A small team manages a single production environment. They are considering moving from manual console-based changes to IaC. Which benefit of IaC is most directly realized by storing the infrastructure definition in a Git repository?

Consistency, because the same code is used for all environments.

Version control, because changes can be tracked, reviewed, and rolled back.

Faster provisioning, because code can be applied automatically.

Reduced manual error, because the code is automatically validated.

Which of the following tools is primarily used for configuration management rather than infrastructure provisioning?

Azure Resource Manager templates

A team is writing Terraform configuration for a new environment. They notice that Terraform automatically creates a security group before a VM that references it, even though the security group is defined after the VM in the configuration file. What does this illustrate?

Terraform uses a random order for resource creation.

Terraform is imperative and executes the file in order.

Terraform is declarative and builds a dependency graph to determine the order of operations.

Terraform requires explicit depends_on to ensure correct order.

A company has a mix of on-premises servers and cloud resources. They need to install and configure software on existing servers (e.g., install a web server, set up firewall rules) and also provision new cloud resources (e.g., virtual networks, load balancers). They want to use a single tool for both tasks. Which tool is most appropriate?

Ansible, because it can both provision cloud resources and configure software on existing servers.

A shell script that manually runs on each server and calls cloud APIs.

AWS CloudFormation, because it works for both on-premises and cloud resources.

Terraform, because it can both provision and configure software on existing servers.

What is the core definition of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?

Deploying infrastructure only through a cloud provider's web console

Storing infrastructure configuration in a human-readable document for reference

Managing infrastructure through machine-readable definition files

Using a graphical user interface to manually configure each server

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A small team manages a single production environment. They are considering moving from manual console-based changes to IaC. Which benefit of IaC is most directly realized by storing the infrastructure definition in a Git repository?
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Which of the following tools is primarily used for configuration management rather than infrastructure provisioning?
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A team is writing Terraform configuration for a new environment. They notice that Terraform automatically creates a security group before a VM that references it, even though the security group is defined after the VM in the configuration file. What does this illustrate?
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A company has a mix of on-premises servers and cloud resources. They need to install and configure software on existing servers (e.g., install a web server, set up firewall rules) and also provision new cloud resources (e.g., virtual networks, load balancers). They want to use a single tool for both tasks. Which tool is most appropriate?
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