HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional - 340 Questions

1. A DevOps engineer runs `terraform init` on a new project and notices that provider plugins are not being downloaded. Which flag should be used with `terraform init` to force re-downloading all provider plugins?

2. A team wants to preview the changes Terraform will make before applying them, and they need the output saved to a file so it can be reviewed by another team member and applied later without re-running the plan. Which sequence of commands achieves this?

3. A DevOps engineer needs to apply changes to a specific resource without affecting other resources in the configuration. The engineer wants Terraform to only plan and apply changes to an AWS S3 bucket named `aws_s3_bucket.data`. Which flag should be used?

4. An infrastructure team discovers that a manually created AWS security group is not tracked in Terraform state. They want to bring this existing resource under Terraform management without destroying and recreating it. Which command should they use?

5. A Terraform configuration manages a database instance. A developer manually changed the database instance class directly in the cloud console. During the next `terraform plan`, Terraform detects this drift. What will Terraform propose to do by default?