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AWS Certified Specialty SCS-C02 Updated Exam

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AWS Certified Security - Specialty Questions and Answers

Question 13

A company is testing incident response procedures for destination containment. The company needs to contain a critical Amazon EC2 instance as quickly as possible while keeping the EC2 instance running. The EC2 instance is the only resource in a public subnet and has active connections to other resources.

Which solution will contain the EC2 instance IMMEDIATELY?

Options:

A.

Create a new security group that has no inbound rules or outbound rules Attach the new security group to the EC2 instance.

B.

Configure the existing security group for the EC2 instance Remove all existing inbound rules and outbound rules from the security group.

C.

Create a new network ACL that has a single Deny rule for inbound traffic and outbound traffic Associate the new network ACL with the subnet that contains the EC2 instance.

D.

Create a new VPC for isolation Stop the EC2 instance Create a new AMI from the EC2 instance Use the new AMI to launch a new EC2 instance in the new VPC.

Question 14

A company has recently recovered from a security incident that required the restoration of Amazon EC2 instances from snapshots.

After performing a gap analysis of its disaster recovery procedures and backup strategies, the company is concerned that, next time, it will not be able to recover the EC2 instances if the AWS account was compromised and Amazon EBS snapshots were deleted.

All EBS snapshots are encrypted using an AWS KMS CMK.

Which solution would solve this problem?

Options:

A.

Create a new Amazon S3 bucket. Use EBS lifecycle policies to move EBS snapshots to the new S3 bucket. Move snapshots to Amazon S3 Glacier using lifecycle policies, and apply Glacier Vault Lock policies to prevent deletion.

B.

Use AWS Systems Manager to distribute a configuration that performs local backups of all attached disks to Amazon S3.

C.

Create a new AWS account with limited privileges. Allow the new account to access the AWS KMS key used to encrypt the EBS snapshots, and copy the encrypted snapshots to the new account on a recurring basis.

D.

Use AWS Backup to copy EBS snapshots to Amazon S3.

Question 15

A company's Chief Security Officer has requested that a Security Analyst review and improve the security posture of each company IAM account The Security Analyst decides to do this by Improving IAM account root user security.

Which actions should the Security Analyst take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)

Options:

A.

Delete the access keys for the account root user in every account.

B.

Create an admin IAM user with administrative privileges and delete the account root user in every account.

C.

Implement a strong password to help protect account-level access to the IAM Management Console by the account root user.

D.

Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on every account root user in all accounts.

E.

Create a custom IAM policy to limit permissions to required actions for the account root user and attach the policy to the account root user.

F.

Attach an IAM role to the account root user to make use of the automated credential rotation in IAM STS.

Question 16

A company has an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key with imported key material Company policy requires all encryption keys to be rotated every year

What should a security engineer do to meet this requirement for this customer managed key?

Options:

A.

Enable automatic key rotation annually for the existing customer managed key

B.

Use the AWS CLI to create an AWS Lambda function to rotate the existing customer managed key annually

C.

Import new key material to the existing customer managed key Manually rotate the key

D.

Create a new customer managed key Import new key material to the new key Point the key alias to the new key

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