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Interview round 1: core Terraform concepts. Most Terraform interviews start with the same core questions. Clear short answers build confidence. — Revision card 1 of 4: Interview round 1: core Terraform concepts · Download PNG · Open card page

Lesson: 43.1 Interview round 1 — core concepts

Interview round 2: scenarios. Senior rounds test judgement: what you check first, and what you never do. — Revision card 2 of 4: Interview round 2: scenarios · Download PNG · Open card page

Lesson: 43.2 Interview round 2 — scenarios

Capstone part 1: the brief and the repository. A capstone shows employers you can build a real project end to end, not only single commands. — Revision card 3 of 4: Capstone part 1: the brief and the repository · Download PNG · Open card page

Lesson: 43.3 Capstone part 1 — the brief and the repository layout

Capstone part 2: requirements, proof and destroy. Claims are weak without proof. Interviewers trust screenshots, outputs and reports. — Revision card 4 of 4: Capstone part 2: requirements, proof and destroy · Download PNG · Open card page

Lesson: 43.4 Capstone part 2 — requirements, proof and destroy

Interview cards

Explain Terraform in 30 seconds. Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code tool by HashiCorp. You describe cloud resources in HCL files; Terraform plans the changes, applies them through providers, and tracks what it built in a state file. — Interview card 1 of 4: Explain Terraform in 30 seconds. · Download PNG · Open card page

Lesson: 43.1 Interview round 1 — core concepts

Your plan says it will destroy and recreate the production database. What do you do? Stop. Do not apply. Find why: a renamed resource, a changed setting that forces replacement, or a moved block missing. The plan line “must be replaced” shows which attribute caused it. — Interview card 2 of 4: Your plan says it will destroy and recreate the production database. What do you do? · Download PNG · Open card page

Lesson: 43.2 Interview round 2 — scenarios

How would you structure a Terraform repo for a real project? Reusable modules/ (network, compute, database) and one root folder per environment in envs/ with its own backend and tfvars. Add a pipeline file and a README. — Interview card 3 of 4: How would you structure a Terraform repo for a real project? · Download PNG · Open card page

Lesson: 43.3 Capstone part 1 — the brief and the repository layout

How do you prove your Terraform project works in an interview? Show evidence: the plan and apply output, the working URL, a test that the database is private, a clean security scan, and the destroy output. — Interview card 4 of 4: How do you prove your Terraform project works in an interview? · Download PNG · Open card page

Lesson: 43.4 Capstone part 2 — requirements, proof and destroy

Comparison cards

Terraform vs AWS CloudFormation. Both are Infrastructure as Code tools.Terraform: by HashiCorp, works with many clouds and services.CloudFormation: AWS’s own service, AWS only. — Comparison card 1 of 3: Terraform vs AWS CloudFormation · Download PNG · Open card page

Lesson: Chapter 43: Terraform Interview Questions and Capstone Project

terraform plan vs plan -refresh-only. plan: shows changes needed to make the cloud match your code.plan -refresh-only: shows how the cloud differs from state, without proposing resource changes. — Comparison card 2 of 3: terraform plan vs plan -refresh-only · Download PNG · Open card page

Lesson: Chapter 43: Terraform Interview Questions and Capstone Project

Terraform vs OpenTofu. Terraform: HashiCorp’s tool, under the Business Source License since 2023.OpenTofu: an open-source fork of Terraform, run by the Linux Foundation. — Comparison card 3 of 3: Terraform vs OpenTofu · Download PNG · Open card page

Lesson: Chapter 43: Terraform Interview Questions and Capstone Project