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A large enterprise has 200 AWS accounts organized under AWS Organizations. The central security team needs to audit all IAM role trust policies across accounts to ensure no cross-account roles allow external principals. Which approach is most efficient and scalable?
Hard2A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to centralize the management of security policies. The security team needs to enforce that all IAM users in all accounts must use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access the AWS Management Console. The solution must be centrally managed and automatically applied to new accounts as they are added. Which approach should be taken?
Easy3A company has a multi-account AWS environment with hundreds of accounts. The central IT team needs to audit all API calls made in the organization. The solution must be cost-effective and capture events from all regions and accounts, including future accounts. Which solution should the company use?
Medium4A company uses AWS Organizations and has a central security account. They want to use AWS Security Hub to aggregate findings from all member accounts. They have enabled Security Hub in the security account and invited all member accounts. However, findings from member accounts are not appearing in the Security Hub console of the security account. What is the most likely cause?
Medium5A company has a multi-account AWS environment. The security team wants to enforce that all IAM roles in the production accounts can only be assumed from a specific IP range (the corporate network). Which TWO approaches can achieve this?
Hard6A company is designing a multi-account AWS environment with a centralized logging account. Which TWO services should be used to aggregate logs from all accounts?
Medium7A company wants to centralize management of IAM users and groups across multiple AWS accounts. The solution should allow users to access resources in any account without needing separate credentials. Which AWS service should be used?
Easy8A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a central security account. They want to enable Amazon GuardDuty in all accounts and centrally view findings. The security team has already enabled GuardDuty in the security account and invited all member accounts. However, the security account is not receiving findings from all member accounts. Upon investigation, some member accounts show that GuardDuty is not enabled, and some show that they have not accepted the invitation. The team needs a scalable solution to enable GuardDuty across all accounts and ensure findings are sent to the security account. What should the team do?
Medium9Drag and drop the steps to set up AWS CloudTrail for logging API activity in the correct order.
Medium10A company has a multi-account AWS environment and wants to enforce that all EC2 instances are launched with a specific AMI ID. The AMI ID is maintained by the security team in a central account. What is the MOST effective way to enforce this across all accounts?
Medium11A company uses AWS Organizations with a dedicated security account. They want to centralize the management of AWS Config rules and ensure that all accounts are compliant with the same set of rules. Which THREE steps should they take?
Hard12Refer to the exhibit. An SCP is attached to an OU. A developer in an account under this OU tries to launch a t3.large EC2 instance. What will happen?
Hard13A company has multiple AWS accounts that are centrally managed using AWS Organizations. The security team requires that all API activity be logged and retained for 7 years. The logs must be stored in a central Amazon S3 bucket that is in the management account. Which solution meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?
Easy14A company is using AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The central IT team wants to deploy a set of common VPCs in each account using AWS CloudFormation StackSets. The StackSets must be managed from the management account. Which THREE permissions are required for the StackSets to successfully deploy stacks into member accounts?
Medium15A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. The security team wants to ensure that no IAM users are created in member accounts. All access must be through federated roles. Which approach should they use?
Easy16A company has multiple AWS accounts that each have their own VPCs with overlapping CIDR ranges. They want to use AWS Transit Gateway to connect these VPCs to a central network account. However, overlapping CIDRs prevent attachment. What is the MOST scalable solution?
Hard17A company wants to implement a cost allocation strategy using tags across multiple accounts in AWS Organizations. Which TWO practices should be followed?
Medium18A company is designing a multi-account AWS environment for different business units. They need to share a central Amazon RDS database with read replicas in each account for disaster recovery. What architecture minimizes cross-region data transfer costs while maintaining high availability?
Medium19A company uses AWS Organizations with hundreds of accounts. The central IT team wants to manage IP address ranges for VPCs across all accounts using a custom AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) resource share. They have created a resource share containing the IP address CIDR blocks (as managed prefix lists) and shared it with the organization. However, some accounts cannot see the shared prefix lists. What is the MOST likely cause?
Hard20A global company uses AWS Organizations with many OUs and accounts. The finance team needs to track costs by cost center, which is tagged on each resource. However, some resources are not tagged. Which solution will provide the MOST accurate cost allocation?
Hard21A company wants to centrally manage access to multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organizations. The security team requires that all IAM users and roles be created in a single master account and assume roles in member accounts. Which configuration ensures that cross-account role assumptions are auditable and enforced?
Medium22A company wants to allow developers to launch EC2 instances only in the us-east-1 Region. They have a single AWS account. What is the simplest way to enforce this?
Easy23A company is designing a multi-account AWS Organizations architecture. Which TWO considerations should be taken into account when designing the organizational structure?
Medium24A company has a multi-account AWS environment with 50 accounts. They use AWS Organizations and want to centrally manage EC2 instances across all accounts. The operations team needs to run a script on all EC2 instances that are tagged with Environment=Production. The script must be executed once immediately and requires access to a shared S3 bucket in the management account. Which solution meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?
Medium25A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to delegate administration of a specific service to a member account. The service must be able to perform actions across all accounts in the organization. Which steps should the company take?
Hard26A company uses AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. The finance team needs to allocate costs to different departments based on resource tags. However, some resources are not tagged. What is the most effective solution?
Easy27A company uses AWS Organizations with a single OU. The management account has a service control policy (SCP) that denies all actions on EC2 instances with a specific tag. However, users in a member account can still terminate tagged instances. What is the most likely cause?
Easy28A company has a multi-account AWS environment and uses AWS Organizations. The security team wants to automatically remediate non-compliant resources, such as S3 buckets that are publicly accessible. Which design should they implement?
Hard29Refer to the exhibit. An administrator runs this command and sees the output. Which statement about the accounts is correct?
Medium30A company has a centralized networking team that manages a shared VPC with multiple AWS Transit Gateway attachments. Application teams create VPCs in separate AWS accounts and want to connect to the shared VPC. The networking team needs to ensure that only authorized VPCs can connect to the shared VPC. What is the MOST secure and scalable way to manage this?
Medium31A company has a multi-account environment and wants to centralize logging for all AWS API calls. Which TWO services should they use together to achieve this?
Hard32Refer to the exhibit. A company applies this SCP to all accounts in an AWS Organization. What is the effect of this policy?
Hard33A company has a centralized logging solution using Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) in a central logging account. Application logs from hundreds of EC2 instances across multiple accounts are shipped to the OpenSearch cluster via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. The security team requires that all log data be encrypted at rest and in transit. The logging account has a KMS key used to encrypt the OpenSearch cluster and the Firehose delivery stream. Recently, the security team noticed that some log deliveries are failing with 'AccessDenied' errors. The CloudWatch Logs delivery to Firehose is configured correctly. What is the most likely cause of the failure?
Medium34A company has a centralized logging account and multiple member accounts. The member accounts generate VPC Flow Logs that need to be sent to a central S3 bucket in the logging account. Which TWO steps must be taken to enable this cross-account delivery?
Hard35A company has a multi-account AWS environment. The security team wants to centrally manage VPC flow logs for all accounts. They already have a centralized logging account. What is the MOST scalable solution?
Hard36A company manages multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organizations. They want to enforce that any EC2 instance launched with a public IP address must have a specific security group attached. What is the MOST effective way to enforce this?
Hard37A company has a multi-account AWS environment with over 500 accounts managed through AWS Organizations. The accounts are organized into OUs by business unit. The security team wants to enforce a policy that all S3 buckets must have server-side encryption enabled (SSE-S3 or SSE-KMS). They also want to automatically remediate any existing non-compliant buckets and prevent creation of new non-compliant buckets. Currently, there is no centralized logging or monitoring. The team has tried using AWS Config rules with auto-remediation, but they found that Config rules are not triggered for buckets created before the rule was enabled, and some teams are creating buckets via AWS CloudFormation that bypass the Config rule evaluation. The team needs a solution that covers all buckets, regardless of creation method or time. What should the team do?
