AIF-C01 Practice Question: Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions
A company uses Amazon SageMaker to train sensitive ML models. Which AWS service should they use to encrypt the training data and model artifacts at rest?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) allows customers to create and manage encryption keys used to encrypt data at rest in SageMaker, including training data and model artifacts.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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AWS Secrets Manager
Why it's wrong here
Secrets Manager stores secrets like database credentials, not encryption keys for data at rest.
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AWS CloudHSM
Why it's wrong here
CloudHSM provides hardware security modules but is not the standard service for SageMaker encryption; KMS is the primary key management service.
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AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
Why this is correct
KMS provides centralized control over encryption keys used to encrypt data at rest in SageMaker.
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AWS Certificate Manager
Why it's wrong here
ACM manages SSL/TLS certificates, not encryption keys for data at rest.
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