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SCS-C02 · Question #289

A security engineer has created an Amazon Cognito user pool. The engineer needs to manually verify the ID and access token sent by the application for troubleshooting purposes. What is the MOST secure

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Submitted by javi_es· Mar 6, 2026Identity and Access Management

Question

A security engineer has created an Amazon Cognito user pool. The engineer needs to manually verify the ID and access token sent by the application for troubleshooting purposes. What is the MOST secure way to accomplish this?

Options

  • AExtract the subject (sub), audience (aud), and cognito:username from the ID token payload
  • BSearch for the public key with a key ID that matches the key ID In the header of the token.
  • CVerify that the token is not expired. Then use the token_use claim function In Amazon Cognito to
  • DCopy the JSON Web Token (JWT) as a JSON document Obtain the public JSON Web Key (JWK)

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#Amazon Cognito#JWT#Token Validation#Troubleshooting
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