Hard38A company has multiple AWS accounts. They want to enforce that all IAM users must use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access the AWS Management Console. Which TWO steps should be taken to enforce this across all accounts?
Medium39A company wants to implement a centralized logging solution for all AWS accounts in AWS Organizations. The logs include CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and AWS Config configuration items. Which approach provides the MOST scalable and cost-effective solution?
Easy40A company wants to implement AWS Organizations with multiple OUs to isolate development, testing, and production workloads. The company needs to ensure that production workloads are not impacted by changes in other OUs. Which TWO practices should the company follow? (Choose two.)
Medium41An SCP is attached to a production OU. An IAM user in a member account under that OU attempts to launch an m5.large EC2 instance. What happens?
Hard42A company is using AWS Organizations and wants to allow only specific AWS services to be used in member accounts. The security team needs to block the use of Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS, but allow all other services. Which SCP configuration should be used?
Medium43A company has a management account and several member accounts in AWS Organizations. They want to allow a developer in a member account to create an organization trail. What should they do?
Easy44A global company with 50 AWS accounts uses AWS Organizations and wants to centralize CloudTrail logs. The security team requires that all accounts send their CloudTrail logs to a central S3 bucket in the audit account. Which combination of steps will ensure this?
Hard45A company has multiple AWS accounts managed via AWS Control Tower. The DevOps team wants to deploy a shared CI/CD pipeline that can deploy applications across all accounts. The pipeline must use the same source repository and artifact store. What is the MOST secure and scalable approach?
Medium46A company is using AWS Organizations and wants to centralize the management of Amazon EC2 instance security groups. The security team needs to enforce that certain ports are not open to the internet across all accounts. The company currently uses AWS Firewall Manager. Which approach should the security team use to enforce this policy?
Medium47A company's IT team uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy infrastructure. They want to enforce tagging standards across all stacks. Which approach should they use?
Easy48A company wants to centralize access control for multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organizations. They need to allow developers in a specific account to launch EC2 instances only in certain regions. What is the most scalable solution?
Medium49A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to centrally manage backups for EC2 instances across multiple accounts. They want to create a backup plan that backs up all EC2 instances tagged with Backup=Weekly. The backup must be stored in a central backup vault in the management account. Which solution meets these requirements?
Easy50A company uses AWS Control Tower to manage a multi-account environment. They want to ensure that all accounts are enrolled in AWS Shield Advanced for DDoS protection. What is the MOST efficient way to achieve this?
Medium51A company has multiple AWS accounts managed through AWS Organizations. The security team requires that all VPC flow logs be enabled in every account and region. What is the MOST efficient way to enforce this requirement?
Easy52A company is using AWS Organizations with a centralized logging account. They want to collect VPC Flow Logs from all member accounts into a single S3 bucket in the logging account. Which TWO steps are required to achieve this?
Medium53A company has a complex AWS environment with hundreds of accounts. They want to implement a tagging strategy that allows them to track costs by department and project. The tags must be propagated from resources to cost reports automatically. Which approach meets these requirements with minimal ongoing maintenance?
Hard54A company uses a central IT team to manage multiple AWS accounts. The team wants to provide developers with the ability to launch EC2 instances but restrict them to using only specific instance types. How should this be enforced?
Easy55A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application requires a static IP address that can be used for whitelisting by third-party partners. The application will be deployed in multiple Availability Zones for high availability. The company wants to use a load balancer to distribute traffic. The solution must provide a single static IP address that does not change even if the underlying instances are replaced. Which combination of services should the company use?
Medium56A company is using AWS Organizations with a single OU for all production accounts. The security team wants to restrict the use of specific instance types across all accounts in the OU. They create a Service Control Policy (SCP) that denies ec2:RunInstances if the instance type is not in the allowed list. However, some accounts still launch disallowed instance types. What is the most likely cause?
Medium57A company uses AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. The finance team wants to track costs by department. Each department has its own AWS account. Which feature should be used to map costs to departments?
Easy58Refer to the exhibit. This bucket policy is applied to a central logging bucket in account 111111111111. Account 222222222222 wants to deliver CloudTrail logs to this bucket. However, log delivery fails. What is the MOST likely cause?
Medium59A company is designing a cross-account backup strategy using AWS Backup. They have a central backup account that needs to manage backups for multiple member accounts. What is the minimal set of permissions required?
Medium60A multinational company operates a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations. The security team needs to enforce that all Amazon S3 buckets are encrypted at rest using AWS KMS customer managed keys (CMKs) and that no bucket policies allow anonymous access. What is the MOST efficient way to achieve this across all accounts?
Medium61A large e-commerce company uses a multi-account AWS Organizations setup with a central logging account. The company has enabled AWS CloudTrail in all accounts and configured it to deliver logs to a centralized Amazon S3 bucket in the logging account. Recently, the security team noticed that some log files are missing for a period of 2 hours. The CloudTrail console shows that trails are still enabled and delivering to the bucket, but no new log files were created during that time. The team verified that there were API calls made during that period. Which action is most likely to resolve the issue and prevent recurrence?
Hard62A company is using AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. The security team wants to ensure that no one can disable AWS CloudTrail or delete CloudTrail log files across any account. What is the most effective way to enforce this?
Easy63A company runs a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations. The security team wants to ensure that all new member accounts automatically have a specific AWS Config rule enabled. Which solution should be used?
Medium64A company has multiple AWS accounts managed under AWS Organizations. The security team wants to enforce that all new S3 buckets created in any account are automatically tagged with the cost center and environment (e.g., dev, prod). Which solution should the team implement?
Medium65A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to allow a development account to assume a role in the production account for deployment purposes. Which component is necessary for this cross-account access?
Easy66Refer to the exhibit. An IAM role trust policy is shown. A user from account 123456789012 tries to assume this role but receives an 'AccessDenied' error. The user has MFA enabled and is passing the MFA token. What is the MOST likely reason for the failure?
Medium67Refer to the exhibit. A company has a trust policy on an IAM role in account 222222222222. The trust policy allows the root user of account 111111111111 to assume the role. However, a user in account 111111111111 is unable to assume the role. What is the most likely cause?
Medium68Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the enforcement of compliance policies across multiple AWS accounts? (Choose TWO.)
Easy69An administrator attached the above IAM policy to a group of developers. A developer tries to launch a t3.medium EC2 instance and receives an 'AccessDenied' error. What is the MOST likely reason?
Medium70A company has a multi-account setup with AWS Organizations. The security team wants to enforce that all IAM users must have MFA enabled. Which approach is most effective?
Hard71A company has a centralized security account and wants to enable AWS Config in all accounts. They want to centrally manage Config rules and view compliance. What should they do?
Medium72A company has a centralized AWS account for security tools and multiple member accounts. They want to use AWS GuardDuty to detect threats across all accounts. They have enabled GuardDuty in the management account and invited all member accounts. GuardDuty is set to send findings to a central S3 bucket in the security account. However, findings from member accounts are not appearing in the central S3 bucket. The security account has a bucket policy that allows the GuardDuty service principal to write findings. What is the most likely cause?
Hard73A company wants to implement a single sign-on (SSO) solution for its employees to access multiple AWS accounts and business applications. The company uses Microsoft Active Directory on-premises. Which AWS service should be used to integrate with the existing directory?
Easy74A company wants to centrally manage backups for Amazon EBS volumes across multiple AWS accounts. They need a solution that can automatically back up volumes based on tags, retain backups according to a policy, and send notifications on failures. Which AWS service should they use?
Easy75Refer to the exhibit. A solutions architect is reviewing an IAM trust policy for a Lambda function's execution role. The function needs to access an S3 bucket in the same account. The trust policy is as shown. What is missing for the Lambda function to successfully assume the role?
