IAM users and groups in AWS - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to create an IAM user named 'Alice'.

AWS

aws iam create-user --user-name [1]

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AAlice

BBob

CAdmin

DUser1

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a different user name than 'Alice'.

Leaving the user name blank.

The command creates an IAM user with the specified name. Here, 'Alice' is the correct user name.

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medium

Complete the code to add the user 'Alice' to the group named 'Developers'.

AWS

aws iam add-user-to-group --group-name [1] --user-name Alice

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AManagers

BAdmins

CUsers

DDevelopers

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a wrong group name.

Swapping user and group names.

This command adds the user 'Alice' to the group 'Developers'. The group name must match exactly.

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hard

Fix the error in the command to list all users in the group 'Admins'.

AWS

aws iam get-group --group-name [1]

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AUsers

BManagers

CAdmins

DDevelopers

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a wrong group name.

Using a command other than 'get-group'.

The command 'aws iam get-group' lists users in the specified group. The group name must be 'Admins' to list its users.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a group named 'Testers' and attach the policy 'AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess' to it.

AWS

aws iam create-group --group-name [1]
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name [2] --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess

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ATesters

BAdmins

CDevelopers

DUsers

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using different group names in the two commands.

Using a group name other than 'Testers'.

Both commands use the group name 'Testers' to create the group and attach the policy to it.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a user 'Bob', add him to the group 'Admins', and then delete the user.

AWS

aws iam create-user --user-name [1]
aws iam add-user-to-group --group-name [2] --user-name [3]
aws iam delete-user --user-name Bob

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AAlice

BAdmins

CBob

DDevelopers

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using different user names in create and add commands.

Using wrong group name.

Not matching the user name in delete command.

The user created is 'Bob', who is added to the 'Admins' group, and then the user 'Bob' is deleted.