Terraform Associate questions with correct answers

Explain what IaC is. CORRECT ANSWER The codified and reusable configuration of your infrastructure. Its essentialy a blueprint that can versioned. What are the advantages of IaC? CORRECT ANSWER 1. Cost Reduction 2. Faster Execution 3. Remove risk of human error Explain Mutli-Cloud and Provider-Agnostic benefits. CORRECT ANSWER Explain the benefits of State. CORRECT ANSWER State is used to map a config to the real world. 1. MAPPING - One may use, for instance, AWS tags but this approach isn't supported by all providers. 2. METADATA - State is also used to track resource dependencies. Ensures things get destroyed in the correct order. 3. CACHING - State allows the caching of attribute variables—no need to query a provider for current state of resources (form plan) 4. SYNCHING - State allows teams to be working with the same state, so that operations will be applied to the same remote objects (AKA: "Remote State")