AWS Certified Security Specialty SCS-C01 Exam Questions Part 1

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  1. The Security team believes that a former employee may have gained unauthorized access to AWS resources sometime in the past 3 months by using an identified access key. What approach would enable the Security team to find out what the former employee may have done within AWS?

    A. Use the AWS CloudTrail console to search for user activity.
    B. Use the Amazon CloudWatch Logs console to filter CloudTrail data by user.
    C. Use AWS Config to see what actions were taken by the user.
    D. Use Amazon Athena to query CloudTrail logs stored in Amazon S3.
    

Answer: A

  1. The Security Engineer implemented a new vault lock policy for 10TB of data and called initiatevault-lock 12 hours ago. The Audit team identified a typo that is allowing incorrect access to the vault. What is the MOST cost-effective way to correct this?

    A. Call the abort-vault-lock operation, fix the typo, and call the initiate-vault-lock again.
    B. Copy the vault data to Amazon S3, delete the vault, and create a new vault with the data.
    C. Update the policy, keeping the vault lock in place.
    D. Update the policy and call initiate-vault-lock again to apply the new policy.
    

Answer: A

  1. A company wants to control access to its AWS resources by using identities and groups that are defined in its existing Microsoft Active Directory. What must the company create in its AWS account to map permissions for AWS services to Active Directory user attributes?

    A. AWS IAM groups
    B. AWS IAM users
    C. AWS IAM roles
    D. AWS IAM access keys
    

Answer: C

  1. A company has contracted with a third party to audit several AWS accounts. To enable the audit, cross-account IAM roles have been created in each account targeted for audit. The Auditor is having trouble accessing some of the accounts. Which of the following may be causing this problem? (Choose three.)

    A. The external ID used by the Auditor is missing or incorrect.
    B. The Auditor is using the incorrect password.
    C. The Auditor has not been granted sts:AssumeRole for the role in the destination account.
    D. The Amazon EC2 role used by the Auditor must be set to the destination account role.
    E. The secret key used by the Auditor is missing or incorrect.
    F. The role ARN used by the Auditor is missing or incorrect.
    

Answer: A C F

  1. Compliance requirements state that all communications between company on-premises hosts and EC2 instances be encrypted in transit. Hosts use custom proprietary protocols for their communication, and EC2 instances need to be fronted by a load balancer for increased availability. Which of the following solutions will meet these requirements?

    A. Offload SSL termination onto an SSL listener on a Classic Load Balancer, and use a TCP connection between the load balancer and the EC2 instances.
    B. Route all traffic through a TCP listener on a Classic Load Balancer, and terminate the TLS connection on the EC2 instances.
    C. Create an HTTPS listener using an Application Load Balancer, and route all of the communication through that load balancer.
    D. Offload SSL termination onto an SSL listener using an Application Load Balancer, and re-spawn and SSL connection between the load balancer and the EC2 instances.
    

Answer: B

  1. An application is currently secured using network access control lists and security groups. Web servers are located in public subnets behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB); application servers are located in private subnets. How can edge security be enhanced to safeguard the Amazon EC2 instances against attack? (Choose two.)

    A. Configure the application’s EC2 instances to use NAT gateways for all inbound traffic.
    B. Move the web servers to private subnets without public IP addresses.
    C. Configure AWS WAF to provide DDoS attack protection for the ALB.
    D. Require all inbound network traffic to route through a bastion host in the private subnet.
    E. Require all inbound and outbound network traffic to route through an AWS Direct Connect connection.
    

Answer: B C

  1. A Security Administrator is restricting the capabilities of company root user accounts. The company uses AWS Organizations and has enabled it for all feature sets, including consolidated billing. The top-level account is used for billing and administrative purposes, not for operational AWS resource purposes. How can the Administrator restrict usage of member root user accounts across the organization?

