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Your company is planning on using bastion hosts for administering the servers in AWS. Which of the following is the best description of a bastion host from a security perspective? Please select:

A.
A Bastion host should be on a private subnet and never a public subnet due to security concerns
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A.
A Bastion host should be on a private subnet and never a public subnet due to security concerns
B.
A Bastion host sits on the outside of an internal network and is used as a gateway into the private network and is considered the critical strong point of the network
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B.
A Bastion host sits on the outside of an internal network and is used as a gateway into the private network and is considered the critical strong point of the network
C.
Bastion hosts allow users to log in using RDP or SSH and use that session to S5H into internal network to access private subnet resources.
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C.
Bastion hosts allow users to log in using RDP or SSH and use that session to S5H into internal network to access private subnet resources.
D.
A Bastion host should maintain extremely tight security and monitoring as it is available to the public
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D.
A Bastion host should maintain extremely tight security and monitoring as it is available to the public
Suggested answer: C

Explanation:

A bastion host is a special purpose computer on a network specifically designed and configured to withstand attacks. The computer generally hosts a single application, for example a proxy server, and all other services are removed or limited to reduce the threat to the computer.

In AWS, A bastion host is kept on a public subnet. Users log on to the bastion host via SSH or RDP and then use that session to manage other hosts in the private subnets. Options A and B are invalid because the bastion host needs to sit on the public network. Option D is invalid because bastion hosts are not used for monitoring For more information on bastion hosts, just browse to the below URL:

https://docsaws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/linux-bastion/architecture.htlThe correct answer is: Bastion hosts allow users to log in using RDP or SSH and use that session toSSH into internal network to access private subnet resources. Submit your Feedback/Queries to our Experts

asked 16/09/2024
Takenobu Tanida
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