An ecommerce company is developing new architecture for an application release. The company needs to implement TLS for incoming traffic to the application. Traffic for the application will originate from the internet TLS does not have to be implemented in an end-to-end configuration because the company is concerned about impacts on performance. The incoming traffic types will be HTTP and HTTPS The application uses ports 80 and 443.
What should a security engineer do to meet these requirements?
A company Is planning to use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) with its on-premises servers. The company has an existing IAM Direct Connect connection established between its on-premises data center and an IAM Region Security policy states that the company's on-premises firewall should only have specific IP addresses added to the allow list and not a CIDR range. The company also wants to restrict access so that only certain data center-based servers have access to Amazon EFS
How should a security engineer implement this solution''
A company is using IAM Organizations. The company wants to restrict IAM usage to the eu-west-1 Region for all accounts under an OU that is named "development." The solution must persist restrictions to existing and new IAM accounts under the development OU.
Your company uses IAM to host its resources. They have the following requirements
1) Record all API calls and Transitions
2) Help in understanding what resources are there in the account
3) Facility to allow auditing credentials and logins Which services would suffice the above requirements
Please select:
A company maintains an open-source application that is hosted on a public GitHub repository. While creating a new commit to the repository, an engineer uploaded their IAM access key and secret access key. The engineer reported the mistake to a manager, and the manager immediately disabled the access key.
The company needs to assess the impact of the exposed access key. A security engineer must recommend a solution that requires the least possible managerial overhead.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A developer signed in to a new account within an IAM Organization organizational unit (OU) containing multiple accounts. Access to the Amazon $3 service is restricted with the following SCP.
How can the security engineer provide the developer with Amazon $3 access without affecting other account?
A company is operating a website using Amazon CloudFornt. CloudFront servers some content from Amazon S3 and other from web servers running EC2 instances behind an Application. Load Balancer (ALB). Amazon DynamoDB is used as the data store. The company already uses IAM Certificate Manager (ACM) to store a public TLS certificate that can optionally secure connections between the website users and CloudFront. The company has a new requirement to enforce end-to-end encryption in transit.
Which combination of steps should the company take to meet this requirement? (Select THREE.)
A security engineer must troubleshoot an administrator's inability to make an existing Amazon S3 bucket public in an account that is part of an organization n IAM Organizations. The administrator switched the role from the master account to a member account and then attempted to make one S3 bucket public. This action was immediately denied
Which actions should the security engineer take to troubleshoot the permissions issue? (Select TWO.)
A developer at a company uses an SSH key to access multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The company discovers that the SSH key has been posted on a public GitHub repository. A security engineer verifies that the key has not been used recently.
How should the security engineer prevent unauthorized access to the EC2 instances?
A company manages multiple IAM accounts using IAM Organizations. The company's security team notices that some member accounts are not sending IAM CloudTrail logs to a centralized Amazon S3 logging bucket. The security team wants to ensure there is at least one trail configured (or all existing accounts and for any account that is created in the future.
Which set of actions should the security team implement to accomplish this?
There are currently multiple applications hosted in a VPC. During monitoring it has been noticed that multiple port scans are coming in from a specific IP Address block. The internal security team has requested that all offending IP Addresses be denied for the next 24 hours. Which of the following is the best method to quickly and temporarily deny access from the specified IP Address's.
Please select:
A company finds that one of its Amazon EC2 instances suddenly has a high CPU usage. The company does not know whether the EC2 instance is compromised or whether the operating system is performing background cleanup.
Which combination of steps should a security engineer take before investigating the issue? (Select THREE.)
A company needs to use HTTPS when connecting to its web applications to meet compliance requirements. These web applications run in Amazon VPC on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). A security engineer wants to ensure that the load balancer win only accept connections over port 443. even if the ALB is mistakenly configured with an HTTP listener
Which configuration steps should the security engineer take to accomplish this task?
A company has multiple departments. Each department has its own IAM account. All these accounts belong to the same organization in IAM Organizations.
A large .csv file is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket in the sales department's IAM account. The company wants to allow users from the other accounts to access the .csv file's content through the combination of IAM Glue and Amazon Athena. However, the company does not want to allow users from the other accounts to access other files in the same folder.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is using an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) AWS owned key in its application to encrypt files in an AWS account The company's security team wants the ability to change to new key material for new files whenever a potential key breach occurs A security engineer must implement a solution that gives the security team the ability to change the key whenever the team wants to do so
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company deploys a set of standard IAM roles in IAM accounts. The IAM roles are based on job functions within the company. To balance operational efficiency and security, a security engineer implemented IAM Organizations SCPs to restrict access to critical security services in all company accounts.
All of the company's accounts and OUs within IAM Organizations have a default FullIAMAccess SCP that is attached. The security engineer needs to ensure that no one can disable Amazon GuardDuty and IAM Security Hub. The security engineer also must not override other permissions that are granted by IAM policies that are defined in the accounts.
Which SCP should the security engineer attach to the root of the organization to meet these requirements?
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B)
C)
A company usesAWS Organizations to run workloads in multiple AWS accounts Currently the individual team members at the company access all Amazon EC2 instances remotely by using SSH or Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) The company does not have any audit trails and security groups are occasionally open The company must secure access management and implement a centralized togging solution
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST securely?
A company is using IAM Secrets Manager to store secrets for its production Amazon RDS database. The Security Officer has asked that secrets be rotated every 3 months. Which solution would allow the company to securely rotate the secrets? (Select TWO.)
A company wants to monitor the deletion of AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed keys. A security engineer needs to create an alarm that will notify the company before a KMS key is deleted. The security engineer has configured the integration of AWS CloudTrail with Amazon CloudWatch.
What should the security engineer do next to meet these requirements?
