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Refer to the exhibit. A developer runs `terraform apply` and the operation succeeds. Later, they manually terminate the EC2 instance through the AWS console. What will happen when the developer runs `terraform apply` again?

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```hcl
resource "aws_instance" "web" {
  ami           = "ami-0c55b159cbfafe1f0"
  instance_type = "t2.micro"

  tags = {
    Name = "WebServer"
  }
}

resource "aws_eip" "ip" {
  instance = aws_instance.web.id
}
```

A
Terraform will recreate the EC2 instance and reassociate the Elastic IP
Terraform will detect drift, recreate the instance, and update the EIP association.
B
The Elastic IP will be disassociated and the instance will be recreated
Why wrong: The IP is still associated but the instance is missing; Terraform will first create the instance, then associate the IP.
C
Terraform will only recreate the EC2 instance without reassociating the Elastic IP
Why wrong: The EIP resource references the instance ID, so Terraform will reassociate it.
D
The apply will fail because the Elastic IP is still attached to the terminated instance
Why wrong: The Elastic IP becomes unattached when instance terminates; Terraform can handle it.

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Refer to the exhibit. A developer runs `terraform apply` and the operation succeeds. Later, they manually terminate the EC2 instance through the AWS console. What will happen when the developer runs `terraform apply` again?

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Refer to the exhibit. After applying this configuration, a team member manually changes the instance type to 't2.small' via the AWS console. The next `terraform plan` shows a change to revert to 't2.micro'. What does this demonstrate?

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Refer to the exhibit. An engineer runs 'terraform plan' and receives an error: 'Error refreshing state: state data in S3 does not have the expected content.' The state file exists and is not corrupted. What is the most likely cause?

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Refer to the exhibit. A developer runs terraform plan and receives this error. What should the developer do to resolve the error?

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A user receives the error shown in the exhibit when running `terraform init`. The user is behind a corporate proxy. Which environment variable should be set to resolve this issue?

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Refer to the exhibit. A developer runs terraform plan and sees "No changes". However, the developer knows that manual changes were made to the infrastructure outside Terraform. What is the most likely reason terraform plan does not detect the drift?

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Refer to the exhibit. The user runs 'terraform plan' and sees that Terraform wants to create the instance. However, the instance already exists in the AWS account with the same configuration. What is the most likely reason?

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Refer to the exhibit. A Terraform plan fails with the error shown. What is the most likely cause?

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Refer to the exhibit. A Terraform Cloud plan includes an EC2 instance of type 't2.medium'. The team uses Sentinel policies. Which action should they take to proceed?

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Refer to the exhibit. A team deploys this configuration. They run 'terraform apply' once and the instance is created. Later, they modify the instance type and run 'terraform apply' again. They notice the provisioner does not run on the second apply. Why?

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Refer to the exhibit. A user encounters this error while running 'terraform plan'. What is the best course of action?

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Refer to the exhibit. Which command was most likely executed?

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Refer to the exhibit. What will happen when terraform plan is run?

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Refer to the exhibit. What is the most likely cause of this error?

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Refer to the exhibit. What does this output indicate?

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