HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Professional 2025

Explore the Linux section covering file system structure, path handling, and file types; master permissions for users, groups, and others; and hands-on process management using common commands.

Explore the Linux file system structure, from root to boot, home, var and opt, and learn navigation along with essential commands like ls, cd, and grep.

Explore how Unix-like file permissions control access using owner, group, and others, with read, write, and execute bits and numeric representations like 7-5-4; learn chmod and chown to set permissions.

Learn the linux process life cycle from created to zombie, explore states like ready, kernel running, and user running, and master ps and kill commands to manage processes.

Explore essential AWS services for the Terraform professional exam, from regions and availability zones to IAM, S3, VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, and EC2 autoscaling, with hands-on account setup.

Discover how AWS serves as a scalable, flexible, and secure cloud platform, offering compute, storage, databases, networking, and machine learning across global regions and availability zones.

Create an AWS account and access the console, provide email and password, supply contact and billing details, verify identity, select the basic free tier, and review regions.

Discover how AWS identity and access management secures resources through identification, authentication, authorization, and JSON policies, covering users, roles, STS tokens, MFA, and temporary access.

Explore how AWS S3 provides scalable object storage with high durability and security, including bucket policies, encryption, and lifecycle features, and how it serves as storage for Terraform state files.

Explore AWS networking basics—VPC, subnets, security groups, and elastic network interfaces—and see how internet gateways and elastic IP shape traffic.

Explore AWS compute components like EC2, AMIs, EBS, and ENI, and see how security groups and IAM instance roles control access as we practice Terraform launch templates and Auto Scaling.

Install the AWS CLI on a Unix-like system using curl, configure IAM credentials, set a default region and json output, and use it with Terraform workflows.

Explore the concept of infrastructure as code and review Terraform to understand its benefits for accelerating and securing cloud resources.

Enable infrastructure management and provisioning with machine readable definition files, using Terraform to achieve scalable, consistent, and versioned deployments across environments.

Explore the fundamentals of Terraform and infrastructure as code, set up Terraform on Windows, Linux, or Mac, and practice the Terraform language, resources, functions, loops, and conditions.

Explore how Terraform uses providers to manage cloud and on premise resources as code, with AWS, state files, and the public registry plus the lock file.

Learn how to install Terraform on Linux using manual precompiled binaries or compile from scratch with Go, then verify the installation by checking the Terraform version.

Install Terraform on macOS using manual precompiled binaries, verify by checking version, and explore alternatives like Homebrew and compiling from source.

Install Terraform on Windows by downloading the precompiled binary, extracting it to a bin folder, updating the system Path via environment variables, and verifying it with PowerShell.

Master HCL syntax in Terraform by examining blocks, attributes, and expressions; learn variables, resources, data sources, and locals, with data types like string, number, boolean, list, map, set, and null.

Learn the Terraform workflow from init to destroy, initialize providers, plan changes, apply resources like an AWS IAM role, and verify the state file and outputs.

Explore Terraform built-in functions for numeric and string operations, and master loops and conditional expressions with count and for_each to build dynamic, reusable configurations.

Explore Terraform fundamentals with a hands-on AWS IAM role and IAM policies tutorial, covering provider versions, variables, auto tfvars, for_each loops, policy attachments, outputs, and plan and apply workflows.

Explore how Terraform workspaces create isolated environments with separate state files, enabling multiple environments (dev, prod, default) from one configuration via simple commands.

Store Terraform state and log files in remote AWS storage. Access state files and read values using multiple methods.

Migrate your Terraform state from local to a remote S3 backend with versioning. Enable DynamoDB locking, run init, and verify the remote state migration.

Master reading Terraform state from an S3 bucket using the official remote state data, explore an AWS S3 object data alternative, and implement outputs with init and apply.

Master advanced Terraform topics, including the random provider, import, move and remove actions, loops, validators, modular design, and AWS provider practice for exam-ready best practice.

Learn to use the HashiCorp random provider to generate a 12-digit random string and replace a dummy IAM policy id with a template function, via init, plan, and apply.

Master advanced Terraform workflows for import, move, and remove, manage state with plan files, and bring an AWS S3 bucket and its object into the Terraform state.

Explore advanced Terraform loops and conditions to automate AWS security group creation and ingress rules from JSON and CSV inputs, using foreach, dynamic blocks, and conditional attributes.

Explore Terraform validators and pre-post conditions while provisioning an AWS EC2 instance with a canonical Ubuntu AMI, a targeted subnet, security group rules, and HTTP checks.

Explore automating AWS network elements with Terraform tests, focusing on VPC subnets and network ACLs, dynamic filters, tagging, and validating VPC id with tf test blocks.

Learn how Terraform modules enable reusable, decoupled infrastructure in AWS by building a launch template and auto scaling group as a model, then calling and outputting its components.

Explore how to migrate existing resources into Terraform modules, with a hands-on walkthrough of moving IAM resources to a module folder, updating variables, and handling state and outputs.

Learn to configure multiple providers in Terraform, using aliases to target different AWS regions and accounts, and attach non-default providers to specific resources like an SSM parameter.

Explore authenticating to AWS from Terraform using default credentials, direct keys, and role assumption via a central provider; learn credentials, config files, and profiles.

Show how to use the Terraform AWS provider data sources to fetch session data, including caller identity, user IDs, ARN, and account ID, with outputs for default and central providers.

Review Terraform cloud and enterprise in contrast to the CLI version. Examine the major details, exam-style questions, key features, access, pricing, and support plans.

Discover how Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise centralize execution, secure remote state, and enable collaboration via VCS integrations, private registries, and auditing, logging, and governance features.

Explore the producer–consumer infrastructure model in terraform, with vault integrations, dynamic credentials, cross-cloud support, and Sentinel governance.

Learn how Terraform Cloud and Enterprise uses role-based access controls across users, teams, and organizations, and explore pricing models, concurrency, features, and support plans.

Review official HashiCorp learning path and exam requirements, including 1.6+ Terraform and the lab format. Use practical tutorials and hands-on tasks, then register via GitHub and study exam objectives.