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Domain 2: Security and Compliance Flashcards

1
Q

What is associated with the access keys that are used
in managing your cloud resources
via the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ? ***

A

IAM User

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Associated with an identity or resource,

defines their permissions

A

IAM Policy

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3
Q

How can you apply
and manage
common access permissions for a large number of IAM users
in AWS?

A

Attach the necessary policies
or permissions
required to a new IAM Group

then afterwards, add the IAM Users to the IAM group

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4
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A collection of IAM users.

It lets you specify permissions for multiple users,
which can make it easier
to manage the permissions for those users

A

IAM Group

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5
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An automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS.

Automatically assesses applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices

A

AWS Inspector

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6
Q

What are the things that you can implement
to improve the security of your
Identity and Access Management (IAM) users?

A

Configure a strong password policy for your users and Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

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7
Q

In the VPC dashboard of your AWS Management Console, which of the following services or feature below can you manage?

A

Network ACLs and Security Groups

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8
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These services have their own respective dashboards

A

Amazon CloudFront,
AWS Lambda,
and Amazon Route 53

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Lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define

A

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

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10
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Shared control between AWS and the customer

A
  1. Patch Management
  2. Configuration Management
  3. Awareness and Training
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11
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Inherited controls

which a customer fully inherits from AWS

A

Physical and Environmental controls

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12
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Customer specific controls

which are solely the responsibility of the customer based on the application they are deploying within AWS services

A

Service and Communications Protection or Zone Security which may require a customer to route or zone data within specific security environments

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13
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Customer Responsibility for security ‘in’ the cloud

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  1. Customer Data
  2. Platform, applications, identity & access management
  3. OS, Network & Firewall Configuration
  4. Client-side data encryption & data integrity authentication
  5. Server-side encryption
  6. Networking traffic protection
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AWS Responsibility for security ‘of’ the Cloud

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  1. Software (compute, storage, database, networking)

2. Hardware/AWS Global Infrastructure (regions, availability zones, edge locations)

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15
Q

There is an incident with your team where an S3 object was deleted using an account without the owner’s knowledge.

What can be done to prevent unauthorized deletion of your S3 objects?

A

Configure MFA delete on the S3 bucket

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16
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You are permitted to conduct security assessments and penetration testing without prior approval against which AWS resources?

A

Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora

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17
Q

Allowed Services to conduct security assessments

A
  • Amazon EC2 instances, Nat Gateways, and ELB’s
  • Amazon RDS, CloudFront, Aurora,
    API Gateways, Lightsail resources
  • AWS Lambda and Lambda Edge functions
  • Amazon Elastic Beanstalk environments
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18
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Prohibited Activities to conduct security assessments

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  • DNS zone walking via Amazon Route 53 Hosted Zones
  • DoS, DDoS, simulated Dos, Simulated DDoS
  • Port flooding
  • Procotol flooding
  • Request flooding (login request flooding, API request flooding)
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19
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Network Access Control List (ACL)

A

An optional layer of security for your VPC that acts as a firewall for controlling traffic in and out of one or more subnets

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20
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Security Group

A

Used to secure your EC2 instances and RDS databases in a similar way with how network ACLs work.

However, they are not used for subnet security

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21
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AWS IAM

A

It is a service used for account and user management

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22
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AWS Config

A

It is a tool that checks for resource compliance in your account

23
Q

Amazon Cognito Identity Pool

A

Should use if you need to provide temporary AWS credentials for users who have been authenticated via their social media logins as well as for guest users who do not require any authentication

24
Q

Amazon Cognito User Pool

A

A user directory in Amazon Cognito

25
Q

Amazon Cognito Sync

A

A client library that enables cross-device syncing of application-related user data

26
Q

AWS GovCloud

A

An isolated AWS Region

which is designed to allow U.S. government agencies and customers to move sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements

27
Q

AWS Certificate Manager

A

Lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources.

This service does not store certifications or compliance-related documents

28
Q

What is the most secure way to provide applications temporary access to your AWS resources?

A

Create an IAM role and have the application assume the role

29
Q

Amazon GuardDuty

A

A threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behaviour to protect your AWS accounts and workloads

30
Q

AWS Shield

A

Managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS

31
Q

Amazon Macie

A

A machine learning-powered security service that discovers, classifies, and protects sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII)
or intellectual property

32
Q

Amazon Cognito

A

Primarily used if you want to add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily

33
Q

IAM Policy Simulator

A

Use to test and troubleshoot IAM and resource-based policies?

34
Q

Which of the following policies grant the necessary permissions required to access your Amazon S3 resources?

A

User policies and Bucket policies

35
Q

What is the best way to keep track of all activities made in your AWS account?

A

Create a multi-region trail in AWS CloudTrail

36
Q

What service acts as a firewall for your EC2 instances?

A

Security Group

37
Q

Elastic Network Interface

A

A logical networking component in a VPC that represents a virtual network card.

It does not serve as a virtual firewall for your instances

38
Q

What is an account alias is in IAM?

A

A substitute for an account ID in the web address for your account

39
Q

Which of the following do you need to programmatically interact with your AWS environment?

A

AWS SDK and Access keys

40
Q

Which compliance requirement has AWS achieved that allows handling of medical information?

A

HIPAA

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

41
Q

PCI DSS

A

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

This is a set of security standards designed to ensure that ALL companies that accept, process, store, or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment

42
Q

SOC 1

A

System and Organization Controls 1

This is a report on Controls at a Service Organization which are relevant to user entities internal control over financial reporting

43
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SOC 2

A

System and Organization Controls 2

This is focused more on making sure that systems are set up so they assure security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of customer data

44
Q

A company plans to work with a third-party provider to deploy a new application that will be accessed globally.

You need to delegate permissions to access resources without using permanent credentials.

What should you use?

A

IAM Role

Are a secure way to grant permissions to entities you trust without creating dedicated user accounts

45
Q

Service Control Policy

A

This is a feature of AWS Organizations.

It’s a policy that specifies the services and actions that users and roles can use in the accounts that the SCP affects.

They’re similar to IAM permission policies except that they don’t grant any permissions.

Instead, They’re are just filters that allow only the specified services and actions to be used in affected accounts

46
Q

What service will allow you to safely store and automatically rotate database secrets for services such as Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift?

A

AWS Secrets Manager

47
Q

AWS Secrets Manager

A

Helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. The service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle

48
Q

VPC Endpoint

A

Enables you to privately connect your VPC to Amazon S3 without requiring an internet gateway, NAT device, VPN connection, or AWS Direct Connect connection

49
Q

AWS Abuse

A

Addresses many different types of potentially abusive activities such as phishing, malware, spam, and denial of service (DoS) or distributed denial of service (DDoS) incidents.

When abuse is reported, we alert customers so they can take the remediation action that is necessary.

Customers want to build automation for handling abuse events and the actions to remediate them

50
Q

Which AWS services should you use to upload

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates?

A

AWS IAM and AWS Certificate Manager

51
Q

The Chief Technology Officer wants to control the use of services across multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organizations. What service must be used to satisfy this requirement?

A

Service Control Policy

52
Q

AWS Systems Manager

A

Automates common maintenance and deployment tasks of EC2 instances and other AWS resources

53
Q

A company plans to restrict access to content served from an Amazon S3 bucket using Amazon CloudFront.

What features can you use to satisfy this requirement?

A

Origin Access Identity

54
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IAM User

A

Make use of access keys for long-term programmatic credentials.

Access keys consist of two parts:

access key ID and a secret access key.

You can use access keys to sign programmatic requests to the AWS CLI or AWS API

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