AWS Solutions Architect Quiz 6 🎓 (IAM)

The AWS solutions architect certification shows that you can use AWS services to solve software engineering problems and understand core best practices of the industry. In this article, I will quiz you on one of the sections from the material required for the exam: IAM.

I will now briefly state some key facts about this AWS service, and then provide some example questions for the exam.

N.B: The following information on its own will not be enough to answer the questions.

IAM

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) service enables authorisation and authentication on AWS resources.

Authentication — are you who you claim to be?

Authorisation — are you allowed to do what you want to do?

IAM Service Diagram — Source*

It is also useful to know that:

The top level user is called a principal and is allowed to interact with AWS resources — Root user, IAM user, and Roles are principles.
A Root user is created when the AWS account is created and has console and programmatic access.
IAM users + groups — persistent identities that can be controlled through IAM. IAM user must have the rights to assume the role.
Roles — allow people or processes the ability to operate temporarily with a different identity. Assume a role by being granted a temporary security token.
A policy is a JSON document that defines one or more permissions to interact with AWS resources. Each permission includes: Effect, Action and Resource.
You can write your own policies or use one of the managed policies provided by AWS.
IAM enables rotation by allowing two active access keys.

Quiz 🎓

The quiz can also be accessed in full size here. These questions were sourced from multiple locations (mainly the certification sample test) over a long period of time.

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