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SOA-C02 · Question #102

A company requires that all IAM user accounts that have not been used for 90 days or more must have their access keys and passwords immediately disabled. A SysOps administrator must automate the…

The correct answer is D. Set up an AWS Config managed rule to identify IAM users that have not been active for 90 days. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/iam-user-unused-credentials-

Submitted by tom_us· Mar 30, 2026Security and Compliance

Question

A company requires that all IAM user accounts that have not been used for 90 days or more must have their access keys and passwords immediately disabled. A SysOps administrator must automate the process of disabling unused keys using the MOST operationally efficient method. How should the SysOps administrator implement this solution?

Options

  • ACreate an AWS Step Functions workflow to identify IAM users that have not been active for 90
  • BConfigure an AWS Config rule to identify IAM users that have not been active for 90 days.
  • CDevelop and run a Python script on an Amazon EC2 instance to programmatically identify IAM
  • DSet up an AWS Config managed rule to identify IAM users that have not been active for 90 days.

How the community answered

(38 responses)
  • A
    8% (3)
  • B
    5% (2)
  • C
    16% (6)
  • D
    71% (27)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/iam-user-unused-credentials-

Topics

#AWS Config managed rules#IAM credential lifecycle#access key management#automated remediation

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