HashiCorp Terraform-Associate-003 Based on Real Exam Environment

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) (HCTA0-003) Questions and Answers

Question 33

Where does the Terraform local backend store its state?

In the terraform file

In the /tmp directory

In the terraform,tfstate file

In the user’s terraform,state file

Question 34

When you use a remote backend that needs authentication, HashiCorp recommends that you:

Write the authentication credentials in the Terraform configuration files

Keep the Terraform configuration files in a secret store

Push your Terraform configuration to an encrypted git repository

Use partial configuration to load the authentication credentials outside of the Terraform code

Question 35

Your security team scanned some Terraform workspaces and found secrets stored in plaintext in state files. How can you protect that data?

Edit your state file to scrub out the sensitive data

Always store your secrets in a secrets.tfvars file

Delete the state file every time you run Terraform

Store the state in an encrypted backend

Question 36

Module variable assignments are inherited from the parent module and you do not need to explicitly set them.

True

False