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The Security Engineer for a mobile game has to implement a method to authenticate users so that they can save their progress. Because most of the users are part of the same OpenID-Connect compatible

Question 162

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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,

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A Security Engineer has been asked to create an automated process to disable IAM user access keys that are more than three months old. Which of the following options should the Security Engineer use

Question 164

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The InfoSec team has mandated that in the future only approved Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) can be used. How can the InfoSec team ensure compliance with this mandate?

Question 165

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A pharmaceutical company has digitized versions of historical prescriptions stored on premises. The company would like to move these prescriptions to AWS and perform analytics on the data in them. A

Question 166

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The Security Engineer created a new AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key with the following key policy: What are the effects of the key policy? (Choose two.)

Question 167

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A company uses AWS Organization to manage 50 AWS accounts. The finance staff members log in as AWS IAM users in the FinanceDept AWS account. The staff members need to read the consolidated billing i

Question 168

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Which approach will generate automated security alerts should too many unauthorized AWS API requests be identified?

Question 169

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Amazon CloudWatch Logs agent is successfully delivering logs to the CloudWatch Logs service. However, logs stop being delivered after the associated log stream has been active for a specific number

Question 170

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A company has deployed a custom DNS server in AWS. The Security Engineer wants to ensure that Amazon EC2 instances cannot use the Amazon-provided DNS. How can the Security Engineer block access to t

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A Security Administrator is configuring an Amazon S3 bucket and must meet the following security requirements: Encryption in transit Encryption at rest Logging of all object retrievals in AWS CloudTrail Which of the following meet these security requirements? (Choose three.)

A company's cloud operations team is responsible for building effective security for AWS crossaccount access. The team asks a security engineer to help troubleshoot why some developers in the developer account (123456789012) in the developers group are not able to assume a cross-account role (ReadS3) into a production account (999999999999) to read the contents of an Amazon S3 bucket (productionapp). The two account policies are as follows: Which recommendations should the security engineer make to resolve this issue? (Select TWO.)

A security engineer needs to configure monitoring and auditing for AWS Lambda. Which combination of actions using AWS services should the security engineer take to accomplish this goal? (Select TWO.)

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 company’s information security team wants to analyze Amazon EC2 performance and utilization data in the near-real time for anomalies. A Sec Engineer is responsible for log aggregation. The Engineer must collect logs from all of the company’s AWS accounts in centralized location to perform the analysis. How should the Security Engineer do this? Log in to each account four te a day and filter the AWS CloudTrail log data, then copy and paste the logs in to the Amazon S3 bucket in the destination account.

A company has an encrypted Amazon Aurora DB cluster in the us-east-1 Region. The DB cluster is encrypted with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key. To meet compliance requirements, the company needs to copy a DB snapshot to the us-west-1 Region. However, when the company tries to copy the snapshot to us-west-1 the company cannot access the key that was used to encrypt the original database. What should the company do to set up the snapshot in us-west-1 with proper encryption?

A company's Security Team received an email notification from the Amazon EC2 Abuse team that one or more of the company's Amazon EC2 instances may have been compromised Which combination of actions should the Security team take to respond to (be current modem? (Select TWO.)

A company's web application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances running behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in an Auto Scaling group. An AWS WAF web ACL is associated with the ALB. AWS CloudTrail is enabled, and stores logs in Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudWatch Logs. The operations team has observed some EC2 instances reboot at random. After rebooting, all access logs on the instances have been deleted. During an investigation, the operations team found that each reboot happened just after a PHP error occurred on the new-user-creation.php file. The operations team needs to view log information to determine if the company is being attacked. Which set of actions will identify the suspect attacker's IP address for future occurrences?

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 has two AW5 accounts within AWS Organizations. In Account-1. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is launched using a service-linked role. In Account-2. Amazon EBS volumes are encrypted with an AWS KMS key A Security Engineer needs to ensure that the service-linked role can launch instances with these encrypted volumes Which combination of steps should the Security Engineer take in both accounts? (Select TWO.)

Question 161

The Security Engineer for a mobile game has to implement a method to authenticate users so that they can save their progress. Because most of the users are part of the same OpenID-Connect compatible social media website, the Security Engineer would like to use that as the identity provider.

Which solution is the SIMPLEST way to allow the authentication of users using their social media identities?

Amazon Cognito

AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity API

Amazon Cloud Directory

Active Directory (AD) Connector

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Question 162

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 outbound rules on the security group do not allow the response to be sent to the client on the ephemeral port range.

The outbound rules on the security group do not allow the response to be sent to the client on the HTTP port.

An outbound rule must be added to the network ACL to allow the response to be sent to the client on the ephemeral port range.

