Exam Terraform Associate topic 1 question 48 discussion

B still. " A. The Terraform state file contains all 16 VMs in the team account. Execute terraform destroy and select the newly-created VM. " ---- what does that meant "select the newly-created VM" you can't destroy a single resource, to destroy and recreate a new resource you use terraform taint to mark the resource for deletions and recreation

A. The Terraform state file contains all 16 VMs in the team account. Execute terraform destroy and select the newly-created VM: This option is incorrect because Terraform's state file does not automatically track resources that were not created or imported through Terraform. Since the 15 other VMs in the account were not managed by this Terraform configuration, they will not be in the state file, and terraform destroy will not affect them. C. Delete the Terraform state file and execute Terraform apply: This approach is not recommended. Deleting the state file removes Terraform's knowledge of the resources it manages, but does not actually delete those resources from the cloud provider. Running terraform apply afterwards would attempt to create the resources anew based on the

the other existing VMs need to be imported to be affected by the terraform destroy