Module 7

Question 1

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Answer 1

Involves the application of controls to users who need access to computing resources.

Question 2

Role

Answer 2

An IAM identity that you can create in your account that has specific permissions.

Question 3

User

Answer 3

An entity that you create in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to represent the person or application that uses it to interact with AWS. A user in AWS consists of a name and credentials.

Question 4

Security group

Answer 4

A security group acts as a virtual firewall for your instance to control inbound and outbound traffic.

Question 5

Policy

Answer 5

An object in AWS that, when associated with an identity or a resource, defines its permissions. AWS evaluates these policies when a principal entity (user or role) makes a request.

Question 6

Amazon Inspector

Answer 6

Helps customers identify security vulnerabilities and deviations from security best practices in applications, before they are deployed and while they are running in a production environment.

Question 7

Group

Answer 7

An IAM group is a collection of IAM users. Groups let you specify permissions for multiple users, which can make it easier to manage the permissions for those users.

Question 8

Root user

Answer 8

When you first create an AWS account, you begin with a single sign-in identity that has complete access to all AWS services and resources in the account.

Question 9

Credential

Answer 9

AWS security credentials verify who you are and whether you have permission to access the resources that you are requesting.

Question 10

Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA)

Answer 10

This approach to authentication requires two or more independent pieces of information to be authenticated.

Question 11

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

Answer 11

A syntax for storing and exchanging data

Question 12

Multi-factor authentication (MFA)

Answer 12

A security system that requires more than one method of authentication from independent categories of credentials to verify the user’s identity for a login or other transaction.

Question 13

Multi-factor authentication (MFA)

Answer 13

A security system that requires more than one method of authentication from independent categories of credentials to verify the user’s identity for a login or other transaction.