Ready for Terraform Certification: My Final Exam Prep and 30-Day Reflection
Mary Mutua completed her 30-Day Terraform Challenge with a final day focused on exam preparation and reflection. She achieved a perfect score on her last practice exam and performed well on a fill-in-the-blank recall test, indicating readiness for the Terraform Associate certification. Over the 30 days, she developed a deeper understanding of infrastructure as code, emphasizing safety, repeatability, and collaboration.
- ▪Mary Mutua completed Practice Exam 5 with a score of 57 out of 57, achieving 100% accuracy in 45 minutes.
- ▪Her fill-in-the-blank review resulted in a 19 out of 20 score, with one error on the S3 backend encryption argument.
- ▪She identified minor topics for final review, including S3 backend encryption syntax and state command distinctions.
- ▪The 30-day challenge shifted her mindset from making infrastructure work to making it safe, repeatable, and understandable.
- ▪Mary built and tested various Terraform configurations over the month, focusing on core concepts like modules, state management, and HCP Terraform.
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