A developer manually changed a resource's tag in the cloud console. The team wants to keep the manual change and update the state to reflect it, but they also want to see what other drift exists. What is the best approach?

Run terraform apply -refresh=false

Run terraform plan, then terraform apply

Run terraform state rm, then terraform import

Run terraform refresh, then terraform plan

What is the purpose of the terraform refresh command?

To update the state file to match the actual infrastructure without changing it

To show a preview of changes that would be made

To delete resources that are not in the configuration

To apply configuration changes to the infrastructure

What is the purpose of state locking in Terraform?

To prevent concurrent modifications to the state file

A team uses an Azure Storage backend for Terraform state. They accidentally deleted the container that holds the state file. They have no versioning enabled. What is the most effective way to recover the state?

Use terraform refresh to recreate the state

Run terraform plan to regenerate the state

Restore the state file from a local backup or a previous terraform state pull

Recreate the infrastructure manually and import it

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6d Manage Resource Drift and Terraform State TERRAFORM-ASSOCIATE-004 Practice Questions (Page 1)

Part of the Terraform state management domain, which makes up ~10% of our current practice bank. HashiCorp does not publish an official question count, but from its 60-minute exam (~25–40 total, ~3–4 in this domain), expect 1–1 from this objective — we provide 28 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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1expert · hard
A developer manually changed a resource's tag in the cloud console. The team wants to keep the manual change and update the state to reflect it, but they also want to see what other drift exists. What is the best approach?
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What is the purpose of the terraform refresh command?
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Which of the following is an example of a remote state backend?
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What is the purpose of state locking in Terraform?
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5expert · hard
A team uses an Azure Storage backend for Terraform state. They accidentally deleted the container that holds the state file. They have no versioning enabled. What is the most effective way to recover the state?
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