VA-002-P Exam Dumps - HashiCorp Security Automation Certification Questions and Answers

If supported by your backend, Terraform will lock your state for all operations that could write state. This prevents others from acquiring the lock and potentially corrupting your state.

State locking happens automatically on all operations that could write state. You won't see any message that it is happening. If state locking fails, Terraform will not continue. You can disable state locking for most commands with the -lock flag but it is not recommended.

Multiple provider blocks can exist if a Terraform configuration is composed of multiple providers, which is a common situation. To add multiple providers in your configuration, declare the providers, and create resources associated with those providers.

Terraform analyses any expressions within a resource block to find references to other objects and treats those references as implicit ordering requirements when creating, updating, or destroying resources.

https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/resources.html

The Terraform language includes a number of built-in functions that you can call from within expressions to transform and combine values. The Terraform language does not support user-defined functions, and only the functions built into the language are available for use.

Sentinel is an embedded policy-as-code framework integrated with the HashiCorp Enterprise products. It enables fine-grained, logic-based policy decisions, and can be extended to use information from external sources.

The vault operator init command initializes a Vault server. Initialization is the process by which Vault's storage backend is prepared to receive data.

This only happens once when the server is started against a new backend that has never been used with Vault before.

Reference link is below:- https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/commands/operator/init

The terraform plan command is used to create an execution plan. Terraform performs a refresh, unless explicitly disabled, and then determines what actions are necessary to achieve the desired state specified in the configuration files.

After a plan has been run, it can be executed by running a terraform apply

While there are a ton of features that are available to open source users, many features that are part of the Enterprise offering are geared towards larger teams and enterprise functionality.

Reference link:- https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/secrets/pki

Lists are defined with [ ], maps are defined with { }.

https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/types.html#structural-types