DEA-C01 Data Security and Governance Practice Question
A data engineer needs to grant an IAM role read-only access to Amazon DynamoDB tables in a specific AWS account. Which IAM policy element should be used to restrict access to only the 'GetItem' and 'Query' actions?
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Action
The 'Action' element specifies the allowed API actions. 'Effect' is 'Allow' or 'Deny'. 'Resource' specifies the ARN. 'Condition' adds conditions. So Action is correct.
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Resource
Why it's wrong here
Resource specifies the ARN of the DynamoDB tables.
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Action
Why this is correct
Action specifies the API actions like GetItem and Query.
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Effect
Why it's wrong here
Effect defines Allow or Deny, not specific actions.
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Condition
Why it's wrong here
Condition adds conditions for policy evaluation.
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