HashiCorp
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Authoring and Operations Advanced
The exam is four hours of lab-based scenarios and multiple choice. This is where you practise the labs. Formerly Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional.
Formerly Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional. Same exam, renamed by HashiCorp.
- Exam domains
- 6
- Quiz
- 12 questions · 20 min
- Pass mark
- 70%
- Labs in
- 5 of 6 domains
What practice looks like
Measured, then practiced, then measured again
A mock exam that is free
12 questions against a 70% pass mark, timed at 20 minutes in exam mode, free. Every question carries an explanation on your results, and study mode explains each answer as you pick it with Premium.
How the tests workLabs you work, not watch
A terminal and a simulated AWS console in the browser. Your commands build resources, and exam mode grades the state you leave behind.
See the terminalA plan built from a diagnostic
PremiumA short reading across all 6 domains bands each one, and only the ones below the pass mark get work. The plan shrinks as domains close.
How the path worksCoverage
What the exam covers
These are the domains every mock exam and every plan is drawn against, weighted the way the exam weights them. What to practice for each one is in the exam guide.
- 1Manage resource lifecycle22%
- 2Develop & troubleshoot dynamic configuration24%
- 3Develop collaborative workflows16%
- 4Create, maintain, and use modules16%
- 5Configure and use providers12%
- 6Collaborate using HCP Terraform10%
Hands-on
The labs in this certification
Each one is a scenario with a task and a grader. Nothing is provisioned on your side and nothing costs you anything to run.
- medium
Provision and wire a two-module AWS network
FreeFix a broken networking module, store its state in S3, then deploy a web server in a second module that reads the network via remote state.
LinuxTerraformAWS CLIAWS console
More labs, one set per exam domain, come with Premium. The learning path sequences them; you do not need a path to open one.
Plans
What's free and what's Premium
| Feature | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Mock exams | included | included |
| Diagram questions | included | included |
| Sandbox | included | included |
| General labs in exam mode | included | included |
| Study mode with explanations | not included | included |
| Domain labs with practical mode | not included | included |
| Learning path with diagnostic | not included | included |
| AI feedback | not included | included |
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