Hashicorp Certified; Terraform Associate (Online Training )

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

1) Understand infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts

1a           Explain what IaC is

1b           Describe advantages of IaC patterns

2)Understand Terraform's purpose (vs other IaC)

2a           Explain multi-cloud and provider-agnostic benefits

2b           Explain the benefits of state 

3)Understand Terraform basics

3a           Handle Terraform and provider installation and versioning

3b           Describe plugin based architecture

3c            Demonstrate using multiple providers

3d           Describe how Terraform finds and fetches providers

3e           Explain when to use and not use provisioners and when to use local-exec or remote-exec 

4) Use the Terraform CLI (outside of core workflow)        

4a           Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform fmt to format code

4b           Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform taint to taint Terraform resources

4c            Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform import to import existing infrastructure into your Terraform state

4d           Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform workspace to create workspaces

4e           Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform state to view Terraform state

4f            Given a scenario: choose when to enable verbose logging and what the outcome/value is

5)Interact with Terraform modules

5a           Contrast module source options

5b           Interact with module inputs and outputs

5c            Describe variable scope within modules/child modules

5d           Discover modules from the public Terraform Module Registry

5e           Defining module version

6)Navigate Terraform workflow

6a           Describe Terraform workflow ( Write -> Plan -> Create )

6b           Initialize a Terraform working directory (terraform init)

6c            Validate a Terraform configuration (terraform validate)

6d           Generate and review an execution plan for Terraform (terraform plan)

6e           Execute changes to infrastructure with Terraform (terraform apply)

6f            Destroy Terraform managed infrastructure (terraform destroy)

7)Implement and maintain state

7a           Describe default local backend

7b           Outline state locking

7c            Handle backend authentication methods

7d           Describe remote state storage mechanisms and supported standard backends

7e           Describe effect of Terraform refresh on state

7f            Describe backend block in configuration and best practices for partial configurations

7g           Understand secret management in state files

8)Read, generate, and modify configuration

8a           Demonstrate use of variables and outputs

8b           Describe secure secret injection best practice

8c            Understand the use of collection and structural types

8d           Create and differentiate resource and data configuration

8e           Use resource addressing and resource parameters to connect resources together

8f            Use Terraform built-in functions to write configuration

8g           Configure resource using a dynamic block

8h           Describe built-in dependency management (order of execution based)

9)Understand Terraform Cloud and Enterprise capabilities         

9a           Describe the benefits of Sentinel, registry, and workspaces

9b           Differentiate OSS and TFE workspaces

9c            Summarize features of Terraform Cloud

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