A security team is developing an application on an Amazon EC2 instance to get objects from an Amazon S3 bucket. All objects in the S3 bucket are encrypted with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key. All network traffic for requests that are made within the VPC is restricted to the AWS infrastructure. This traffic does not traverse the public internet.
The security team is unable to get objects from the S3 bucket
Which factors could cause this issue? (Select THREE.)
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage a small number of AWS accounts. However, the company plans to add 1 000 more accounts soon. The company allows only a centralized security team to create IAM roles for all AWS accounts and teams. Application teams submit requests for IAM roles to the security team. The security team has a backlog of IAM role requests and cannot review and provision the IAM roles quickly.
The security team must create a process that will allow application teams to provision their own IAM roles. The process must also limit the scope of IAM roles and prevent privilege escalation.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is implementing new compliance requirements to meet customer needs. According to the new requirements the company must not use any Amazon RDS DB instances or DB clusters that lack encryption of the underlying storage. The company needs a solution that will generate an email alert when an unencrypted DB instance or DB cluster is created. The solution also must terminate the unencrypted DB instance or DB cluster.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient manner?
A company in France uses Amazon Cognito with the Cognito Hosted Ul as an identity broker for sign-in and sign-up processes. The company is marketing an application and expects that all the application's users will come from France.
When the company launches the application the company's security team observes fraudulent sign-ups for the application. Most of the fraudulent registrations are from users outside of France.
The security team needs a solution to perform custom validation at sign-up Based on the results of the validation the solution must accept or deny the registration request.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
An Application team has requested a new IAM KMS master key for use with Amazon S3, but the organizational security policy requires separate master keys for different IAM services to limit blast radius.
How can an IAM KMS customer master key (CMK) be constrained to work with only Amazon S3?
A Security Engineer is troubleshooting an issue with a company's custom logging application. The application logs are written to an Amazon S3 bucket with event notifications enabled to send events lo an Amazon SNS topic. All logs are encrypted at rest using an IAM KMS CMK. The SNS topic is subscribed to an encrypted Amazon SQS queue. The logging application polls the queue for new messages that contain metadata about the S3 object. The application then reads the content of the object from the S3 bucket for indexing.
The Logging team reported that Amazon CloudWatch metrics for the number of messages sent or received is showing zero. No togs are being received.
What should the Security Engineer do to troubleshoot this issue?
A) Add the following statement to the IAM managed CMKs:
B)
Add the following statement to the CMK key policy:
C)
Add the following statement to the CMK key policy:
D)
Add the following statement to the CMK key policy:
A company is using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to deploy an application that deals with sensitive data During a recent security audit, the company identified a security issue in which Amazon RDS credentials were stored with the application code In the company's source code repository
A security engineer needs to develop a solution to ensure that database credentials are stored securely and rotated periodically. The credentials should be accessible to the application only The engineer also needs to prevent database administrators from sharing database credentials as plaintext with other teammates. The solution must also minimize administrate overhead
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company has an AWS account that includes an Amazon S3 bucket. The S3 bucket uses server-side encryption with AWS KMS keys (SSE-KMS) to encrypt all the objects at rest by using a customer managed key. The S3 bucket does not have a bucket policy.
An IAM role in the same account has an IAM policy that allows s3 List* and s3 Get' permissions for the S3 bucket. When the IAM role attempts to access an object in the S3 bucket the role receives an access denied message.
Why does the IAM rote not have access to the objects that are in the S3 bucket?
An AWS account that is used for development projects has a VPC that contains two subnets. The first subnet is named public-subnet-1 and has the CIDR block 192.168.1.0/24 assigned. The other subnet is named private-subnet-2 and has the CIDR block 192.168.2.0/24 assigned. Each subnet contains Amazon EC2 instances.
Each subnet is currently using the VPC's default network ACL. The security groups that the EC2 instances in these subnets use have rules that allow traffic between each instance where required. Currently, all network traffic flow is working as expected between the EC2 instances that are using these subnets.
A security engineer creates a new network ACL that is named subnet-2-NACL with default entries. The security engineer immediately configures private-subnet-2 to use the new network ACL and makes no other changes to the infrastructure. The security engineer starts to receive reports that the EC2 instances in public-subnet-1 and public-subnet-2 cannot communicate with each other.
Which combination of steps should the security engineer take to allow the EC2 instances that are running in these two subnets to communicate again? (Select TWO.)
Your company has a set of EC2 Instances defined in IAM. These Ec2 Instances have strict security groups attached to them. You need to ensure that changes to the Security groups are noted and acted on accordingly. How can you achieve this?
Please select:
An ecommerce website was down for 1 hour following a DDoS attack Users were unable to connect to the website during the attack period. The ecommerce company's security team is worried about future potential attacks and wants to prepare for such events The company needs to minimize downtime in its response to similar attacks in the future.
Which steps would help achieve this9 (Select TWO )
A company has two AWS accounts. One account is for development workloads. The other account is for production workloads. For compliance reasons the production account contains all the AWS Key Management. Service (AWS KMS) keys that the company uses for encryption.
The company applies an IAM role to an AWS Lambda function in the development account to allow secure access to AWS resources. The Lambda function must access a specific KMS customer managed key that exists in the production account to encrypt the Lambda function's data.
Which combination of steps should a security engineer take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company needs to retain tog data archives for several years to be compliant with regulations. The tog data is no longer used but It must be retained
What Is the MOST secure and cost-effective solution to meet these requirements?
A company is hosting multiple applications within a single VPC in its IAM account. The applications are running behind an Application Load Balancer that is associated with an IAM WAF web ACL. The company's security team has identified that multiple port scans are originating from a specific range of IP addresses on the internet.
