This blog post will provide information on the certification exam domains and give you detailed guidance on how to proceed once you have started preparing for the HashiCorp Terraform Associate Certificate. Before we get into the assessment and shaping perspectives of the certification, let’s first look at what Hashicorp is.
What is HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification? It is a process that will help you gain a deeper understanding of Terraform tools as well as the associated SaaS offerings called Terraform Cloud. HashiCorp is an open-source company that builds components for multi-cloud workloads.
Terraform can actually help you manage ecosystems using a configuration language called HashiCorp Configuration Language, commonly referred to by HCL. This allows for readable and automated implementations.
What will you learn from the HashiCorp Teraform Associate Certification Exam
This course will give you all the knowledge you need to be proficient in DevOps, and cloud engineering. The course focuses more on improving your skills in Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The HashiCorp Terraform Associate exam covers 9 domains. Here’s a more detailed look at the syllabus:
1. Comprehending Infrastructure Code (IaC). You will learn:
Explaining IaC
IaC benefits described
IaC solves real-world problems related to ecosystem drifts in release pipes. As a DevOps engineer, you will need to manually manage and maintain infrastructure and check for errors if you don’t know what IaC is.
2. Terraform’s purpose is assessed: This domain imparts:
Understanding multi-cloud and provider-agnostic benefits
Understanding the benefits of a state
Terraform is a great tool to make your life easier. You will learn how you can manage your infrastructure, standardize configurations, and implement changes.
3. The Foundations of Terraform: This domain sheds some light on:
Terraform, provider deployment and versioning management
Defining plugin-based architecture
Describing multiple provider usage
Terraform’s search for and extractions providers
Understanding when to use provisioners, remote exe and local exe
You will learn how match real-world resources to your configurations, record metadata and improve the functioning of large infrastructures.
4. Handling Terraform CLI: This domain captures scenarios/use situations, such as:
When to use “terraform fmt” to format code
When to use “terraform taint” to taint Terraform resources
When to use “terraform import” to import Terraform state infrastructure
When to use “terraform workspace” to create a workspace
When to use “terraform state” to refer to state
What is the best time to use verbal log?
Terraform workflows will be familiarized in all situations, whether you are a professional or a member of a team.
5. Terraform Workflow Management: This domain includes
Define Terraform workflow
Launch Terraform’s working directory
Authenticate Terraform configuration
Prepare a Terraform execution plan
Managed environment Demolish Terraform
This exam will help you plan, write, and then apply Terraform workflows individually or in a group.
6. Managing Terraform Modules: This domain contains:
Compare module source options
Interaction with inputs/outputs of the module
Modular scope definitions
Locating modules in the Terraform Module Registry
Describe module version
Terraform management is a double-faced job that can add complexity to creating configurations. You will learn how to organize, reuse, and encapsulate your configurations.
7. You will learn how to deploy and manage state.
Define default local backend
Outline state locking
Manage backend authentication methods
Define the mechanism for remote state storage and standard backends
Information about secret management in state files
Terraform cloud and enterprise work in different ways. To determine which one will enable better collaboration among your coders, you’ll need to dig deeper.
8. This domain focuses on:
Describe the use variables and outputs
Define the best practices for secure secret injection
Use of collection and structural types
Create and distinguish resource and data configurations
How to use resource parameters and resource addressing to connect resources together
Terraform’s built-in functions for configuration writing
How to use dynamic look to configure resource
Define built-in dependency management.
You will be able to describe, manage and create data configurations and resources.
9. Familiarity and Enterprise capabilities with Terraform cloud