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HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Infrastructure Engineer Professional (002) practice exam and study path

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Terraform Infrastructure Engineer Professional exam pack:

$11.99for 12 months

For engineers who run Terraform in production: scalable configuration and modules, remote state and drift, upgrades across environments, CI/CD and dynamic credentials, secrets and policy as code, module contracts and tests, and HCP Terraform operations.

The exam

Exam code
002
Questions
Not yet published
Time
90 minutes
Passing score
Not published
Exam fee
$200 (USD)
Question types
multiple choice, multiple response

A 90-minute, online-proctored multiple-choice exam in English that tests Terraform 1.15, launched in October 2026. On November 7, 2026 the certification page offered registration and gave the price as $200 USD, plus locally applicable taxes and fees; a free retake is not included. The credential is valid for 2 years and is renewed by passing the exam again from 6 months before it expires, or by passing a Terraform Authoring and Operations Advanced exam. HashiCorp strongly recommends the Terraform Associate (or equivalent experience) and requires experience with Terraform in production. It publishes neither the number of questions nor a passing score; our forms hold 60 questions, a count of ours, and the seven objectives are weighted by their number of sub-objectives because HashiCorp publishes no weights.

From HashiCorp's certification page and exam guide, checked Nov 7, 2026.

Domains and weights

  • Domain 1: Scalable Terraform Configuration Design

    20%

  • Domain 2: Terraform State and Backend Operations

    13%

  • Domain 3: Infrastructure Lifecycle and Operations

    22%

  • Domain 4: CI/CD and Automation Workflows

    10%

  • Domain 5: Terraform Security and Governance

    13%

  • Domain 6: Advanced Module Usage and Registry Practices

    10%

  • Domain 7: HCP Terraform / Enterprise Operations

    12%

On our roadmap this comes after Terraform Associate. See every certification.

Practice

220 original practice questions, every option explained with the HashiCorp documentation page that proves it. Free, no sign-up; progress stays on this device.

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Terraform Infrastructure Engineer Professional exam pack

$11.99for 12 months

  • Every paid 002 practice exam, timed, with every option explained
  • The next version of this exam included when it changes within your 12 months
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  • 14-day refund, no conditions
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  • No pass guarantee. These are practice exams written by us from the exam guide and the HashiCorp documentation; a score here does not predict your result on the real exam.

Study path

One module per exam domain. Lessons that already exist on BytePatterns are linked; the rest are being written.

  1. Module 1: Scalable Terraform Configuration Design

    1. 1From requirements to code: typed inputs, maps of named things and module callsTask 1.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 2Predictable configuration: stable keys, file layout, providers outside modules, moved blocksTask 1.2

      Lesson coming

    3. 3Tracing values: variables, locals, conditionals, splats and module outputsTask 1.3

      Lesson coming

    4. 4for_each instances: keys, each.value and the addresses state printsTask 1.4

      Lesson coming

    5. 5Predicting function results: collections, strings, numbers, try and canTask 1.5

      Lesson coming

    6. 6Advanced configuration: for expressions, dynamic blocks, checks and lifecycleTask 1.6

      Lesson coming

    7. 7Providers at scale: requirements, aliases in modules and the lock fileTask 1.7

      Lesson coming

    8. 8AI coding agents with the Terraform MCP serverTask 1.8

      Lesson coming

  2. Module 2: Terraform State and Backend Operations

    1. 9Remote backends, partial configuration, migration and terraform_remote_stateTask 2.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 10Why state needs a lock: concurrent runs against one stateTask 2.1

      Partly covered by: Race Conditions

    3. 11Drift: refresh-only plans and deciding which side winsTask 2.2

      Lesson coming

    4. 12Dependency chains: the graph Terraform walks and the order it impliesTask 2.3

      Partly covered by: Topological Sort

    5. 13Cycles in the dependency graph and how to break themTask 2.3

      Partly covered by: Cycles in a Directed Graph

    6. 14Upgrading Terraform environment by environmentTask 2.4

      Lesson coming

    7. 15Reading state: state list, state show and terraform show -jsonTask 2.5

      Lesson coming

  3. Module 3: Infrastructure Lifecycle and Operations

    1. 16Splitting projects by blast radius, ownership and stateTask 3.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 17Plans as review artifacts: modes, targeting, exclusion and saved plansTask 3.2

      Lesson coming

    3. 18Applying safely: locks, partial failures and provisionersTask 3.3

      Partly covered by: Locks and Mutexes

    4. 19Importing existing infrastructure in wavesTask 3.4

      Partly covered by: Migration: The 7 Rs, TCO & Waves

    5. 20Lifecycle changes: replace, removed, moved and destroyTask 3.5

      Lesson coming

    6. 21Recovering from a bad change: state versions and backupsTask 3.5

      Partly covered by: Disaster Recovery: RPO & RTO

    7. 22Environments from shared code: root modules, backends and workspacesTask 3.6

