Coding is now literacy and Automation is the new norm. Companies are looking for automation in all areas and infrastructure doesn’t remain untouched too.
Glad to announce that I have cleared the Terraform Certified Associate 2023 Exam and would like to share my experience & some Tricks & Tips From Terraform for preparing the same.
To know more about the Terraform certification, please check our previous blog on HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification.
Terraform is now the most required tool as it’s purely into provisioning and managing Infrastructure and deals with almost all cloud providers. With any provider you work with, Terraform is very much needed as it gets integrated with anything and everything.
Also, Read Our blog post on Terraform Cheat Sheet. Click here
Here Are My Tricks & Tips For Terraform To Clear The Certification
- 57 Questions – Multiple Choices – Fill up the blanks – 1-hour duration – Online
- Sufficient time – No constraints were able to finish it in 45-50 mins.
- No negative marking
- You should know commands too!!!
- Read Questions Completely & carefully – No Rush, please.
- Start for the Exam 15 mins early to give time to set up for the Exam.
Also see: A basic introduction of Terraform providers and some major terraform cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and OCI.
Topics To Look
- Infrastructure as code – Benefits of IaC, Why Terraform
- Syntax Difference – Terraform .11 and How to represent it in Terraform .12
- Multiple providers in a single Code
- Configuration File/Folders – Its importance
- Terraform Modules – All about Variables
- Variables – Purpose, Types (Strings, List, Map, Objects), Interpolation, sensitive parameter
- Variables – Options to pass the variable and its Precedence
- Provisioner – local & remote – Difference
- Terraform Workflow – init, validate, plan, apply, destroy & its insight – How to save state via plan?
- All about State Files – Local/remote Backends, CLI (state command & options)
- Built-in Functions in terraform – String Functions, Mathematical Functions
- Terraform taint – What it does ?
- Terraform CLI – fmt, refresh, import (What it does ?)
- Terraform Code Reusability – Workspace, Loops
- Initialization & Versioning – Various syntax
- Terraform Cloud & Enterprise – Difference, Highlighted features, Sentinel & its benefits.
Check out: How to Install Terraform in Linux, Mac, Windows
Final Verdict
Don’t rely on just theory and have Hands-On with any of the Cloud providers of your choice. Important is to understand the concept of Terraform and not much of the focus is on the Provider. To know more about Hands-On, please check our previous blog on Terraform Activity Guides.
The exam is very conceptual and a few questions you might find very confusing.
Last but not least – Prepare hard, Clear exams, and Enjoy the moment. Dumps will not give you the later part ????
Happy Terraforming !!! Learn & Keep Going !!!!
Read about types of input Terraform variables, and output variables, and how to define them in terraform configuration.
Related/References
- HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification: Terraform Associate
- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate-Step By Step Activity Guides.
- Terraform Providers Overview
- Terraform Variables – Terraform Variable Types
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