Terraform Quickstart: Quiz and 5 Hands-On Project Ideas

Solidify your knowledge with the Terraform quiz and hands-on project ideas

Congratulations! You've made it to the end!
I hope this course helped you on your Terraform learning journey. Now it’s time to reinforce what you’ve learned by taking this quiz. All questions are based on the lessons we covered. If you get stuck or need a refresher, feel free to go back and review the relevant chapters.

I also recommend you try out the hands-on project ideas.

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Quiz

Q1. What is a key benefit of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
A) You can avoid writing any documentation
B) You manage infrastructure manually through scripts
C) You define and automate infrastructure using code
D) It eliminates the need for version control

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Q2. Which command must be run first in a new Terraform project?
A) terraform plan
B) terraform fmt
C) terraform init
D) terraform apply

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Q3. What does a Terraform provider do?
A) It stores the Terraform state
B) It defines input variables
C) It connects Terraform to external APIs
D) It sets resource dependencies

Q4. What is wrong with this code snippet?

provider "aws" {
  region = us-east-1
}

A) The region name is invalid
B) The region is missing quotes
C) The provider block is not allowed here
D) Terraform does not support AWS

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Q5. Which step should run before terraform apply in a CI/CD pipeline?
A) terraform state show
B) terraform import
C) terraform plan
D) terraform destroy

Q6. What’s a main benefit of using Terraform in CI/CD?
A) It removes the need for any configuration files
B) It lets you manage infrastructure changes automatically
C) It installs providers automatically
D) It removes the need for state files

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Q7. What is stored in the Terraform state file?
A) Only outputs
B) Only variables
C) The full infrastructure’s current status
D) The Terraform binary