What is a significant risk associated with losing or corrupting the Terraform state file?

Terraform may lose track of existing resources and propose to recreate or delete them

Terraform will refuse to run any commands until the state is restored

The cloud provider will automatically delete all resources managed by Terraform

Terraform will automatically recreate all managed resources from scratch

A team is using a Terraform Cloud backend for their state. They want to ensure that only certain team members can modify the state. What should they configure?

A lifecycle rule to prevent state changes.

Workspace permissions in Terraform Cloud to restrict write access.

A team has a resource in their state file that they no longer want to manage with Terraform. They want to remove it from state but keep the real-world resource running. Which command should they use?

terraform apply -destroy -target=

How does Terraform detect configuration drift in managed resources?

By checking the cloud provider's audit logs for manual changes

By running terraform validate to check configuration syntax

By comparing the state file with the configuration files

By running terraform plan, which compares the real-world infrastructure with the desired configuration

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11foundation · easy
What is a significant risk associated with losing or corrupting the Terraform state file?
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12foundation · easy
Which terraform state subcommand is used to move a resource from one state address to another?
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13application · medium
A team is using a Terraform Cloud backend for their state. They want to ensure that only certain team members can modify the state. What should they configure?
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14application · medium
A team has a resource in their state file that they no longer want to manage with Terraform. They want to remove it from state but keep the real-world resource running. Which command should they use?
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How does Terraform detect configuration drift in managed resources?
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