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.