According to Terraform's recommended style conventions, how should blocks and arguments be indented?

Indentation is optional and left to the developer's preference

Four spaces per indentation level

Two spaces per indentation level

A team is setting up a code review process for Terraform configurations. They want to ensure that all new pull requests are formatted correctly before merging. The CI system should automatically check formatting and block the merge if any file is not compliant. Which approach should the team implement?

Run terraform fmt -recursive in the CI pipeline and commit the changes

Ask developers to manually check formatting before pushing

Run terraform fmt -check -recursive in the CI pipeline and fail on non-zero exit

Run terraform validate in the CI pipeline

A Terraform project has a root module and a 'modules/' directory. The developer wants to format only the root module files and the 'modules/networking/' subdirectory, but NOT the 'modules/storage/' subdirectory. Which command sequence achieves this without affecting the storage module?

Run terraform fmt in the root and then terraform fmt modules/networking/

Run terraform fmt -check -recursive

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1foundation · easy
A developer wants to format all Terraform files in the current directory and all subdirectories, including modules. Which terraform fmt command should be used?
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2foundation · easy
According to Terraform's recommended style conventions, how should blocks and arguments be indented?
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3application · medium
A team is setting up a code review process for Terraform configurations. They want to ensure that all new pull requests are formatted correctly before merging. The CI system should automatically check formatting and block the merge if any file is not compliant. Which approach should the team implement?
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4application · medium
A developer wants to see which files in their Terraform project are not formatted correctly, but they do not want to change anything yet. They also want to see the specific formatting differences. Which command provides this information?
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5expert · hard
A Terraform project has a root module and a 'modules/' directory. The developer wants to format only the root module files and the 'modules/networking/' subdirectory, but NOT the 'modules/storage/' subdirectory. Which command sequence achieves this without affecting the storage module?
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Questions 1–5

A developer wants to format all Terraform files in the current directory and all subdirectories, including modules. Which terraform fmt command should be used?

According to Terraform's recommended style conventions, how should blocks and arguments be indented?

A developer wants to see which files in their Terraform project are not formatted correctly, but they do not want to change anything yet. They also want to see the specific formatting differences. Which command provides this information?

A Terraform project has a root module and a 'modules/' directory. The developer wants to format only the root module files and the 'modules/networking/' subdirectory, but NOT the 'modules/storage/' subdirectory. Which command sequence achieves this without affecting the storage module?

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