AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty — Question 157

A company using Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition has thousands of dashboards, analyses, and datasets. The company struggles to manage and assign permissions for granting users access to various items within QuickSight. The company wants to make it easier to implement sharing and permissions management.
Which solution should the company implement to simplify permissions management?

Answer options

• A. Use QuickSight folders to organize dashboards, analyses, and datasets. Assign individual users permissions to these folders.
• B. Use QuickSight folders to organize dashboards, analyses, and datasets. Assign group permissions by using these folders.
• C. Use AWS IAM resource-based policies to assign group permissions to QuickSight items.
• D. Use QuickSight user management APIs to provision group permissions based on dashboard naming conventions.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Option B is correct because using QuickSight folders to assign group permissions simplifies the management of access across multiple items, allowing for easier updates and organization. Option A is less efficient as it requires assigning permissions to individual users, which can be cumbersome. Options C and D, while valid approaches, do not directly leverage the organizational capabilities of QuickSight folders for more streamlined permissions management.