    A. Disable the use of the root user account at the organizational root. Enable multi-factor authentication of the root user account for each organizational member account.
    B. Configure IAM user policies to restrict root account capabilities for each Organizations member account.
    C. Create an organizational unit (OU) in Organizations with a service control policy that controls usage of the root user. Add all operational accounts to the new OU.
    D. Configure AWS CloudTrail to integrate with Amazon CloudWatch Logs and then create a metric filter for RootAccountUsage.
    

Answer: C

  1. A Systems Engineer has been tasked with configuring outbound mail through Simple Email Service (SES) and requires compliance with current TLS standards. The mail application should be configured to connect to which of the following endpoints and corresponding ports?

    A. email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com over port 8080
    B. email-pop3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com over port 995
    C. email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com over port 587
    D. email-imap.us-east-1.amazonaws.com over port 993
    

Answer: C

  1. A threat assessment has identified a risk whereby an internal employee could exfiltrate sensitive data from production host running inside AWS (Account 1). The threat was documented as follows:

Threat description: A malicious actor could upload sensitive data from Server X by configuring credentials for an AWS account (Account 2) they control and uploading data to an Amazon S3 bucket within their control. Server X has outbound internet access configured via a proxy server. Legitimate access to S3 is required so that the application can upload encrypted files to an S3 bucket. Server X is currently using an IAM instance role. The proxy server is not able to inspect any of the server communication due to TLS encryption. Which of the following options will mitigate the threat? (Choose two.)

    A. Bypass the proxy and use an S3 VPC endpoint with a policy that whitelists only certain S3 buckets within Account 1.
    B. Block outbound access to public S3 endpoints on the proxy server.
    C. Configure Network ACLs on Server X to deny access to S3 endpoints.
    D. Modify the S3 bucket policy for the legitimate bucket to allow access only from the public IP addresses associated with the application server.
    E. Remove the IAM instance role from the application server and save API access keys in a trusted and encrypted application config file.

Answer: A D

  1. A company will store sensitive documents in three Amazon S3 buckets based on a data classification scheme of “Sensitive,” “Confidential,” and “Restricted.” The security solution must meet all of the following requirements: Each object must be encrypted using a unique key. Items that are stored in the “Restricted” bucket require two-factor authentication for decryption. AWS KMS must automatically rotate encryption keys annually. Which of the following meets these requirements?

    A. Create a Customer Master Key (CMK) for each data classification type, and enable the rotation of it annually. For the “Restricted” CMK, define the MFA policy within the key policy. Use S3 SSE-KMS to encrypt the objects.
    B. Create a CMK grant for each data classification type with EnableKeyRotation and MultiFactorAuthPresent set to true. S3 can then use the grants to encrypt each object with a unique CMK.
    C. Create a CMK for each data classification type, and within the CMK policy, enable rotation of it annually, and define the MFA policy. S3 can then create DEK grants to uniquely encrypt each object within the S3 bucket.
    D. Create a CMK with unique imported key material for each data classification type, and rotate them annually. For the “Restricted” key material, define the MFA policy in the key policy. Use S3 SSE-KMS to encrypt the objects
    

Answer: A

  1. An organization wants to deploy a three-tier web application whereby the application servers run on Amazon EC2 instances. These EC2 instances need access to credentials that they will use to authenticate their SQL connections to an Amazon RDS DB instance. Also, AWS Lambda functions must issue queries to the RDS database by using the same database credentials. The credentials must be stored so that the EC2 instances and the Lambda functions can access them. No other access is allowed. The access logs must record when the credentials were accessed and by whom. What should the Security Engineer do to meet these requirements?

    A. Store the database credentials in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). Create an IAM role with access to AWS KMS by using the EC2 and Lambda service principals in the role trust policy. Add the role to an EC2 instance profile. Attach the instance profile to the EC2 instances. Set up Lambda to use the new role for execution.
    B. Store the database credentials in AWS KMS. Create an IAM role with access to KMS by using the EC2 and Lambda service principals in the role trust policy. Add the role to an EC2 instance profile. Attach the instance profile to the EC2 instances and the Lambda function.
    C. Store the database credentials in AWS Secrets Manager. Create an IAM role with access to Secrets Manager by using the EC2 and Lambda service principals in the role trust policy. Add the role to an EC2 instance profile. Attach the instance profile to the EC2 instances and the Lambda function.
    D. Store the database credentials in AWS Secrets Manager. Create an IAM role with access to Secrets Manager by using the EC2 and Lambda service principals in the role trust policy. Add the role to an EC2 instance profile. Attach the instance profile to the EC2 instances. Set up Lambda to use the new role for execution.
    

