AIF-C01 Practice Question: Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions
A company uses AWS Lake Formation to manage data lakes for analytics. They want to ensure that only authorized users can access specific columns in a table containing sensitive data used for ML training. Which Lake Formation feature should they use?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Column-level permissions
Lake Formation column-level permissions allow fine-grained access control to specific columns within a table.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Row-level security filters
Why it's wrong here
Row-level filters restrict rows, not columns.
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Cell-level security
Why it's wrong here
Cell-level is not a native Lake Formation feature; column-level is the appropriate granularity.
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S3 bucket policies
Why it's wrong here
S3 bucket policies control access to objects, not fine-grained columns within a table.
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Column-level permissions
Why this is correct
Lake Formation supports granting permissions on specific columns.
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