Identity Access Management

Question 1

Users

Answer 1

End Users

Question 2

Groups

Answer 2

A collection of users under one set of permissions

Question 3

Roles

Answer 3

You create roles and can then assign them to AWS resources

Question 4

Policies

Answer 4

A document that defines one or more permissions

Question 5

Root account

Answer 5

Main account first created using my email. It has complete admin access

Question 6

By default, what permissions do new users have?

Answer 6

None

Question 7

IAM consists of:

Answer 7

users
groups
roles
policy documents

Question 8

what do new users get assigned where first created?

Answer 8

An access key id and a secret access key

Question 9

What use does the access key id and secret access key serve?

Answer 9

They can be used to access AWS via the API command line. They are not login credentials.

Question 10

What must you do if you lose your access key id and secret access key?

Answer 10

You have to regenerate them.

Question 11

What is good practice for the root account?

Answer 11

Multifactor authentication