HashiCorp HashiCorp Certifications VA-002-P Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  Provider dependencies are created in several different ways. Select the valid provider dependencies from the following list: (select three)

  A. Use of any resource belonging to a particular provider in a resource or data block in the configuration.

  B. Existence of any provider plugins found locally in the working directory.

  C. Explicit use of a provider block in configuration, optionally including a version constraint.

  D. Existence of any resource instance belonging to a particular provider in the current state.

  Correct Answer: ACD

  The existence of a provider plugin found locally in the working directory does not itself create a provider dependency. The plugin can exist without any reference to it in the terraform configuration. https://www.terraform.io/docs/commands/providers.html

• Question 32:

  Complete the following sentence:

  For the local state, the workspaces are stored directly in a...

  A. a file called terraform.tfstate

  B. directory called terraform.workspaces.tfstate

  C. directory called terraform.tfstate.d

  D. a file called terraform.tfstate.backup

  Correct Answer: C

  For local state, Terraform stores the workspace states in a directory called terraform.tfstate.d. https:// www.terraform.io/docs/state/workspaces.html#workspace-internals

• Question 33:

  Terraform Cloud is more powerful when you integrate it with your version control system (VCS) provider. Select all the supported VCS providers from the answers below. (select four)

  A. CVS Version Control

  B. GitHub Enterprise

  C. Bitbucket Cloud

  D. Azure DevOps Server

  E. GitHub

  Correct Answer: BCDE

  Terraform Cloud supports the following VCS providers:

  -GitHub

  -GitHub.com (OAuth)

  -GitHub Enterprise

  -GitLab.com

  -GitLab EE and CE

  -

  Bitbucket Cloud

  -

  Bitbucket Server

  -

  Azure DevOps Server

  -

  Azure DevOps Services https://www.terraform.io/docs/cloud/vcs/index.html#supported-vcs-providers

• Question 34:

  When writing the Terraform code, HashiCorp recommends that you use how many spaces between each nesting level?

  A. 2

  B. 5

  C. 4

  D. 1

  Correct Answer: A

  HashiCorp style conventions state that you should use 2 spaces between each nesting level to improve the readability of Terraform configurations.

• Question 35:

  A "backend" in Terraform determines how the state is loaded and how an operation such as apply is executed. Which of the following is not a supported backend type?

  A. terraform enterprise

  B. s3

  C. github

  D. consul

  E. artifactory

  Correct Answer: C

  github is not a supported backend type. https://www.terraform.io/docs/backends/types/index.html

• Question 36:

  Choose the correct answer which fixes the syntax of the following Terraform code:

  A. resource "aws_security_group" "vault_elb" { name = "${var.name_prefix}-vault-elb" description = var_Vault ELB vpc_id = var.vpc_id }

  B. resource "aws_security_group" "vault_elb" { name = "${var.name_prefix}-vault-elb" description = Vault ELB vpc_id = var.vpc_id }

  C. resource "aws_security_group" "vault_elb" { name = "${var.name_prefix}-vault-elb" description = "${Vault ELB}" vpc_id = var.vpc_id }

  D. resource "aws_security_group" "vault_elb" { name = "${var.name_prefix}-vault-elb"

  description = [Vault ELB]

  vpc_id = var.vpc_id

  }

  E. resource "aws_security_group" "vault_elb" { name = "${var.name_prefix}-vault-elb" description = "Vault ELB" vpc_id = var.vpc_id }

  Correct Answer: E

  When assigning a value to an argument, it must be enclosed in quotes ("...") unless it is being generated programmatically.

• Question 37:

  In the following code snippet, the block type is identified by which string?

  1.

  resource "aws_instance" "db" {

  2.

  ami = "ami-123456"

  3.

  instance_type = "t2.micro"

  4.

  }

  A. "db"

  B. resource

  C. "aws_instance"

  D. instance_type

  Correct Answer: B

  The format of resource block configurations is as follows: "" ""

• Question 38:

  Terraform has detailed logs which can be enabled by setting the _________ environmental variable.

  A. TF_LOG

  B. TF_TRACE

  C. TF_DEBUG

  D. TF_INFO

  Correct Answer: A

  Terraform has detailed logs that can be enabled by setting the TF_LOG environment variable to any value. This will cause detailed logs to appear on stderr. You can set TF_LOG to one of the log levels TRACE, DEBUG, INFO, WARN, or ERROR to change the verbosity of the logs. TRACE is the most verbose and it is the default if TF_LOG is set to something other than a log level name. https://www.terraform.io/docs/internals/debugging.html

• Question 39:

  Why might a user opt to include the following snippet in their configuration file?

  1.

  terraform {

  2.

  required_version = ">= 0.12"

  3.

  }

  A. this ensures that all Terraform providers are above a certain version to match the application being deployed

  B. the user wants to ensure that the application being deployed is a minimum version of 0.12

  C. versions before Terraform 0.12 were not approved by HashiCorp to be used in production

  D. Terraform 0.12 introduced substantial changes to the syntax used to write Terraform configuration

  Correct Answer: D

  You can use required_version to ensure that a user deploying infrastructure is using Terraform 0.12 or greater, due to the vast number of changes that were introduced. As a result, many previously written configurations had to be converted or rewritten.

• Question 40:

  In the example below, the depends_on argument creates what type of dependency?

  1.

  esource "aws_instance" "example" {

  2.

  ami = "ami-2757f631"

  3.

  instance_type = "t2.micro"

  4.

  depends_on = [aws_s3_bucket.company_data]

  5.

  }

  A. non-dependency resource

  B. implicit dependency

  C. explicit dependency

  D. internal dependency

  Correct Answer: C

  Sometimes there are dependencies between resources that are not visible to Terraform. The depends_on argument is accepted by any resource and accepts a list of resources to create explicit dependencies for.