Answer: D

  1. A company has a customer master key (CMK) with imported key materials. Company policy requires that all encryption keys must be rotated every year. What can be done to implement the above policy?

    A. Enable automatic key rotation annually for the CMK.
    B. Use AWS Command Line Interface to create an AWS Lambda function to rotate the existing CMK annually.
    C. Import new key material to the existing CMK and manually rotate the CMK.
    D. Create a new CMK, import new key material to it, and point the key alias to the new CMK.
    

    Answer: D

  2. A water utility company uses a number of Amazon EC2 instances to manage updates to a fleet of 2,000 Internet of Things (IoT) field devices that monitor water quality. These devices each have unique access credentials. An operational safety policy requires that access to specific credentials is independently auditable. What is the MOST cost-effective way to manage the storage of credentials?

    A. Use AWS Systems Manager to store the credentials as Secure Strings Parameters. Secure by using an AWS KMS key.
    B. Use AWS Key Management System to store a master key, which is used to encrypt the credentials. The encrypted credentials are stored in an Amazon RDS instance.
    C. Use AWS Secrets Manager to store the credentials.
    D. Store the credentials in a JSON file on Amazon S3 with server-side encryption.
    

Answer: A

  1. An organization is using Amazon CloudWatch Logs with agents deployed on its Linux Amazon EC2 instances. The agent configuration files have been checked and the application log files to be pushed are configured correctly. A review has identified that logging from specific instances is missing. Which steps should be taken to troubleshoot the issue? (Choose two.)

    A. Use an EC2 run command to confirm that the “awslogs” service is running on all instances.
    B. Verify that the permissions used by the agent allow creation of log groups/streams and to put log events.
    C. Check whether any application log entries were rejected because of invalid time stamps by reviewing /var/cwlogs/rejects.log.
    D. Check that the trust relationship grants the service “cwlogs.amazonaws.com” permission to write objects to the Amazon S3 staging bucket.
    E. Verify that the time zone on the application servers is in UTC.
    

Answer: A B

  1. A Security Engineer must design a solution that enables the Incident Response team to audit for changes to a user’s IAM permissions in the case of a security incident. How can this be accomplished?

    A. Use AWS Config to review the IAM policy assigned to users before and after the incident.
    B. Run the GenerateCredentialReport via the AWS CLI, and copy the output to Amazon S3 daily for auditing purposes.
    C. Copy AWS CloudFormation templates to S3, and audit for changes from the template.
    D. Use Amazon EC2 Systems Manager to deploy images, and review AWS CloudTrail logs for changes.
    

Answer: A

  1. A company has complex connectivity rules governing ingress, egress, and communications between Amazon EC2 instances. The rules are so complex that they cannot be implemented within the limits of the maximum number of security groups and network access control lists (network ACLs). What mechanism will allow the company to implement all required network rules without incurring additional cost?

    A. Configure AWS WAF rules to implement the required rules.
    B. Use the operating system built-in, host-based firewall to implement the required rules.
    C. Use a NAT gateway to control ingress and egress according to the requirements.
    D. Launch an EC2-based firewall product from the AWS Marketplace, and implement the required rules in that product.
    

Answer: B

  1. A security alert has been raised for an Amazon EC2 instance in a customer account that is exhibiting strange behavior. The Security Engineer must first isolate the EC2 instance and then use tools for further investigation. What should the Security Engineer use to isolate and research this event? (Choose three.)

