HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
Course Info
This course includes 10 attempts.
HashiCorp Terraform is one of the most popular tools for infrastructure as code. It has been around since 2014 and today there are two levels of certifications for Terraform: associate and professional. This highlights the maturity-level of Terraform. This course is intended to prepare you for the Terraform Associate certification exam.
The Terraform Associate certification is for Cloud Engineers specializing in operations, IT, or development who know the basic concepts and skills associated with Terraform. You understand what Terraform Enterprise features exist and can differentiate between Terraform Enterprise and Community Edition. You will be best prepared for this exam if you have professional experience using Terraform in production, but performing the exam objectives in a personal demo environment may be sufficient.
This course is intended for self-study and it follows the Terraform Associate 003 exam curriculum closely. There is one lesson each for the 38 exam objectives. Each exam objective is covered in theoretical form, followed by a small quiz to help you learn the important parts. The course also includes multiple practice quizzes with 40 and 50 questions each, similar in style to what you will encounter during the exam.
Learn about the Terraform CLI, the HashiCorp Configuration Language, HCP Terraform and the workflows involved in running Terraform in real-life.
Happy learning!
Course Material
- About
- Exam objectives
- Prerequisites
- Exam format
- Other exam details
- Introduction
- Starting out
- Installing Terraform
- Writing your first Terraform configuration
- Working with the Terraform CLI
- The Terraform state file
- Working with HCP Terraform
- 1a - Explain what Infrastructure as Code is
- Exercises for objective 1a
- 1b - Describe advantages of IaC patterns
- Exercises for objective 1b
- 2a - Explain multi-cloud and provider-agnostic benefits
- Exercises for objective 2a
- 2b - Explain the benefits of state
- Exercises for objective 2b
- 3a - Install and version Terraform providers
- Exercises for 3a
- 3b - Describe plugin-based architecture
- Exercise for objective 3b
- 3c - Write Terraform configuration using multiple providers
- Exercises for objective 3c
- 3d - Describe how Terraform finds and fetches providers
- Exercises for objective 3d
- 4a - Describe when to use terraform import to import existing infrastructure into your Terraform state
- Exercises for objective 4a
- 4b - Use terraform state to view Terraform state
- Exercises for objective 4b
- 4c - Describe when to enable verbose logging and what the outcome/value is
- Exercises for objective 4c
- 5a - Contrast and use different module source options including the public Terraform Registry
- Exercises for objective 5a
- 5b - Interact with module inputs and outputs
- Exercises for objective 5b
- 5c - Describe variable scope within modules/child modules
- Exercises for objective 5c
- 5d - Set module version
- Exercises for objective 5d
- 6a - Describe Terraform workflow (Write -> Plan -> Create)
- Exercises for objective 6a
- 6b - Initialize a Terraform working directory (terraform init)
- Exercises for objective 6b
- 6c - Validate a Terraform configuration (terraform validate)
- Exercises for objective 6c
- 6d - Generate and review an execution plan for Terraform (terraform plan)
- Exercises for objective 6d
- 6e - Execute changes to infrastructure with Terraform (terraform apply)
- Exercises for objective 6e
- 6f - Destroy Terraform managed infrastructure (terraform destroy)
- Exercises for objective 6f
- 6g - Apply formatting and style adjustments to a configuration (terraform fmt)
- Exercises for objective 6g
- 7a - Describe default local backend
- Exercises for objective 7a
- 7b - Describe state locking
- Exercises for objective 7b
- 7c - Handle backend and cloud integration authentication methods
- Exercises for objective 7c
- 7d - Differentiate remote state backend options
- Exercises for objective 7d
- 7e - Manage resource drift and Terraform state
- Exercises for objective 7e
- 7f - Describe backend block and cloud integration in configuration
- Exercises for objective 7f
- 7g - Understand secret management in state files
- Exercises for objective 7g
- 8a - Demonstrate use of variables and outputs
- Exercises for objective 8a
- 8b - Describe secure secret injection best practice
- Exercises for objective 8b
- 8c - Understand the use of collection and structural types
- Exercises for objective 8c
- 8d - Create and differentiate resource and data configuration
- Exercises for objective 8d
- 8e - Use resource addressing and resource parameters to connect resources together
- Exercises for objective 8e
- 8f - Use HCL and Terraform functions to write configuration
- Exercises for objective 8f
- 8g - Describe built-in dependency management (order of execution based)
- Exercises for objective 8g
- 9a - Explain how HCP Terraform helps to manage infrastructure
- Exercises for objective 9a
- 9b - Describe how HCP Terraform enables collaboration and governance
- Exercises for objective 9b
- Quiz 1
- Quiz 15 attempts allowed
- Quiz 2
- Quiz 25 attempts allowed
- Quiz 3
- Quiz 35 attempts allowed
Instructors
Driven, curious, ambitious.
Mattias is a hands-on engineer with a background in particle accelerator physics, computational methods in mathematics, and web design. He is currently a cloud architect and DevOps consultant focusing on helping organizations reach their full potential.
Mattias is a HashiCorp ambassador and HashiCorp User Group leader in Gothenburg, Sweden. He holds professional-level certifications in both Microsoft Azure and AWS, as well as other certifications including Terraform (associate and professional), Vault, Kubernetes, and GitHub.
You can find out more about Mattias at his blog mattias.engineer.
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