Your security team scanned some Terraform workspaces and found secrets stored in plaintext in state...

Vendor: HashiCorp
Product: Terraform-Associate-003
Update on: Feb 7, 2026
Questions: 253

HashiCorp Terraform-Associate-003 Question Answer

Your security team scanned some Terraform workspaces and found secrets stored in plaintext in state files. How can you protect that data?

Edit your state file to scrub out the sensitive data

Always store your secrets in a secrets.tfvars file

Delete the state file every time you run Terraform

Store the state in an encrypted backend

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