AWS Certified Developer - Identity Access Management

IAM.txt

1. What is IAM?
  - IAM allows you to manage users and their level of access to the AWS Console.

2. What does IAM give you?
  - Centralized control of your AWS account
  - Shared Access to your AWS account
  - Granular Permissions
  - Identity Federation (including Active Directory, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc)
  - Multifactor Authenthication
  - Provides temporary access for the users/devices and services, as necessary
  - Allows you to set up your own password rotation policy
  - Integrates with many different AWS services
  
3. Critical Terms
  a. Users - End Users (people)
  b. Groups - A collection of users under one set of permissions
  c. Roles - You create roles and can assign them to AWS resources
  d. Policies - A document that defines on (or more) permissions
    
4. Do users have permissions when they are first created?
  - No. User do not have any permissions attached to them when they are first created. Permissions have to be given to them.
  
5. Are new users assigned the Acess Key ID and Secret Access Key when they are first created? 
  - Yes. These keys can be used to access AWS via APIs and Command Line Interface. They are not the same as the username and     password
  
6. Amazon's data warehousing service is called RedShift.
  - True
  
7. What does an AWS Region consist of?
  - An independent collection of AWS computing resources in a defined geography.
  
8. An AWS VPC is a component of which AWS service?
  - Networking Service
  
9. Fill in the Blanks: AWS ___________________ allows organizations to do complex analysis on large volumes of data.
  - Elastic Map Reduce
  
10. How many regions are there on the AWS platform currently?
  - 11
  
11. Which statement best describes Availability Zones?
  - Distinct locations from within an AWS region that are engineered to be isolated from failures.
  
12. There are more Regions than Edge Locations.
  - False
  
 13. Amazon's highly scaleable DNS service is called.
  - Route 53
  
  14. What service offers object based (file based) storage?
    - Simple Storage Service (S3)