Medium76A global company uses AWS Organizations with hundreds of accounts. The networking team needs to allow VPCs in different accounts to communicate privately using AWS Transit Gateway. The company wants to centralize management while allowing individual account owners to create and attach VPCs. Which solution meets these requirements?
Hard77A company has a single AWS account that hosts multiple applications for different business units. Each business unit wants to have its own set of IAM users and permissions. The company wants to minimize administrative overhead while maintaining separation. They are considering using AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. However, the CFO is concerned about increased costs due to separate accounts. What is the best solution to address the business units' needs while managing costs?
Easy78A company uses AWS Organizations and has a requirement that all API calls to AWS services must be logged and monitored. The security team wants to create a central CloudWatch dashboard that shows API activity across all accounts. Which solution should be implemented with the least operational overhead?
Hard79Refer to the exhibit. A company has the above AWS Organization with a management account (111111111111) and a production account (222222222222). The security administrator in the management account creates an SCP that denies s3:DeleteBucket. The SCP is attached to the root. The production account's administrator tries to delete an S3 bucket and fails. What is the MOST likely reason?
Hard80A global company uses AWS Organizations with multiple organizational units (OUs) for different business units. The networking team wants to ensure that all VPCs across all accounts can communicate through a central transit gateway. However, the security team requires that specific accounts cannot access each other's resources. Which combination of actions should the company take to meet these requirements?
Hard81A company is migrating to AWS and wants to use AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure as code. The DevOps team needs to ensure that stack updates are reviewed and approved before execution. Which feature should they use?
Easy82A company is using AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The IT team wants to centrally manage AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to patch EC2 instances across all accounts. Which TWO actions are required?
Easy83A financial services company is designing a multi-account strategy using AWS Control Tower. The company has strict data residency requirements: customer data must remain in the country of origin. The company operates in three countries: US, UK, and Germany. Each country has a set of accounts for production, development, and testing. The company needs to ensure that IAM roles in UK accounts cannot access resources in German accounts, and vice versa. Which architecture should be used?
Hard84A company is migrating its on-premises Active Directory to AWS Managed Microsoft AD. The company has multiple VPCs across different accounts that need to authenticate against the same directory. What is the MOST scalable and secure way to provide this access?
Medium85A company has multiple AWS accounts managed via AWS Organizations. The security team wants to centrally enforce that all S3 buckets across all accounts have server-side encryption enabled. Which solution should be used?
Medium86A company uses AWS Organizations with 50 accounts. The networking team wants to deploy a shared VPC in the network account and share subnets with other accounts. The shared subnets will host EC2 instances from the consuming accounts. What is the MOST secure way to ensure that only authorized accounts can create resources in the shared subnets?
Medium87A company wants to use AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) to manage access to multiple AWS accounts and business applications. Which TWO components are required for this setup?
Easy88A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a centralized logging account. The security team needs to collect all Amazon S3 access logs and AWS CloudTrail logs from all accounts into a centralized Amazon S3 bucket in the logging account. Which THREE steps are required to meet this requirement? (Choose THREE.)
Hard89A company is using AWS Control Tower to manage multiple accounts. The security team wants to enforce that all accounts use a specific AWS Region for data storage. Which TWO steps should be taken to enforce this requirement?
Medium90A large enterprise has a multi-account AWS environment managed through AWS Organizations. The central networking team uses a transit gateway in a shared services VPC to connect all VPCs. The security team requires that all traffic between VPCs be inspected by a third-party firewall appliance that is deployed in an auto-scaling group in the shared services VPC. The firewall appliance is configured as a Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) endpoint. The transit gateway has a route table that sends all inter-VPC traffic to the GWLB endpoint. Recently, the operations team noticed that some applications are experiencing high latency and packet loss when communicating across VPCs. Upon investigation, they found that the firewall appliance is not scaling properly. Which solution should be implemented to ensure that the firewall can handle the traffic load and maintain low latency?
Hard91A company wants to allow developers to launch EC2 instances only if they include a specific tag 'CostCenter'. The tag must be provided at launch. Which IAM policy should be used?
Easy92A company uses AWS Organizations with 100 accounts. The security team wants to enforce that all IAM users must use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access the AWS Management Console. They create an SCP that denies all actions if MFA is not present. However, some users report that they cannot access the console even with MFA. What is the most likely reason?
Hard93A company has a central IT account that manages DNS using Amazon Route 53 Private Hosted Zones. Multiple VPCs from different accounts are associated with the same private hosted zone. The company wants to ensure that only authorized VPCs can resolve records in the zone. Which three steps should be taken? (Choose THREE.)
Hard94A startup is launching a new multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations. They want to ensure that only the central security team has access to the root user of each member account. Additionally, they want to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for the root user of each account. The security team has access to the management account. What is the MOST secure and efficient way to meet these requirements?
Easy95A company is designing a multi-account architecture using AWS Organizations. The company wants to enforce that all Amazon S3 buckets across all accounts must have server-side encryption (SSE) enabled. Which TWO actions should be taken to enforce this requirement?
Medium96A company uses AWS Organizations with a management account and several member accounts. The security team needs to centrally manage IAM users and roles across all accounts. Which AWS service should the company use?
Easy97A company uses AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. The company wants to share a centrally managed Amazon VPC subnet across multiple accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). Which THREE resources can be shared via RAM? (Choose THREE.)
Medium98Drag and drop the steps to restore an Amazon RDS DB instance from a snapshot in the correct order.
Medium99A company uses AWS Organizations with a hierarchical OU structure. The security OU has an SCP that denies all actions except those explicitly allowed. The development OU has an SCP that allows all actions. A developer account in the development OU tries to launch an EC2 instance but receives an access denied error. The IAM user in the developer account has full administrator permissions. What is the most likely cause?
Hard100A company is designing a multi-account strategy using AWS Organizations. The security team requires that all API calls to create or modify IAM roles are logged and alerted. Which TWO steps should be taken to meet this requirement?
Medium101A company has a AWS Organizations setup with 100 accounts. The security team requires that all IAM users across all accounts must have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled. Currently, there is no central enforcement. The company wants to implement a solution that automatically detects IAM users without MFA and disables their access keys. The solution must be centrally managed from the management account. Which solution meets these requirements?
Medium102Refer to the exhibit. A CloudFormation template is used to create an IAM role for EC2. The stack creation fails with the error: "Resource creation cancelled". The IAM role is not created. What is the MOST likely reason?
Hard103A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. The central team wants to deploy a CloudFormation template that creates an S3 bucket with default encryption in every member account. Which THREE steps are required to accomplish this?
Easy104A company wants to use AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO) to provide single sign-on access to multiple AWS accounts. They have an existing Microsoft Active Directory and want to synchronize users and groups. Which TWO actions should be taken to set this up?
Medium105A company has a multi-account AWS environment. The central IT team manages IAM roles in each account using AWS CloudFormation StackSets. The team needs to ensure that a specific IAM role exists in all member accounts. Which solution is the MOST efficient?
Medium106A company has a consolidated billing setup with AWS Organizations. The finance team needs to track costs at the department level. Each department has its own AWS account. Which THREE steps should be taken to achieve detailed cost allocation? (Choose THREE.)
Medium107A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a central security account for AWS GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, and AWS IAM Access Analyzer. The security team wants to aggregate findings from all member accounts into the security account. Which THREE steps should be taken?
Hard108A company has a decentralized IT structure where each business unit manages its own AWS account. The central security team needs visibility into all IAM user activities across accounts. What is the MOST scalable solution to aggregate CloudTrail logs?
Easy109A company has a centralized logging account and wants all VPC Flow Logs from all accounts to be delivered to a central S3 bucket in the logging account. Each account has a VPC Flow Log configured to deliver to a bucket in the same account. What is the most efficient way to centralize these logs?
