Management and Security Governance

A security engineer needs to grant cross-account read access to an S3 bucket in Account A to a user in Account B. What is the correct combination of actions?

A company uses AWS Config to evaluate resource compliance. The security team notices that the AWS::IAM::Group resource type is not supported by AWS Config managed rules. What is the best way to detect IAM groups that have an inline policy allowing 'iam:CreateUser'?

A company wants to use AWS CloudTrail to log all API activity across multiple accounts in AWS Organizations. Which configuration meets the requirement of centralized logging with minimal operational overhead?

A security team needs to audit all changes to IAM policies in their AWS account. Which AWS service should they use to record policy changes?

A company uses AWS Organizations with SCPs. The security team wants to ensure that no IAM user can be created without MFA. Which SCP should be applied at the root OU?

A security engineer needs to ensure that all EC2 instances launched in a development account are tagged with a cost center. What is the most effective way to enforce this?

A company wants to centrally manage access keys for IAM users. Which AWS service can generate and rotate access keys automatically?

A company uses AWS Config to record resources. Which TWO actions can be taken to automatically remediate non-compliant resources detected by AWS Config rules?

A company wants to implement least privilege access for a data analytics team that uses Amazon Athena to query data in S3. Which THREE steps should be taken?

A security engineer is designing a solution to protect sensitive data in S3. Which THREE mechanisms can be used to enforce encryption at rest?

Refer to the exhibit. A security engineer applies this bucket policy to an S3 bucket. A user without HTTPS tries to download an object. What is the outcome?

Refer to the exhibit. A role has two policies attached. The custom policy includes an Allow for s3:PutObject. An IAM user assumes this role and tries to upload a file to S3. What happens?

A company runs a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations. The security team uses AWS Config to monitor compliance. Recently, they noticed that a developer in the 'development' account created an S3 bucket that is publicly accessible. The security team wants to prevent this in the future by automatically remediating any public S3 bucket. They have an SCP that denies s3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock, but developers are still making buckets public by using bucket ACLs. The security team wants to implement a solution that automatically fixes any bucket that becomes public. Which solution should they choose?

A company uses AWS Organizations with a single management account and multiple member accounts. The security team needs to ensure that all member accounts automatically deploy AWS Config rules to audit security group configurations. Which solution meets this requirement with minimal operational overhead?

A security engineer is designing a solution to monitor and remediate non-compliant resources across multiple AWS accounts. The company uses AWS Organizations and wants to enforce that any S3 bucket with public read access is automatically remediated. The solution must be centralized and scalable. Which approach should the engineer take?

A company has multiple AWS accounts managed through AWS Organizations. The security team needs to ensure that no EC2 instances are launched without an approved Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Which governance control should be implemented?

A company wants to use AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. The security team requires that all templates are scanned for security vulnerabilities before deployment. Which service should be integrated into the pipeline?

A company uses AWS Secrets Manager to store database credentials. The security team needs to ensure that secrets are automatically rotated every 30 days. Which configuration should be used?

A security engineer is designing a governance framework for a multi-account AWS environment. The framework must enforce the principle of least privilege for cross-account access. Which TWO strategies should be implemented?

A company's security team is implementing controls to meet PCI DSS compliance. The environment includes Amazon EC2, RDS, and S3. Which THREE controls should be implemented to address logging and monitoring requirements?

A security engineer attaches the above SCP to an OU containing development accounts. The engineer expects that only t3.micro instances can be launched, but developers report that they cannot launch any EC2 instances. What is the MOST likely reason?

A security engineer reviews the above CloudTrail event. Which action should the engineer take FIRST to mitigate a potential security issue?

A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts and wants to ensure that all newly created S3 buckets have encryption enabled. The Security team needs a solution that automatically remediates non-compliant buckets without manual intervention. What should they do?

Which TWO of the following are valid methods to centrally manage security policies and enforce compliance across multiple AWS accounts? (Choose two.)

Refer to the exhibit. An organization applies this SCP to an OU containing a developer account. A developer in that account tries to launch an m5.large instance using the AWS Management Console. What is the outcome?

A company is using AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team wants to ensure that all IAM users in the organization have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled. Which combination of actions should be taken to enforce this requirement?

A security engineer is designing a governance framework for a multi-account AWS environment. The engineer needs to ensure that all accounts comply with the principle of least privilege for IAM roles and that any non-compliant resources are automatically reported. Which two AWS services should the engineer use together to achieve this? (Choose TWO.)

