IAM Roles and Federation Quiz

5 questions Pass: 70% +25 pts (50 with Pro)

Quiz covering IAM and Access Management

What you'll be asked

  1. Which of the following is the primary benefit of using IAM Roles instead of long-term IAM User credentials?
  2. An application running on an EC2 instance needs to read objects from an S3 bucket. What is the most secure way to grant this permission?
  3. What is the purpose of Identity Federation in an enterprise environment?
  4. Your company uses SAML 2.0 for SSO. When a user authenticates via your corporate IdP to access the AWS Console, what is the process by which the user receives permission?
  5. A developer needs to access resources in both 'Account A' and 'Account B'. What is the most efficient and secure way to manage this access?

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