Hard110A company has an AWS Organization with multiple accounts. The central IT team wants to deploy a common set of AWS Config rules across all accounts in the production OU. Which approach is the MOST scalable and maintainable?
Easy111A company has multiple AWS accounts managed via AWS Organizations. The security team needs to enforce that all newly created S3 buckets in any account have server-side encryption (SSE-S3 or SSE-KMS) enabled. Which solution should the team implement?
Medium112A company wants to implement a multi-account strategy using AWS Organizations. The security team requires that all new accounts added to the organization automatically inherit a baseline set of security controls, such as AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config rules. Which approach should the company use?
Medium113Refer to the exhibit. A company attaches this SCP to the root of an AWS Organization. What is the effect?
Medium114A company has a centralized logging solution where all VPC Flow Logs from member accounts are delivered to a central S3 bucket in the logging account. The logs contain sensitive IP addresses that must be redacted before analysis. What is the MOST scalable approach?
Hard115A company uses AWS Organizations with several OUs. The security team wants to enforce that EC2 instances in production accounts cannot have public IP addresses. The solution must be preventive and should not rely on developers remembering to follow guidelines. What should the security team do?
Hard116A company uses AWS SSO with an external identity provider. The security team needs to enforce that users in the finance department can only access the finance OU accounts. Which configuration is required?
Hard117A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. The security team wants to ensure that all root user activities are monitored and alerted. Which TWO actions should the team take? (Choose TWO.)
Medium118A company is using AWS Organizations with a multi-account strategy. The finance team wants to centrally manage and enforce cost allocation tags across all accounts. Which solution is MOST effective?
Easy119A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple OUs. The finance team needs to have read-only access to billing data across all accounts. The security team wants to ensure that no IAM user can modify billing preferences. Which policy should be attached to the root OU to achieve this?
Medium120A company wants to centrally manage IAM permissions across multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organizations. They need to allow developers to launch EC2 instances but restrict the instance types to approved families (e.g., t3 and m5). Which TWO solutions meet this requirement?
Medium121A company has a centralized logging account that receives VPC flow logs from all accounts. The logs are stored in an S3 bucket. The security team needs to analyze these logs to detect anomalous traffic patterns. Which solution provides the most cost-effective and scalable analysis?
Medium122A company has 100 AWS accounts in AWS Organizations. The security team wants to enforce that all Amazon S3 buckets have encryption enabled. Which TWO actions should the team take to meet this requirement? (Choose TWO.)
Medium123A company uses AWS Organizations with 200 accounts. The security team wants to enforce that all EC2 instances launched in any account must use a specific Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID that is approved by the security team. Which approach should be used?
Hard124Refer to the exhibit. A solutions architect applies this IAM policy to a user. The user tries to upload an object to my-bucket using an unencrypted HTTP connection with SSE-S3 encryption. Will the upload succeed?
Hard125A company uses AWS Organizations with hundreds of accounts. The central IT team needs to ensure that all accounts use a standard set of network configurations, including VPC CIDR blocks and subnets. Which THREE steps should the team take to enforce this standard? (Choose THREE.)
Hard126A multinational corporation uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts across different geographic regions. The company needs to ensure that all data residing in AWS accounts for a specific country remains within that country's boundaries. Which combination of AWS services and features should the company use to enforce this data residency requirement?
Hard127A company has a centralized network account that hosts a transit gateway with attachments to multiple VPCs in different accounts. The security team needs to ensure that all traffic between VPCs is inspected by a centralized NGFW appliance in the network account. What is the MOST efficient solution?
Medium128A company uses a centralized logging account with an S3 bucket that receives VPC Flow Logs from multiple accounts. The logs must be encrypted at rest using a KMS key in the logging account. Which configuration is required to allow cross-account delivery of VPC Flow Logs?
Medium129A large enterprise has a multi-account AWS environment with over 200 accounts organized under AWS Organizations. The central platform team uses AWS CloudFormation StackSets to deploy a standard VPC with a CIDR of 10.0.0.0/16 into each account. Recently, a business unit created a new account that was not included in the StackSet deployment, and the team manually deployed the VPC using a CloudFormation template. Now, the central team wants to ensure that all accounts have exactly the same VPC configuration and that any drift is automatically corrected. The team also wants to prevent unauthorized changes to the VPC configuration. What is the MOST efficient and secure solution?
Hard130A company has a multi-account AWS environment with hundreds of accounts. The security team needs to centrally manage IAM roles that grant cross-account access to a central security account. The solution must scale as new accounts are added. What should the team do?
Hard131A company is designing a multi-account strategy for its development teams. Each team needs to have its own isolated environment with VPCs, subnets, and security groups. The company wants to centralize network administration and ensure that all VPCs use a common set of security rules. Which THREE steps should the company take? (Choose THREE.)
Hard132A company has a multi-account environment with over 500 accounts. They need to enforce that all EC2 instances are launched only in approved instance families (e.g., t3, m5, c5). Which combination of AWS services provides the MOST scalable and effective enforcement?
Hard133Which TWO AWS services can be used to implement a centralized logging solution across multiple AWS accounts?
Medium134A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to ensure that all resources are tagged with a cost center tag. Which THREE steps should they take to enforce this?
Hard135A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a central logging account. All VPC Flow Logs are published to a central S3 bucket in the logging account. The security team needs to analyze these logs using Amazon Athena, but they want to minimize costs by reducing the amount of data scanned. Which partitioning strategy is MOST effective?
Medium136A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to implement a least-privilege model for IAM roles. The security team needs to ensure that no IAM role can be created without an approval workflow. Which THREE steps should the company take?
Medium137A company wants to implement a centralized logging solution for all VPCs in their AWS Organization. They need to capture VPC Flow Logs, AWS CloudTrail logs, and DNS logs, and store them in a central Amazon S3 bucket. The logs must be encrypted with a customer-managed KMS key. Which solution meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?
Medium138A company manages multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organizations. The security team needs to enforce that all newly created accounts automatically have a specific set of security controls, including AWS Config rules and an AWS CloudTrail trail. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
Medium139A multinational corporation is implementing a multi-account AWS strategy using AWS Organizations. The security team requires that all newly created accounts in the organization automatically have an Amazon GuardDuty detector enabled in all enabled Regions. Which solution meets this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
Medium140A company manages multiple AWS accounts and wants to centralize billing and cost tracking. They have enabled AWS Organizations and consolidated billing. Which additional step should they take to gain granular visibility into costs per department?
Medium141A company has a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations. The security team wants to enforce that all S3 buckets in the organization are encrypted at rest. Which TWO approaches can the company use to achieve this? (Choose TWO.)
Medium142A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to centrally manage Amazon GuardDuty across all accounts. Which TWO steps are required to enable GuardDuty in all accounts from a single management account?
Medium143A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to enable cost allocation across business units using tags. They require that all resources are tagged with a 'CostCenter' tag. What is the most effective way to enforce this?
Medium144Refer to the exhibit. A company has an SCP named 'DenyOutsideRegions' attached to the root OU. The SCP is intended to deny all actions outside us-east-1 and eu-west-1. However, users in a member account are still able to launch EC2 instances in ap-southeast-1. What is the most likely reason?
Hard145A company is managing multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organizations. They want to centralize the management of EC2 instances and enforce tagging standards across all accounts. Which TWO approaches should they use?
Medium146Match each AWS disaster recovery strategy to its description.
Medium147A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a central security account. The security team wants to implement a solution that allows them to centrally manage and audit IAM permissions across all accounts. Which THREE services should be combined to achieve this?
Hard148A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to centrally manage VPC flow logs for all accounts. The flow logs should be sent to a central S3 bucket in the logging account. The solution must be automated for new accounts added to the organization. What should the team do?
