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TERRAFORM-ASSOCIATE-003 · Question #139
Your security team scanned some Terraform workspaces and found secrets stored in plaintext in state files. How can you protect that data?
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Implement and Maintain State
Question
Your security team scanned some Terraform workspaces and found secrets stored in plaintext in state files. How can you protect that data?
Options
- AEdit your state file to scrub out the sensitive data
- BAlways store your secrets in a secrets.tfvars file
- CDelete the state file every time you run Terraform
- DStore the state in an encrypted backend
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Topics
#encrypted backend#state security#sensitive data#secrets management