20+ practice questions focused on Cloud Data Security — one of the most tested topics on the Certified Cloud Security Professional CCSP exam. Each question includes a detailed explanation so you learn why the right answer is correct.
Start Cloud Data Security PracticeA financial services company is migrating sensitive customer data to the cloud. They require that encryption keys be generated and stored on-premises in their own hardware security module (HSM), with the cloud provider never having access to the plaintext keys. Which key management model should they implement?
Explanation: HYOK (Hold Your Own Key) allows the customer to keep keys on-premises in their own HSM, never exposing them to the cloud provider. This provides maximum control but can introduce latency.
A healthcare organization is storing protected health information (PHI) in a cloud object storage service. They want to ensure that if a storage bucket is accidentally made public, the data remains unreadable. Which combination of controls best addresses this risk?
Explanation: Enabling object-level encryption with customer-managed keys (CMEK) and blocking public access at the bucket level ensures that even if the bucket is misconfigured, data is encrypted and inaccessible without the key.
A multinational corporation must comply with GDPR and local data residency laws. They are designing a cloud storage architecture that will store customer data in the EU region. However, to improve disaster recovery, they want to replicate data to a secondary region outside the EU. Which approach meets compliance requirements?
Explanation: To comply with data residency laws, data must stay within the EU. Replicating to a non-EU region violates GDPR. Instead, they should replicate to another EU region or use encryption with customer-managed keys and ensure the key is stored in the EU.
A cloud security engineer is configuring a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API to scan a cloud storage bucket for personally identifiable information (PII). Which of the following is a de-identification technique that replaces sensitive values with a token that can be mapped back to the original data using a secure lookup table?
Explanation: Tokenization replaces sensitive data with a token that can be reversed via a lookup table, preserving referential integrity while protecting the original data.
Which of the following is the most granular method to grant time-limited access to a specific object in a cloud storage bucket without requiring the requester to have AWS credentials?
Explanation: Pre-signed URLs (or signed URLs) grant time-limited access to a specific object, and the requester does not need to be authenticated with cloud credentials.
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