    A. AWS CloudTrail
    B. Amazon Athena
    C. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
    D. VPC Flow Logs
    E. AWS Firewall Manager
    F. Security groups
    

Answer: A D F

  1. A Security Administrator has a website hosted in Amazon S3. The Administrator has been given the following requirements: Users may access the website by using an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Users may not access the website directly by using an Amazon S3 URL. Which configurations will support these requirements? (Choose two.)

    A. Associate an origin access identity with the CloudFront distribution.
    B. Implement a “Principal”: “cloudfront.amazonaws.com” condition in the S3 bucket policy.
    C. Modify the S3 bucket permissions so that only the origin access identity can access the bucket contents.
    D. Implement security groups so that the S3 bucket can be accessed only by using the intended CloudFront distribution.
    E. Configure the S3 bucket policy so that it is accessible only through VPC endpoints, and place the CloudFront distribution into the specified VPC.
    

Answer: A C

  1. A distributed web application is installed across several EC2 instances in public subnets residing in two Availability Zones. Apache logs show several intermittent brute-force attacks from hundreds of IP addresses at the layer 7 level over the past six months. What would be the BEST way to reduce the potential impact of these attacks in the future?

    A. Use custom route tables to prevent malicious traffic from routing to the instances.
    B. Update security groups to deny traffic from the originating source IP addresses.
    C. Use network ACLs.
    D. Install intrusion prevention software (IPS) on each instance.
    

Answer: D

  1. A company requires that IP packet data be inspected for invalid or malicious content. Which of the following approaches achieve this requirement? (Choose two.)

    A. Configure a proxy solution on Amazon EC2 and route all outbound VPC traffic through it. Perform inspection within proxy software on the EC2 instance.
    B. Configure the host-based agent on each EC2 instance within the VPC. Perform inspection within the host-based agent.
    C. Enable VPC Flow Logs for all subnets in the VPC. Perform inspection from the Flow Log data within Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
    D. Configure Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) access logs. Perform inspection from the log data within the ELB access log files.
    E. Configure the CloudWatch Logs agent on each EC2 instance within the VPC. Perform inspection from the log data within CloudWatch Logs.
    

Answer: A B

  1. An organization has a system in AWS that allows a large number of remote workers to submit data files. File sizes vary from a few kilobytes to several megabytes. A recent audit highlighted a concern that data files are not encrypted while in transit over untrusted networks. Which solution would remediate the audit finding while minimizing the effort required?

    A. Upload an SSL certificate to IAM, and configure Amazon CloudFront with the passphrase for the private key.
    B. Call KMS.Encrypt() in the client, passing in the data file contents, and call KMS.Decrypt() serverside.
    C. Use AWS Certificate Manager to provision a certificate on an Elastic Load Balancing in front of the web service’s servers.
    D. Create a new VPC with an Amazon VPC VPN endpoint, and update the web service’s DNS record.
    

Answer: C

  1. Which option for the use of the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) supports key management best practices that focus on minimizing the potential scope of data exposed by a possible future key compromise?

    A. Use KMS automatic key rotation to replace the master key, and use this new master key for future encryption operations without re-encrypting previously encrypted data.
    B. Generate a new Customer Master Key (CMK), re-encrypt all existing data with the new CMK, and use it for all future encryption operations.
    C. Change the CMK alias every 90 days, and update key-calling applications with the new key alias.
    D. Change the CMK permissions to ensure that individuals who can provision keys are not the same individuals who can use the keys.
    

Answer: A

  1. Which of the following minimizes the potential attack surface for applications?

    A. Use security groups to provide stateful firewalls for Amazon EC2 instances at the hypervisor level.
    B. Use network ACLs to provide stateful firewalls at the VPC level to prevent access to any specific AWS resource.
    C. Use AWS Direct Connect for secure trusted connections between EC2 instances within private subnets.
    D. Design network security in a single layer within the perimeter network (also known as DMZ, demilitarized zone, and screened subnet) to facilitate quicker responses to threats.
    

