HashiCorp (an IBM company)
Infrastructure-as-code and secrets-management certifications built around Terraform, Vault and Consul, with short online-proctored exams.
HashiCorp certifications are unusually accessible: the associate exams run for an hour, cost a fraction of most vendor exams and are delivered entirely online. The trade-off is precision — questions often hinge on exact command behaviour or a specific configuration block.
Terraform Associate is by far the most widely held of the set and has become a common baseline requirement for platform engineering roles.
Professional-tier exams take a different form entirely: they are hands-on lab exams that require you to complete real tasks against live infrastructure. Associate credentials are valid for two years.
Associate3
Role-based credentials for practitioners with hands-on experience.
Professional2
Advanced credentials covering design, scale and trade-off decisions.
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5 exams
2 with practice · 3 guide only
The standard infrastructure-as-code credential: Terraform workflow and state, modules and providers, variables and outputs, and how HCP Terraform changes team collaboration.
Secrets management with Vault: authentication methods and policies, static and dynamic secrets engines, encryption as a service, and the operational side of running Vault.
A hands-on lab exam for production Terraform: authoring reusable modules, testing and validating configurations, managing state operations, and running Terraform in a team.
A lab exam for running Vault in production: cluster deployment and high availability, replication and disaster recovery, auto-unseal, monitoring and upgrade operations.
Service networking with Consul: service discovery and health checking, the key-value store, service mesh with sidecar proxies, and securing communication between services.
How the HashiCorp ladder is structured, from entry point to the top tier.
Role-based credentials for practitioners with hands-on experience.
Advanced credentials covering design, scale and trade-off decisions.
HashiCorp exams with an available question bank. Each bank shows its source, licence and answer-support coverage.
Categories and topics that run through the HashiCorp catalog.
This directory currently lists 5 HashiCorp exams across 2 levels (Associate and Professional). HashiCorp adds and retires exams regularly, so treat this as a working map rather than a permanent one.
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) is the usual starting point — it is the most widely taken associate-level exam in the HashiCorp programme. The standard infrastructure-as-code credential: Terraform workflow and state, modules and providers, variables and outputs, and how HCP Terraform changes team collaboration.
The best-known active options in this directory include HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003), HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate (002) and HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional. Compare their levels, syllabus domains and role focus before choosing one.
Yes — 2 HashiCorp exams have 429 practice questions in total. 6 questions currently carry an explanation. Every bank is labelled with its source and licence; 2 community-contributed banks are available.
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