HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (004) v1.0

You modified your local Terraform configuration and ran terraform plan to review the changes. Simultaneously, your teammate manually modified the infrastructure component you are working on.
Since you already ran terraform plan locally, the execution plan for terraform apply will be the same.

Which is the correct workflow for deploying new infrastructure with Terraform?

After creating a new Terraform configuration, your config passes terraform validate but gives an “Access Denied” error from the cloud provider when running terraform plan.
Why didn’t validate catch this issue?

Only the user that generated a terraform plan may apply it.

terraform apply will fail if you have not run terraform plan first to update the plan output.

What’s the proper syntax for the plan command?

Which is true about terraform apply? (Choose two.)

Which syntax check returns an error when you run terraform validate?

What is the purpose of the .terraform directory in a Terraform workspace?

How can terraform plan aid in the development process?

You have a saved execution plan containing desired changes for infrastructure managed by Terraform. After running the command terraform apply my.tfplan, you receive the error shown in the Exhibit space on this page.
| Error: Saved plan is stale
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| The given plan file can no longer be applied because the state was changed by another operation after the plan was created.
How can you apply the desired changes? (Choose two.)

Which of these can you do with terraform plan? (Choose two.)

Which task does terraform init not perform?

terraform init retrieves and caches the configuration for all remote modules.