Answer: A

  1. A company’s database developer has just migrated an Amazon RDS database credential to be stored and managed by AWS Secrets Manager. The developer has also enabled rotation of the credential within the Secrets Manager console and set the rotation to change every 30 days. After a short period of time, a number of existing applications have failed with authentication errors. What is the MOST likely cause of the authentication errors?

    A. Migrating the credential to RDS requires that all access come through requests to the Secrets Manager.
    B. Enabling rotation in Secrets Manager causes the secret to rotate immediately, and the applications are using the earlier credential.
    C. The Secrets Manager IAM policy does not allow access to the RDS database.
    D. The Secrets Manager IAM policy does not allow access for the applications.
    

Answer: B

  1. A Security Engineer launches two Amazon EC2 instances in the same Amazon VPC but in separate Availability Zones. Each instance has a public IP address and is able to connect to external hosts on the internet. The two instances are able to communicate with each other by using their private IP addresses, but they are not able to communicate with each other when using their public IP addresses. Which action should the Security Engineer take to allow communication over the public IP addresses?

    A. Associate the instances to the same security groups.
    B. Add 0.0.0.0/0 to the egress rules of the instance security groups.
    C. Add the instance IDs to the ingress rules of the instance security groups.
    D. Add the public IP addresses to the ingress rules of the instance security groups.
    

Answer: D

  1. The Security Engineer is managing a web application that processes highly sensitive personal information. The application runs on Amazon EC2. The application has strict compliance requirements, which instruct that all incoming traffic to the application is protected from common web exploits and that all outgoing traffic from the EC2 instances is restricted to specific whitelisted URLs. Which architecture should the Security Engineer use to meet these requirements?

    A. Use AWS Shield to scan inbound traffic for web exploits. Use VPC Flow Logs and AWS Lambda to restrict egress traffic to specific whitelisted URLs.
    B. Use AWS Shield to scan inbound traffic for web exploits. Use a third-party AWS Marketplace solution to restrict egress traffic to specific whitelisted URLs.
    C. Use AWS WAF to scan inbound traffic for web exploits. Use VPC Flow Logs and AWS Lambda to restrict egress traffic to specific whitelisted URLs.
    D. Use AWS WAF to scan inbound traffic for web exploits. Use a third-party AWS Marketplace solution to restrict egress traffic to specific whitelisted URLs.
    

Answer: D

  1. An employee accidentally exposed an AWS access key and secret access key during a public presentation. The company Security Engineer immediately disabled the key. How can the Engineer assess the impact of the key exposure and ensure that the credentials were not misused? (Choose two.)

    A. Analyze AWS CloudTrail for activity.
    B. Analyze Amazon CloudWatch Logs for activity.
    C. Download and analyze the IAM Use report from AWS Trusted Advisor.
    D. Analyze the resource inventory in AWS Config for IAM user activity.
    E. Download and analyze a credential report from IAM.
    

Answer: A E

  1. The Information Technology department has stopped using Classic Load Balancers and switched to Application Load Balancers to save costs. After the switch, some users on older devices are no longer able to connect to the website. What is causing this situation?

    A. Application Load Balancers do not support older web browsers.
    B. The Perfect Forward Secrecy settings are not configured correctly.
    C. The intermediate certificate is installed within the Application Load Balancer.
    D. The cipher suites on the Application Load Balancers are blocking connections.
    

Answer: D

  1. A security team is responsible for reviewing AWS API call activity in the cloud environment for security violations. These events must be recorded and retained in a centralized location for both current and future AWS regions. What is the SIMPLEST way to meet these requirements?

    A. Enable AWS Trusted Advisor security checks in the AWS Console, and report all security incidents for all regions.
    B. Enable AWS CloudTrail by creating individual trails for each region, and specify a single Amazon S3 bucket to receive log files for later analysis.
    C. Enable AWS CloudTrail by creating a new trail and applying the trail to all regions. Specify a single Amazon S3 bucket as the storage location.
    D. Enable Amazon CloudWatch logging for all AWS services across all regions, and aggregate them to a single Amazon S3 bucket for later analysis.
    

