HashiCorp HashiCorp Certifications VA-002-P Questions & Answers

• Question 41:

  Select all Operating Systems that Terraform is available for. (select five)

  A. Linux

  B. Windows

  C. Unix

  D. FreeBSD

  E. Solaris

  F. macOS

  Correct Answer: ABDEF

  Terraform is available for macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Solaris, Windows https://www.terraform.io/ downloads.html

• Question 42:

  Select the most accurate statement to describe the Terraform language from the following list.

  A. Terraform is an immutable, declarative, Infrastructure as Code provisioning language based on Hashicorp Configuration Language, or optionally JSON.

  B. Terraform is a mutable, declarative, Infrastructure as Code configuration management language based on Hashicorp Configuration Language, or optionally JSON.

  C. Terraform is an immutable, procedural, Infrastructure as Code configuration management language based on Hashicorp Configuration Language, or optionally JSON.

  D. Terraform is a mutable, procedural, Infrastructure as Code provisioning language based on Hashicorp Configuration Language, or optionally YAML.

  Correct Answer: A

  Terraform is not a configuration management tool - https://www.terraform.io/intro/vs/chef- puppet.html Terraform is a declarative language - https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/index.html Terraform supports a syntax that is JSON compatible https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/syntax-json.html Terraform is primarily designed on immutable infrastructure principles - https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/what-is-mutable-vs-immutableinfrastructure

• Question 43:

  What is the result of the following terraform function call? zipmap(["a", "b"], [1, 2])

  A. { "a", "b", "1", "2", }

  B. [ "a", "b", "1", "2", ]

  C. { "a" = 1 "b" = 2 }

  D. [ "a" = 1 "b" = 2 ]

  Correct Answer: C

  zipmap constructs a map from a list of keys and a corresponding list of values. A map is denoted by { }

  whereas a list is donated by [ ].

  https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/functions/zipmap.html

• Question 44:

  A user runs terraform init on their RHEL based server and per the output, two provider plugins are downloaded:

  1.

  $ terraform init

  2.

  3.

  Initializing the backend...

  4.

  5.

  Initializing provider plugins...

  6.

  - Checking for available provider plugins...

  7.

  - Downloading plugin for provider "aws" (hashicorp/aws) 2.44.0...

  8.

  - Downloading plugin for provider "random" (hashicorp/random) 2.2.1...

  9.

  10.

  Terraform has been successfully initialized!

  Where are these plugins downloaded to?

  A. /etc/terraform/plugins

  B. The .terraform.plugins directory in the directory terraform init was executed in.

  C. The .terraform.d directory in the directory terraform init was executed in.

  D. The .terraform/plugins directory in the directory terraform init was executed in.

  Correct Answer: D

  By default, terraform init downloads plugins into a subdirectory of the working directory, .terraform/plugins, so that each working directory is self-contained.

• Question 45:

  Which of the following commands will launch the Interactive console for Terraform interpolations?

  A. terraform

  B. terraform console

  C. terraform cmdline

  D. terraform cli

  Correct Answer: B

  The terraform console command provides an interactive console for evaluating expressions. https://www.terraform.io/docs/commands/console.html

• Question 46:

  The Terraform language supports a number of different syntaxes for comments. Select all that are supported. (select three)

  A. #

  B. /* and */

  C. <* and *>

  D. //

  Correct Answer: ABD

  Terraform supports the #, //, and /*..*/ for commenting Terraform configuration files. Please use them when writing Terraform so both you and others who are using your code have a full understanding of what the code is intended to do. https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/syntax.html#comments

• Question 47:

  Which of the following is not a valid Terraform string function?

  A. tostring

  B. replace

  C. format

  D. join

  Correct Answer: A

  tostring is not a string function, it is a type conversion function. tostring converts its argument to a string value. https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/functions/tostring.html

• Question 48:

  Which of the following variable declarations is going to result in an error?

  A. variable "example" { type = object({}) }

  B. variable "example" {}

  C. variable "example" { description = "This is a test" type = map default = {"one" = 1, "two" = 2, "Three" = "3"} }

  D. variable "example" { description = "This is a variable description" type = list(string) default = {} }

  Correct Answer: B

  Lists are defined with [ ], maps are defined with { }. https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/ types.html#structural-types

• Question 49:

  Select the operating systems which are supported for a clustered Terraform Enterprise: (select four)

  A. Unix

  B. Amazon Linux

  C. Red Hat

  D. Ubuntu

  E. CentOS

  Correct Answer: BCDE

  Note: (5/27/20) This Question: has been recently updated to reflect documentation updates on the HashiCorp website. It seems they have removed the clustering-specific requirements and are now following the standard Enterprise operating system requirements. Terraform Enterprise currently supports running under the following operating systems for a Clustered deployment:

  -Ubuntu 16.04.3 - 16.04.5 / 18.04

  -Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 through 7.7

  -CentOS 7.4 - 7.7

  -Amazon Linux

  -Oracle Linux Clusters currently don't support other Linux variants. https://www.terraform.io/docs/enterprise/beforeinstalling/index.html#operating-system- requirements

• Question 50:

  What feature of Terraform Cloud and/or Terraform Enterprise can you publish and maintain a set of custom modules which can be used within your organization?

  A. custom VCS integration

  B. remote runs

  C. private module registry

  D. Terraform registry

  Correct Answer: C

  You can use modules from a private registry, like the one provided by Terraform Cloud. Private registry

  modules have source strings of the form

  ///. This is the same format as the public registry,

  but with an added hostname prefix.