AIF-C01 Practice Question: Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI Solutions
A healthcare company uses Amazon SageMaker to train a model on patient data. To meet HIPAA compliance, they must ensure training data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Additionally, the training job should not have internet access. Which combination of actions should the company take?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Specify a KMS key for SageMaker's VolumeKmsKeyId and configure the training job to run in a VPC without a public internet route
Using KMS encryption keys and configuring the training job to run in a VPC without a public internet route satisfies both encryption and network isolation requirements.
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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Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to issue a certificate for the training job and enable network isolation
Why it's wrong here
ACM is for SSL/TLS certificates, not for encrypting training data at rest. Network isolation alone doesn't encrypt data.
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Enable SageMaker data capture and use a private VPC with an internet gateway
Why it's wrong here
Data capture is for inference logging, not encryption; an internet gateway would expose the training job to the internet, violating the no-internet requirement.
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Specify a KMS key for SageMaker's VolumeKmsKeyId and configure the training job to run in a VPC without a public internet route
Why this is correct
KMS encrypts the EBS volumes at rest; VPC without internet route ensures no internet access.
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Store training data in an encrypted S3 bucket and use a SageMaker notebook instance inside a VPC
Why it's wrong here
Encrypting S3 data is good but does not encrypt the SageMaker storage volumes. A notebook instance is not the same as a training job configuration.
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