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

Vendor: HashiCorp
Product: Terraform-Associate-004
Update on: Mar 24, 2026
Questions: 318

HashiCorp Terraform-Associate-004 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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