TA-002-P Question #241: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

You wanted to destroy some of the dependent resources from real infrastructure. You choose to delete those resources from your configuration file and run terraform plan and then apply. Which of the following way your resources would be destroyed?

Options

• ATerraform can still determine the correct order for destruction from the state even when
• BThose would be destroyed in the order in which they were written in the configuration file
• CThe resource will be destructed in random order as you have already deleted them from
• DYou can not destroy resources by deleting them from configuration file and running plan

Explanation

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