Today, I officially passed the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) exam! 🚀 It wasn’t hard — It's one hour exam and I finished in about 40 minutes, reviewed a few flagged questions, and then confidently submitted. Now, while I'm parking the more advanced HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Authoring & Operations Professional with AWS (HCTOP-002-AWS) for the moment, my next mission is to tackle Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).After that, we’ll see whether I circle back to the Terraform Professional Level exam. 🔁 A Quick Rewind: The Journey If you’ve seen my last two blog posts about Terraform, you might have guessed it —👉 I actually booked the Terraform associate exam upfront, way before I even started the real preparation. I booked it on purpose to push myself — to create that real, no-turning-back deadline pressure.Since then, I've been squeezing in study time almost every day, balancing learning from Udemy courses, doing hands-on practice, and posting my Terraform learning journey right here on this blog. Lesson?Setting a real goal date works. It forces you to move! Terraform associate certification cost? It's $70.5 as of today. How long does terraform associate exam take? One hour. How many questions in terraform associate exam? Total 57 questions. What type of questions in Terraform associate exam? Good question! The Terraform associate exam includes: Multiple Choice (Single Answer) Multiple Choice (Multiple Answer) True/False Fill the blank You can find the sample questions at HashiCorp official site here. Is the Terraform Associate Certification worth it? In short: absolutely, yes — if you work with cloud infrastructure. Terraform has become…