A security engineer needs to deny access from the offending IP addresses.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A security engineer has enabled IAM Security Hub in their IAM account, and has enabled the Center for internet Security (CIS) IAM Foundations compliance standard. No evaluation results on compliance are returned in the Security Hub console after several hours. The engineer wants to ensure that Security Hub can evaluate their resources for CIS IAM Foundations compliance.
Which steps should the security engineer take to meet these requirements?
An organization has a multi-petabyte workload that it is moving to Amazon S3, but the CISO is concerned about cryptographic wear-out and the blast radius if a key is compromised. How can the CISO be assured that IAM KMS and Amazon S3 are addressing the concerns? (Select TWO )
A company uses Amazon EC2 Linux instances in the AWS Cloud. A member of the company's security team recently received a report about common vulnerability identifiers on the instances.
A security engineer needs to verify patching and perform remediation if the instances do not have the correct patches installed. The security engineer must determine which EC2 instances are at risk and must implement a solution to automatically update those instances with the applicable patches.
What should the security engineer do to meet these requirements?
A company uses a third-party application to store encrypted data in Amazon S3. The company uses another third-party application trial decrypts the data from Amazon S3 to ensure separation of duties Between the applications A Security Engineer warns to separate the permissions using IAM roles attached to Amazon EC2 instances. The company prefers to use native IAM services.
Which encryption method will meet these requirements?
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 security engineer recently rotated the host keys for an Amazon EC2 instance. The security engineer is trying to access the EC2 instance by using the EC2 Instance. Connect feature. However, the security engineer receives an error (or failed host key validation. Before the rotation of the host keys EC2 Instance Connect worked correctly with this EC2 instance.
What should the security engineer do to resolve this error?
A developer is building a serverless application hosted on AWS that uses Amazon Redshift as a data store The application has separate modules for readwrite and read-only functionality The modules need their own database users for compliance reasons
Which combination of steps should a security engineer implement to grant appropriate access? (Select TWO.)
A company deploys a distributed web application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The fleet is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that will be configured to terminate the TLS connection. All TLS traffic to the ALB must stay secure, even if the certificate private key is compromised.
How can a security engineer meet this requirement?
A company is using IAM Organizations to develop a multi-account secure networking strategy. The company plans to use separate centrally managed accounts for shared services, auditing, and security inspection. The company plans to provide dozens of additional accounts to application owners for production and development environments.
Company security policy requires that all internet traffic be routed through a centrally managed security inspection layer in the security inspection account. A security engineer must recommend a solution that minimizes administrative overhead and complexity.
Which solution meets these requirements?
For compliance reasons a Security Engineer must produce a weekly report that lists any instance that does not have the latest approved patches applied. The Engineer must also ensure that no system goes more than 30 days without the latest approved updates being applied
What would the MOST efficient way to achieve these goals?
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?
A security engineer has noticed an unusually high amount of traffic coming from a single IP address. This was discovered by analyzing the Application Load Balancer's access logs. How can the security engineer limit the number of requests from a specific IP address without blocking the IP address?
A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The application stores logs locally A security engineer noticed that logs were lost after a scale-in event. The security engineer needs to recommend a solution to ensure the durability and availability of log data All logs must be kept for a minimum of 1 year for auditing purposes
What should the security engineer recommend?
A company is designing the securely architecture (or a global latency-sensitive web application it plans to deploy to IAM. A Security Engineer needs to configure a highly available and secure two-tier architecture. The security design must include controls to prevent common attacks such as DDoS, cross-site scripting, and SQL injection.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A Developer is building a serverless application that uses Amazon API Gateway as the front end. The application will not be publicly accessible. Other legacy applications running on Amazon EC2 will make calls to the application A Security Engineer Has been asked to review the security controls for authentication and authorization of the application
Which combination of actions would provide the MOST secure solution? (Select TWO )
Unapproved changes were previously made to a company's Amazon S3 bucket. A security engineer configured IAM Config to record configuration changes made to the company's S3 buckets. The engineer discovers there are S3 configuration changes being made, but no Amazon SNS notifications are being sent. The engineer has already checked the configuration of the SNS topic and has confirmed the configuration is valid.
Which combination of steps should the security engineer take to resolve the issue? (Select TWO.)
Authorized Administrators are unable to connect to an Amazon EC2 Linux bastion host using SSH over the internet. The connection either fails to respond or generates the following error message:
Network error: Connection timed out.
What could be responsible for the connection failure? (Select THREE )
A company has an encrypted Amazon S3 bucket. An Application Developer has an IAM policy that allows access to the S3 bucket, but the Application Developer is unable to access objects within the bucket.
What is a possible cause of the issue?
Users report intermittent availability of a web application hosted on IAM. Monitoring systems report an excess of abnormal network traffic followed by high CPU utilization on the application web tier. Which of the following techniques will improve the availability of the application? (Select TWO.)
A security engineer is asked to update an AW3 CoudTrail log file prefix for an existing trail. When attempting to save the change in the CloudTrail console, the security engineer receives the following error message. "There is a problem with the bucket policy''
What will enable the security engineer to saw the change?
A company has a website with an Amazon CloudFront HTTPS distribution, an Application Load Balancer (ALB) with multiple web instances for dynamic website content, and an Amazon S3 bucket for static website content. The company's security engineer recently updated the website security requirements:
• HTTPS needs to be enforced for all data in transit with specific ciphers.
• The CloudFront distribution needs to be accessible from the internet only.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A security engineer has created an Amazon Cognito user pool. The engineer needs to manually verify the ID and access token sent by the application for troubleshooting purposes
What is the MOST secure way to accomplish this?
A company uses Microsoft Active Directory for access management for on-premises resources and wants to use the same mechanism for accessing its IAM accounts. Additionally, the development team plans to launch a public-facing application for which they need a separate authentication solution.
