AWS IAM Assessment Test

An AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) Assessment Test evaluates candidates for their proficiency in designing, configuring, and managing access controls and permissions for AWS resources using AWS IAM. IAM is a web service that helps securely control access to AWS services and resources for users, groups, and roles. This assessment typically covers the following aspects:

1. IAM Basics: Testing candidates' understanding of basic IAM concepts, including users, groups, roles, policies, permissions, authentication methods (e.g., username/password, AWS access keys, temporary security credentials), and authorization mechanisms.
2. User and Group Management: Evaluating candidates' ability to create, manage, and delete IAM users and groups, assign appropriate permissions and policies to users and groups based on job roles and responsibilities, and configure multi-factor authentication (MFA) for enhanced security.
3. Role-based Access Control (RBAC): Assessing candidates' skills in defining IAM roles with granular permissions for delegating access to AWS resources across accounts and services, assuming roles using AWS Security Token Service (STS), and implementing least privilege principles to minimize access permissions.
4. Policy Creation and Management: Testing candidates' knowledge of IAM policies, including JSON syntax, policy elements (e.g., effect, action, resource), policy variables (e.g., ${aws:username}, ${aws:userid}), and policy conditions (e.g., IP address, time-based conditions), and writing custom policies for fine-grained access control.
5. Access Control Lists (ACLs): Evaluating candidates' understanding of IAM access control lists (ACLs) for restricting access to specific AWS resources based on IP address, virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoint, or other conditions, and configuring ACLs for S3 buckets, Lambda functions, and other services.
6. Identity Federation: Assessing candidates' familiarity with IAM identity federation, including integration with external identity providers (IdPs) like Active Directory (AD), LDAP, SAML, and OpenID Connect (OIDC), configuring federation trust relationships, and enabling single sign-on (SSO) for federated users.
7. Cross-account Access: Testing candidates' ability to configure cross-account access using IAM roles for granting permissions to users from other AWS accounts or AWS services, setting up trust relationships between accounts, and establishing secure communication channels for cross-account access.
8. IAM Security Best Practices: Evaluating candidates' knowledge of IAM security best practices, including implementing strong password policies, enabling password rotation and expiration, enforcing IAM access analyzer recommendations, monitoring IAM activity using AWS CloudTrail, and detecting and mitigating IAM policy violations.
9. IAM Access Key Management: Assessing candidates' skills in managing IAM access keys for programmatic access to AWS services, rotating access keys regularly, configuring access key rotation policies, and revoking compromised or unused access keys to prevent unauthorized access.
10. IAM Access Advisor and Usage Reports: Testing candidates' familiarity with IAM Access Advisor for reviewing permissions granted to IAM entities, generating IAM usage reports for auditing and compliance purposes, identifying unused IAM roles and policies, and optimizing IAM configurations for cost efficiency.
11. IAM Governance and Compliance: Evaluating candidates' understanding of IAM governance frameworks, regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2), and industry standards (e.g., CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark), and implementing IAM controls for ensuring data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
12. IAM Automation and Integration: Testing candidates' ability to automate IAM tasks using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) API, AWS CLI, AWS SDKs (e.g., Python, Java), AWS CloudFormation templates, and AWS Organizations for centralized IAM policy management across multiple accounts.

Overall, our AWS IAM Assessment Test measures candidates' knowledge, practical skills, and hands-on experience in implementing identity and access management controls for AWS resources, providing valuable insights into their capabilities.