" means any versiongreater than or equal to 3.0— including 4.x and beyond.

A (wrong): Would need >= 3.0, < 4.0

C/D (wrong): > excludes 3.0 — not what’s written.

 This is the command that can add existing resources into Terraform state, by matching them with the corresponding configuration blocks in your files. 

You should run terraform init after you start coding a new Terraform project and before you run terraform plan for the first time. This command will initialize the working directory by downloading the required providers and modules, creating the initial state file, and performing other necessary tasks. References = : Initialize a Terraform Project

This is how Terraform chooses which version of the provider to use, when you add a new resource to an existing Terraform configuration, but do not update the version constraint in the configuration. The lock file records the exact version of each provider that was installed in your working directory, and ensures that Terraform will always use the same provider versions until you run terraform init -upgrade to update them.

These are features of Terraform Cloud, which is a hosted service that provides a web-based UI, remote state storage, remote operations, collaboration features, and more for managing your Terraform infrastructure.