When coma nation of the following would satisfy these requirements? (Select TWO)
A security engineer must use IAM Key Management Service (IAM KMS) to design a key management solution for a set of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that contain sensitive data. The solution needs to ensure that the key material automatically expires in 90 days.
Which solution meets these criteria?
A company's on-premises data center forwards DNS logs to a third-party security incident events management (SIEM) solution that alerts on suspicious behavior. The company wants to introduce a similar capability to its IAM accounts that includes automatic remediation. The company expects to double in size within the next few months.
Which solution meets the company's current and future logging requirements?
A security engineer need to ensure their company’s uses of IAM meets IAM security best practices. As part of this, the IAM account root user must not be used for daily work. The root user must be monitored for use, and the Security team must be alerted as quickly as possible if the root user is used.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A Security Engineer accidentally deleted the imported key material in an IAM KMS CMK. What should the Security Engineer do to restore the deleted key material?
A company hosts its public website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The website is under a DDoS attack by a specific loT device brand that is visible in the user agent A security engineer needs to mitigate the attack without impacting the availability of the public website.
What should the security engineer do to accomplish this?
A Security Engineer launches two Amazon EC2 instances in the same Amazon VPC but in separate Availability Zones. Each instance has a public IP address and is able to connect to external hosts on the internet. The two instances are able to communicate with each other by using their private IP addresses, but they are not able to communicate with each other when using their public IP addresses.
Which action should the Security Engineer take to allow communication over the public IP addresses?
A security engineer is responsible for providing secure access to IAM resources for thousands of developer in a company’s corporate identity provider (idp). The developers access a set of IAM services from the corporate premises using IAM credential. Due to the velum of require for provisioning new IAM users, it is taking a long time to grant access permissions. The security engineer receives reports that developer are sharing their IAM credentials with others to avoid provisioning delays. The causes concern about overall security for the security engineer.
Which actions will meet the program requirements that address security?
A company has a VPC with an IPv6 address range and a public subnet with an IPv6 address block. The VPC currently hosts some public Amazon EC2 instances but a Security Engineer needs to migrate a second application into the VPC that also requires IPv6 connectivity.
This new application will occasionally make API requests to an external, internet-accessible endpoint to receive updates However, the Security team does not want the application's EC2 instance exposed directly to the internet The Security Engineer intends to create a private subnet with a custom route table and to associate the route table with the private subnet
What else does the Security Engineer need to do to ensure the application will not be exposed directly to the internet, but can still communicate as required''
A company uses SAML federation with IAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) to provide internal users with SSO for their IAM accounts. The company's identity provider certificate was rotated as part of its normal lifecycle. Shortly after, users started receiving the following error when attempting to log in:
"Error: Response Signature Invalid (Service: IAMSecuntyTokenService; Status Code: 400; Error Code: InvalidldentltyToken)"
A security engineer needs to address the immediate issue and ensure that it will not occur again.
Which combination of steps should the security engineer take to accomplish this? (Select TWO.)
A company has several critical applications running on a large fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. As part of a security operations review, the company needs to apply a critical operating system patch to EC2 instances within 24 hours of the patch becoming available from the operating system vendor. The company does not have a patching solution deployed on IAM, but does have IAM Systems Manager configured. The solution must also minimize administrative overhead.
What should a security engineer recommend to meet these requirements?
A company has decided to use encryption in its IAM account to secure the objects in Amazon S3 using server-side encryption. Object sizes range from 16.000 B to 5 MB. The requirements are as follows:
• The key material must be generated and stored in a certified Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Level 3 machine.
• The key material must be available in multiple Regions.
Which option meets these requirements?
A Solutions Architect is designing a web application that uses Amazon CloudFront, an Elastic Load Balancing Application Load Balancer, and an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances. The load balancer and EC2 instances are in the US West (Oregon) region. It has been decided that encryption in transit is necessary by using a customer-branded domain name from the client to CloudFront and from CloudFront to the load balancer.
Assuming that IAM Certificate Manager is used, how many certificates will need to be generated?
An application is currently secured using network access control lists and security groups. Web servers are located in public subnets behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB); application servers are located in private subnets.
How can edge security be enhanced to safeguard the Amazon EC2 instances against attack? (Choose two.)
An application developer is using an IAM Lambda function that must use IAM KMS to perform encrypt and decrypt operations for API keys that are less than 2 KB Which key policy would allow the application to do this while granting least privilege?
An organization policy states that all encryption keys must be automatically rotated every 12 months.
Which IAM Key Management Service (KMS) key type should be used to meet this requirement?
A Web Administrator for the website example.com has created an Amazon CloudFront distribution for dev.example.com, with a requirement to configure HTTPS using a custom TLS certificate imported to IAM Certificate Manager.
Which combination of steps is required to ensure availability of the certificate in the CloudFront console? (Choose two.)
A security engineer has noticed that VPC Flow Logs are getting a lot REJECT traffic originating from a single Amazon EC2 instance in an Auto Scaling group. The security engineer is concerned that this EC2 instance may be compromised.
What immediate action should the security engineer take?
What immediate action should the security engineer take?
A company has a serverless application for internal users deployed on IAM. The application uses IAM Lambda for the front end and for business logic. The Lambda function accesses an Amazon RDS database inside a VPC The company uses IAM Systems Manager Parameter Store for storing database credentials. A recent security review highlighted the following issues
Which combination of steps should the company take to resolve these security issues? (Select THREE)
The Development team receives an error message each time the team members attempt to encrypt or decrypt a Secure String parameter from the SSM Parameter Store by using an IAM KMS customer managed key (CMK).
Which CMK-related issues could be responsible? (Choose two.)
