- (Exam Topic 1)
A company hosts a web-based application that captures and stores sensitive data in an Amazon DynamoDB table. A security audit reveals that the application does not provide end-to-end data protection or the ability to detect unauthorized data changes The software engineering team needs to make changes that will address the audit findings.
Which set of steps should the software engineering team take?
Correct Answer:
A
- (Exam Topic 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?
Correct Answer:
A
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/parameter-store-advanced-parameters.html
- (Exam Topic 1)
An company is using AWS Secrets Manager to store secrets that are encrypted using a CMK and are stored in the security account 111122223333. One of the company's production accounts. 444455556666, must to retrieve the secret values from the security account 111122223333. A security engineer needs to apply a policy to the secret in the security account based on least privilege access so the production account can retrieve the secret value only.
Which policy should the security engineer apply?
Correct Answer:
A
- (Exam Topic 3)
Your company has a set of EBS volumes defined in AWS. The security mandate is that all EBS volumes are encrypted. What can be done to notify the IT admin staff if there are any unencrypted volumes in the account.
Please select:
Correct Answer:
B
The enc
config rule for AWS Config can be used to check for unencrypted volumes. encrypted-volurrn
5 volumes that are in an attached state are encrypted. If you specify the ID of a KMS key for encryptio using the kmsld parameter, the rule checks if the EBS volumes in an attached state are encrypted with that KMS key*1.
Options A and C are incorrect since these services cannot be used to check for unencrypted EBS volumes Option D is incorrect because even though this is possible, trying to implement the solution alone with just the Lambda servk
would be too difficult
For more information on AWS Config and encrypted volumes, please refer to below URL:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/encrypted-volumes.html
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- (Exam Topic 3)
You work at a company that makes use of AWS resources. One of the key security policies is to ensure that all data i encrypted both at rest and in transit. Which of the following is one of the right ways to implement this.
Please select:
Correct Answer:
A
By disabling SSL termination, you are leaving an unsecure connection from the ELB to the back end instances. Hence this means that part of the data transit is not being encrypted.
Option B is incorrect because this would not guarantee complete encryption of data in transit Option C and D are incorrect because these would not guarantee encryption
For more information on SSL Listeners for your load balancer, please visit the below URL: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancine/latest/classic/elb-https-load-balancers.htmll The correct answer is: Use S3 SSE and use SSL for data in transit
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