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HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
Crydd Score 63
Demand High
Career Value Strong
Recognition High
Terraform Associate at a glance
- Provider
- HashiCorp
- Credential type
- Professional Certification
- Exam required
- Yes
- Category
- DevOps & Platform
- Level
- Associate
- Cost
- $70.50 (no free retake)
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Time to earn
- 1–2 months
- Validity
- 2 years
- Format
- Online proctored multiple-choice exam (004), 1 hour
- Prerequisites
- None required; basic Terraform experience recommended
What is Terraform Associate?
HashiCorp's certification for Terraform, the leading infrastructure-as-code tool, now on exam 004: infrastructure-as-code concepts, the Terraform workflow and CLI, providers and modules, state management and HCP Terraform.
Skills it covers
- Infrastructure as code
- Terraform workflow
- State management
- Modules
Is Terraform Associate worth it? The Crydd Verdict
CS 63Choose it if
You provision cloud infrastructure, or want to, and your team uses Terraform.
Consider alternatives if
You want to prove advanced, hands-on Terraform skill: HashiCorp's Terraform Authoring and Operations Advanced certification. For cloud-specific depth, a provider's associate certification.
Why we say so
Terraform is standard across DevOps and cloud teams, and at $70.50 this is one of the best-value certifications in the field.
Market demand
Terraform appears in a large share of DevOps and cloud engineer postings; the certification is a common, inexpensive way to show it.
Where Terraform Associate takes you
- DevOps Engineer
- Cloud Engineer
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