HashiCorp Terraform Associate 003 Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 8

You must initialize your working directory before runningterraform validate, as it will ensure that all the required plugins and modules are installed and configured properly. If you skip this step, you may encounter errors or inconsistencies when validating your configuration files.

Runningterraform fmtwithout any flags in a directory with Terraform configuration files will not check the formatting of those files without changing their contents, but will actually rewrite them to a canonical format and style. If you want to check the formatting without making changes, you need to use the-checkflag.

The public Terraform Module Registry is free to use, as it is a public service that hosts thousands of self-contained packages called modules that are used to provision infrastructure. You can browse, use, and publish modules to the registry without any cost.

This is how you specify a module's version when publishing it to the public Terraform Module Registry, as it uses the tags from your version control system (such as GitHub or GitLab) to identify module versions. You need to use semantic versioning for your tags, such asv1.0.0.

This is the method for sharing Terraform configurations that fulfills the following criteria:

Keeps the configurations confidential within your organization

Supports Terraform's semantic version constraints

Provides a browsable directory

The Terraform Cloud private registry is a feature of Terraform Cloud that allows you to host and manage your own modules within your organization, and use them in your Terraform configurations with versioning and access control.

These are examples of infrastructure as code (IaC), which is a practice of managing and provisioning infrastructure through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools.

This is the command that you would use to access all of the attributes and details of a resource managed by Terraform, by providing the resource address as an argument. For example,terraform state show 'aws_instance.example'will show you all the information about the AWS instance named example.

This is what determines how Terraform creates, updates, or deletes resources, as it is responsible for understanding API interactions with some service and exposing resources and data sources based on that API.

This is how Terraform determines dependencies between resources, by using the references between them in the configuration files and other factors that affect the order of operations.