How to get Terraform Associate Certification
2 min readAug 21, 2022
5 reasons why you need to know terraform and get certified !
- This is a credential that helps you to portray your understanding in Terraform and Infrastructure Automation.
- Though you are experienced in Iac using Terraform, the curriculum opens you to plethora of different features in terraform that might help you in your projects.
- It is easy to learn Terraform with zero programming language, at the same time one of the hot skills in market.
- You would learn infrastructure best practices, security best practices and architecture best practices along the way.
- Like any other certification, this boosts your confidence and shows your inquisitiveness to learn and grow.
How to get certified ?
For experienced users:
- Go through the documentations of Terraform — workflow , functions, workspaces, cli commands, use case scenarios and about cloud and enterprise terraform versions.
- Do some hands-on exercises as well.
- My Course recommendations are
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Practice Exam 2022
- Timeline: 10–15 days of preparation. This depends on your knowledge in Terraform .
For new users:
- Understand Terraform from Official documentation.
- Install terraform on your local machine and practice it, you may need to make use of your cloud account.
3. My course recommendations are :
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate 2022 — Zeal Vora
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Practice Exam 2022
4. Timeline : 2 hours for 30 days would help you to understand and code Terraform, also to get certified. Take the exam after you understand the terraform and how to write modules.
What is the exam format ?
All details are in this page, please visit if you are interested.
Was the exam difficult?
One a personal note, It was not a difficult exam for me. if you are aware of the concepts of Terraform and have some working experience in Iac.
Thanks for reading. Godspeed.
