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SCS-C02 · Question #197

A company wants to deny a specific federated user named Bob access to an Amazon S3 bucket named DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET. The company wants to meet this requirement by using a bucket policy. The company als

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Submitted by tunde_lagos· Mar 6, 2026Identity and Access Management - Implement and manage IAM policies, resource-based policies, and federated access controls to enforce least-privilege permissions

Question

A company wants to deny a specific federated user named Bob access to an Amazon S3 bucket named DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET. The company wants to meet this requirement by using a bucket policy. The company also needs to ensure that this bucket policy affects Bob's S3 permissions only. Any other permissions that Bob has must remain intact. Which policy should the company use to meet these requirements? A. B. C. D.

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  • A{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Principal": { "AWS": "arn:aws:sts::account-id:federated-user/Bob" }, "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "s3:*", "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET" } ] }
  • B{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Principal": { "AWS": "arn:aws:sts::account-id:federated-user/Bob" }, "Effect": "Deny", "Action": "s3:*", "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET" } ] }
  • C{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Principal": { "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::account-id:user/Bob" }, "Effect": "Deny", "Action": "s3:*", "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET" } ] }
  • D{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Principal": { "AWS": "arn:aws:sts::account-id:assumed-role/Bob" }, "Effect": "Deny", "Action": "s3:*", "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET" } ] }

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#S3 Bucket Policies#IAM Federated Users#AWS STS#Explicit Deny
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