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 uses a collaboration application. A security engineer needs to configure automated alerts from AWS Security Hub in the us-west-2 Region for the application. The security engineer wants to receive an alert in a channel in the application every time Security Hub receives a new finding.
The security engineer creates an AWS Lambda function to convert the message to the format that the application requires. The Lambda function also sends the message to the application's API. The security engineer configures a corresponding Amazon EventBridge rule that specifies the Lambda function as the target.
After the EventBridge rule is implemented, the channel begins to constantly receive alerts from Security Hub. Many of the alerts are Amazon Inspector alerts that do not require any action. The security engineer wants to stop the Amazon Inspector alerts.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational effort?
A company is developing an ecommerce application. The application uses Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS MySQL database. For compliance reasons, data must be secured in transit and at rest. The company needs a solution that minimizes operational overhead and minimizes cost.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company's security engineer is designing an isolation procedure for Amazon EC2 instances as part of an incident response plan. The security engineer needs to isolate a target instance to block any traffic to and from the target instance, except for traffic from the company's forensics team. Each of the company's EC2 instances has its own dedicated security group. The EC2 instances are deployed in subnets of a VPC. A subnet can contain multiple instances.
The security engineer is testing the procedure for EC2 isolation and opens an SSH session to the target instance. The procedure starts to simulate access to the target instance by an attacker. The security engineer removes the existing security group rules and adds security group rules to give the forensics team access to the target instance on port 22.
After these changes, the security engineer notices that the SSH connection is still active and usable. When the security engineer runs a ping command to the public IP address of the target instance, the ping command is blocked.
What should the security engineer do to isolate the target instance?