Refer to the exhibit. A security engineer applied the bucket policy shown. What is the effect of this policy?

Drag and drop the steps to set up a secure S3 bucket with encryption and access control in the correct order.

Match each AWS security control to its category.

A security engineer notices that an IAM role in the production account is being assumed by a user from another AWS account, which violates the principle of least privilege. The role's trust policy allows the root user of the external account. What is the MOST secure way to restrict access to only a specific user in the external account?

A company wants to automatically detect and remediate S3 buckets that are publicly accessible. Which AWS service can be used to evaluate bucket policies against a defined rule and trigger an automated response?

A company uses AWS Organizations with all features enabled. The security team wants to ensure that no IAM users are created in any account. Which approach should be used?

A company's security team needs to enforce encryption at rest for all RDS instances in the production account. They have enabled mandatory encryption using a service control policy. What else must be done to ensure existing unencrypted RDS instances are encrypted?

A company needs to audit all changes to IAM policies in their AWS account for compliance. Which AWS service should be enabled to record the API calls that modify IAM policies?

A company wants to centrally manage and enforce backup policies for all EC2 instances across multiple AWS accounts. Which AWS service should be used?

A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to ensure that no member account can disable AWS CloudTrail or delete CloudTrail log files from S3. Which TWO actions should the security team take? (Choose TWO.)

A security team needs to ensure that all IAM users in a production account use multi-factor authentication (MFA) before accessing the AWS Management Console. Which TWO steps should be taken? (Choose TWO.)

A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team needs to ensure that no account can disable a specific security service, such as AWS Config, across all accounts. Which approach should be used?

A company wants to centrally manage IAM users and allow them to access multiple AWS accounts using a single set of credentials. Which AWS service should be used?

A company wants to automate the enforcement of security best practices across all AWS accounts. Which AWS service provides pre-built rules for security compliance?

A security engineer discovers that an IAM user has a policy that allows them to delete any S3 bucket in the account. The engineer wants to audit all delete actions performed by this user. Which AWS service should be used?

A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to restrict the use of specific AWS services in member accounts. For example, they want to block the use of Amazon Redshift. Which policy type should be used?

Which THREE are benefits of using AWS CloudTrail for security governance? (Choose three.)

Which TWO are valid methods to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts? (Choose two.)

A developer needs to grant an IAM user read-only access to an S3 bucket containing sensitive data. The bucket is encrypted with an AWS KMS customer managed key. Which set of permissions must be included in the IAM policy?

A company's Security team is using AWS Organizations with a consolidated billing account. The security team wants to ensure that all member accounts have AWS CloudTrail enabled and that logs are delivered to a central S3 bucket in the management account. Which combination of actions should the security team take? (Choose the best answer.)

A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team wants to centrally manage IAM policies across all accounts. Which AWS feature should the team use to enforce permissions across member accounts?

A security engineer needs to grant an EC2 instance access to an S3 bucket without storing long-term credentials on the instance. Which approach should the engineer use?

A company wants to ensure that IAM users with console access have strong passwords. Which IAM password policy setting should the company configure to enforce the use of at least one uppercase letter?

A security engineer needs to audit all API calls made in an AWS account for the past 90 days. Which AWS service should the engineer use?

Which TWO actions are best practices for securing an AWS account root user? (Select TWO.)

A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team needs to enforce that all S3 buckets in the organization block public access. Which policy should be attached to the root organizational unit to achieve this?

A security engineer notices that an IAM user has been performing suspicious actions in an AWS account. The engineer needs to generate a credential report to identify the age of the user's access keys. Which AWS CLI command should the engineer run?

A security engineer is designing a solution to automatically remediate non-compliant resources in an AWS account. The engineer needs to trigger an AWS Lambda function when an EC2 instance is launched without the required tags. Which AWS service should be used to detect the non-compliant resource and invoke the Lambda function?

A company's security team wants to receive alerts when an IAM user creates a new access key. Which AWS service can be used to monitor and notify on this specific API call?

A security engineer is designing a cross-account access policy. The engineer has an S3 bucket in Account A and wants to grant read access to a user in Account B. Which combination of policies is required?

An organization uses AWS Organizations and wants to restrict the use of specific EC2 instance types across all member accounts. Which policy type should be used to enforce this restriction?

A company wants to log all API calls made in their AWS account for auditing. Which AWS service should be enabled to capture these logs?

