How I Become HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate TA-002-P exam dumps

Last week I passed the HashiCorp TA-002-P exam. With this exam I earned the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification. I was very anxious to earn this certification as it is my first ever certification. Let me share my exam experience with you.

First I would like to introduce myself. I am an IT professional working as a freelancer on Upwork and locally. I have done Bachelors in Computer Sciences. My core strength is open-source. Recently I got a local project that involved multi-cloud infrastructure and the HashiCorp Terraform platform. For this purpose, I needed to learn about the Terraform product. I was unable to find any training locally. I discussed it with a friend and he advised me to go for the certification. He gave me some pro tips related to certification exams. He also advised me to check DumpsTool.com for the training material. So I checked the DumpsTool website by myself. There I found a free demo for the TA-002-P exam to evaluate. After getting satisfied, I chose the PDF and Testing engine package from DumpsTool as advised by my friend. I also came to know about the fact that DumpsTool offers a money-back guarantee for the training material they provide. That’s how I started preparing for the TA-002-P exam. The TA-002-P exam dumps by DumpsTool were very helpful. With the guideline provided by my friend and training material by DumpsTool, I was able to pass the TA-002-P exam in my first attempt to earn the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.

Following is a brief intro to the certification and the exam.

HashiCorp Product Certification Overview

HashiCorp offers the following three certifications regarding the product platform which are as follows;

HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
HashiCorp Certified Vault Associate
HashiCorp Certified Consul Associate

We will take a look at the HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate certification.

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

The Terraform Associate certification is for Cloud Engineers specializing in operations, IT, or development who know the basic concepts and skills associated with open source HashiCorp Terraform. Candidates will be best prepared for this exam if they have professional experience using Terraform in production, but performing the exam objectives in a personal demo environment may also be sufficient. This person understands which enterprise features exist and what can and cannot be done using the open-source offering.

Earners of the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification know the basic concepts, skills, and use cases associated with open source HashiCorp Terraform. They understand and can utilize Terraform according to the certification objectives. Additionally, they understand why enterprises choose to extend Terraform Open Source with Terraform Enterprise to solve business critical objectives.

Skills

Cloud Engineer
Infrastructure As Code
Infrastructure Automation
IT Infrastructure
Multi-Cloud
Terraform
Terraform Basics
Terraform CLI
Terraform Cloud
Terraform Configuration
Terraform Enterprise Awareness
Terraform Modules
Terraform Purpose
Terraform State
Terraform Workflow

Prerequisites

Basic terminal skills

Basic understanding of on-premises and cloud architecture

Product Version Tested

Terraform 0.12 and higher.

Preparing for the Exam

The Terraform Associate exam has both a study guide and a review guide. While much of the information in these two guides are the same, they are presented differently for different uses. Use the study guide if you want to study all the exam objectives. Use the review guide if you already have Terraform experience and want to choose which objectives to review before taking the exam. We provide sample questions so you know what to expect when taking the exam.

Exam Details

Assessment Type Multiple choice

Format Online proctored

Duration 1 hour

Price $70.50 USD plus locally applicable taxes and fees

Language English

Expiration 2 years

Exam Objectives

Understand infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts
Explain what IaC is
Describe advantages of IaC patterns

Understand Terraform’s purpose (vs other IaC)
Explain multi-cloud and provider-agnostic benefits
Explain the benefits of state

Understand Terraform basics
Handle Terraform and provider installation and versioning
Describe plugin-based architecture
Demonstrate using multiple providers
Describe how Terraform finds and fetches providers
Explain when to use and not use provisioners and when to use local-exec or remote-exec

Use the Terraform CLI (outside of core workflow)
Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform fmt to format code
Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform taint to taint Terraform resources
Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform import to import existing infrastructure into your Terraform state
Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform workspace to create workspaces
Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform state to view Terraform state
Given a scenario: choose when to enable verbose logging and what the outcome/value is

Interact with Terraform modules
Contrast module source options
Interact with module inputs and outputs
Describe variable scope within modules/child modules
Discover modules from the public Terraform Module Registry
Defining module version

Navigate Terraform workflow
Describe Terraform workflow ( Write -> Plan -> Create )
Initialize a Terraform working directory (terraform init)
Validate a Terraform configuration (terraform validate)
Generate and review an execution plan for Terraform (terraform plan)
Execute changes to infrastructure with Terraform (terraform apply)
Destroy Terraform managed infrastructure (terraform destroy)

Implement and maintain state
Describe default local backend
Outline state locking
Handle backend authentication methods
Describe remote state storage mechanisms and supported standard backends
Describe effect of Terraform refresh on state
Describe backend block in configuration and best practices for partial configurations
Understand secret management in state files

Read, generate, and modify the configuration
Demonstrate use of variables and outputs
Describe secure secret injection best practice
Understand the use of collection and structural types
Create and differentiate resource and data configuration
Use resource addressing and resource parameters to connect resources together
Use Terraform built-in functions to write configuration
Configure resource using a dynamic block
Describe built-in dependency management (order of execution based)

Understand Terraform Cloud and Enterprise capabilities
Describe the benefits of Sentinel, registry, and workspaces
Differentiate OSS and TFE workspaces
Summarize features of Terraform Cloud

Conclusion

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate is a product-oriented certification by HashiCorp. It is an Infrastructure as Code product for multi-cloud infrastructure. Those seeking a career in Terraform platform should consider this foundational certification.