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An external auditor finds that a company's user passwords have no minimum length. The company is currently using two identity providers: ✑ AWS IAM federated with on-premises Active Directory ✑ Amazon Cognito user pools to accessing an AWS Cloud application developed by the company Which combination of actions should the security engineer take to solve this issue? (Choose two.)
Answer: AD
A company is hosting a web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application has become the target of a DoS attack. Application logging shows that requests are coming from a small number of client IP addresses, but the addresses change regularly. The company needs to block the malicious traffic with a solution that requires the least amount of ongoing effort. Which solution meets these requirements?
Answer: A
What's that mean "a small number of client IP addresses, but the addresses change regularly.": v if small number, why not use C =)) i thing this question not exactlty, "small" is redundant words ?
Source: Adapted from community discussion — Sodev
A company's 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 to Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 Level 3. Which solution meets these requirements?
Answer: C
A company has hundreds of AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company operates out of a single AWS Region. The company has a dedicated security tooling AWS account in the organization. The security tooling account is configured as the organization's delegated administrator for Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub. The company has configured the environment to automatically enable GuardDuty and Security Hub for existing AWS accounts and new AWS accounts. The company is performing control tests on specific GuardDuty findings to make sure that the company's security team can detect and respond to security events. The security team launched an Amazon EC2 instance and attempted to run DNS requests against a test domain, example.com, to generate a DNS finding. However, the GuardDuty finding was never created in the Security Hub delegated administrator account. Why was the finding was not created in the Security Hub delegated administrator account?
Answer: B
> Note: GuardDuty only processes DNS logs if you use the default VPC DNS resolver. All other types of DNS resolvers won't generated DNS based findings. https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/guardduty-finding-types
Source: Adapted from community discussion — bannium
A company's security engineer has been asked to monitor and report all AWS account root user activities. Which of the following would enable the security engineer to monitor and report all root user activities? (Choose two.)
Answer: BE
An ecommerce company has a web application architecture that runs primarily on containers. The application containers are deployed on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The container images for the application are stored in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). The company's security team is performing an audit of components of the application architecture. The security team identifies issues with some container images that are stored in the container repositories. The security team wants to address these issues by implementing continual scanning and on-push scanning of the container images. The security team needs to implement a solution that makes any findings from these scans visible in a centralized dashboard. The security team plans to use the dashboard to view these findings along with other security-related findings that they intend to generate in the future. There are specific repositories that the security team needs to exclude from the scanning process. Which solution will meet these requirements?
Answer: A
Amazon Inspector supports the configuration of inclusion rules to select which ECR repositories are scanned. Please see more information here - https://aws.amazon.com/inspector/faqs/
Source: Adapted from community discussion — AgboolaKun
A security engineer needs to ensure their company's use of AWS meets AWS security best practices. As part of this, the AWS 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?
Answer: A
A company has a single AWS account and uses an Amazon EC2 instance to test application code. The company recently discovered that the instance was compromised. The instance was serving up malware. The analysis of the instance showed that the instance was compromised 35 days ago. A security engineer must implement a continuous monitoring solution that automatically notifies the company's security team about compromised instances through an email distribution list for high severity findings. The security engineer must implement the solution as soon as possible. Which combination of steps should the security engineer take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
Answer: BCE
AWS Security Hub does not have any scanning capabilities. It provides you with a comprehensive view of your security state only.
Source: Adapted from community discussion — WeepingMaplte
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 AWS services should be included in the plan? (Choose two.)
Answer: AE
A company uses identity federation to authenticate users into an identity account (987654321987) where the users assume an IAM role named IdentityRole. The users then assume an IAM role named JobFunctionRole in the target AWS account (123456789123) to perform their job functions. A user is unable to assume the IAM role in the target account. The policy attached to the role in the identity account is:
What should be done to enable the user to assume the appropriate role in the target account?
Answer: B
When an user is unable to assume a role in the target account, one should check the principal element in the trust policy in the JobFunctionRole in the target account. Refer to this article to understand permission vs trust policies. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/permission-policy-vs-trust-aws-rupesh-tiwari/
Source: Adapted from community discussion — Daniel76
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