Why IaC over manual provisioning in Terraform - Test Your Understanding

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to define a resource in Terraform.

Terraform

resource "aws_instance" "example" {
  ami           = "ami-12345678"
  instance_type = "[1]"
}

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At2.nano

Bt2.small

Ct2.medium

Dt2.micro

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Common Mistakes

Using an invalid instance type string.

Leaving the instance_type blank.

The instance_type specifies the size of the instance. "t2.micro" is a valid and common choice.

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medium

Complete the code to initialize Terraform in your project directory.

Terraform

terraform [1]

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Ainit

Bdestroy

Cplan

Dapply

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Common Mistakes

Using terraform apply before initialization.

Confusing init with plan or apply.

terraform init initializes the working directory containing Terraform configuration files.

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hard

Fix the error in the Terraform code to output the instance's public IP.

Terraform

output "instance_ip" {
  value = aws_instance.example.[1]
}

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Apublic_ip

Bprivate_ip

Cip_address

Dinstance_ip

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Common Mistakes

Using private_ip instead of public_ip.

Using a non-existent attribute like ip_address.

The correct attribute to get the public IP of an AWS instance is public_ip.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a variable with a default value in Terraform.

Terraform

variable "region" {
  type    = [1]
  default = [2]
}

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Astring

B"us-west-2"

C"number"

D"eu-central-1"

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Common Mistakes

Using number type for a region variable.

Setting default to an unsupported region string.

The variable type is string and the default region is "us-west-2".

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a resource with tags in Terraform.

Terraform

resource "aws_s3_bucket" "bucket" {
  bucket = [1]
  acl    = [2]
  tags = {
    Name        = [3]
  }
}

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A"my-unique-bucket-123"

B"private"

C"MyBucket"

D"public-read"

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using a non-unique bucket name.

Setting acl to "public-read" without intention.

Omitting tags or using incorrect syntax.

The bucket name must be unique, acl is set to "private" for security, and tags include a friendly name.