Exam AWS Certified Developer Associate topic 1 question 409 discussion

Exam question from Amazon's AWS Certified Developer Associate

Question #: 409
Topic #: 1

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A developer manages an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database. An Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) container that uses AWS Fargate needs to modify the contents of the database during a nightly run.

Which combination of steps should the developer take to provide database access to the container in the MOST secure manner? (Choose two.)

A. Define a database secret in AWS Secrets Manager. Provide the credentials to the container by using the task definition.
B. Define a password in AWS CloudFormation. Pass the password into the environment variables of the container.
C. Enable IAM authentication for the database. Grant the appropriate permissions to the container.
D. Use an Amazon Cognito identity pool to authenticate the container. Use the provided response token to connect to the database.
E. Define an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key that encrypts the contents of the database. Grant permission to decrypt to the container.

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Suggested Answer: AC 🗳️

by KT_Yu at Jan. 20, 2023, 9:18 p.m.

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AWSdeveloper08

2 years, 1 month ago

Selected Answer: AC

Vote - AC makes sense since the question is only asked for secure access to database

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Smartiup

2 years, 6 months ago

Selected Answer: AC

The question asks for acess to the database so AC makes sense. E is not related to database access, you may not decrypt the content but still access the db.

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pengpeng

2 years, 6 months ago

CE. The question is askingg combination of steps. A and C are exclusive, C is more secure. B & D is wrong, so C E.

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tieyua

2 years, 6 months ago

Selected Answer: CE

Dare I make a wild guess of C/E here? C is given, B/D are obviously wrong. But when using IAM db authentication, there's nothing worthy of secrets manager. You have to get an authentication token lasting only 15 minutes, can't save it to task definition. aws rds generate-db-auth-token --hostname --username That leave us only E. It doesn't make much sense but it's the only thing remotely sounding like Make Postgre Great Again ... Hope some you guys still hanging around to discuss.

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