HashiCorp Terraform Associate Certification Course - Pass the Exam!
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Date: 2022-03-14
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David
I've got my certification today (07/March/2022) here are my opinions. I hope it helps others:
1) I used this video and practice exams from Udemy(hashicorp certified: Terraform associate practice exam 2022 (which sucked by the way)) as resources. Nothing more. I didn't skip parts of the video and I've paid attention. I studied for 7 days (01/Mar to 07/Mar).
2) The exam kicked my ass and I had several questions about topics that I had not seen either in this video or the practice exams.
3) I had several questions that required knowledge about the details.. (-what would happen if X was done after Y in the situation W- kind of questions). Although I also had a LOT of brain dead question (-what is the first command you run to initialize xxxx?- type of questions)
4) I distinctly remember being quietly pissed off during my exam by the sheer number of questions I've had not seen in either materials I've used to study.
5) I had about 2 -fill the blank by typing- questions, about 15 -true or false- and the rest were regular questions. I felt really unprepared for the -true or false- ones since they often asked about some obscure detail I had not been told about.
6)I've passed by the skin of my teeth with 72% - the lowest score I've ever had in a certification. I had enough time to go through the questions 2 times and really think about my answers. The ones I got wrong I absolutely had no knowledge about.
7) The 2 -fill the blank by typing- questions were -what flag do you use when using the command -Terraform XXX- to have Y behavior?-. Super simple stuff. It's just a gimmick. (I'll not get into details since I've agreed to not divulge the test)
8) It is amazing how many questions about -what is/are the benefit(s) of IaC?- They can come up with. There were at least 7 in my exam in different flavors. They are really keen on selling their solution and the answer is not super evident sometimes.
9) Hashicorp does not play around and I respect them a lot for that. All questions were pretty direct and there were no tricky questions. Either you know or you don't.
My conclusion:
This is a great(free!) course and it got me through my certification. I will not complain about it. I thank the creator and will send him a $$ contribution asap. But DO NOT believe the comments saying this is an easy certification that you can pass half asleep. In my opinion, It was as hard as my aws solutions architect associate (and I got a 92% on that one!)
Please read the documentation available on hashicorp's website ou use other courses to supplement this one.
Reading the comments here and on other sites I was sure this exam was going to be easy as hell.. it was NOT. Don't make the same mistake I did. ;)
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I've got my certification today (07/March/2022) here are my opinions. I hope it helps others:
1) I used this video and practice exams from Udemy(hashicorp certified: Terraform associate practice exam 2022 (which sucked by the way)) as resources. Nothing more. I didn't skip parts of the video and I've paid attention. I studied for 7 days (01/Mar to 07/Mar).
2) The exam kicked my ass and I had several questions about topics that I had not seen either in this video or the practice exams.
3) I had several questions that required knowledge about the details.. (-what would happen if X was done after Y in the situation W- kind of questions). Although I also had a LOT of brain dead question (-what is the first command you run to initialize xxxx?- type of questions)
4) I distinctly remember being quietly pissed off during my exam by the sheer number of questions I've had not seen in either materials I've used to study.
5) I had about 2 -fill the blank by typing- questions, about 15 -true or false- and the rest were regular questions. I felt really unprepared for the -true or false- ones since they often asked about some obscure detail I had not been told about.
6)I've passed by the skin of my teeth with 72% - the lowest score I've ever had in a certification. I had enough time to go through the questions 2 times and really think about my answers. The ones I got wrong I absolutely had no knowledge about.
7) The 2 -fill the blank by typing- questions were -what flag do you use when using the command -Terraform XXX- to have Y behavior?-. Super simple stuff. It's just a gimmick. (I'll not get into details since I've agreed to not divulge the test)
8) It is amazing how many questions about -what is/are the benefit(s) of IaC?- They can come up with. There were at least 7 in my exam in different flavors. They are really keen on selling their solution and the answer is not super evident sometimes.
9) Hashicorp does not play around and I respect them a lot for that. All questions were pretty direct and there were no tricky questions. Either you know or you don't.
My conclusion:
This is a great(free!) course and it got me through my certification. I will not complain about it. I thank the creator and will send him a $$ contribution asap. But DO NOT believe the comments saying this is an easy certification that you can pass half asleep. In my opinion, It was as hard as my aws solutions architect associate (and I got a 92% on that one!)
Please read the documentation available on hashicorp's website ou use other courses to supplement this one.
Reading the comments here and on other sites I was sure this exam was going to be easy as hell.. it was NOT. Don't make the same mistake I did. ;)
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Belal
3:24:30 - just a note on the azure compute module to create an Azure VM on windows. The module is looking for an ssh key in the default linux directory (-/.ssh/id_rsa.pub). If you aren't using the WSL like me, the module will complain that the ssh key file doesn't exist.
