HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) (HCTA0-003)
Last Update Jan 14, 2026
Total Questions : 253
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A developer on your team is going lo leaf down an existing deployment managed by Terraform and deploy a new one. However, there is a server resource named aws instant.ubuntu[l] they would like to keep. What command should they use to tell Terraform to stop managing that specific resource?
Which option cannot be used to keep secrets out of Terraform configuration files?
What type of block is used to construct a collection of nested configuration blocks?
Which parameters does terraform import require? Choose two correct answers.
You've used Terraform to deploy a virtual machine and a database. You want to replace this virtual machine instance with an identical one without affecting the database. What is the best way to achieve this using Terraform?
Which of the following are advantages of using infrastructure as code (laC) instead of provisioning with a graphical user interface (GUI)? Choose two correct answers.
Which of these are features of HCP Terraform/Terraform Cloud? Pick the 2 correct responses below.
Which of the following ate advantages of using infrastructure as code (laC) instead of provisioning with a graphical user interface (GUI)? Choose two correct answers.
In a Terraform Cloud workspace linked to a version control repository, speculative plan runs start automatically when you merge or commit changes to version control.
If a module declares a variable without a default value, you must pass the value of the variable within the module block when you call the module in your configuration.
Your risk management organization requires that new AWS S3 buckets must be private and encrypted at rest. How can Terraform Cloud automatically and proactively enforce this security control?
A senior admin accidentally deleted some of your cloud instances. What will Terraform do when you run terraform apply?
You much initialize your working directory before running terraform validate.
What Terraform command always causes a state file to be updated with changes that might have been made outside of Terraform?
Which of these are features of HCP Terraform/Terraform Cloud? (Pick the 2 correct responses)
What does Terraform not reference when running a terraform apply -refresh-only ?
What type of information can be found on the Terraform Registry when using published modules?
terraform apply is failing with the following error. What next step should you take to determine the root cause of the problem?
Error:
yaml
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Error loading state: AccessDenied: Access Denied
status code: 403, request id: 288766CE5CCA24A0, host id: web.example.com
You used Terraform to create an ephemeral development environment in the cloud and are now ready to destroy all the infrastructure described by your Terraform configuration. To be safe, you would like to first see all the infrastructure that Terraform will delete.
Which command should you use to show all the resources that will be deleted? (Pick the 2 correct responses)
You can access state stored with the local backend by using terraform_remote_state data source.
In a HCP Terraform/Terraform Cloud workspace linked to a version control repository, speculative plan runs start automatically when you merge or commit changes to version control.
Multiple team members are collaborating on infrastructure using Terraform and want to format the* Terraform code following standard Terraform-style convention.
How should they ensure the code satisfies conventions?
A module block is shown in the Exhibit space of this page. When you use a module block to reference a module from the Terraform Registry such as the one in the example, how do you specify version 1.0.0 of the module?
All modules published on the official Terraform Module Registry have been verified by HasihCorp.
It is best practice to store secret data in the same version control repository as your Terraform configuration.
Which method for sharing Terraform configurations fulfills the following criteria:
1. Keeps the configurations confidential within your organization
2. Support Terraform’s semantic version constrains
3. Provides a browsable directory
How can a ticket-based system slow down infrastructure provisioning and limit the ability to scale? Choose two correct answers.
Which of these statements about HCP Terraform/Terraform Cloud workspaces is false?
What feature stops multiple users from operating on the Terraform state at the same time?
terraform init retrieves and caches the configuration for all remote modules.
What value does the Terraform Cloud private registry provide over the public Terraform Module Registry?
If you update the version constraint in your Terraform configuration, Terraform will update your lock file the next time you run terraform Init.
Before you can use a remote backend, you must first execute terra-form init.
How would you reference the volume IDs associated with the ebs_block_device blocks in this configuration?
You modified your Terraform configuration to fix a typo in the resource ID by renaming it from photoes to photos. What configuration will you add to update the resource ID in state without destroying the existing resource?
Original configuration:
resource "aws_s3_bucket" "photoes" {
bucket_prefix = "images"
}
Updated configuration:
resource "aws_s3_bucket" "photos" {
bucket_prefix = "images"
}
Which of these ate features of Terraform Cloud? Choose two correct answers.
You can develop a custom provider to manage its resources using Terraform.
Setting the TF_LOG environment variable to DEBUG causes debug messages to be logged into stdout.
Which of these are features of Terraform Cloud? Choose two correct answers.
Which of the following command would be use to access all of the attributes and details of a resource managed by Terraform?
Which of the following methods, used to provision resources into a public cloud, demonstrates the concept of infrastructure as code?
You have deployed a new webapp with a public IP address on a cloud provider. However, you did not create any outputs for your code. What is the best method to quickly find the IP address of the resource you deployed?
You decide to move a Terraform state file to Amazon S3 from another location. You write the code below into a file called backend.tf.
Which command will migrate your current state file to the new S3 remote backend?
Module version is required to reference a module on the Terraform Module Registry.
One remote backend configuration always maps to a single remote workspace.
You are working on some new application features and you want to spin up a copy of your production deployment to perform some quick tests. In order to avoid having to configure a new state backend, what open source Terraform feature would allow you create multiple states but still be associated with your current code?
Which of the following should you add in the required_providers block to define a provider version constraint?
As a member of an operations team that uses infrastructure as code (lac) practices, you are tasked with making a change to an infrastructure stack running in a public cloud. Which pattern would follow laC best practices for making a change?
Which two steps are required to provision new infrastructure in the Terraform workflow? Choose two correct answers.
terraform apply will fail if you have not run terraform plan first to update the plan output.
TESTED 14 Jan 2026
