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My experience in passing HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) exam

Straight to the subject point:

It took me less than 2 months to prepare for the exam and I attended the exam on Nov 1, 2023. I passed with the score of 93%.
I thought I would share my exam preparation experience.

Firstly, I started reading this book "Terraform: Up and Running" by Brikman.
https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/terraform-up/9781492046899/

This book gave me a good understanding of IaC and Terraform workflow. I strongly recommend reading the first 5 chapters in the book for the exam. And don't forget to practise the Terraform coding whilst reading! I used AWS cloud to provision resources as mentioned in the book. (It doesn't matter which cloud provider you choose.)

HashiCorp has good documentation of the Terraform product and I used that as a reference too.

Once I got confidence with the basics, I started doing the practice tests that are available in Udemy and O'Reilly. I had 80% as a benchmark in passing these exams. The tests available in these sites come with detailed explanations for the answers.

That is it! Good luck with your exam preparation!!

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