To get around this, you have to generate the ssh key in the windows command prompt using the -ssh-keygen- command and then copying the directory of the the generated key into the variables.tf file inside the module. The variable you need to edit is -ssh_key-.
Another thing to note is that you have to replace the backslashes (-\-) from the windows directory structure to forward slashes (-/-) as Terraform will complain about an escape sequence.
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3:24:30 - just a note on the azure compute module to create an Azure VM on windows. The module is looking for an ssh key in the default linux directory (-/.ssh/id_rsa.pub). If you aren't using the WSL like me, the module will complain that the ssh key file doesn't exist.
To get around this, you have to generate the ssh key in the windows command prompt using the -ssh-keygen- command and then copying the directory of the the generated key into the variables.tf file inside the module. The variable you need to edit is -ssh_key-.
Another thing to note is that you have to replace the backslashes (-\-) from the windows directory structure to forward slashes (-/-) as Terraform will complain about an escape sequence.
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Nicolas
1:55:00 ish
Recent problem I encountered: Invalid credentials for AWS authentication when you use Terraform Cloud.
1. You need to remove the profile -default- from your code which gives (assuming you've already fixed vpc azs line with correct infos): provider -aws- --
2. Add AWS_PROFILE -default- in your env variables in Cloud.
3. terraform plan/apply
Used 4.0.0 AWS provider version.
Took 3 hours to find out, if someone has the answer i'd be happy to read it.
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1:55:00 ish
Recent problem I encountered: Invalid credentials for AWS authentication when you use Terraform Cloud.
1. You need to remove the profile -default- from your code which gives (assuming you've already fixed vpc azs line with correct infos): provider -aws- --
2. Add AWS_PROFILE -default- in your env variables in Cloud.
3. terraform plan/apply
Used 4.0.0 AWS provider version.
Took 3 hours to find out, if someone has the answer i'd be happy to read it.
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Ash
Excellent Tutorial.. I am still at the start but something I noticed which I thought to highlight... you said 'Ansible' is not Idempotent but coming from an Ansible background I think it is... Ansible modules are idempotent. For example, if one of the tasks is to create a directory on the server, then the directory will be created if and only if it does not already exist..
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Excellent Tutorial.. I am still at the start but something I noticed which I thought to highlight... you said 'Ansible' is not Idempotent but coming from an Ansible background I think it is... Ansible modules are idempotent. For example, if one of the tasks is to create a directory on the server, then the directory will be created if and only if it does not already exist..
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Mark
I'm a couple of hours in and wanted to say I really enjoy your teaching style. Thank you for leaving all the little mistakes and hiccups in. It really helps to see how you use the documentation and solve problems. That shows the kind of real-world skills that will be necessary to actually use Terraform in a production environment.
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I'm a couple of hours in and wanted to say I really enjoy your teaching style. Thank you for leaving all the little mistakes and hiccups in. It really helps to see how you use the documentation and solve problems. That shows the kind of real-world skills that will be necessary to actually use Terraform in a production environment.
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uzair
I have used this Course to prepare for the certification and passed the exam on 7th Jan 2022. The Content is completely aligned with the exam objectives. Thanks Andrew for providing such a course . it is of a great help for the people who are planing to give this cert exam.
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I have used this Course to prepare for the certification and passed the exam on 7th Jan 2022. The Content is completely aligned with the exam objectives. Thanks Andrew for providing such a course . it is of a great help for the people who are planing to give this cert exam.
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Jayaraj
very good course as the instructor is looking up documentation (Which most of us will eventually end up in doing ) rather than throwing everything on to the screen from memory. This feels more engaging and practical.
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very good course as the instructor is looking up documentation (Which most of us will eventually end up in doing ) rather than throwing everything on to the screen from memory. This feels more engaging and practical.
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Twitch
Just a heads up, i watched this over 2 days (skipped most of the hands on), and I took the cert today and passed with a 93%. Everything on the test was in this video. I've used terraform maybe once before.
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Just a heads up, i watched this over 2 days (skipped most of the hands on), and I took the cert today and passed with a 93%. Everything on the test was in this video. I've used terraform maybe once before.
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Haydn
Great course, but man, slow down a touch! Sometimes things can get a little unclear because of the breakneck pace and a lot of the typo's / mistakes that get made throughout the course can be avoided!
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Great course, but man, slow down a touch! Sometimes things can get a little unclear because of the breakneck pace and a lot of the typo's / mistakes that get made throughout the course can be avoided!
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TertiaryAdjunct
- 4:22:25 he calls submodules with .//submodules - using 2 slashes // - why? i have never seen a module called with 2 slashes. linux treats it as one slash anyway, so WHY force 2 slashes
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- 4:22:25 he calls submodules with .//submodules - using 2 slashes // - why? i have never seen a module called with 2 slashes. linux treats it as one slash anyway, so WHY force 2 slashes
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