A company has a compliance requirement to rotate its encryption keys on an annual basis. A Security Engineer needs a process to rotate the KMS Customer Master Keys (CMKs) that were created using imported key material.
How can the Engineer perform the key rotation process MOST efficiently?
A convoys data lake uses Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena. The company's security engineer has been asked to design an encryption solution that meets the company's data protection requirements. The encryption solution must work with Amazon S3 and keys managed by the company. The encryption solution must be protected in a hardware security module that is validated id Federal information Processing Standards (FPS) 140-2 Level 3.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A Security Engineer is setting up a new IAM account. The Engineer has been asked to continuously monitor the company's IAM account using automated compliance checks based on IAM best practices and Center for Internet Security (CIS) IAM Foundations Benchmarks
How can the Security Engineer accomplish this using IAM services?
A company's Director of information Security wants a daily email report from IAM that contains recommendations for each company account to meet IAM Security best practices.
Which solution would meet these requirements?
A company has an application hosted in an Amazon EC2 instance and wants the application to access secure strings stored in IAM Systems Manager Parameter Store When the application tries to access the secure string key value, it fails.
Which factors could be the cause of this failure? (Select TWO.)
A company has an IAM account and allows a third-party contractor who uses another IAM account, to assume certain IAM roles. The company wants to ensure that IAM roles can be assumed by the contractor only if the contractor has multi-factor authentication enabled on their IAM user accounts
What should the company do to accomplish this?
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B)
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A company is setting up products to deploy in IAM Service Catalog. Management is concerned that when users launch products, elevated IAM privileges will be required to create resources. How should the company mitigate this concern?
A company's Security Engineer has been asked to monitor and report all IAM account root user activities.
Which of the following would enable the Security Engineer to monitor and report all root user activities? (Select TWO)
An external Auditor finds that a company's user passwords have no minimum length. The company is currently using two identity providers:
• IAM IAM federated with on-premises Active Directory
• Amazon Cognito user pools to accessing an IAM Cloud application developed by the company
Which combination o1 actions should the Security Engineer take to solve this issue? (Select TWO.)
A company uses multiple IAM accounts managed with IAM Organizations Security engineers have created a standard set of security groups for all these accounts. The security policy requires that these security groups be used for all applications and delegates modification authority to the security team only.
A recent security audit found that the security groups are inconsistency implemented across accounts and that unauthorized changes have been made to the security groups. A security engineer needs to recommend a solution to improve consistency and to prevent unauthorized changes in the individual accounts in the future.
Which solution should the security engineer recommend?
An employee accidentally exposed an IAM access key and secret access key during a public presentation. The company Security Engineer immediately disabled the key.
How can the Engineer assess the impact of the key exposure and ensure that the credentials were not misused? (Choose two.)
A security engineer is designing an incident response plan to address the risk of a compromised Amazon EC2 instance. The plan must recommend a solution to meet the following requirements:
• A trusted forensic environment must be provisioned
• Automated response processes must be orchestrated
Which IAM services should be included in the plan? {Select TWO)
A company wants to use Cloudtrail for logging all API activity. They want to segregate the logging of data events and management events. How can this be achieved? Choose 2 answers from the options given below
Please select:
You have just developed a new mobile application that handles analytics workloads on large scale datasets that are stored on Amazon Redshift. Consequently, the application needs to access Amazon Redshift tables. Which of the belov methods would be the best both practically and security-wise, to access the tables? Choose the correct answer from the options below
Please select:
A company has external vendors that must deliver files to the company. These vendors have cross-account that gives them permission to upload objects to one of the company's S3 buckets.
What combination of steps must the vendor follow to successfully deliver a file to the company? Select 2 answers from the options given below
Please select:
The CFO of a company wants to allow one of his employees to view only the IAM usage report page. Which of the below mentioned IAM policy statements allows the user to have access to the IAM usage report page?
Please select:
Company policy requires that all insecure server protocols, such as FTP, Telnet, HTTP, etc be disabled on all servers. The security team would like to regularly check all servers to ensure compliance with this requirement by using a scheduled CloudWatch event to trigger a review of the current infrastructure. What process will check compliance of the company's EC2 instances?
Please select:
One of your company's EC2 Instances have been compromised. The company has strict po thorough investigation on finding the culprit for the security breach. What would you do in from the options given below.
Please select:
A security engineer must ensure that all infrastructure launched in the company IAM account be monitored for deviation from compliance rules, specifically that all EC2 instances are launched from one of a specified list of AM Is and that all attached EBS volumes are encrypted. Infrastructure not in compliance should be terminated. What combination of steps should the Engineer implement? Select 2 answers from the options given below.
Please select:
Your company has the following setup in IAM
a. A set of EC2 Instances hosting a web application
b. An application load balancer placed in front of the EC2 Instances
There seems to be a set of malicious requests coming from a set of IP addresses. Which of the following can be used to protect against these requests?
Please select:
You are designing a connectivity solution between on-premises infrastructure and Amazon VPC. Your server's on-premises will be communicating with your VPC instances. You will be establishing IPSec tunnels over the internet. Yo will be using VPN gateways and terminating the IPsec tunnels on IAM-supported customer gateways. Which of the following objectives would you achieve by implementing an IPSec tunnel as outlined above? Choose 4 answers form the options below
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You want to track access requests for a particular S3 bucket. How can you achieve this in the easiest possible way?
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You are building a system to distribute confidential training videos to employees. Using CloudFront, what method could be used to serve content that is stored in S3, but not publicly accessible from S3 directly?
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You need to inspect the running processes on an EC2 Instance that may have a security issue. How can you achieve this in the easiest way possible. Also you need to ensure that the process does not interfere with the continuous running of the instance.