Medium149A company is designing a centralized logging solution for multiple AWS accounts. The solution must meet compliance requirements that logs be immutable and stored for 7 years. Which THREE services should be combined to achieve this?
Medium150A company has a centralized logging solution using Amazon S3 and AWS CloudTrail across multiple accounts. The logs are delivered to a central S3 bucket. The security team needs to ensure that logs are encrypted at rest and access is limited to only authorized security personnel. Which combination of actions should be taken?
Medium151Which TWO actions should a company take to implement a least-privilege access model across multiple AWS accounts? (Choose TWO.)
Medium152A company uses AWS Organizations with a central logging account. They want to ensure that all VPC Flow Logs from member accounts are published to a central S3 bucket in the logging account. Which steps are required?
Medium153A company is using AWS Organizations with a set of member accounts that need to access a shared Amazon S3 bucket in the master account. The bucket policy allows access only from the member accounts' root user. However, developers in member accounts are unable to access the bucket even when they assume an IAM role. What is the most likely cause?
Hard154A multinational company is adopting AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts across business units. The security team requires that specific IAM roles be automatically deployed to all existing and future member accounts. Which solution should the company use?
Medium155A company is implementing a data lake on AWS using Amazon S3 as the storage layer. The data lake must support multiple consumer accounts within the organization. The security team requires that data is encrypted at rest using AWS KMS with customer-managed keys (CMKs) and that access to the keys is strictly controlled. Which THREE steps should be taken to meet these requirements?
Hard156A company has multiple business units, each with its own AWS account. They want to enforce that all EC2 instances launched across accounts use only approved AMIs. The AMIs are stored in a central account. What is the MOST scalable and secure way to enforce this?
Hard157Match each AWS service to its primary use case.
Medium158A company has multiple AWS accounts managed via AWS Organizations. The security team requires that all S3 buckets across all accounts must block public access. How can this be enforced centrally with minimal operational overhead?
Medium159A multinational company is implementing a multi-account strategy using AWS Organizations. The security team needs to ensure that all newly created accounts automatically have a specific baseline CloudTrail trail and a set of AWS Config rules applied. The company also wants to enforce that no account can disable these controls. Which solution should be used?
Hard160A company has a multi-account AWS environment and wants to centralize the management of IAM roles. The security team needs to ensure that all IAM roles across all accounts trust the same identity provider (IdP) for federated access. The company uses AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO) for user management. Which solution should be implemented?
Medium161A company has multiple AWS accounts managed via AWS Organizations. The security team needs to enforce that all S3 buckets across all accounts have server-side encryption with AWS KMS (SSE-KMS) enabled, and any new bucket that does not comply must be automatically remediated. Which design should be used?
Medium162A large enterprise is migrating to AWS and wants to implement a multi-account strategy with centralized network connectivity. The company has multiple VPCs in various accounts that need to communicate with each other and with on-premises resources. The solution must be scalable and minimize operational overhead. Which design should be used?
Hard163A company uses AWS Organizations with a multi-account strategy. They want to allow a centralized DevOps team to manage EC2 instances across all accounts using AWS Systems Manager. The DevOps team should not have direct IAM access to the target accounts. How can this be achieved?
Hard164A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to a microservices architecture on AWS. The application has strict latency requirements and must be deployed across multiple Availability Zones. Which design strategy BEST meets these requirements while minimizing operational overhead?
Hard165A company wants to centralize AWS CloudTrail logs from all accounts in AWS Organizations into a single S3 bucket. Which configuration is required?
Easy166A company uses a single AWS account for development and production workloads. To improve security and cost allocation, the company decides to separate environments into multiple accounts. What is the PRIMARY benefit of using multiple accounts?
Easy167A company wants to centrally manage IAM users across multiple AWS accounts using AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On). Which of the following are true? (Choose TWO.)
Easy168A company wants to centralize management of Amazon EC2 instances across multiple AWS accounts. They need to be able to run commands on instances in any account from a central management account. Which service should be used?
Easy169A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The network team wants to centrally manage Amazon VPC IP addresses using Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM). They have enabled IPAM in the management account and delegated an administrator account. However, the delegated administrator account cannot create IPAM pools. What is the most likely cause?
Easy170Match each AWS migration service to its function.
Medium171A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to centrally manage AWS Config rules across all member accounts. They have enabled AWS Config in the management account and used AWS Config aggregator to view compliance status across accounts. However, they want to enforce a specific Config rule in all accounts automatically. Which solution should they use?
Medium172A company uses AWS Organizations with a multi-account strategy. The security team wants to restrict the use of specific instance types across all accounts. What is the MOST effective way to enforce this policy?
Medium173A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a centralized logging account. The security team wants to ensure that all CloudTrail logs from all accounts are delivered to a single S3 bucket in the logging account. The logging account's S3 bucket policy allows CloudTrail to write logs from other accounts. The CloudTrail trail in each account is configured to deliver to the centralized bucket. However, logs from some accounts are not appearing. The security team has verified that the IAM permissions for CloudTrail are correct. What is the most likely reason for the missing logs?
Medium174A company is designing a cross-account network architecture. The security team requires that all traffic between VPCs in different accounts must be inspected by a centralized firewall appliance in the security account. The network team wants to minimize complexity and avoid route table manipulation. Which solution meets these requirements?
Medium175Refer to the exhibit. A company has created a CloudTrail trail named 'my-trail' in the management account of AWS Organizations. The trail is configured to deliver logs to a central S3 bucket. The security team wants to capture all management events from all accounts in the organization. Based on the exhibit, what is the most likely issue?
Medium176A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple OUs. The security team wants to ensure that no IAM role in any member account can be assumed by a user from outside the organization. Which policy should be used?
Medium177A global company uses AWS Organizations with multiple business units. Each business unit has its own OU and VPCs that need to communicate with a central shared services VPC. The network team wants to minimize latency and maximize throughput. Which design should they use?
Medium178A security engineer created the above bucket policy on the central-logging-bucket in account 111111111111. They want account 222222222222 to deliver CloudTrail logs to this bucket. What is missing?
Medium179A company is using AWS Organizations and wants to delegate administration of AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO) to a member account. Which step is required?
Easy180A company is using AWS Control Tower to manage a multi-account environment. The security team needs to ensure that all accounts have a specific AWS Config rule enabled and that any drift is automatically remediated. Which approach should be used?
Medium181A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to establish a central logging solution. They need to collect CloudTrail logs from all accounts and store them in a central S3 bucket in the management account. Which TWO steps are required to achieve this?
Medium182A multinational corporation is migrating to AWS and needs to manage permissions across multiple accounts using AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO). The company has a central identity source in Microsoft Active Directory. They need to grant different levels of access to users based on their job function. Which combination of AWS services will provide the most scalable and maintainable solution?
Hard183A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a shared services account that hosts Active Directory for authentication. Developers need to launch EC2 instances in development accounts and join them to the domain. What is the most secure way to allow this?
Hard184A company has a central IT team that manages AWS Organizations. The development team needs to create and manage their own AWS accounts for new projects. What is the BEST way to automate account creation while maintaining governance?
Medium185A company is migrating its on-premises Active Directory to AWS Managed Microsoft AD. The directory will be used for authentication across multiple VPCs in different accounts. The company needs to ensure that resources in all VPCs can resolve DNS names from the directory. What is the MOST scalable and secure solution?
Hard186A company has a data lake on Amazon S3 that is accessed by multiple business units via VPC endpoints. The security policy mandates that all access to the data lake must be encrypted in transit and originate from approved VPCs. The company has a central security account that manages AWS Network Firewall. Which combination of controls should be implemented to enforce this policy? (Choose TWO.)
Hard187A company uses a cross-account IAM role 'LogDelivery' in account 111122223333 to write logs to an S3 bucket 'my-company-logs' in a logging account. The bucket policy is shown above. Logs are not being delivered. What is the MOST likely issue?
