HashiCorp TA-003-P Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 21,2026- Exam Code: TA-003-P
- Exam Name: HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
- Certification Provider: HashiCorp
- Latest update: Oct 21,2026
Which of these ate features of Terraform Cloud? Choose two correct answers.
- A . Automated infrastructure deployment visualization
- B . Automatic backups
- C . A web-based user interface (Ul)
- D . Remote state storage
When do you need to explicitly execute Terraform in refresh-only mode?
- A . Before every terraform plan.
- B . Before every terraform apply.
- C . Before every terraform import.
- D . None of the above.
When should you use the force-unlock command?
- A . You have a high priority change
- B . Automatic unlocking failed
- C . apply failed due to a state lock
- D . You see a status message that you cannot acquire the lock
You add a new provider to your configuration and immediately run terraform apply in the CD using the local backend.
Why does the apply fail?
- A . The Terraform CD needs you to log into Terraform Cloud first
- B . Terraform requires you to manually run terraform plan first
- C . Terraform needs to install the necessary plugins first
- D . Terraform needs you to format your code according to best practices first
Your security team scanned some Terraform workspaces and found secrets stored in plaintext in state files.
How can you protect that data?
- A . Edit your state file to scrub out the sensitive data
- B . Always store your secrets in a secrets.tfvars file
- C . Delete the state file every time you run Terraform
- D . Store the state in an encrypted backend
Module variable assignments are inherited from the parent module and you do not need to explicitly set them.
- A . True
- B . False
When using Terraform to deploy resources into Azure, which scenarios are true regarding state files? (Choose two.)
- A . When you change a Terraform-managed resource via the Azure Cloud Console, Terraform updates the state file to reflect the change during the next plan or apply
- B . Changing resources via the Azure Cloud Console records the change in the current state file
- C . When you change a resource via the Azure Cloud Console, Terraform records the changes in a new state file
- D . Changing resources via the Azure Cloud Console does not update current state file
You want to know from which paths Terraform is loading providers referenced in your Terraform configuration (* files). You need to enable additional logging messages to find this out.
Which of the following would achieve this?
- A . Set verbose for each provider in your Terraform configuration
- B . Set the environment variable TF_LOG_TRACE
- C . Set the environment variable TF_LOG_PATH
- D . Set the environment variable TF_log_TRACE
Setting the TF_LOG environment variable to DEBUG causes debug messages to be logged into stdout.
- A . True
- B . False
What does this code do?
- A . Requires any version of the AWS provider > = 3.0 and <4.0
- B . Requires any version of the AWS provider >= 3.0
- C . Requires any version of the AWS provider > = 3.0 major release. like 4.1
- D . Requires any version of the AWS provider > 3.0