An outbound rule must be added to the network ACL to allow the response to be sent to the client on the HTTP port.

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Question 163

A Security Engineer has been asked to create an automated process to disable IAM user access keys that are more than three months old. Which of the following options should the Security Engineer use?

In the AWS Console, choose the IAM service and select “Users”. Review the “Access Key Age” column.

Define an IAM policy that denies access if the key age is more than three months and apply to all users.

Write a script that uses the GenerateCredentialReport, GetCredentialReport, and UpdateAccessKey APIs.

Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to detect aged access keys and use an AWS Lambda function to disable the keys older than 90 days.

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Question 164

The InfoSec team has mandated that in the future only approved Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) can be used. How can the InfoSec team ensure compliance with this mandate?

Terminate all Amazon EC2 instances and relaunch them with approved AMIs.

Patch all running instances by using AWS Systems Manager.

Deploy AWS Config rules and check all running instances for compliance.

Define a metric filter in Amazon CloudWatch Logs to verify compliance.

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Question 165

A pharmaceutical company has digitized versions of historical prescriptions stored on premises. The company would like to move these prescriptions to AWS and perform analytics on the data in them. Any operation with this data requires that the data be encrypted in transit and at rest.

Which application flow would meet the data protection requirements on AWS?

Digitized files -> Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

Digitized files -> Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose -> Amazon S3 -> Amazon Athena

Digitized files -> Amazon Kinesis Data Streams -> Kinesis Client Library consumer -> Amazon S3 -> Athena

Digitized files -> Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose -> Amazon Elasticsearch

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Question 166

The Security Engineer created a new AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key with the following key policy:

What are the effects of the key policy? (Choose two.)

The policy allows access for the AWS account 111122223333 to manage key access though IAM policies.

The policy allows all IAM users in account 111122223333 to have full access to the KMS key.

The policy allows the root user in account 111122223333 to have full access to the KMS key.

The policy allows the KMS service-linked role in account 111122223333 to have full access to the KMS key.

The policy allows all IAM roles in account 111122223333 to have full access to the KMS key.

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Question 167

A company uses AWS Organization to manage 50 AWS accounts. The finance staff members log in as AWS IAM users in the FinanceDept AWS account. The staff members need to read the consolidated billing information in the MasterPayer AWS account. They should not be able to view any other resources in the MasterPayer AWS 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?

Create an IAM group for the finance users in the FinanceDept account, then attach the AWS managed ReadOnlyAccess IAM policy to the group.

Create an IAM group for the finance users in the MasterPayer account, then attach the AWS managed ReadOnlyAccess IAM policy to the group.

Create an AWS IAM role in the FinanceDept account with the ViewBilling permission, then grant the finance users in the MasterPayer account the permission to assume that role.

Create an AWS IAM role in the MasterPayer account with the ViewBilling permission, then grant the finance users in the FinanceDept account the permission to assume that role.

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Question 168

Which approach will generate automated security alerts should too many unauthorized AWS API requests be identified?

Create an Amazon CloudWatch metric filter that looks for API call error codes and then implement an alarm based on that metric’s rate.

Configure AWS CloudTrail to stream event data to Amazon Kinesis. Configure an AWS Lambda function on the stream to alarm when the threshold has been exceeded.

Run an Amazon Athena SQL query against CloudTrail log files. Use Amazon QuickSight to create an operational dashboard.

Use the Amazon Personal Health Dashboard to monitor the account’s use of AWS services, and raise an alert if service error rates increase.

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Question 169

Amazon CloudWatch Logs agent is successfully delivering logs to the CloudWatch Logs service.

However, logs stop being delivered after the associated log stream has been active for a specific number of hours. What steps are necessary to identify the cause of this phenomenon? (Choose two.)

Ensure that file permissions for monitored files that allow the CloudWatch Logs agent to read the file have not been modified.

Verify that the OS Log rotation rules are compatible with the configuration requirements for agent streaming.

Configure an Amazon Kinesis producer to first put the logs into Amazon Kinesis Streams.

Create a CloudWatch Logs metric to isolate a value that changes at least once during the period before logging stops.

Use AWS CloudFormation to dynamically create and maintain the configuration file for the CloudWatch Logs agent.

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Question 170

A company has deployed a custom DNS server in AWS. The Security Engineer wants to ensure that Amazon EC2 instances cannot use the Amazon-provided DNS. How can the Security Engineer block access to the Amazon-provided DNS in the VPC?

Deny access to the Amazon DNS IP within all security groups.

Add a rule to all network access control lists that deny access to the Amazon DNS IP.

Add a route to all route tables that black holes traffic to the Amazon DNS IP.

Disable DNS resolution within the VPC configuration.

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