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You have a set of application , database and web servers hosted in IAM. The web servers are placed behind an ELB. There are separate security groups for the application, database and web servers. The network security groups have been defined accordingly. There is an issue with the communication between the application and database servers. In order to troubleshoot the issue between just the application and database server, what is the ideal set of MINIMAL steps you would take?
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A user has enabled versioning on an S3 bucket. The user is using server side encryption for data at Rest. If the user is supplying his own keys for encryption SSE-C, which of the below mentioned statements is true?
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A company has a legacy application that outputs all logs to a local text file. Logs from all applications running on IAM
must be continually monitored for security related messages.
What can be done to allow the company to deploy the legacy application on Amazon EC2 and still meet the monitoring
requirement?
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Your company currently has a set of EC2 Instances hosted in a VPC. The IT Security department is suspecting a possible DDos attack on the instances. What can you do to zero in on the IP addresses which are receiving a flurry of requests.
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A company hosts critical data in an S3 bucket. Even though they have assigned the appropriate permissions to the bucket, they are still worried about data deletion. What measures can be taken to restrict the risk of data deletion on the bucket. Choose 2 answers from the options given below
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An application running on EC2 instances in a VPC must access sensitive data in the data center. The access must be encrypted in transit and have consistent low latency. Which hybrid architecture will meet these requirements?
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You need to ensure that objects in an S3 bucket are available in another region. This is because of the criticality of the data that is hosted in the S3 bucket. How can you achieve this in the easiest way possible?
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A company hosts data in S3. There is now a mandate that going forward all data in the S3 bucket needs to encrypt at rest. How can this be achieved?
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You have setup a set of applications across 2 VPC's. You have also setup VPC Peering. The applications are still not able to communicate across the Peering connection. Which network troubleshooting steps should be taken to resolve the issue?
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A windows machine in one VPC needs to join the AD domain in another VPC. VPC Peering has been established. But the domain join is not working. What is the other step that needs to be followed to ensure that the AD domain join can work as intended
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Your company hosts critical data in an S3 bucket. There is a requirement to ensure that all data is encrypted. There is also metadata about the information stored in the bucket that needs to be encrypted as well. Which of the below measures would you take to ensure that the metadata is encrypted?
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Your company is planning on using IAM EC2 and ELB for deployment for their web applications. The security policy mandates that all traffic should be encrypted. Which of the following options will ensure that this requirement is met. Choose 2 answers from the options below.
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Your company has a requirement to work with a DynamoDB table. There is a security mandate that all data should be encrypted at rest. What is the easiest way to accomplish this for DynamoDB.
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DDoS attacks that happen at the application layer commonly target web applications with lower volumes of traffic compared to infrastructure attacks. To mitigate these types of attacks, you should probably want to include a WAF (Web Application Firewall) as part of your infrastructure. To inspect all HTTP requests, WAFs sit in-line with your application traffic. Unfortunately, this creates a scenario where WAFs can become a point of failure or bottleneck. To mitigate this problem, you need the ability to run multiple WAFs on demand during traffic spikes. This type of scaling for WAF is done via a "WAF sandwich." Which of the following statements best describes what a "WAF sandwich" is? Choose the correct answer from the options below
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You need to ensure that the cloudtrail logs which are being delivered in your IAM account is encrypted. How can this be achieved in the easiest way possible?
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Your company has a set of EC2 Instances that are placed behind an ELB. Some of the applications hosted on these instances communicate via a legacy protocol. There is a security mandate that all traffic between the client and the EC2 Instances need to be secure. How would you accomplish this?
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A company is planning on using IAM EC2 and IAM Cloudfrontfor their web application. For which one of the below attacks is usage of Cloudfront most suited for?
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You currently operate a web application In the IAM US-East region. The application runs on an auto-scaled layer of EC2 instances and an RDS Multi-AZ database. Your IT security compliance officer has tasked you to develop a reliable and durable logging solution to track changes made to your EC2.IAM and RDS resources. The solution must ensure the integrity and confidentiality of your log data. Which of these solutions would you recommend?
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You need to establish a secure backup and archiving solution for your company, using IAM. Documents should be immediately accessible for three months and available for five years for compliance reasons. Which IAM service fulfills these requirements in the most cost-effective way? Choose the correct answer:
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What is the result of the following bucket policy?
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In order to encrypt data in transit for a connection to an IAM RDS instance, which of the following would you implement
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Your company has an external web site. This web site needs to access the objects in an S3 bucket. Which of the following would allow the web site to access the objects in the most secure manner?
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There is a set of Ec2 Instances in a private subnet. The application hosted on these EC2 Instances need to access a DynamoDB table. It needs to be ensured that traffic does not flow out to the internet. How can this be achieved?
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Your company has created a set of keys using the IAM KMS service. They need to ensure that each key is only used for certain services. For example , they want one key to be used only for the S3 service. How can this be achieved?
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You are planning to use IAM Configto check the configuration of the resources in your IAM account. You are planning on using an existing IAM role and using it for the IAM Config resource. Which of the following is required to ensure the IAM config service can work as required?
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You company has mandated that all data in IAM be encrypted at rest. How can you achieve this for EBS volumes? Choose 2 answers from the options given below
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You have a requirement to serve up private content using the keys available with Cloudfront. How can this be achieved?
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Which of the following is the correct sequence of how KMS manages the keys when used along with the Redshift cluster service
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You need to create a Linux EC2 instance in IAM. Which of the following steps is used to ensure secure authentication the EC2 instance from a windows machine. Choose 2 answers from the options given below.
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An organization has setup multiple IAM users. The organization wants that each IAM user accesses the IAM console only within the organization and not from outside. How can it achieve this?
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You have a set of Customer keys created using the IAM KMS service. These keys have been used for around 6 months. You are now trying to use the new KMS features for the existing set of key's but are not able to do so. What could be the reason for this.