      Lesson coming

    8. 23Troubleshooting runs: validate, logs, timeouts and state repairTask 3.7

      Partly covered by: Observability Basics

    9. 24Data between projects: outputs, remote state and data sourcesTask 3.8

      Lesson coming

    10. 25Provider and module versions: constraints, upgrades and the lock fileTask 3.9

      Lesson coming

  4. Module 4: CI/CD and Automation Workflows

    1. 26Terraform pipelines: plan on pull request, apply the saved planTask 4.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 27Rolling change through environments without downtimeTask 4.2

      Partly covered by: Scheduling & Rolling Updates

    3. 28Automation settings: environment variables, CLI configuration and stale locksTask 4.2

      Lesson coming

    4. 29Dynamic provider credentials for many teams, projects and workspacesTask 4.3

      Partly covered by: Shared Responsibility & IAM

    5. 30Which value wins: .tfvars, .auto.tfvars, -var and TF_VAR_Task 4.4

      Lesson coming

  5. Module 5: Terraform Security and Governance

    1. 31Secrets in Terraform: sensitive, ephemeral and write-only valuesTask 5.1

      Partly covered by: ConfigMaps, Secrets & Env

    2. 32Encrypting state and plan files with keys you holdTask 5.1

      Partly covered by: KMS, Envelope Encryption & Private CA

    3. 33Rotating secrets with write-only versions and ephemeral resourcesTask 5.2

      Lesson coming

    4. 34Least-privilege pipeline identities and tokensTask 5.3

      Partly covered by: Shared Responsibility & IAM

    5. 35Organization guardrails and team policies as codeTask 5.4

      Partly covered by: Organizations, SCPs & Control Tower

    6. 36Risky plans: replacements, destroys and the lifecycle rules that stop themTask 5.5

      Lesson coming

  6. Module 6: Advanced Module Usage and Registry Practices

    1. 37When a module earns its keep, and moving resources into oneTask 6.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 38The module contract: inputs, outputs, providers and breaking changesTask 6.2

      Lesson coming

    3. 39Registry modules: sources, versions and private registriesTask 6.3

      Lesson coming

    4. 40terraform test: run blocks, assertions, expected failures and mocksTask 6.4

      Lesson coming

  7. Module 7: HCP Terraform / Enterprise Operations

    1. 41Operating HCP Terraform: run workflows, health assessments and StacksTask 7.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 42Resource usage and cost estimationTask 7.2

      Partly covered by: AWS Cost Levers

    3. 43Environments as workspaces in projects with variable setsTask 7.3

      Lesson coming

    4. 44Upgrading Terraform versions across workspacesTask 7.4

      Lesson coming

    5. 45Policy as code in the run: policy sets, enforcement levels and overridesTask 7.5

      Lesson coming

Every task in the exam guide

The exam guide splits each domain into task statements. Each one has a page with a short summary, the lessons that teach it and open sample questions.

Domain 1: Scalable Terraform Configuration Design

Domain 2: Terraform State and Backend Operations

Domain 3: Infrastructure Lifecycle and Operations

Domain 4: CI/CD and Automation Workflows

Domain 5: Terraform Security and Governance

Domain 6: Advanced Module Usage and Registry Practices

Domain 7: HCP Terraform / Enterprise Operations

How these questions are made

  • Written by us from the exam guide's task statements and the HashiCorp documentation — never from real exam content.
  • Every option carries its own explanation and a link to the HashiCorp page that proves it.
  • A question enters a timed exam only after an independent check; until then it is a practice question.
  • Results are a plain percentage, per domain too — not an imitation of HashiCorp's scaled score.

Questions about the 002 practice exam

Is the 002 practice exam free?
Yes. The full practice exam (60 questions, 90 minutes) is free with no sign-up, and so are the 220 practice questions, the task pages and the study path. Your attempts are saved in this browser, on this device.
How many questions does it have, and is it timed?
60 questions in 90 minutes: the real 002 pace, scaled to this form. When the time runs out, the exam is submitted as it stands.
Are the answers explained?
After you submit, not during: like the real exam, the timed exam gives no feedback until the end. Then you get your score overall and per exam domain, and every question with each option explained and a link to the HashiCorp documentation page behind it. In practice mode an answer is explained as soon as you check it.
What does the Terraform Infrastructure Engineer Professional exam pack add?
3 more timed practice exams (Practice exam 1: 60 questions, 90 minutes; Practice exam 2: 60 questions, 90 minutes; Practice exam 3: 60 questions, 90 minutes), each scored and explained the same way, and the next version of this exam if it changes within your 12 months. 12 months of access. One payment, nothing renews by itself. Everything above stays free. See the pack.
Can I get a refund?
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Is this an official HashiCorp practice exam?
No. BytePatterns is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by HashiCorp. Every question is written by us from the public exam guide and the HashiCorp documentation, never from real exam content, and a score here does not predict your result on the real exam. HashiCorp lists its own preparation resources on its certification page.