Hard188A company has a centralized IT team that manages AWS accounts for multiple departments. They need to grant the team permissions to create and manage IAM roles in all accounts, but without giving them full administrator access. What should they use?
Easy189A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a centralized security account. The security team wants to ensure that any IAM role created in any account with a trust policy allowing access from another AWS account must be approved by the security team. Which approach should be used?
Hard190A company is using AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team requires that all S3 buckets across all accounts must have server-side encryption enabled and block public access. Which TWO actions should be taken to enforce these requirements centrally?
Easy191A company uses AWS Organizations and has a requirement that all Amazon S3 buckets must have versioning enabled. The company wants to automatically enable versioning on any bucket that is created without it. Which solution should be implemented?
Easy192A company is designing a centralized logging solution for multiple AWS accounts. They need to aggregate VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail logs, and DNS logs from all accounts into a single S3 bucket. Which AWS service should be used to centralize the log collection?
Easy193A large enterprise with multiple business units (BUs) uses AWS Organizations with a shared services account and BU-specific accounts. Each BU account has a VPC with multiple subnets. The shared services account hosts a central NAT gateway that provides outbound internet access to all BU private subnets via VPC peering. Recently, the network team noticed that traffic from one BU's private subnet is being blocked by the security group in the shared services account. They verified that the route tables are correctly configured. What is the most likely cause and solution?
Medium194A company is using AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. They want to track costs by department, where each department has its own AWS account. Which service should they use to tag resources with department IDs and view cost breakdowns?
Easy195A company has a multi-account environment with AWS Organizations. The security team wants to enforce that all EC2 instances must use a specific AMI ID that is approved by the security team. Which two actions should the team take to achieve this? (Choose two.)
Medium196A company runs a global application on AWS spanning multiple regions. They need to enforce that IAM users in specific accounts can only launch EC2 instances in approved regions. The company uses AWS Organizations. What is the most effective way to enforce this?
Hard197A company is implementing a multi-account strategy using AWS Organizations. They want to centralize CloudTrail logs from all accounts into a single S3 bucket in the management account. Which TWO steps are required to achieve this? (Choose two.)
Medium198A company is using AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. The security team requires that all newly created member accounts automatically have an AWS Config rule enabled that checks whether S3 buckets have default encryption enabled. Which solution should be used?
Medium199A company wants to implement a data perimeter across all AWS accounts to prevent data exfiltration. Which TWO strategies should the company use? (Choose TWO.)
Easy200A company wants to centralize logging from multiple AWS accounts into a single Amazon S3 bucket. The logging accounts are part of an AWS Organization. Which approach should be used to allow CloudTrail to deliver logs from all accounts to the central bucket?
Easy201A company with multiple AWS accounts wants to centrally manage network security policies. The security team needs to inspect all traffic between VPCs in different accounts and block malicious traffic. Which solution is MOST operationally efficient?
Medium202A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to allow certain accounts to use AWS Service Catalog for self-service provisioning. The IT team needs to control which products are available. Where should the product portfolio be shared?
Medium203A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a central network account and multiple workload accounts. They want to use AWS Transit Gateway to connect VPCs across accounts. The network team has created a Transit Gateway in the network account and shared it using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) with the workload accounts. The workload accounts have created VPC attachments to the Transit Gateway. However, traffic is not flowing between the VPCs. The route tables in the workload VPCs have routes pointing to the Transit Gateway. What is the most likely cause?
Hard204A company wants to centralize management of AWS resources across multiple accounts using AWS Control Tower. What is a prerequisite for setting up Control Tower?
Easy205A company has a centralized AWS account for managing Amazon Route 53 DNS. The company has 100 VPCs across multiple accounts, and each VPC needs to resolve private hosted zones in the central account. What is the most scalable solution to enable DNS resolution across accounts?
Medium206A company uses AWS Organizations with a single OU for all accounts. The security team wants to prevent any account from leaving the organization without approval. What should they do?
Easy207A multinational corporation is using AWS Organizations with hundreds of accounts. The finance team needs to track costs by cost center, which is stored as a tag on each resource. However, some resources are missing the tag. What is the most efficient way to ensure that all resources are tagged correctly going forward?
Hard208A global company uses a multi-account AWS Organizations structure with hundreds of accounts. The network team wants to centrally manage VPC flow logs for all accounts and send them to a centralized S3 bucket in the security account. Which solution is MOST scalable and operationally efficient?
Hard209A company uses AWS Organizations with a management account and multiple member accounts. The management account has a trail in AWS CloudTrail that logs all management events for all accounts. The security team wants to also log data events for S3 buckets across all accounts. They create a new trail in the management account with data events enabled for all S3 buckets in all accounts. However, data events from member accounts are not appearing in the CloudTrail logs. What is the most likely cause?
Easy210A financial services company uses AWS Organizations with a multi-account structure: a central security account, a shared services account, and multiple workload accounts. The security team needs to centrally manage and audit all changes to security groups across all accounts. They have implemented AWS Config with an aggregator in the security account. However, they notice that changes to security groups in workload accounts are not appearing in the aggregator. The workload accounts have AWS Config enabled and are recording security group changes. The security account has the necessary cross-account permissions. What is the most likely cause and solution?
Hard211A company is implementing a hybrid network architecture with multiple VPCs in different AWS accounts. They need to ensure private connectivity between the VPCs and their on-premises data center. Which TWO services should they use together to meet this requirement?
Medium212Refer to the exhibit. A company runs this CLI command and sees the output. Which account is the management account?
Easy213A company has a central logging account that receives VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail logs, and DNS logs from all accounts in AWS Organizations. The logs are stored in Amazon S3. The security team needs to query these logs for specific IP addresses and time ranges. Which solution is MOST cost-effective and scalable?
Hard214A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. They want to centralize VPC flow logs for all VPCs across accounts. The logs should be stored in a central S3 bucket in the management account. What is the MOST efficient way to achieve this?
Medium215A company is using a multi-account strategy with AWS Organizations. The security team discovers that an SCP intended to block access to non-compliant AWS regions is not working. The SCP is attached to the root OU. When a user in a member account attempts to launch an EC2 instance in a blocked region, the request succeeds. What is the most likely cause?
Hard216A company uses AWS Organizations with 50 accounts. The central IT team wants to deploy a CloudFormation stack set to create a VPC with a CIDR of 10.0.0.0/16 in each account, but the VPC CIDR must not overlap with existing VPCs in each account. What is the most scalable and automated approach?
Hard217A company wants to implement a data perimeter to ensure that only authorized accounts can access their S3 buckets. Which TWO steps should they take?
Medium218A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to deploy a common set of resources across all accounts. The StackSet should be managed from the management account. What permissions are required?
Medium219A company uses AWS Config to evaluate resource compliance across multiple accounts. The security team wants to automatically remediate non-compliant resources using AWS Systems Manager Automation documents. Which solution is MOST scalable and secure?
Hard220A company has a centralized logging solution using Amazon S3 and AWS CloudTrail. They want to ensure that logs are immutable and cannot be deleted or modified by any user, including the root user. Which S3 feature should be enabled?
Easy221A company is designing a multi-account strategy for its development, testing, and production environments. The security team requires that all accounts share a centralized logging solution. Which approach meets this requirement with the LEAST administrative overhead?
Easy222A company is using AWS Organizations and wants to delegate administration of Amazon GuardDuty to a member account. Which of the following are required? (Choose TWO.)
Medium223A company is implementing a multi-account strategy using AWS Organizations. They need to centralize logging of all API calls across accounts. Which solution meets this requirement with the least operational overhead?
Medium224A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The central IT team wants to restrict the use of specific EC2 instance types across all accounts to control costs. Which approach should the team use?