Answer: C

  1. A Security Administrator is performing a log analysis as a result of a suspected AWS account compromise. The Administrator wants to analyze suspicious AWS CloudTrail log files but is overwhelmed by the volume of audit logs being generated. What approach enables the Administrator to search through the logs MOST efficiently?

    A. Implement a “write-only” CloudTrail event filter to detect any modifications to the AWS account resources.
    B. Configure Amazon Macie to classify and discover sensitive data in the Amazon S3 bucket that contains the CloudTrail audit logs.
    C. Configure Amazon Athena to read from the CloudTrail S3 bucket and query the logs to examine account activities.
    D. Enable Amazon S3 event notifications to trigger an AWS Lambda function that sends an email alarm when there are new CloudTrail API entries.
    

Answer: C

  1. During a recent security audit, it was discovered that multiple teams in a large organization have placed restricted data in multiple Amazon S3 buckets, and the data may have been exposed. The auditor has requested that the organization identify all possible objects that contain personally identifiable information (PII) and then determine whether this information has been accessed. What solution will allow the Security team to complete this request?

    A. Using Amazon Athena, query the impacted S3 buckets by using the PII query identifier function. Then, create a new Amazon CloudWatch metric for Amazon S3 object access to alert when the objects are accessed.
    B. Enable Amazon Macie on the S3 buckets that were impacted, then perform data classification. For identified objects that contain PII, use the research function for auditing AWS CloudTrail logs and S3 bucket logs for GET operations.
    C. Enable Amazon GuardDuty and enable the PII rule set on the S3 buckets that were impacted, then perform data classification. Using the PII findings report from GuardDuty, query the S3 bucket logs by using Athena for GET operations.
    D. Enable Amazon Inspector on the S3 buckets that were impacted, then perform data classification. For identified objects that contain PII, query the S3 bucket logs by using Athena for GET operations.
    

Answer: B

  1. During a recent internal investigation, it was discovered that all API logging was disabled in a production account, and the root user had created new API keys that appear to have been used several times. What could have been done to detect and automatically remediate the incident?

    A. Using Amazon Inspector, review all of the API calls and configure the inspector agent to leverage SNS topics to notify security of the change to AWS CloudTrail, and revoke the new API keys for the root user.
    B. Using AWS Config, create a config rule that detects when AWS CloudTrail is disabled, as well as any calls to the root user create-api-key. Then use a Lambda function to re-enable CloudTrail logs and deactivate the root API keys.
    C. Using Amazon CloudWatch, create a CloudWatch event that detects AWS CloudTrail deactivation and a separate Amazon Trusted Advisor check to automatically detect the creation of root API keys. Then use a Lambda function to enable AWS CloudTrail and deactivate the root API keys.
    D. Using Amazon CloudTrail, create a new CloudTrail event that detects the deactivation of CloudTrail logs, and a separate CloudTrail event that detects the creation of root API keys. Then use a Lambda function to enable CloudTrail and deactivate the root API keys.
    

Answer: B

  1. An application has a requirement to be resilient across not only Availability Zones within the application’s primary region but also be available within another region altogether. Which of the following supports this requirement for AWS resources that are encrypted by AWS KMS?

    A. Copy the application’s AWS KMS CMK from the source region to the target region so that it can be used to decrypt the resource after it is copied to the target region.
    B. Configure AWS KMS to automatically synchronize the CMK between regions so that it can be used to decrypt the resource in the target region.
    C. Use AWS services that replicate data across regions, and re-wrap the data encryption key created in the source region by using the CMK in the target region so that the target region’s CMK can decrypt the database encryption key.
    D. Configure the target region’s AWS service to communicate with the source region’s AWS KMS so that it can decrypt the resource in the target region.
    

Answer: C

  1. An organization policy states that all encryption keys must be automatically rotated every 12 months. Which AWS Key Management Service (KMS) key type should be used to meet this requirement?

