AIF-C01 Practice Question: Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions
A data governance team wants to enforce fine-grained access control on data in an Amazon S3 data lake used by multiple business units for AI training. Which AWS service should they use to define and manage data permissions at the table and column level?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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AWS Lake Formation
AWS Lake Formation provides fine-grained access control for data lakes, allowing you to set permissions on tables and columns across AWS analytics and ML services.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Why it's wrong here
IAM can manage user permissions but does not offer table/column-level granularity for data lakes.
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AWS Lake Formation
Why this is correct
Lake Formation provides column-level and row-level security for data in S3 data lakes.
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AWS CloudTrail
Why it's wrong here
CloudTrail is an auditing service, not for access control.
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Amazon Macie
Why it's wrong here
Macie discovers sensitive data but does not enforce access controls.
Quick reference
AWS S3 Storage Class Comparison
| Storage Class | Min Duration | Retrieval | Use Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| S3 Standard | None | Immediate | Frequently accessed data |
| S3 Standard-IA | 30 days | Immediate | Infrequent access, rapid retrieval |
| S3 One Zone-IA | 30 days | Immediate | Non-critical infrequent data |
| S3 Intelligent-Tiering | None | Immediate–hours | Unknown or changing access patterns |
| S3 Glacier Instant | 90 days | Milliseconds | Archive with instant retrieval |
| S3 Glacier Flexible | 90 days | Minutes–hours | Archive, flexible retrieval |
| S3 Glacier Deep Archive | 180 days | Hours | Long-term compliance archive |
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