A company has been using an AWS managed IAM policy for granting permissions to users but needs to add some permissions.<br/><br/>How can this be achieved?
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✓ Correct answer: D. Create a custom IAM policy.AWS managed policies cannot be edited so if you need to add permissions to users that are not granted in the policy you must create your own custom IAM policy.<br/><br/><strong>CORRECT: </strong>"Create a custom IAM policy" is the correct answer.<br/><br/><strong>INCORRECT:</strong> "Edit the AWS managed policy" is incorrect. You cannot edit AWS managed policies.<br/><br/><strong>INCORRECT:</strong> "Create a Service Control Policy" is incorrect. SCPs are used in AWS Organizations to restrict available permissions. They do not grant permissions.<br/><br/><strong>INCORRECT:</strong> "Create a rule in AWS WAF" is incorrect. WAF is a web application firewall used for protecting resources from web-based attacks.
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