6d Manage Resource Drift and Terraform State TERRAFORM-ASSOCIATE-004 Practice Questions (Page 5)

Questions 21–25

1. 21foundation · easy

   Which scenario is the most likely cause of resource drift?

   • AA developer runs terraform apply after editing the configuration
   • BA team member manually changes a resource's configuration through the cloud provider's console
   • CThe state file is deleted and recreated
   • DA new resource is added to the configuration and applied
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2. 22foundation · easy

   Which Terraform command is used to detect resource drift?

   • Aterraform apply
   • Bterraform state list
   • Cterraform plan
   • Dterraform refresh
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4. 23application · medium

   A developer manually deleted a resource that is managed by Terraform. When they run terraform plan, what will they see?

   • AAn error because the resource is missing
   • BA plan to create the resource again
   • CNo changes
   • DA plan to destroy the resource
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5. 24foundation · easy

   Which command is used to manually upload a state file to a remote backend?

   • Aterraform state rm
   • Bterraform state push
   • Cterraform state pull
   • Dterraform state mv
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6. 25expert · hard

   A team uses an S3 backend with DynamoDB for state locking. A developer runs terraform plan and receives an error: 'Error acquiring the state lock'. The developer checks the AWS console and sees that the DynamoDB lock table has an item with a LockID that matches the state file, but the process that held the lock has crashed. What should the developer do?

   • ARun terraform apply to override the lock
   • BWait for the lock to expire automatically
   • CUse terraform force-unlock <lock-id> to release the stale lock
   • DDelete the item from the DynamoDB table manually
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