A company wants a report that lists the status of multi-factor authentication (MFA) devices that all users in the company's AWS account use. Which AWS feature or service will meet this requirement?

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Options

• AAWS Cost and Usage Reports
• BIAM credential reports
• CDetailed Billing Reports
• DAWS Cost Explorer reports

• A
  2% (1)
• B
  90% (54)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  7% (4)

Explanation

IAM Credential Reports are purpose-built to provide a downloadable CSV report that lists all IAM users in an AWS account along with the status of their credentials, including whether MFA devices are enabled, assigned, and active - making it the perfect tool for auditing MFA adoption across an organization.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (AWS Cost and Usage Reports) and C (Detailed Billing Reports) are financial tools focused on tracking spending and resource usage - they have no visibility into user security configurations.
• D (AWS Cost Explorer) is a cost visualization and forecasting tool, also entirely unrelated to identity and access management settings.

Memory Tip: Think of IAM Credential Reports as a "security health check sheet" for all your users - whenever a question mentions auditing user credentials, passwords, access keys, or MFA status across an entire AWS account, IAM Credential Reports is almost always the answer. The word "credential" in the name is your clue that it deals with authentication details, not billing.

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