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A global e-commerce company operates in three AWS Regions: us-east-1, eu-west-1, and ap-southeast-1. The company uses AWS Organizations with 50 member accounts grouped by business unit. The security team recently discovered that several S3 buckets containing customer data were accidentally made public due to misconfigured bucket policies. The team wants to implement a preventive control that blocks any S3 bucket from becoming public across all accounts, while still allowing authorized cross-account access. The solution must be centrally managed and not require changes to existing IAM policies. Additionally, the team needs to be notified immediately when a public bucket is attempted. Which solution meets all requirements?
2A 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?
3A 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?
4Refer to the exhibit. A security engineer applied the bucket policy shown. What is the effect of this policy?
5Match each AWS VPC flow log type to its description.
6A security engineer notices that an S3 bucket contains objects that are accessible to authenticated users from other AWS accounts. The bucket policy allows access to the 'aws:SourceArn' condition that references an Amazon Resource Name (ARN) from another account. What is the MOST effective way to restrict access to only users from the company's own account?
7A developer has created an S3 bucket policy that grants public read access. The security team wants to prevent any S3 bucket from becoming public. Which AWS service can enforce this restriction across all accounts?
8A 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?
9A security engineer needs to automatically detect and respond to unauthorized API calls in an AWS account. Which two services should be used together?
10A 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?
11An organization has a requirement to retain all AWS CloudTrail logs for at least 7 years for compliance. Currently, logs are stored in an S3 bucket with default settings. What is the MOST cost-effective way to meet the retention requirement?
12A company wants to automatically detect and notify about any S3 buckets that have public read access. Which combination of services should be used?
13A company wants to enforce that all IAM users in its AWS account use multi-factor authentication (MFA) for console login. Which action should be taken to ensure compliance?
14A 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?
15A security engineer is designing a data encryption strategy for an S3 bucket that contains sensitive information. Which TWO of the following are valid options for enforcing encryption at rest?
16A company uses AWS Organizations to manage 50 accounts. The security team has enabled AWS CloudTrail in the management account with an organization trail that delivers logs to a central S3 bucket. The bucket policy grants necessary permissions to CloudTrail. Recently, the security team noticed that logs from two member accounts stopped appearing in the bucket. Other accounts continue to deliver logs correctly. The CloudTrail status in the management account shows that the trail is logging and deliveries are succeeding. The security team checked the CloudTrail configuration in the affected member accounts and found that they do not have any trails configured. The IAM roles used for CloudTrail in the management account have sufficient permissions. What is the most likely cause of the missing logs?
17A 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.)
18A security engineer needs to ensure that all API calls in an AWS account are logged and that the logs are encrypted at rest and retained for at least 7 years. Which THREE steps should the engineer take? (Choose THREE.)
19A security engineer is reviewing an IAM policy attached to a user. The policy is intended to allow the user to read objects from an S3 bucket only from the office IP range 192.0.2.0/24. However, the user reports that they can access objects from any IP address. What is the most likely reason?
20A company has an S3 bucket that stores sensitive data. The bucket policy allows access only from a specific VPC endpoint. The security engineer tests the configuration and finds that requests from the VPC endpoint are being denied. The bucket policy contains the following condition: "Condition": { "StringEquals": { "aws:SourceVpce": "vpce-12345678" } }. The VPC endpoint ID is correct. The engineer also confirms that the VPC endpoint policy allows the necessary S3 actions. What is the most likely reason for the denial?
21A security engineer notices that an IAM user has been inactive for 90 days. What is the best way to identify and disable such users?
22Which THREE AWS services can be used to centrally manage security across multiple accounts? (Select THREE.)
23A company wants to grant a third-party auditor read-only access to specific CloudTrail log files stored in an S3 bucket. The auditor should not be able to list or access any other objects in the bucket. What is the most secure way to achieve this?
24A company's security team needs to implement a solution to detect and alert on the creation of IAM users or roles with administrative privileges. The solution must be able to analyze historical account activity and provide real-time alerts. Which combination of AWS services should be used?
25A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. The security team wants to ensure that all accounts have AWS CloudTrail enabled and that logs are delivered to a central S3 bucket in the management account. What is the most efficient way to enforce this across all accounts?
26A company has a requirement that all Amazon EC2 instances must be launched with an IAM role that grants least-privilege permissions. The security team wants to prevent users from launching instances without a role, and also want to ensure that the role used is one of a set of approved roles. How can this be enforced?
27A company's security team is implementing a solution to automatically revoke public access to Amazon S3 buckets that become public. The solution must be serverless and use native AWS services. Which combination of services should be used?
28The exhibit shows an SCP attached to an organizational unit. What is the effect of this policy?
29The exhibit shows an S3 bucket policy. The security team wants to ensure that only users from account 123456789012 can access objects in the bucket. What is a potential security issue with this policy?
30A security team is reviewing IAM roles and policies. They want to ensure that any new IAM role created in the account must include a specific managed policy (e.g., SecurityAudit). What AWS service can enforce this requirement?
31A 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?
32A security engineer needs to ensure that all EC2 instances launched in an account have a specific tag (e.g., CostCenter) applied. If an instance is launched without the tag, it should be automatically terminated. Which solution meets these requirements with minimal effort?
33A security engineer is configuring AWS Config to track changes to security groups in a VPC. The engineer wants to be notified when a security group is modified. Which TWO steps are required to achieve this?
34A company is using AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. The security team needs to enforce that all newly created S3 buckets across the organization have server-side encryption (SSE-S3) enabled by default. Which solution is MOST operationally efficient?
35A security engineer is designing a solution to automatically remediate noncompliant EC2 security groups. The company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The engineer wants to deploy an AWS Config rule and a custom Lambda function in a central security account to evaluate and remediate security groups across all accounts. Which combination of steps is REQUIRED to allow the Lambda function to modify security groups in member accounts? (Choose TWO.)
36A company uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy infrastructure. The security team requires that all CloudTrail trails be encrypted with a customer-managed KMS key. Which CloudFormation template snippet correctly enforces this requirement?
37A company uses AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to encrypt data. The security team needs to ensure that KMS keys cannot be deleted accidentally. Which action should be taken?
38A company is implementing a data retention policy for CloudTrail logs. The logs are stored in an S3 bucket. The policy requires that logs be retained for 7 years and then automatically deleted. Which TWO actions should the security engineer take to meet this requirement?
39A 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?
40Which TWO actions are valid ways to enforce the principle of least privilege in an AWS environment?
41A company needs to audit all changes to IAM policies in their AWS account. Which AWS service should they use to record these changes?
42A security engineer notices that an IAM user has permissions to launch EC2 instances but the engineer wants to ensure that all new instances are automatically tagged with the creator's user name. What is the most efficient way to enforce this?
43A security engineer is designing a solution to detect and alert on any S3 bucket that is publicly accessible. Which THREE services can be used together to achieve this?
44A 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?
45A company has a security policy that requires all IAM users to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) when accessing the AWS Management Console. The company also wants to enforce this policy using an SCP. Which TWO conditions must be met for the SCP to be effective?
46A company has an AWS Organization with hundreds of accounts. The security team wants to enforce that no account can disable AWS CloudTrail logging. Which TWO approaches can achieve this?
47A company has an S3 bucket that contains sensitive data. The bucket policy allows access only from a specific VPC endpoint. A security engineer notices that objects in the bucket are being deleted by an IAM user from outside the VPC. The engineer checks the bucket policy and confirms that the policy denies access if the request does not come from the VPC endpoint. However, the deletions continue. What is the most likely cause?
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