A company uses Terraform to provision their cloud infrastructure. They also need to ensure that the software on those servers is installed and configured consistently. Which approach is most appropriate?

Use Ansible for provisioning and Terraform for software configuration.

Use Terraform for provisioning and a configuration management tool like Ansible for software setup.

Use Terraform for both provisioning and software configuration by adding provisioners.

Use a single shell script for both provisioning and configuration.

How does Infrastructure as Code help reduce manual errors?

By using a graphical interface to configure resources

By automating the application of configuration through code

By storing configurations in a central database

By requiring all changes to be approved by a human

Which characteristic makes Terraform particularly useful for multi-cloud environments?

It is the only tool that supports declarative configuration

It requires a separate configuration file for each cloud provider

It can manage infrastructure across multiple cloud providers using a single workflow

It automatically migrates resources between cloud providers

An operations team is evaluating tools to manage their cloud infrastructure. They want a tool that focuses on the desired end state of resources, not the step-by-step commands to achieve it, and that can manage resources across AWS and Azure. Which tool and approach best fits their requirement?

AWS CloudFormation, which is declarative but only works for AWS resources.

Ansible with imperative playbooks that run commands in order.

A custom Python script that calls cloud APIs in a specific sequence.

Terraform, which is declarative and can provision resources across multiple cloud providers.

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Which of the following is an example of a cloud-specific infrastructure provisioning tool?
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A company uses Terraform to provision their cloud infrastructure. They also need to ensure that the software on those servers is installed and configured consistently. Which approach is most appropriate?
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How does Infrastructure as Code help reduce manual errors?
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Which characteristic makes Terraform particularly useful for multi-cloud environments?
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5application · medium
An operations team is evaluating tools to manage their cloud infrastructure. They want a tool that focuses on the desired end state of resources, not the step-by-step commands to achieve it, and that can manage resources across AWS and Azure. Which tool and approach best fits their requirement?
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