AWS Certified Specialty SCS-C01 Exam Questions and Answers PDF

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Question 124

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.)

Options:

Disable termination protection for the EC2 instance if termination protection has not been disabled.

Enable termination protection for the EC2 instance if termination protection has not been enabled.

Take snapshots of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) data volumes that are attached to the EC2 instance.

Remove all snapshots of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) data volumes that are attached to the EC2 instance.

Capture the EC2 instance metadata, and then tag the EC2 instance as under quarantine.

Immediately remove any entries in the EC2 instance metadata that contain sensitive information.

Question 125

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

Please select:

Options:

A Bastion host should be on a private subnet and never a public subnet due to security concerns

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

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.

A Bastion host should maintain extremely tight security and monitoring as it is available to the public

Question 126

A company has multiple accounts in the AWS Cloud. Users in the developer account need to have access to specific resources in the production account.

What is the MOST secure way to provide this access?

Options:

Create one IAM user in the production account. Grant the appropriate permissions to the resources that are needed. Share the password only with the users that need access.

Create cross-account access with an IAM role in the developer account. Grant the appropriate permissions to this role. Allow users in the developer account to assume this role to access the production resources.

Create cross-account access with an IAM user account in the production account. Grant the appropriate permissions to this user account. Allow users in the developer account to use this user account to access the production resources.

Create cross-account access with an IAM role in the production account. Grant the appropriate permissions to this role. Allow users in the developer account to assume this role to access the production resources.

Question 127

An application team wants to use IAM Certificate Manager (ACM) to request public certificates to ensure that data is secured in transit. The domains that are being used are not currently hosted on Amazon Route 53

The application team wants to use an IAM managed distribution and caching solution to optimize requests to its systems and provide better points of presence to customers The distribution solution will use a primary domain name that is customized The distribution solution also will use several alternative domain names The certificates must renew automatically over an indefinite period of time

Which combination of steps should the application team take to deploy this architecture? (Select THREE.)

Options:

Request a certificate (torn ACM in the us-west-2 Region Add the domain names that the certificate will secure

Send an email message to the domain administrators to request vacation of the domains for ACM

Request validation of the domains for ACM through DNS Insert CNAME records into each domain's DNS zone

Create an Application Load Balancer for me caching solution Select the newly requested certificate from ACM to be used for secure connections

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution for the caching solution Enter the main CNAME record as the Origin Name Enter the subdomain names or alternate names in the Alternate Domain Names Distribution Settings Select the newly requested certificate from ACM to be used for secure connections

Request a certificate from ACM in the us-east-1 Region Add the domain names that the certificate wil secure

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