A Security Engineer Signed in to the AWS Management Console

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Multiple Choice

A Security Engineer signed in to the AWS Management Console as an IAM user and switched to the security role IAM role. To perform a maintenance operation, the Security Engineer needs to switch to the maintainer role IAM role, which lists the security role as a trusted entity. The Security Engineer attempts to switch to the maintainer role, but it fails. What is the likely cause of the failure?

• A) The security role and the maintainer role are not assigned to the IAM user that the Security Engineer used to sign in to the account.
• B) The Security Engineer should have logged in as the AWS account root user, which is allowed to assume any role directly.
• C) The maintainer role does not include the IAM user as a trusted entity.
• D) The security role does not include a statement in its policy to allow an sts:AssumeRole action.

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