Terraform Course Duration:30 Hrs
Course Details
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 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.
This guide lists the specific exam objectives and resources you can study to demonstrate those objectives. For a start-to-finish list of resources you can study to prepare for the whole exam from scratch, take a look at our study guide.
PREREQUISITES:
- Basic terminal skills
- Basic understanding of on-premises and cloud architecture
COURSE CONTENT:
Terraform Associate exam objective to where it is covered in training. This provides experienced exam candidates a place to review just the objectives they need extra help with before taking the exam.
1 Understand Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts
- 1a Explain what IaC is
- 1b Describe advantages of IaC patterns
2Understand Terraform’s purpose (vs otherIaC)
- 2a Explain multi-cloud and provider-agnostic benefits
- 2b Explain the benefits of state
3 Understand Terraform basics
- 3a Handle Terraform and provider installation and versioning
- 3b Describe plug-in based architecture
- 3c Demonstrate using multiple providers
- 3d Describe how Terraform finds and fetches providers
- 3e Explain when to use and not use provisioners and when to use local-exec or remote-exec
4 Use the Terraform CLI (outside of core workflow)
- 4a Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform fmt to format code
- 4b Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform taint to taint Terraform resources
- 4c Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform import to import existing infrastructure into your Terraform state
- 4d Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform workspace to create workspaces
- 4e Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform state to view Terraform state
- 4f Given a scenario: choose when to enable verbose logging and what the outcome/value is
5 Interact with Terraform modules
- 5a Contrast module source options
- 5b Interact with module inputs and outputs
- 5c Describe variable scope within modules/child modules
- 5d Discover modules from the public Terraform Module Registry
- 5e Defining module version
6 Navigate Terraform workflow
- 6a Describe Terraform workflow ( Write -> Plan -> Create)
- 6b Initialize a Terraform working directory (terraforminit)
- 6c Validate a Terraform configuration (terraform validate)
- 6d Generate and review an execution plan for Terraform (terraform plan)
- 6e Execute changes to infrastructure with Terraform (terraform apply)
- 6f Destroy Terraform managed infrastructure (terraform destroy)
7 Implement and maintain state
- 7a Describe default local backend
- 7b Outline state locking
- 7c Handle backend authentication methods
- 7d Describe remote state storage mechanisms and supported standard backends
- 7e Describe effect of Terraform refresh on state
- 7f Describe backend block in configuration and best practices for partial configurations
- 7g Understand secret management in state files
8 Read, generate, and modify configuration
- 8a Demonstrate use of variables and outputs
- 8b Describe secure secret injection best practice
- 8c Understand the use of collection and structural types
- 8d Create and differentiate resource and data configuration
- 8e Use resource addressing and resource parameters to connect resources together
- 8f Use Terraform built-in functions to write configuration
- 8g Configure resource using a dynamic block
- 8h Describe built-in dependency management (order of execution based)
9 Understand Terraform Cloud and Enterprise capabilities
- 9a Describe the benefits of Sentinel, registry, and workspaces
- 9b Differentiate OSS and Terraform Cloud workspaces
- 9c Summarize features of Terraform Cloud