A security engineer is reviewing the following IAM policy attached to a role. Which TWO actions are allowed by this policy? (Choose two.) ```json { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "s3:ListBucket", "s3:GetObject" ], "Resource": "*" } ] } ```

A company is implementing AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. Which THREE are benefits of using service control policies (SCPs)? (Choose three.)

Which TWO AWS services can be used to detect and alert on suspicious API activity in real-time? (Choose two.)

Refer to the exhibit. A security engineer attaches this S3 bucket policy to an S3 bucket. What is the effect of this policy?

Refer to the exhibit. A security engineer runs the get-trail-status command for a CloudTrail trail. The engineer notices that LatestCloudWatchLogsDeliveryTime is null. What does this indicate?

A company wants to enforce that all IAM users in an AWS account must have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled. Which AWS service can be used to automatically detect and remediate non-compliant users?

A security engineer needs to centrally manage and enforce security policies across multiple AWS accounts in an organization. Which AWS service should they use?

A company's security team discovers that an IAM role has been assumed from an unexpected external AWS account. Which AWS service can be used to analyze the trust policy and identify unintended access?

A company wants to automatically detect and notify about any S3 buckets that have public read access. Which combination of services should be used?

A security engineer needs to ensure that all new IAM users are created with a strong password policy enforced. Which action should be taken?

A security team wants to audit all changes to IAM policies in the AWS account. Which AWS service should be used to track these changes?

A security engineer notices that an S3 bucket policy allows access to a principal from another AWS account. Which AWS feature can be used to check if this external access is intended?

A company wants to run a security assessment that checks for vulnerabilities in an EC2 instance. Which AWS service should be used?

Which TWO actions should a security engineer take to ensure that an S3 bucket is not publicly accessible? (Choose two.)

Which TWO AWS services can be used to enforce that specific resource types (e.g., EC2 instances) are tagged with a 'CostCenter' tag? (Choose two.)

A security engineer needs to ensure that an Amazon S3 bucket is not publicly accessible. Which AWS service can be used to continuously monitor and alert if the bucket becomes public?

A security engineer needs to automate the response to an AWS CloudTrail log event that indicates a potential security threat. Which AWS service would be most appropriate to orchestrate the automated response?

A company has an AWS account with a single VPC and multiple subnets. The security team wants to ensure that no network ACL (NACL) allows inbound SSH (port 22) from 0.0.0.0/0. Which AWS service can be used to detect and alert on such non-compliant NACLs?

A company needs to audit all changes to IAM policies in its AWS account. Which AWS service should be used to record the change history of IAM policies?

A security engineer needs to generate a report of all AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users who have not used their access keys in the last 90 days. Which AWS service can provide this information?

A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to restrict the AWS Regions in which resources can be created across all member accounts. Which mechanism should be used?

A security engineer needs to implement a solution to detect and alert on suspicious API calls in an AWS account. Which TWO AWS services should be integrated to achieve this? (Choose two.)

A company wants to centrally manage and enforce security policies across multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organizations. Which THREE actions should be taken? (Choose three.)

A company needs to ensure that its S3 buckets are not publicly accessible. Which TWO AWS services can be used to detect and report on public S3 buckets? (Choose two.)

A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team wants to ensure that all newly created accounts automatically have AWS CloudTrail enabled, with logs delivered to a centralized S3 bucket. Which solution meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?

A security engineer needs to audit all IAM role creations across an AWS account. Which AWS service should be used to log these API calls?

A company has a requirement that all access keys for IAM users must be rotated every 90 days. A security engineer needs to implement an automated solution to identify and disable keys that are older than 90 days. Which approach meets the requirement with the least operational overhead?

A company wants to grant cross-account access to an S3 bucket owned by Account A to a user in Account B. The bucket policy in Account A allows access from Account B. What additional configuration is required?

A company wants to enforce that all IAM users use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access the AWS Management Console. Which AWS service can be used to enforce this requirement?

A security team needs to centralize audit logs from multiple AWS accounts into a single S3 bucket. The solution must be scalable and support future account additions. Which approach meets these requirements?

This SCP is attached to an organizational unit (OU). A developer in an account within the OU tries to launch a t2.small instance. What is the outcome?

A company has an AWS account with multiple S3 buckets that contain sensitive data. The security team wants to ensure that no public access is granted to any bucket. The team has enabled AWS Config and set up a rule to detect public buckets. The rule reports that all buckets are compliant. However, during a security review, a team member finds that one bucket has a bucket policy that grants 's3:GetObject' to 'Principal': '*'. Why did the AWS Config rule not detect this?

