A team is adopting Terraform and wants to establish consistent style across all their configurations. They notice that some developers put resource arguments in alphabetical order, while others group them logically. The team wants to enforce a single canonical style that Terraform itself uses. What should they do?

Run terraform fmt on all configurations and adopt its output as the standard

Use terraform validate to check style consistency

Create a custom style guide and manually enforce it in code reviews

Adopt the style of the most senior developer's configuration

A CI pipeline for a Terraform project needs to verify that all configuration files, including those in modules directory, are formatted correctly. The pipeline should fail if any file is not formatted, but it must not modify the repository. Which command should be used in the pipeline?

terraform fmt -check -recursive

What is the primary purpose of the `-check` flag with `terraform fmt`?

To display a diff of the formatting changes that would be made

To format files in subdirectories as well as the current directory

To verify formatting without modifying any files

To check for syntax errors in the configuration

Which terraform fmt command formats only the file named variables.tf in the current directory?

terraform fmt -target=variables.tf

terraform fmt -check variables.tf

terraform fmt -file=variables.tf

A developer has a Terraform configuration with a mix of .tf and .tfvars files. They want to format all the .tf files in the current directory and all subdirectories, but they are not concerned about the .tfvars files. Which command should they run?

terraform fmt -check -recursive

terraform fmt -recursive -include=tfvars

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3g Apply Formatting and Style Adjustments to a Configuration TERRAFORM-ASSOCIATE-004 Practice Questions (Page 3)

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11application · medium
A team is adopting Terraform and wants to establish consistent style across all their configurations. They notice that some developers put resource arguments in alphabetical order, while others group them logically. The team wants to enforce a single canonical style that Terraform itself uses. What should they do?
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A CI pipeline for a Terraform project needs to verify that all configuration files, including those in modules directory, are formatted correctly. The pipeline should fail if any file is not formatted, but it must not modify the repository. Which command should be used in the pipeline?
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13foundation · easy
What is the primary purpose of the `-check` flag with `terraform fmt`?
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14foundation · easy
Which terraform fmt command formats only the file named variables.tf in the current directory?
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15application · medium
A developer has a Terraform configuration with a mix of .tf and .tfvars files. They want to format all the .tf files in the current directory and all subdirectories, but they are not concerned about the .tfvars files. Which command should they run?
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