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.
A company manages three separate IAM accounts for its production, development, and test environments, Each Developer is assigned a unique IAM user under the development account. A new application hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance in the developer account requires read access to the archived documents stored in an Amazon S3 bucket in the production account.
How should access be granted?
A company has an application that needs to read objects from an Amazon S3 bucket. The company configures an IAM policy and attaches the policy to an IAM role that the application uses. When the application tries to read objects from the S3 bucket, the application receives AccessDenied errors. A security engineer must resolve this problem without decreasing the security of the S3 bucket or the application.
A Security Engineer receives alerts that an Amazon EC2 instance on a public subnet is under an SFTP brute force attack from a specific IP address, which is a known malicious bot. What should the Security Engineer do to block the malicious bot?