Terraform Associate Certification

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• Exam Review - Terraform Associate Certification
• Build AWS Infrastructure with Python
• Associate Tutorial List

Study Guide - Terraform Associate Certification

Below is a list of items to cover from the Study Guide.
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Overview

• Learn about IaC
• Manage infrastructure
• Master the workflow
• Learn more subcommands
• Use and create modules
• Read and write configuration
• Manage state
• Debug in Terraform
• Understand Terraform Cloud and Enterprise

Learn about IaC

• Infrastructure as Code introduction video
• Infrastructure as Code in a Private or Public Cloud blog post
• Introduction to IaC documentation
• Terraform Use Cases documentation

Manage infrastructure

• Get Started with Terraform - complete all tutorials
• Providers documentation
• Purpose of Terraform State documentation
• Terraform Settings documentation
• Provision Infrastructure Deployed with Terraform - Learn tutorials
• Provisioners documentation
• Manage Resources in Terraform State - Learn tutorial
• Use Refresh-Only Mode to Sync Terraform State - Learn tutorial
• Lock and Upgrade Provider Versions - Learn tutorial
• Perform CRUD Operations with Providers - Learn tutorial

Master the workflow

• The Core Terraform Workflow documentation
• Initialize a Terraform working directory with init documentation
• Validate a Terraform configuration with validate documentation
• Generate and review an execution plan for Terraform with plan documentation
• Execute changes to infrastructure with Terraform with apply documentation
• Destroy Terraform managed infrastructure with destroy documentation

Learn more subcommands

• Troubleshoot Terraform - Learn tutorial
• Formatting configuration with fmt documentation
• Tainting resources with taint documentation
• Managing state with state documentation
• Using local workspaces with workspace documentation
• Separate Development and Production Environments - Learn tutorial
• Importing existing resources with import documentation
• Import Terraform Configuration - Learn tutorial

Use and create modules

• Organize Configuration with Modules (complete all tutorials)
• Finding and using modules documentation
• Module versioning documentation
• Input Variables documentation
• Input Variables - Learn tutorial
• Output Values documentation
• Output Values - Learn tutorial
• Calling a child module documentation

Read and write configuration

• Resources describe infrastructure objects
• Data sources let Terraform fetch and compute data
• Query Data Sources - Learn tutorial guides you through using data sources
• Resource addressing lets you refer to specific resources
• Named values let you reference values
• Create Resource Dependencies - Learn tutorial guides you through managing related infrastructure using implicit and explicit dependencies
• Terraforms Resource Graph ensures proper order of operations
• Complex types let you validate user-provided values
• Built in functions help transform and combine values
• Perform Dynamic Operations with Functions - Learn tutorial walks you through using Terraform functions
• Create Dynamic Expressions - Learn tutorial shows you how to create more complex expressionss
• Dynamic blocks allow you to construct nested expressions within certain configuration blocks
• Inject secrets into Terraform using the Vault provider - Learn tutorial
• Vault Provider for Terraform documentation

Manage state

State management

• State locking documentation
• Sensitive data in state documentation
• Reconcile state and real resources with refresh documentation
• Manage Resource Drift - Learn tutorial

Backend management

• Login to Terraform Cloud from the CLI - Learn tutorial
• Backends overview documentation
• Local backend documentation
• Backend types documentation
• How to configure a backend documentation
• Migrate State to Terraform Cloud - Learn tutorial

Debug in Terraform

• Review the debugging documentation

Understand Terraform Cloud and Enterprise

• Terraform Cloud overview documentation
• Understanding Workspaces and Modules resource
• CLI workspaces documentation
• The UI- and VCS-driven Run Workflow documentation
• Terraform Cloud workspaces documentation documentation
• Use Modules from the Registry - Learn tutorial
• Module registry documentation
• Install the Sentinel CLI - Learn tutorial
• Sentinel Policy as Code documentation
• Feature comparison pricing page (scroll down for feature matrix)