Easy225A startup is deploying a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations. They have a central logging account where all VPC Flow Logs and CloudTrail logs are stored in an S3 bucket. The security team requires that all accounts in the organization, including future accounts, automatically send logs to this central bucket. They also want to prevent any account from disabling logging. Which solution meets these requirements?
Easy226A company has a multi-account AWS environment with centralized logging. The security team wants to ensure that all VPC Flow Logs are published to a central S3 bucket in the logging account. Which combination of steps should be taken to achieve this?
Hard227A company is using AWS Organizations and wants to delegate administration of AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO) to a specific member account. What must be done?
Medium228A company has a central IT team that manages AWS resources for multiple business units using AWS Organizations. Each business unit has its own OU. The central team needs to allow each OU's administrators to manage their own IAM roles and policies, but prevent them from modifying the OU structure or creating new accounts. Which IAM policy should be attached to the administrators in the management account?
Hard229A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to centralize Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) across multiple accounts. Which TWO steps are required to enable cross-account IPAM?
Medium230A company has a decentralized IT structure where each business unit manages its own AWS account. The central security team needs to ensure that all accounts use a specific set of IAM roles for cross-account access. What is the most scalable way to enforce this?
Hard231A company wants to allow developers to assume a role in a production account from their development account using AWS IAM. What is needed for this cross-account access?
Easy232A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to implement a data perimeter across all accounts to ensure that data can only be accessed from approved networks. Which combination of controls should be used to enforce this perimeter?
Hard233A company uses AWS Organizations with hundreds of accounts. The security team wants to ensure that no account can disable AWS CloudTrail or delete CloudTrail log files. Which preventive control should be implemented?
Hard234A company is planning to migrate its on-premises workload to AWS. The workload consists of a stateful web application that requires a static IP address for whitelisting by third-party services. The company will use a multi-AZ deployment. Which service should be used to meet these requirements?
Medium235A company wants to use AWS Systems Manager to automate patching of EC2 instances across multiple AWS accounts. What is the most efficient way to manage this centrally?
Easy236A company is using AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. The company has a production account and a development account. The security team needs to ensure that developers cannot create IAM users in the development account. Which option is the MOST effective?
Medium237A company has a multi-account AWS environment with hundreds of accounts. They need to enforce that all accounts have AWS CloudTrail enabled and that logs are delivered to a central S3 bucket. Which TWO actions should be taken to ensure compliance across the organization?
Hard238A global company with a centralized IT team manages AWS resources across 50 accounts using AWS Control Tower. The team wants to deploy a new VPC with a specific CIDR block in each account in the same AWS Region. The VPC must have identical configuration across accounts. Which approach is the MOST efficient and meets the requirement?
Hard239Refer to the exhibit. A company applies this SCP to an OU. However, users in the OU are still able to upload objects to S3 without encryption. What is the most likely reason?
Medium240A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a centralized security account. The security team needs to have read-only access to all Amazon S3 buckets across all accounts for auditing purposes. Which solution is the MOST secure and scalable?
Medium241Which TWO actions improve the security of an S3 bucket that stores sensitive data?
Medium242A multinational corporation is migrating its on-premises Active Directory to AWS Managed Microsoft AD. The company has multiple VPCs in different AWS Regions, and all VPCs must be able to authenticate against the same directory. The directory must be highly available and support automatic failover. What is the MOST operationally efficient solution?
Hard243A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The finance team needs to track costs by department, where each department uses resources across several accounts. What is the BEST way to allocate costs accurately?
Medium244A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to centrally manage backups of EC2 instances across multiple accounts. Which service should they use?
Easy245A multinational corporation is migrating its on-premises Active Directory to AWS. The company requires a solution that supports multi-region authentication for thousands of users and integrates with existing on-premises Active Directory for seamless SSO. The solution must be highly available and provide low-latency authentication. Which TWO AWS services should be combined to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
Hard246A company is using AWS Organizations and wants to restrict the use of specific instance types across all accounts. The company wants to allow only t3.micro, t3.small, m5.large, and m5.xlarge instances. Which SCP should be applied?
Hard247A company uses AWS Control Tower to manage a multi-account environment. The security team needs to ensure that all accounts have AWS CloudTrail enabled and that logs are delivered to a central S3 bucket. What is the BEST way to achieve this?
Easy248A company is using AWS Organizations with hundreds of accounts. The central IT team needs to deploy a common set of AWS resources (e.g., VPCs, subnets, security groups) to all accounts in a specific organizational unit (OU). The solution must be automated and ensure that new accounts added to the OU automatically receive the resources. Which three steps should the team take? (Choose three.)
Hard249A company has a multi-account strategy with a centralized logging account. All VPC Flow Logs and CloudTrail logs are sent to an S3 bucket in the logging account. The security team needs to analyze these logs using Amazon Athena. Which configuration provides the MOST cost-effective and secure access?
Hard250A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a central logging account and multiple workload accounts. The security team requires that all VPC Flow Logs be delivered to a central S3 bucket in the logging account. The VPC Flow Logs are encrypted with a customer-managed KMS key in the logging account. The workload accounts have created VPC Flow Logs, but the logs are not appearing in the central S3 bucket. The IAM role used by VPC Flow Logs in the workload accounts has the necessary permissions to deliver logs to the central S3 bucket. What is the most likely cause of the issue?
Hard251A company has a production AWS account and a development AWS account. The development team needs to assume an IAM role in the production account to deploy resources. What is the correct way to set up this cross-account access?
Easy252A company operates multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organizations. They want to centrally manage Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups across all accounts. The operations team needs to view and modify scaling policies from a single pane of glass. Which solution should they implement?
Medium253A company uses AWS Organizations with a hierarchical structure of organizational units (OUs). The security team needs to restrict the use of specific AWS services in the development OU. However, the SCP applied at the root level allows all services. Which TWO SCP strategies can restrict services for the development OU without affecting other OUs? (Choose TWO.)
Hard254A company has a complex AWS environment with multiple accounts and VPCs. The company wants to ensure that all outbound traffic from VPCs goes through a centralized inspection VPC for security monitoring. The company uses AWS Transit Gateway. Which solution should be implemented?
Hard255A company has a production AWS account and a development AWS account under AWS Organizations. The development team wants to deploy a CloudFormation stack that creates an S3 bucket with a bucket policy that grants access to the production account's IAM roles. The development account has an SCP that denies all s3:PutBucketPolicy actions. The development team has full administrator access in their account. When they try to create the stack, it fails. What is the most likely reason and how should they proceed?
Medium256A company is migrating to a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Control Tower. The security team must ensure that all accounts have AWS Config enabled and that logs are delivered to a central S3 bucket. Which THREE steps should the security team take?
Easy257A company has a multi-account AWS environment and wants to implement a secure, scalable cross-account network architecture using AWS Transit Gateway. Which TWO steps should be taken?
Medium258A company has a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations with 50 accounts. The accounts are organized into OUs based on environment: Production, Staging, and Development. The central IT team uses AWS CloudFormation StackSets to deploy a baseline network configuration (VPC, subnets, security groups) to all accounts. Recently, the network team updated the stack set to add a new subnet to the VPC. After the update, they noticed that the stack set operation failed for 10 accounts. The error message indicates that the stack set cannot update because a resource already exists. What is the MOST LIKELY cause of this failure?
Medium259A company has multiple AWS accounts managed under AWS Organizations. The security team needs to enforce that all newly created S3 buckets in any account are automatically tagged with a 'CostCenter' tag. Which solution is the MOST operationally efficient?
Medium260A company has a central networking account that hosts a transit gateway (TGW). Multiple VPCs from various accounts are attached to the TGW. The security team wants to ensure that only specific VPCs can communicate with each other, but all VPCs need access to a shared services VPC. Which configuration should be used?
