ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
A company operates several AWS accounts joined by AWS Organizations. Security wants an automated identity-management lifecycle that ensures new hires receive least-privilege console access, and that entitlements are revoked immediately when employees leave, without creating long-lived IAM users in each account. Which approach best meets these requirements?
Integrate AWS IAM Identity Center with the corporate SAML identity provider, map directory groups to permission sets, and require users to assume roles in each account through federation.
Create IAM users in every account, add them to least-privilege IAM groups, and trigger a daily Lambda function to delete users listed as terminated.
Enable an Amazon Cognito user pool in each account, invite developers individually, and attach inline IAM policies to the generated identities.
Distribute the root credentials of each account to project managers, who rotate the passwords whenever staffing changes occur.
AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO) allows the organization to connect its existing SAML-compatible identity provider and map directory groups to permission sets that correspond to IAM roles in every member account. Users are provisioned and de-provisioned automatically through the corporate directory, so no per-account IAM users or manual cleanup is needed. Creating individual IAM users or Cognito identities still leaves long-lived credentials to manage and does not provide automatic, directory-driven de-provisioning. Sharing or rotating root credentials is contrary to security best practices and offers no role granularity or audit controls.
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