AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 616

Which AWS service can a company use to rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials?

Answer options

• A. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
• B. AWS Secrets Manager
• C. Amazon GuardDuty
• D. AWS Shield

Correct answer: B

Explanation

AWS Secrets Manager is specifically designed to help users protect, rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is used for managing SSL/TLS certificates, while Amazon GuardDuty provides threat detection and AWS Shield offers DDoS protection.