Which infrastructure as code (IaC) approach defines the desired final state of the infrastructure?

Question

Options

• ADeclarative
• BImperative
• CInterrogative
• DExclamatory

• A
  75% (33)
• B
  9% (4)
• C
  14% (6)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

Declarative IaC (A) describes what the final infrastructure state should look like - you declare the desired end state and the tool figures out how to get there (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation). Imperative (B) is wrong because it defines how to build infrastructure step-by-step, specifying the sequence of commands to execute rather than the target state (e.g., Ansible playbooks, shell scripts). Interrogative (C) and Exclamatory (D) are not real IaC categories - they are grammatical sentence types included as distractors to test whether you know the actual terminology.

Memory tip: Think of the grammar analogy - declarative sentences state facts ("the server is running with 4 cores"), while imperative sentences give commands ("start the server, add 4 cores"). In IaC, declarative = state the desired fact, imperative = command every step.

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