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An auditor needs access to logs that record all API events on IAM. The auditor only needs read-only access to the log files and does not need access to each IAM account. The company has multiple IAM accounts, and the auditor needs access to all the logs for all the accounts. What is the best way to configure access for the auditor to view event logs from all accounts? Choose the correct answer from the options below
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While analyzing a company's security solution, a Security Engineer wants to secure the IAM account root user.
What should the Security Engineer do to provide the highest level of security for the account?
A company plans to migrate a sensitive dataset to Amazon S3. A Security Engineer must ensure that the data is encrypted at rest. The encryption solution must enable the company to generate its own keys without needing to manage key storage or the encryption process.
What should the Security Engineer use to accomplish this?
An application uses Amazon Cognito to manage end users’ permissions when directly accessing IAM resources, including Amazon DynamoDB. A new feature request reads as follows:
Provide a mechanism to mark customers as suspended pending investigation or suspended permanently. Customers should still be able to log in when suspended, but should not be able to make changes.
The priorities are to reduce complexity and avoid potential for future security issues.
Which approach will meet these requirements and priorities?
Your company has defined a number of EC2 Instances over a period of 6 months. They want to know if any of the security groups allow unrestricted access to a resource. What is the best option to accomplish this requirement?
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The Security Engineer has discovered that a new application that deals with highly sensitive data is storing Amazon S3 objects with the following key pattern, which itself contains highly sensitive data.
Pattern:
"randomID_datestamp_PII.csv"
Example:
"1234567_12302017_000-00-0000 csv"
The bucket where these objects are being stored is using server-side encryption (SSE).
Which solution is the most secure and cost-effective option to protect the sensitive data?
An IAM user with fill EC2 permissions could bot start an Amazon EC2 instance after it was stopped for a maintenance task. Upon starting the instance, the instance state would change to “Pending”, but after a few seconds, it would switch back to “Stopped”.
An inspection revealed that the instance has attached Amazon EBS volumes that were encrypted by using a Customer Master Key (CMK). When these encrypted volumes were detached, the IAM user was able to start the EC2 instances.
The IAM user policy is as follows:
What additional items need to be added to the IAM user policy? (Choose two.)
IAM CloudTrail is being used to monitor API calls in an organization. An audit revealed that CloudTrail is failing to deliver events to Amazon S3 as expected.
What initial actions should be taken to allow delivery of CloudTrail events to S3? (Select two.)
A Security Administrator is configuring an Amazon S3 bucket and must meet the following security requirements:
Which of the following meet these security requirements? (Choose three.)
A Systems Engineer is troubleshooting the connectivity of a test environment that includes a virtual security appliance deployed inline. In addition to using the virtual security appliance, the Development team wants to use security groups and network ACLs to accomplish various security requirements in the environment.
What configuration is necessary to allow the virtual security appliance to route the traffic?
A company has five IAM accounts and wants to use IAM CloudTrail to log API calls. The log files must be stored in an Amazon S3 bucket that resides in a new account specifically built for centralized services with a unique top-level prefix for each trail. The configuration must also enable detection of any modification to the logs.
Which of the following steps will implement these requirements? (Choose three.)
A Security Engineer is working with the development team to design a supply chain application that stores sensitive inventory data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The application will use an IAM KMS customer master key (CMK) to encrypt the data on Amazon S3. The inventory data on Amazon S3 will be shared of vendors. All vendors will use IAM principals from their own IAM accounts to access the data on Amazon S3. The vendor list may change weekly, and the solution must support cross-account access.
What is the MOST efficient way to manage access control for the KMS CMK7?
Which of the following are valid event sources that are associated with web access control lists that trigger IAM WAF rules? (Choose two.)
A company has multiple VPCs in their account that are peered, as shown in the diagram. A Security Engineer wants to perform penetration tests of the Amazon EC2 instances in all three VPCs.
How can this be accomplished? (Choose two.)
A Security Administrator has a website hosted in Amazon S3. The Administrator has been given the following requirements:
Which configurations will support these requirements? (Choose two.)
A security team is responsible for reviewing IAM API call activity in the cloud environment for security violations. These events must be recorded and retained in a centralized location for both current and future IAM regions.
What is the SIMPLEST way to meet these requirements?
Example.com hosts its internal document repository on Amazon EC2 instances. The application runs on EC2 instances and previously stored the documents on encrypted Amazon EBS volumes. To optimize the application for scale, example.com has moved the files to Amazon S3. The security team has mandated that all the files are securely deleted from the EBS volume, and it must certify that the data is unreadable before releasing the underlying disks.
Which of the following methods will ensure that the data is unreadable by anyone else?
An organization has three applications running on IAM, each accessing the same data on Amazon S3. The data on Amazon S3 is server-side encrypted by using an IAM KMS Customer Master Key (CMK).
What is the recommended method to ensure that each application has its own programmatic access control permissions on the KMS CMK?
A Security Engineer must design a system that can detect whether a file on an Amazon EC2 host has been modified. The system must then alert the Security Engineer of the modification.
What is the MOST efficient way to meet these requirements?
A Security Engineer has created an Amazon CloudWatch event that invokes an IAM Lambda function daily. The Lambda function runs an Amazon Athena query that checks IAM CloudTrail logs in Amazon S3 to detect whether any IAM user accounts or credentials have been created in the past 30 days. The results of the Athena query are created in the same S3 bucket. The Engineer runs a test execution of the Lambda function via the IAM Console, and the function runs successfully.
After several minutes, the Engineer finds that his Athena query has failed with the error message: “Insufficient Permissions”. The IAM permissions of the Security Engineer and the Lambda function are shown below:
Security Engineer
Lambda function execution role
What is causing the error?
