Amazon Web Services Related Exams
SCS-C02 Exam
Key domains include:
Incident Response
Logging and Monitoring
Infrastructure Security
Identity and Access Management
Data Protection
Secure Design and Implementation
The SCS-C02 certification is all about protecting AWS environments—think encryption, access control, threat detection, and compliance. On the other hand, the ANS-C01 certification dives deep into network architecture—including hybrid setups, routing protocols, and secure connectivity.
During a manual review of system logs from an Amazon Linux EC2 instance, a Security Engineer noticed that there are sudo commands that were never properly alerted or reported on the Amazon CloudWatch Logs agent
Why were there no alerts on the sudo commands?
A company hosts a web application on an Apache web server. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The company configured the EC2 instances to send the Apache web server logs to an Amazon CloudWatch Logs group that the company has configured to expire after 1 year.
Recently, the company discovered in the Apache web server logs that a specific IP address is sending suspicious requests to the web application. A security engineer wants to analyze the past week of Apache web server logs to determine how many requests that the IP address sent and the corresponding URLs that the IP address requested.
What should the security engineer do to meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?
A company hosts a web-based application that captures and stores sensitive data in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company needs to implement a solution that provides end-to-end data protection and the ability to detect unauthorized data changes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?