Terraform-Associate-004 Practice Questions

Rationale for Correct Answer: To provision new infrastructure, Terraform’s core workflow is:

terraform plan to create an execution plan (what will be created/changed/destroyed).

terraform apply to execute that plan and provision the infrastructure.

These two steps represent the essential “preview then create” workflow Terraform objectives emphasize.

Analysis of Incorrect Options (Distractors):

A (Import): Used to bring existing resources under Terraform management; not required for provisioning new infrastructure.

C (Validate): Useful for checking syntax and internal consistency, but not required to provision.

E (Init): Typically required before first use in a new working directory (providers/modules/backend setup), but the question asks which steps are required in the workflow to provision—the required provisioning steps are plan + apply.

Key Concept: Terraform CLI workflow: plan → apply for provisioning.

These are the parameters that terraform import requires, as they allow Terraform to identify the existing resource that you want to import into your state file, and match it with the corresponding configuration block in your files.