DOP-C02 Exam Dumps : AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

To ensure that CloudTrail cannot be disabled in any member account, the control must be enforced above the individual accounts, at the organization level , and must not be overridable by local administrators. AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs) provide exactly this capability: they define permission guardrails that apply to all IAM users, roles, and even the root user in accounts within an AWS Organizations OU.

By applying an SCP that explicitly denies cloudtrail:StopLogging and cloudtrail:DeleteTrail , the organization prevents any principal in the affected accounts from disabling logging or deleting the trails, regardless of their IAM permissions. This provides strong, centralized enforcement of audit logging.

Option B uses IAM policies in each account. Local administrators with sufficient privileges could modify or detach those policies, defeating the control. Option C only sends notifications and does not prevent the action. Option D with AWS Config auto-remediation still allows a window where CloudTrail is disabled and also can be disabled or modified itself.

Therefore, the most robust and least bypassable approach is to use an SCP at the OU level to deny CloudTrail stop and delete actions.

Activating S3 server access logging and using Amazon Athena to create an external table with the log files is the easiest and most cost-effective way to analyze access patterns. This option requires minimal setup and allows for quick analysis of the access patterns with SQL queries. Additionally, Amazon Athena scales automatically to match the query load, so there is no need for additional infrastructure provisioning or management.

These solutions will meet the requirement because they will prevent the loss of notification messages in the future. An Amazon SQS queue is a service that provides a reliable, scalable, and secure message queue for asynchronous communication between distributed components. You can use an SQS queue to buffer messages from an SNS topic and ensure that they are delivered and processed by a Lambda function, even if the function or the database is temporarily unavailable.

Option C will configure an SQS dead-letter queue for the SNS topic. A dead-letter queue is a queue that receives messages that could not be delivered to any subscriber after a specified number of retries. You can use a dead-letter queue to store and analyze failed messages, or to reprocess them later. This way, you can avoid losing messages that could not be delivered to the Lambda function due to network errors, throttling, or other issues.

Option D will subscribe an SQS queue to the SNS topic and configure the Lambda function to process messages from the SQS queue. This will decouple the SNS topic from the Lambda function and provide more flexibility and control over the message delivery and processing. You can use an SQS queue to store messages from the SNS topic until they are ready to be processed by the Lambda function, and also to retry processing in case of failures. This way, you can avoid losing messages that could not be processed by the Lambda function due to database errors, timeouts, or other issues.