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Final assessment · expert · ~90 min · pass ≥ 80%

Final Assessment: Terraform for Production Sysadmins

Objectives

  • Diagnose a deliberately flawed Terraform estate
  • Identify operational risks in the configuration
  • Propose remediations for each finding
  • Rank the findings by blast radius
  • State the validation procedure for each remediation

7 questions · last verified 2026-08-12

Auto-scored questions

The questions below are scored automatically. Combine them with the scenario rubric in the body of this page to assess your readiness.

Knowledge check · 3 questions

  1. Q1. Which of the following are deliberate flaws in the configuration? Select all that apply.

  2. Q2. Which of the following are deliberate flaws in the CI pipeline? Select all that apply.

  3. Q3. Rank the following flaws by blast radius (highest first).

Passing score: 75%. Answers are checked in this browser.

About this assessment

This is a scenario-based assessment. You are given a description of a production Terraform estate with deliberate flaws. You must diagnose the flaws, propose remediations, and rank the flaws by blast radius.

The assessment has seven questions:

  • Two multi-select questions (each with four options and four correct answers).
  • Five scenario questions (each with a scenario, expected evidence, expected remediation, and expected rollback).

Pass score: 80%. The questions are weighted by blast radius.

Scoring

  • Each multi-select question: 1 point per correct option, 0.5 points per incorrect option.
  • Each scenario question: 4 points for evidence, 4 points for remediation, 2 points for rollback.
  • Maximum: 16 + 50 = 66 points.
  • Pass: 80% = 53 points.

How to take the assessment

  1. Read the estate description.
  2. Identify each deliberate flaw.
  3. For each flaw, write the evidence, the operational risk, the remediation, and the validation procedure.
  4. Rank the flaws by blast radius.
  5. Answer the questions.

The assessment is open-book. The Terraform documentation is the authority. The course is the source of the patterns.

What you should be able to do

By the end of the assessment, you should be able to:

  • Identify the deliberate flaws in the configuration.
  • Understand the operational risk of each flaw.
  • Propose a remediation that addresses the root cause.
  • State the validation procedure for each remediation.
  • Rank the flaws by blast radius.
  • State the overall production-readiness of the estate.

The estate

The estate is described in the sections field above. It is a year-old production Terraform estate on AWS with four engineers. The state is in S3 with versioning and a DynamoDB lock table. The credentials are IAM roles.

The estate has been operating on trust. The team has not audited it before. You are asked to assess it for production-readiness.

The deliverables

The deliverables for this assessment are:

  1. A list of findings, ranked by blast radius.
  2. For each finding, the evidence, the operational risk, the remediation, and the validation procedure.
  3. A statement on the overall production-readiness of the estate.

Note: this is a reading exercise. The estate is described; you do not have access to the live environment.