Exam Terraform Associate topic 1 question 151 discussion

The answer is correct. The terraform refresh command reads the current settings from all managed remote objects and updates the Terraform state to match. Source: https://www.terraform.io/cli/commands/refresh

it's a state file, so answer is B

B. Your state file. The terraform refresh command in Terraform is used to update the Terraform state file with the current real-world state of the infrastructure. When the terraform refresh command is run, Terraform reads the current state of the resources from the infrastructure provider, and then updates the state file with any changes that have occurred outside of Terraform.

refresh updates the state if there was a manuell change in the infrastructure, for example via aws consule.

It's B.

https://www.terraform.io/cli/commands/refresh

I go with B