AWS SCS-C02 Certification Exam Sample Questions

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AWS SCS-C02 Sample Questions:

01. A Security Engineer must set up security group rules for a three-tier application:

- Presentation tier – Accessed by users over the web, protected by the security group presentation-sg
- Logic tier – RESTful API accessed from the presentation tier through HTTPS, protected by the security group logic-sg
- Data tier – SQL Server database accessed over port 1433 from the logic tier, protected by the security group data-sg

Which combination of the following security group rules will allow the application to be secure and functional?
(Select THREE.)
a) presentation-sg: Allow ports 80 and 443 from 0.0.0.0/0
b) data-sg: Allow port 1433 from presentation-sg
c) data-sg: Allow port 1433 from logic-sg
d) presentation-sg: Allow port 1433 from data-sg
e) logic-sg: Allow port 443 from presentation-sg
f) logic-sg: Allow port 443 from 0.0.0.0/0

 

02. An Application team is designing a solution with two applications. The Security team wants the applications' logs to be captured in two different places, because one of the applications produces logs with sensitive data.
Which solution meets the requirement with the LEAST risk and effort?
a) Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to capture all logs, write an AWS Lambda function that parses the log file, and move sensitive data to a different log.
b) Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs with two log groups, with one for each application, and use an AWS IAM policy to control access to the log groups, as required.
c) Aggregate logs into one file, then use Amazon CloudWatch Logs, and then design two CloudWatch metric filters to filter sensitive data from the logs.
d) Add logic to the application that saves sensitive data logs on the Amazon EC2 instances' local storage, and write a batch script that logs into the Amazon EC2 instances and moves sensitive logs to a secure location.

 

03. A company is hosting a web application on AWS and is using an Amazon S3 bucket to store images. Users should have the ability to read objects in the bucket. A Security Engineer has written the following bucket policy to grant public read access:

Attempts to read an object, however, receive the error: "Action does not apply to any resource(s) in statement.” What should the Engineer do to fix the error?
a) Change the IAM permissions by applying PutBucketPolicy permissions.
b) Verify that the policy has the same name as the bucket name. If not, make it the same.
c) Change the resource section to "arn:aws:s3:::appbucket/*".
d) Add an s3:ListBucket action.

 

04. A Security Engineer has been informed that a user’s access key has been found on GitHub. The Engineer must ensure that this access key cannot continue to be used, and must assess whether the access key was used to perform any unauthorized activities.

Which steps must be taken to perform these tasks?
a) Review the user's IAM permissions and delete any unrecognized or unauthorized resources.
b) Delete the user, review Amazon CloudWatch Logs in all regions, and report the abuse.
c) Delete or rotate the user’s key, review the AWS CloudTrail logs in all regions, and delete any unrecognized or unauthorized resources.
d) Instruct the user to remove the key from the GitHub submission, rotate keys, and re-deploy any instances that were launched.

 

05. A corporate cloud security policy states that communication between the company's VPC and KMS must travel entirely within the AWS network and not use public service endpoints.

Which combination of the following actions MOST satisfies this requirement?
(Select TWO.)
a) Add the aws:sourceVpce condition to the AWS KMS key policy referencing the company's VPC endpoint ID.
b) Remove the VPC internet gateway from the VPC and add a virtual private gateway to the VPC to prevent direct, public internet connectivity.
c) Create a VPC endpoint for AWS KMS with private DNS enabled.
d) Use the KMS Import Key feature to securely transfer the AWS KMS key over a VPN.
e) Add the following condition to the AWS KMS key policy: "aws:SourceIp": "10.0.0.0/16".

 

06. When testing a new AWS Lambda function that retrieves items from an Amazon DynamoDB table, the Security Engineer notices that the function was not logging any data to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
The following policy was assigned to the role assumed by the Lambda function:

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "Dynamo-1234567",
"Action": [
"dynamodb:GetItem"
],
"Effect": "Allow",
"Resource": "*"
}
}
Which least-privilege policy addition would allow this function to log properly?
a) {
"Sid": "Logging-12345",
"Resource": "*",
"Action": [
"logs:*"
],
"Effect": "Allow"
}
b) {
"Sid": "Logging-12345",
"Resource": "*",
"Action": [
"logs:CreateLogStream"
],
"Effect": "Allow"
}
c) {
"Sid": "Logging-12345",
"Resource": "*",
"Action": [
"logs:CreateLogGroup",
"logs:CreateLogStream",
"logs:PutLogEvents"
],
"Effect": "Allow"
}
d) {
"Sid": "Logging-12345",
"Resource": "*",
"Action": [
"logs:CreateLogGroup",
"logs:CreateLogStream",
"logs:DeleteLogGroup",
"logs:DeleteLogStream",
"logs:getLogEvents",
"logs:PutLogEvents"
],
"Effect": "Allow"
}

 

07. A company is building a data lake on Amazon S3. The data consists of millions of small files containing sensitive information.

The Security team has the following requirements for the architecture:
- Data must be encrypted in transit.
- Data must be encrypted at rest.
- The bucket must be private, but if the bucket is accidentally made public, the data must remain confidential.
Which combination of steps would meet the requirements?
(Select TWO.)
a) Enable AES-256 encryption using server-side encryption with Amazon S3-managed encryption keys (SSE-S3) on the S3 bucket.
b) Enable default encryption with server-side encryption with AWS KMS-managed keys (SSE-KMS) on the S3 bucket.
c) Add a bucket policy that includes a deny if a PutObject request does not include aws:SecureTransport.
d) Add a bucket policy with aws:SourceIp to allow uploads and downloads from the corporate intranet only.
e) Enable Amazon Macie to monitor and act on changes to the data lake's S3 bucket.

 

08. A Security Engineer must ensure that all API calls are collected across all company accounts, and that they are preserved online and are instantly available for analysis for 90 days. For compliance reasons, this data must be restorable for 7 years.
Which steps must be taken to meet the retention needs in a scalable, cost-effective way?
a) Enable AWS CloudTrail logging across all accounts to a centralized Amazon S3 bucket with versioning enabled. Set a lifecycle policy to move the data to Amazon Glacier daily, and expire the data after 90 days.
b) Enable AWS CloudTrail logging across all accounts to S3 buckets. Set a lifecycle policy to expire the data in each bucket after 7 years.
c) Enable AWS CloudTrail logging across all accounts to Amazon Glacier. Set a lifecycle policy to expire the data after 7 years.
d) Enable AWS CloudTrail logging across all accounts to a centralized Amazon S3 bucket. Set a lifecycle policy to move the data to Amazon Glacier after 90 days, and expire the data after 7 years.

 

09. A company decides to place database hosts in its own VPC, and to set up VPC peering to different VPCs containing the application and web tiers. The application servers are unable to connect to the database.
Which network troubleshooting steps should be taken to resolve the issue?
(Select TWO.)
a) Check to see if the application servers are in a private subnet or public subnet.
b) Check the route tables for the application server subnets for routes to the VPC peering connection.
c) Check the NACLs for the database subnets for rules that allow traffic from the internet.
d) Check the database security groups for rules that allow traffic from the application servers.
e) Check to see if the database VPC has an internet gateway

 

10. Why is it important to scan network logs?
a) To keep an eye on what the employees on your network are doing.
b) To ensure there are no dropped packets or high latency.
c) To be alerted to unusual traffic entering and exiting your network as a potential security event.
d) To know if access has been made to your private S3 buckets.

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