Exam Terraform Associate topic 1 question 1 discussion

It doesn't necessarily always matches the current infrastructure, since one can manually change resources and therefore drift from the state configuration. Terraform has no way to know or track changes made outside of it.

The correct answer is false because Terraform performs a refresh operation before any operation to update the state with the real infrastructure. This means the state file might not always perfectly match the current infrastructure if there are discrepancies between the state and the actual resources.

The terraform.tfstate file reflects Terraform's understanding of the infrastructure, but it may not always match the actual state of the infrastructure if changes have been made manually (outside of Terraform) or if the state file hasn't been updated after such changes. In those cases, the state file would be outdated or inaccurate.

B. False The terraform.tfstate file reflects the infrastructure as it was last known to Terraform, but changes made outside of Terraform (manually or through other tools) may not be reflected in the state file until a terraform refresh or terraform plan is run to reconcile the differences.

Selected Answer: B

The terraform.tfstate file maintains the state of your infrastructure as managed by Terraform. It keeps track of the resources that Terraform has provisioned and their current state.

B is the correct

Of course, it's B. For example, when you perform tasks in the AWS web console, you cannot see the .tfstate file. Additionally, if we add that, you can update it to the latest state through 'tf refresh.

The actual provisioned resources may drift, the state represents a snapshot of their status from *the last time* Terraform was run.

Question is a bit ambiguous.it says currently built, does it mean to say right after Terraform apply? Anyways feel like B is the answer

B. False

B is the correct answer

B is the correct answer

Not necessarily

After deployment, we can change change configuration by manual. So terraform.tfstate may be different with current infra. B is correct

Question is a bit ambiguous-technically tfstate file reflects any deployments done VIA TERRAFORM. Even if manual changes were made to a deployment done by terraform,a terraform refresh would actually update the tfstate file to reflect actual infrastructure.(this lets terraform know that there is a mismatch betweeh tfstate and actual tf file).

Answer - False, because state file doesn't matches the current infrastructure unwantedly.