Security Flashcards

1
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What is Cloud Trail?

A

A service that logs all API calls made your AWS account and stores these in logs in S3.

It monitors whats going on via API or console.

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2
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What is AWS Shield?

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Free DDOS Protection

Protects agains layer 3 and 4 attacks

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3
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What does AWS Shield Advanced give you?

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A 24/7 DDoS Response team at $3,000 a month

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4
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What is AWS WAF?

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Web Application Firewall

Lets you monitor the HTTP and HTTPS requests to your application.

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5
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What layer does WAF work on?

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Layer 7

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What is AWS Guard Duty?

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GuardDuty is a threat detection service that uses machine learning to continuously monitor for malicious behavior.

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7
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What is AWS Macie?

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A service that uses machine learning to find PII information in S3

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What is AWS Inspector?

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Automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS

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What is AWS Key Management Service? (AWS KMS?)

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A managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data

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10
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What are the three ways to generate a CMK?

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1) AWS Creates the CMK for you

2) You import key material from your own key management infrastructure and associate it with a CMK

3) Have the key material generated and used in an AWS CloudHSM cluster as part of the custom key store feature in AWK KMS

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11
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What is AWS Secrets Manager?

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A service that securely stores, encrypts, and rotates your database credentials and other secrets.

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What is AWS Parameter Store?

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A free version of AWS Secrets manager but you don’t get auto key rotation and need to have 10,000 or less parameters

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13
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What is AWS Cognito?

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Provides authentication, authorization, and user management for your web and mobile apps.

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14
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In general, what does a DDoS attack entail?

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A large number of connections overwhelms your architecture. Your application is unable to answer the legitimate requests that are sent to it.

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15
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What is the best way to deliver content from an S3 bucket that only allows users to view content for a set period of time?

A

Create a presigned URL using S3.

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16
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You need a single source you can visit to get the compliance-related information that matters to you, such as AWS security and compliance reports or select online agreements. Which service should you use?

A

AWS Artifact

17
Q

What does DDoS stand for?

A

Distributed Denial of Service

18
Q

True or False? Amazon Inspector requires an agent for host assessment rules packages.

A

True

19
Q

Which of the following is NOT a data source for GuardDuty?

A) RDS event history

B) VPC Flow Logs

C) CloudTrail logs

D) DNS query logs

A

A) RDS Event History

20
Q

What is a good use case for AWS Audit Manager?

A

To automatically produce reports specific to auditors for PCI compliance, GDPR, and more.

21
Q

What is the minimum length of time before you can schedule a KMS key to be deleted?

A

7 days

22
Q

Which of the following best describes AWS Firewall Manager?

A) A managed service that makes it easy to deploy physical firewall protection across your VPCs via its managed infrastructure (e.g., a physical firewall that is managed by AWS).

B) A service that provides authentication, authorization, and user management for your web and mobile apps without the need for custom code.

C) A security management service that allows you to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and applications.

D An automated service that produces reports specific to auditors for PCI compliance, GDPR, and more.

A

C) A security management service that allows you to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and applications.

23
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Which Layers does WAF provide protection on?

A

Layer 7

24
Q

Which service provides authentication, authorization, and user management for your web and mobile apps without the need for custom code?

A

Amazon Cognito

25
Q

What kind of findings can AWS Inspector discover?

A

Insufficient patching of applications on an EC2 instance.

26
Q

True or False? For customers on Business or Enterprise support plans, AWS Shield Advanced provides access to a 24/7 support team to help with DDoS issues.

A

True

27
Q

True or False? You must explicitly deny all IAM policy API calls that a user shouldn’t be able to make.

A

False

28
Q

You need a managed service that makes it easy to deploy physical firewall protection across your VPCs. Which service should you use?

A

AWS Network Firewall

29
Q

Where is the most cost effective place to store your database passwords in a secure manner?

A

Parameter Store

30
Q

What would you use AWS Network Firewall for?

A

As a way to deploy physical firewall protection across your VPCs via its managed infrastructure (e.g., a physical firewall that is managed by AWS).

31
Q

What is the easiest way to log API calls in AWS?

A

Enable CloudTrail and pick an S3 bucket to store the logs in.

32
Q

Which AWS service supports automatic rotation of RDS security credentials?

A

Secrets Manager

33
Q

Your boss requires automatic key rotation for your encrypted data. Which AWS service supports this?

A

KMS

34
Q

What kind of data can Macie identify?

A

Personal identifiable information (PII) such as names and addresses, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers

35
Q

Which Layers does AWS Shield Standard provide protection on?

A

Layers 3 and 4