HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (004) Questions and Answers

200 questions organized by topic with detailed explanations

HashiCorp

TA-004

200 questions

8 topics

Updated May 2026

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform

20 questions6 easy10 medium4 hard~10% of exam

A platform team wants every infrastructure change reviewed, approved, and traceable over time. Which IaC advantage most ...An organization must manage on-prem systems, public cloud resources, and a SaaS platform in a single IaC practice. Which...A team needs one workflow to provision resources in AWS and Azure with the same tool. How does Terraform support this?

Terraform Fundamentals

24 questions4 easy13 medium7 hard~12% of exam

A configuration must use the same provider twice with different settings, such as two regions. Which approach should the...What is the main purpose of Terraform state?Why does Terraform maintain state even though providers can query remote APIs directly?

Core Terraform Workflow

32 questions7 easy17 medium8 hard~16% of exam

A practitioner clones a new Terraform project from version control. Which command should they run first in that director...A practitioner must destroy only one specific Terraform-managed resource and leave the rest intact. Which command is int...A team already reviewed and saved a plan file named tfplan. How should they apply exactly those approved actions?

Terraform Configuration

40 questions8 easy20 medium12 hard~20% of exam

An external policy engine modifies a managed resource tag after every apply, and the team does not want Terraform to kee...A team wants to validate an infrastructure behavior at the end of plan or apply, but a failure should only warn and not ...A resource already exists outside the current configuration, and the team only needs to read its attributes for use else...

Terraform Modules

20 questions5 easy12 medium3 hard~10% of exam

Why do teams commonly use Terraform modules?A team uses a public registry module in production and wants stable, predictable behavior across runs. What should they ...A root module needs to call a local child module stored in a sibling folder named modules/network. What source value sho...

Terraform State Management

36 questions8 easy17 medium11 hard~18% of exam

Which statement about Terraform backends is correct?A team wants to keep remote backend credentials out of version control and fill in some settings only during initializat...Which backend does Terraform use by default when no other backend or cloud integration is configured?

Maintain Infrastructure with Terraform

8 questions1 easy5 medium2 hard~4% of exam

Which command lists the resource addresses currently tracked in Terraform state?A team wants Terraform to stop tracking a resource, but they do not want Terraform to destroy the real object. Which com...A practitioner wants Terraform to generate configuration for an imported resource instead of hand-writing the resource b...

HCP Terraform

20 questions7 easy12 medium1 hard~10% of exam

Which statement correctly differentiates HCP Terraform, Terraform Enterprise, and Terraform CLI Community Edition?What is the key difference between a workspace and a project in HCP Terraform?In a VCS-driven HCP Terraform workflow, what run type is typically created for a pull request before merge?

All Questions

#	Question	Topic	Difficulty
1	An external policy engine modifies a managed resource tag after every apply, and the team does not w...	Terraform Configuration	hard
2	Why do teams commonly use Terraform modules?	Terraform Modules	medium
3	A team wants to validate an infrastructure behavior at the end of plan or apply, but a failure shoul...	Terraform Configuration	hard
4	Which statement correctly differentiates HCP Terraform, Terraform Enterprise, and Terraform CLI Comm...	HCP Terraform	easy
5	Which statement about Terraform backends is correct?	Terraform State Management	medium

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