    A. AWS managed Customer Master Key (CMK).
    B. Customer managed CMK with AWS generated key material.
    C. Customer managed CMK with imported key material.
    D. AWS managed data key.
    

Answer: B

  1. A Security Engineer received an AWS Abuse Notice listing EC2 instance IDs that are reportedly abusing other hosts. Which action should the Engineer take based on this situation? (Choose three.)

    A. Use AWS Artifact to capture an exact image of the state of each instance.
    B. Create EBS Snapshots of each of the volumes attached to the compromised instances.
    C. Capture a memory dump.
    D. Log in to each instance with administrative credentials to restart the instance.
    E. Revoke all network ingress and egress except for to/from a forensics workstation.
    F. Run Auto Recovery for Amazon EC2.
    

Answer: B E

  1. A Security Administrator is configuring an Amazon S3 bucket and must meet the following security requirements:
    – Encryption in transit
    – Encryption at rest
    – Logging of all object retrievals in AWS CloudTrail
    Which of the following meet these security requirements? (Choose three.)

    A. Specify “aws:SecureTransport”: “true” within a condition in the S3 bucket policy.
    B. Enable a security group for the S3 bucket that allows port 443, but not port 80.
    C. Set up default encryption for the S3 bucket.
    D. Enable Amazon CloudWatch Logs for the AWS account.
    E. Enable API logging of data events for all S3 objects.
    F. Enable S3 object versioning for the S3 bucket.
    

Answer: A C E

  1. A company has deployed a custom DNS server in AWS. The Security Engineer wants to ensure that Amazon EC2 instances cannot use the Amazon-provided DNS. How can the Security Engineer block access to the Amazon-provided DNS in the VPC?

    A. Deny access to the Amazon DNS IP within all security groups.
    B. Add a rule to all network access control lists that deny access to the Amazon DNS IP.
    C. Add a route to all route tables that black holes traffic to the Amazon DNS IP.
    D. Disable DNS resolution within the VPC configuration.
    

Answer: D

  1. A company has multiple production AWS accounts. Each account has AWS CloudTrail configured to log to a single Amazon S3 bucket in a central account. Two of the production accounts have trails that are not logging anything to the S3 bucket. Which steps should be taken to troubleshoot the issue? (Choose three.)

    A. Verify that the log file prefix is set to the name of the S3 bucket where the logs should go.
    B. Verify that the S3 bucket policy allows access for CloudTrail from the production AWS account IDs.
    C. Create a new CloudTrail configuration in the account, and configure it to log to the account’s S3 bucket.
    D. Confirm in the CloudTrail Console that each trail is active and healthy.
    E. Open the global CloudTrail configuration in the master account, and verify that the storage location is set to the correct S3 bucket.
    F. Confirm in the CloudTrail Console that the S3 bucket name is set correctly.
    

Answer: B D F

  1. A Software Engineer wrote a customized reporting service that will run on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The company security policy states that application logs for the reporting service must be centrally collected. What is the MOST efficient way to meet these requirements?

    A. Write an AWS Lambda function that logs into the EC2 instance to pull the application logs from the EC2 instance and persists them into an Amazon S3 bucket.
    B. Enable AWS CloudTrail logging for the AWS account, create a new Amazon S3 bucket, and then configure Amazon CloudWatch Logs to receive the application logs from CloudTrail.
    C. Create a simple cron job on the EC2 instances that synchronizes the application logs to an Amazon S3 bucket by using rsync.
    D. Install the Amazon CloudWatch Logs Agent on the EC2 instances, and configure it to send the application logs to CloudWatch Logs.
    

Answer: D

  1. A Security Engineer is trying to determine whether the encryption keys used in an AWS service are in compliance with certain regulatory standards. Which of the following actions should the Engineer perform to get further guidance?

    A. Read the AWS Customer Agreement.
    B. Use AWS Artifact to access AWS compliance reports.
    C. Post the question on the AWS Discussion Forums.
    D. Run AWS Config and evaluate the configuration outputs.
    

Answer: B


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