A security engineer is auditing an S3 bucket policy that allows cross-account access. The engineer wants to ensure that only encrypted connections are permitted. Which condition should be added to the policy?

A company uses AWS Organizations with all features enabled. The security team needs to ensure that no member account can disable AWS CloudTrail logging or delete CloudTrail logs stored in S3. Which combination of preventive controls should be implemented?

A security engineer is designing a system to centrally manage IAM users and roles across multiple AWS accounts. The company uses AWS Organizations. Which AWS service should be used to manage permissions across accounts?

A company has a requirement to automatically rotate secrets for an RDS database every 90 days. The secrets are stored in AWS Secrets Manager. Which resource should be configured to perform the rotation?

A security engineer is implementing a data classification policy for an S3 bucket that contains sensitive customer data. The policy requires that all objects be encrypted at rest using AWS KMS and that any attempt to upload an unencrypted object be denied. Which THREE steps should the engineer take to enforce this policy? (Choose THREE.)

A company is using AWS Organizations and wants to restrict the use of specific AWS services in member accounts. Which TWO approaches can be used to enforce these restrictions? (Choose TWO.)

A security engineer runs the above CloudTrail lookup command to investigate a change to the S3 bucket policy. The command only returns one event, but the engineer knows that the bucket policy was changed multiple times. What is the most likely reason?

A startup is deploying a web application on AWS. The application runs on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The security team wants to ensure that all traffic to the EC2 instances is encrypted. They configure the ALB to listen on HTTPS (port 443) and forward traffic to the EC2 instances on HTTP (port 80). Additionally, they create a security group for the EC2 instances that only allows inbound traffic from the ALB's security group on port 80. However, a security audit reveals that the traffic between the ALB and EC2 instances is not encrypted. Which step should the security team take to encrypt the traffic between the ALB and EC2 instances?

A company uses AWS Organizations and has a requirement to enforce that all EC2 instances launched in any account must have a specific tag "Environment" with value "Production". The security team wants to prevent any instance without this tag from being launched. They implement a service control policy (SCP) that denies the ec2:RunInstances action if the request does not include the required tag. However, they find that users are still able to launch instances without the tag. The SCP is attached to the root OU. The team also has an IAM policy that allows ec2:RunInstances with no conditions. What is the most likely reason the SCP is not preventing the launches?

A security engineer needs to ensure that all API calls made to AWS services are logged for auditing. Which AWS service should be used?

A company wants to enforce that all S3 buckets are encrypted with SSE-KMS. Which AWS service can be used to automatically remediate non-compliant buckets?

A security team needs to centrally manage permissions for multiple AWS accounts. Which AWS service should they use?

A security engineer notices that an IAM user has been inactive for 90 days. What is the best way to identify and disable such users?

A security engineer needs to monitor for unauthorized API calls in real-time. Which combination of services should be used?

Which AWS service allows you to create and manage encryption keys for your AWS resources?

Which TWO actions should a security engineer take to protect root user credentials? (Select TWO.)

Which THREE AWS services can be used to centrally manage security across multiple accounts? (Select THREE.)

Which TWO are best practices for managing IAM policies? (Select TWO.)

Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy attached to a user allows s3:GetObject only from a specific IP range and denies all S3 actions if not using HTTPS. What happens when the user makes a GET request from IP 10.0.0.5 using HTTP?

A security engineer is designing a solution to enforce that all S3 buckets in an AWS account have server-side encryption enabled. The engineer needs to automatically remediate any non-compliant buckets. Which AWS service should be used to implement this requirement?

A company uses AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to encrypt sensitive data in Amazon S3. The security team needs to ensure that the KMS key can only be used from within the company's VPC and not from the public internet. How can this be achieved?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to centrally manage and audit permissions across multiple AWS accounts? (Choose two.)

A security engineer runs the get-account-authorization-details command and sees the exhibit output. The engineer wants to ensure that the 'admin' user does not have administrative access. Which steps should be taken?

A security engineer is designing a centralized logging solution for a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations. The solution must ensure that all CloudTrail logs from all accounts are delivered to a single S3 bucket in the security account. Additionally, the logs must be encrypted with a KMS key that is managed by the security account. Which combination of steps is required?

A company wants to automate the enforcement of security best practices across all AWS accounts in an organization. The solution should automatically remediate noncompliant resources. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this?

