PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
An SAP administrator needs to grant an external auditor read-only access to view the configuration of all AWS resources in the account. Which IAM policy should be used?
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ReadOnlyAccess
AWS managed policy `ReadOnlyAccess` grants read-only access to all AWS services and resources.
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ReadOnlyAccess
Why this is correct
This provides read-only access to all AWS services, suitable for auditors.
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AdministratorAccess
Why it's wrong here
This grants full access, not read-only.
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PowerUserAccess
Why it's wrong here
This grants full access, except IAM management.
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ViewOnlyAccess
Why it's wrong here
This is not a standard AWS managed policy; the correct name is ReadOnlyAccess.
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