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 2020 Exam and would like to share the experience & tips for preparing the same.
To know more about the Terraform certification, please check our blog at here.
Terraform is now the most required tool as its purely into provisioning and managing Infrastructure and deal with almost all cloud providers. With any provider you work, Terraform is very much needed as it gets integrated with anything and everything.
Here are my Tips 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 Exam 15 mins early to give time to set up for Exam.
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.
Final Verdict
Don’t rely on just theory and have Hands-On with any of the Cloud Provider of your choice. Important is to understand the concept of Terraform and not much of the focus is on Provider. To know more about Hands-On, please check our blog at here.
The exam is very conceptual and few questions you might find very confusing.
Last but not the least – Prepare hard, Clear Exam and Enjoy the moment. Dumps will not give you the later part 😉
Happy Terraforming !!! Learn & Keep Going !!!!
Related/References
- HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification: Terraform Training
- Everything you need to know about Terraform Certification
- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate-Step By Step Activity Guides.
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