A company uses AWS Organizations with a management account and several member accounts. The security team wants to restrict the use of specific AWS services (e.g., EC2, Lambda) in certain accounts based on the account's environment (dev, test, prod). Which approach should be used to implement this requirement?

A company wants to centralize the management of IAM users and groups for multiple AWS accounts. Which AWS service should be used to allow users to access multiple accounts with a single set of credentials?

A company is using AWS Organizations and wants to delegate the administration of certain accounts to different teams. For example, the finance team should be able to manage billing-related accounts, but not development accounts. Which AWS feature allows this type of delegation?

A company wants to receive real-time notifications when an IAM user in their AWS account performs a console login. Which AWS service should be used to monitor and alert on this activity?

A security engineer is auditing the AWS Organizations structure. The engineer notices that the 'Management' account (111111111111) has a status of 'ACTIVE' and joined method 'CREATED'. The engineer is concerned about potential security risks. Which action should the engineer take to improve security?

A security engineer applies the above bucket policy to an S3 bucket. What is the effect of this policy?

A security engineer is investigating a potential data exfiltration incident. The engineer notices that an EC2 instance in a private subnet is making outbound connections to an external IP address on port 443. The VPC has a NAT gateway in a public subnet, and the route table for the private subnet directs 0.0.0.0/0 to the NAT gateway. The security group for the instance allows all outbound traffic. Which AWS service can the engineer use to determine which IAM role or user is responsible for launching the instance?

A company has a requirement that all S3 buckets must block public access. The security engineer needs to continuously monitor for compliance and automatically remediate any noncompliant buckets. Which combination of AWS services should the engineer use?

A security engineer is tasked with ensuring that all S3 buckets in an AWS account have versioning enabled. The engineer needs to identify buckets that do not have versioning enabled. Which AWS service is BEST suited for this task?

A security engineer is auditing IAM policies. The engineer wants to identify if any policy grants 'Effect: Allow' with 'Action: *' and 'Resource: *'. Which TWO AWS services can be used to detect such overly permissive policies?

A company wants to enforce that all IAM users must use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access the AWS Management Console. Which policy should be attached to the IAM users or group to enforce this requirement?

A company is using AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. The security team wants to prevent any IAM user from creating access keys. Which type of policy should be used to enforce this control across all accounts?

A company uses AWS KMS to encrypt data in S3 buckets. The security team needs to ensure that KMS keys can only be used by specific IAM roles within the same account. Which key policy should be applied?

A company wants to centrally manage access keys for all IAM users across multiple accounts. Which AWS service should be used to rotate access keys automatically?

A security engineer is configuring an S3 bucket policy to restrict access to only requests that originate from a specific VPC endpoint. Which condition key should be used?

Which TWO actions are valid ways to enforce the principle of least privilege in an AWS environment?

Which THREE AWS services can be used to centrally manage and audit permissions across multiple accounts in AWS Organizations?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to detect and alert on unauthorized API calls in real time?

Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to a user. The user attempts to upload an object to my-bucket using server-side encryption with AWS KMS (SSE-KMS). What is the outcome?

Refer to the exhibit. A company uses this CloudFormation template. What security best practice is being violated?

A company needs to audit all changes to IAM policies in their AWS account. Which AWS service should they use to record these changes?

A company has a multi-account AWS Organization with hundreds of accounts. The security team wants to prevent any IAM user from creating access keys in any account. What is the most scalable and secure approach?

A company wants to ensure that all S3 buckets in their AWS account have encryption enabled. Which AWS service can continuously evaluate compliance and automatically remediate non-compliant buckets?

A security auditor needs to view a list of all IAM users, including their last activity timestamps, for a compliance review. Which AWS service provides this information natively?

A security engineer is designing a system to detect and respond to IAM policy changes that could grant excessive permissions. The solution must alert within minutes of the change and automatically revert the change if it violates a predefined baseline. Which combination of services should the engineer use?

What is the purpose of an AWS Service Control Policy (SCP) in AWS Organizations?

A company wants to implement a least-privilege access model for their AWS resources. Which TWO of the following are best practices for achieving this?

Which TWO of the following are valid AWS IAM security best practices?

A company is implementing a multi-account strategy using AWS Organizations. The security team wants to enforce that all newly created member accounts automatically have an IAM role that allows read-only access to the management account. Which configuration should be used?

A company has a requirement to audit all API calls made to AWS services in their account. Which AWS service should be used to meet this requirement?

A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team wants to prevent all users in the production account from disabling AWS CloudTrail or modifying its configuration. What is the MOST effective way to achieve this?

