A plan in HCP Terraform has completed, and the run is in the 'policy check' phase. The policy check fails with a 'hard fail'. What is the impact on the run?

The plan is still valid, but the apply requires manual approval.

An administrator can override the failure and apply.

The run is paused until the policy is updated.

The run is discarded and cannot be applied.

Your organization requires that all production applies be approved by a specific team. You use HCP Terraform with auto-apply disabled. However, you notice that a run triggered by a VCS push on the main branch was applied without any manual approval. What is the most likely cause?

The VCS provider is configured to auto-approve runs.

A Sentinel policy overrode the approval requirement.

The run was triggered via the API, which bypasses approval.

The workspace has auto-apply enabled.

Which of the following is a valid way to initiate a run in HCP Terraform?

Only through the HCP Terraform web UI

Through the API, VCS, or run triggers

A run in HCP Terraform is in the 'applying' state when the underlying cloud provider returns a 500 error. The apply fails. You need to ensure that the infrastructure is in a consistent state. What is the best course of action?

Use the API to force a rollback to the previous state.

Manually delete the resources that were partially created.

Discard the run and start a new plan.

Re-run the apply from the HCP Terraform UI.

Your team uses HCP Terraform with a VCS-driven workflow. You need to ensure that changes merged to the main branch are applied automatically, but any manual run from the UI must still require an explicit approval. What configuration should you use?

Enable auto-apply on the workspace; manual runs will still require approval.

Enable auto-apply and set the workspace to 'Manual apply only' in the project settings.

Disable auto-apply; use a run trigger to auto-approve VCS runs.

Create a policy that auto-approves any run whose source is 'VCS'.

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1application · medium
A plan in HCP Terraform has completed, and the run is in the 'policy check' phase. The policy check fails with a 'hard fail'. What is the impact on the run?
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2expert · medium
Your organization requires that all production applies be approved by a specific team. You use HCP Terraform with auto-apply disabled. However, you notice that a run triggered by a VCS push on the main branch was applied without any manual approval. What is the most likely cause?
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3foundation · easy
Which of the following is a valid way to initiate a run in HCP Terraform?
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4expert · medium
A run in HCP Terraform is in the 'applying' state when the underlying cloud provider returns a 500 error. The apply fails. You need to ensure that the infrastructure is in a consistent state. What is the best course of action?
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5application · medium
Your team uses HCP Terraform with a VCS-driven workflow. You need to ensure that changes merged to the main branch are applied automatically, but any manual run from the UI must still require an explicit approval. What configuration should you use?
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