You have an instance setup in a test environment in IAM. You installed the required application and the promoted the server to a production environment. Your IT Security team has advised that there maybe traffic flowing in from an unknown IP address to port 22. How can this be mitigated immediately?
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You want to get a list of vulnerabilities for an EC2 Instance as per the guidelines set by the Center of Internet Security. How can you go about doing this?
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A company uses IAM Organization to manage 50 IAM accounts. The finance staff members log in as IAM IAM users in the FinanceDept IAM account. The staff members need to read the consolidated billing information in the MasterPayer IAM account. They should not be able to view any other resources in the MasterPayer IAM account. IAM access to billing has been enabled in the MasterPayer account.
Which of the following approaches grants the finance staff the permissions they require without granting any unnecessary permissions?
A Lambda function reads metadata from an S3 object and stores the metadata in a DynamoDB table. The function is
triggered whenever an object is stored within the S3 bucket.
How should the Lambda function be given access to the DynamoDB table?
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A security team must present a daily briefing to the CISO that includes a report of which of the company's thousands of EC2 instances and on-premises servers are missing the latest security patches. All instances/servers must be brought into compliance within 24 hours so they do not show up on the next day's report. How can the security team fulfill these requirements?
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You have just recently set up a web and database tier in a VPC and hosted the application. When testing the app , you are not able to reach the home page for the app. You have verified the security groups. What can help you diagnose the issue.
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Your company has a set of resources defined in the IAM Cloud. Their IT audit department has requested to get a list of resources that have been defined across the account. How can this be achieved in the easiest manner?
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What is the function of the following IAM Key Management Service (KMS) key policy attached to a customer master key (CMK)?
Which of the following is not a best practice for carrying out a security audit?
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A Systems Administrator has written the following Amazon S3 bucket policy designed to allow access to an S3 bucket for only an authorized IAM IAM user from the IP address range 10.10.10.0/24:
When trying to download an object from the S3 bucket from 10.10.10.40, the IAM user receives an access denied message.
What does the Administrator need to change to grant access to the user?
An application makes calls to IAM services using the IAM SDK. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances with an associated IAM role. When the application attempts to access an object within an Amazon S3 bucket; the Administrator receives the following error message: HTTP 403: Access Denied.
Which combination of steps should the Administrator take to troubleshoot this issue? (Select three.)
An organization operates a web application that serves users globally. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. There is an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the load balancer, and the organization uses IAM WAF. The application is currently experiencing a volumetric attack whereby the attacker is exploiting a bug in a popular mobile game.
The application is being flooded with HTTP requests from all over the world with the User-Agent set to the following string: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExampleCorp; ExampleGame/1.22; Mobile/1.0)
What mitigation can be applied to block attacks resulting from this bug while continuing to service legitimate requests?
Your company is planning on hosting an internal network in IAM. They want machines in the VPC to authenticate using private certificates. They want to minimize the work and maintenance in working with certificates. What is the ideal way to fulfil this requirement.
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A Software Engineer is trying to figure out why network connectivity to an Amazon EC2 instance does not appear to be working correctly. Its security group allows inbound HTTP traffic from 0.0.0.0/0, and the outbound rules have not been modified from the default. A custom network ACL associated with its subnet allows inbound HTTP traffic from 0.0.0.0/0 and has no outbound rules.
What would resolve the connectivity issue?
The Security Engineer is managing a web application that processes highly sensitive personal information. The application runs on Amazon EC2. The application has strict compliance requirements, which instruct that all incoming traffic to the application is protected from common web exploits and that all outgoing traffic from the EC2 instances is restricted to specific whitelisted URLs.
Which architecture should the Security Engineer use to meet these requirements?
A company plans to move most of its IT infrastructure to IAM. They want to leverage their existing on-premises Active Directory as an identity provider for IAM.
Which combination of steps should a Security Engineer take to federate the company’s on-premises Active Directory with IAM? (Choose two.)
An organization is moving non-business-critical applications to IAM while maintaining a mission-critical application in an on-premises data center. An on-premises application must share limited confidential information with the applications in IAM. The internet performance is unpredictable.
Which configuration will ensure continued connectivity between sites MOST securely?
A corporate cloud security policy states that communications between the company's VPC and KMS must travel entirely within the IAM network and not use public service endpoints.
Which combination of the following actions MOST satisfies this requirement? (Choose two.)
An IAM account includes two S3 buckets: bucket1 and bucket2. The bucket2 does not have a policy defined, but bucket1 has the following bucket policy:
In addition, the same account has an IAM User named “alice”, with the following IAM policy.
Which buckets can user “alice” access?
An IAM Lambda function was misused to alter data, and a Security Engineer must identify who invoked the function and what output was produced. The Engineer cannot find any logs created by the Lambda function in Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
Which of the following explains why the logs are not available?
A Security Engineer received an IAM Abuse Notice listing EC2 instance IDs that are reportedly abusing other hosts.
Which action should the Engineer take based on this situation? (Choose three.)
A Security Administrator is performing a log analysis as a result of a suspected IAM account compromise. The Administrator wants to analyze suspicious IAM CloudTrail log files but is overwhelmed by the volume of audit logs being generated.
What approach enables the Administrator to search through the logs MOST efficiently?
During a recent internal investigation, it was discovered that all API logging was disabled in a production account, and the root user had created new API keys that appear to have been used several times.
What could have been done to detect and automatically remediate the incident?
A Systems Engineer has been tasked with configuring outbound mail through Simple Email Service (SES) and requires compliance with current TLS standards.
The mail application should be configured to connect to which of the following endpoints and corresponding ports?
Which of the following is the most efficient way to automate the encryption of IAM CloudTrail logs using a Customer Master Key (CMK) in IAM KMS?