A company wants to ensure that all IAM users have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled. Which AWS service can be used to detect users without MFA and automatically send a notification?

A security engineer is designing a system to centrally manage security rules across multiple AWS accounts. The engineer wants to ensure that any resources that are non-compliant with security policies are automatically remediated. Which combination of services should the engineer use?

A company uses AWS Organizations with many accounts. The security team wants to ensure that no account can disable AWS CloudTrail or stop logging. Which configuration should be used?

A company needs to centrally manage access to AWS resources across multiple accounts. Which AWS service should be used to define and enforce a set of common permissions for all accounts in the organization?

Which TWO actions are effective for detecting and responding to unauthorized access in an AWS environment? (Choose two.)

Which THREE are best practices for managing security in a multi-account AWS environment? (Choose three.)

A company has a multi-account AWS Organization with 50 accounts. The security team uses AWS CloudTrail to log all API calls and sends the logs to a central S3 bucket in the security account. The team wants to ensure that any attempt to disable CloudTrail logging or delete the trail is detected and automatically remediated within 5 minutes. They have configured an AWS Config rule that triggers an AWS Lambda function when the CloudTrail configuration changes. However, the Lambda function is not being invoked when they test by stopping the trail. The Lambda function's IAM role has permissions to start and update CloudTrail. CloudTrail logs show that the Config rule is evaluating the resource, but the Lambda function is not triggered. What is the most likely cause?

A company wants to centrally manage backups for Amazon RDS instances across multiple AWS accounts. Which AWS service should be used to automate the creation and enforcement of backup policies?

A security team needs to ensure that all API calls made in the AWS account are logged and the logs are stored in a central S3 bucket that is encrypted with a KMS key. Which combination of steps should the team take to achieve this?

A company wants to ensure that all Amazon S3 buckets are encrypted at rest. Which THREE services can be used together to automatically remediate unencrypted S3 buckets?

A company's security team discovers that an EC2 instance in the production account has been compromised. The instance has an IAM role attached that allows it to read from an S3 bucket containing sensitive data. The team needs to immediately stop the data exfiltration while preserving the evidence. What should the team do first?

A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to centrally manage CloudTrail trails across all accounts. Which feature should be enabled?

A company has a requirement that all IAM users must use strong passwords. The security engineer needs to enforce a password policy that requires minimum 12 characters, at least one uppercase letter, and at least one number. The engineer sets the password policy in IAM. However, existing users with weak passwords are not forced to change them. What should the engineer do to enforce the policy for existing users?

A company has a multi-account AWS environment managed with AWS Organizations. The security team wants to ensure that no EC2 instance in any account can be launched without a specific tag 'CostCenter'. The team has created a Service Control Policy (SCP) that denies the ec2:RunInstances action if the request does not include the tag 'CostCenter'. However, they find that instances are still being launched without the tag in some accounts. What is the most likely reason?

A security engineer needs to ensure that all IAM policies in an AWS account are evaluated for overly permissive access, such as wildcard actions or resources, before they are attached to IAM roles. The engineer wants to automate this check and receive alerts when noncompliant policies are detected. Which AWS service should the engineer use?

A security engineer is responsible for ensuring that all API calls made in an AWS account are logged and that the logs are immutable for at least one year. The engineer must also ensure that any attempt to delete or modify the logs triggers an alert. Which solution meets these requirements?

A security engineer needs to grant a third-party auditor read-only access to specific AWS Config compliance data in a production account for 30 days. The auditor uses their own AWS account and must not be able to modify any resources or view unrelated data. The security engineer wants to avoid creating IAM users in the production account. Which approach BEST satisfies these requirements?

A security engineer is designing a solution to centrally manage security findings from multiple AWS services across an organization. The engineer needs to aggregate findings from Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, and IAM Access Analyzer into a single view and take automated remediation actions based on severity. Which combination of AWS services should the engineer use?

A security team wants to centrally manage and automatically remediate findings across 40 AWS accounts in an organization. They need a solution that aggregates security findings from GuardDuty, Inspector, and Macie into one place and can trigger automated remediation runbooks. Which combination of services BEST meets these requirements?

A security engineer needs to provide a detailed report of all IAM users, their access keys, and the last time each key was used, to identify unused credentials. Which AWS service or feature should the engineer use to generate this report?

A security engineer needs to grant a third-party auditor read-only access to all resources in an AWS account for a limited time. The auditor should not be able to make any changes. Which AWS service should the engineer use to provide temporary credentials?