Hard261A large enterprise uses AWS Organizations with hundreds of accounts. The central security team needs to enforce that no IAM users are created in any account; instead, all access must be through IAM roles federated with the corporate identity provider. The security team wants to detect any IAM user creation and automatically remediate it by deleting the user and notifying the security team. Which solution should be implemented?
Hard262A company manages 200 AWS accounts using AWS Organizations. The security team wants to prevent developers from creating resources outside of a set of approved AWS Regions. Additionally, they want to restrict the creation of resources that are not tagged with a cost center tag. Which THREE actions should be taken to enforce these requirements?
Hard263A company uses AWS Organizations with a single member account for its development environment. The IT team wants to allow developers to launch EC2 instances only if they use a specific AMI ID. Which policy type should the company use to enforce this requirement?
Easy264A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a central network account and multiple workload accounts. They want to share a VPC subnet in the network account with the workload accounts so that they can launch EC2 instances directly into the shared subnet. The network team has created a VPC with a subnet and shared it using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) with the workload accounts. However, the workload accounts cannot see the shared subnet when launching EC2 instances. What is the most likely cause?
Medium265A company has a centralized logging account and multiple application accounts. All VPC Flow Logs are sent to a central S3 bucket in the logging account. The security team needs to analyze the logs using Amazon Athena. The team must ensure queries are cost-effective and return results quickly for recent logs. Which configuration should be used?
Medium266A company uses AWS Organizations and has shared a subnet from the VPC shown in the exhibit using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). A workload account launches an EC2 instance in the shared subnet. The instance needs to communicate with an RDS database in a different private subnet within the same VPC. What additional configuration is required?
Hard267A multinational company is implementing AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts across business units. The security team requires that all IAM users in member accounts must use a specific password policy and must have MFA enabled. Which combination of actions should the company take to enforce these requirements?
Hard268A multinational company is using AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team requires that all S3 buckets across the organization block public access. What is the MOST efficient way to enforce this requirement?
Medium269A company is using AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team wants to enforce that all newly created S3 buckets have encryption enabled. Which TWO approaches can achieve this? (Choose TWO.)
Easy270A company has a centralized logging account that receives VPC Flow Logs from all accounts in the organization. The logs are stored in an S3 bucket. The security team needs to allow a third-party SIEM tool to read these logs from the S3 bucket, but only from a specific VPCE (VPC Endpoint). Which policy should be applied to the S3 bucket?
Easy271An organization uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team wants to ensure that all IAM users in all accounts must use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access the AWS Management Console. What is the most efficient way to enforce this?
Medium272A company is designing a multi-account strategy for development, testing, and production environments. They want to ensure that developers can deploy resources in development and testing accounts but not in production. Which TWO methods should the company use to achieve this? (Choose TWO.)
Easy273A company wants to use AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) to manage access to multiple AWS accounts. The company has an existing identity source in an on-premises Active Directory. Which integration method should the company use?
Easy274Refer to the exhibit. This S3 bucket policy is attached to a bucket in the security account (111111111111). The policy grants access to account 123456789012. A service in account 123456789012 tries to write a log file to s3://my-log-bucket/AWSLogs/123456789012/logfile.txt. What will happen?
Medium275A company has a centralized logging account that receives VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail logs, and AWS Config logs from all member accounts in AWS Organizations. The logs are stored in an S3 bucket in the logging account. Security analysts need to query these logs using Amazon Athena. What is the MOST efficient way to set up the table partitions?
Easy276A financial services company is migrating its trading platform to AWS. The platform consists of hundreds of microservices deployed in containers using Amazon ECS with Fargate launch type. Each service has its own IAM role for fine-grained permissions. The security team requires that all ECS tasks use a specific VPC (vpc-12345) and cannot run in any other VPC. During a recent audit, it was discovered that some tasks are running in a different VPC (vpc-67890). The solutions architect must implement a preventive control to ensure that ECS tasks only run in the approved VPC. The company uses AWS Organizations and has Service Control Policies (SCPs) in place. What should the solutions architect do?
Medium277A company has a multi-account AWS environment. They want to ensure that any new account created in the organization automatically gets a specific set of IAM roles and AWS Config rules deployed. Which solution requires the least manual effort?
Medium278A company has a management account in AWS Organizations and wants to share a central Amazon VPC subnet with multiple member accounts for a shared services VPC. Which AWS service should be used to share the subnet?
Medium279A company uses AWS Organizations with a centralized networking account that hosts a VPC with a transit gateway. Other accounts need to connect to this transit gateway. The company wants to ensure that only approved VPCs can attach to the transit gateway, and that the attachments are automatically approved when a VPC is created in a member account. Which solution meets these requirements?
Hard280A company wants to allow developers to launch EC2 instances, but only with specific instance types and only if the instance has a tag 'CostCenter'. Which IAM policy statement should be applied to the developers' IAM group? (Choose TWO.)
Easy281A company uses AWS Organizations with several OUs. The security team wants to restrict the use of specific instance types (e.g., all instances except t2.micro) across all accounts. Which SCP should be applied?
Medium282A company has a multi-account environment with a centralized network account that hosts a transit gateway. Application accounts need to connect to the transit gateway. The network team wants to ensure that only authorized accounts can create attachments. Which method should be used?
Medium283A company has multiple VPCs across different AWS accounts and wants to establish private connectivity between them. They also need to centrally manage network traffic for security inspection. Which architecture should they use?
Hard284A company has multiple AWS accounts in an organization. The security team needs to centrally manage Amazon GuardDuty findings from all accounts. Which THREE steps should the team take to meet this requirement? (Choose THREE.)
Hard285A company is designing a cross-account backup strategy using AWS Backup. The backup policy must be centrally managed from the management account. Which TWO steps are required to implement this?
Medium286A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to share a centrally managed Amazon VPC subnet for workloads that require low latency. The VPC is in the networking account. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
Medium287A company uses AWS Organizations with a single OU for all production accounts. The central security team wants to prevent any user from disabling Amazon GuardDuty in any production account. What is the MOST effective way to enforce this?
Easy288A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple OUs. The finance team needs visibility into costs across all accounts. They want to tag resources with a 'CostCenter' tag. What is the BEST way to enforce tag propagation?
Medium289Refer to the exhibit. A trust policy is attached to an IAM role named AuditRole in account 111111111111. The IAM role Admin in account 222222222222 attempts to assume AuditRole. The session is launched with source identity 'admin'. Will the assumption succeed?
Hard290A company is implementing AWS Control Tower to manage a multi-account environment. The security team needs to ensure that all accounts in the organization follow the principle of least privilege for IAM roles. Which TWO actions should the team take?
Medium291A company is designing a network architecture for a multi-account AWS environment. They need to establish a central inspection VPC through which all traffic between VPCs in different accounts must pass. Which AWS service should be used to route traffic between VPCs through the inspection VPC?
Easy292A company is migrating to AWS and wants to set up a multi-account structure using AWS Organizations. The security team requires that all accounts be part of an organization and that any attempt to leave the organization be blocked. Additionally, the company wants to prevent the use of the root user in member accounts for daily operations. What should they do?
Hard293A company is designing a multi-account strategy using AWS Organizations. They need to enforce that all IAM users in member accounts must use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access the AWS Management Console. Which TWO approaches should they combine to enforce this requirement?
Hard294A company is designing a multi-account strategy using AWS Organizations. They want to enforce that no one can disable AWS CloudTrail in any account. Which TWO methods can achieve this?
Medium295A company is using AWS Organizations with a centralized networking account that hosts a transit gateway. The company wants to ensure that all traffic between VPCs in different accounts flows through the transit gateway. Which THREE steps are required to implement this architecture?
Hard296A company has a management account in AWS Organizations. It wants to delegate administration of AWS IAM Identity Center to a member account for user management. What is the correct way to achieve this?
Easy297A company has a multi-account AWS environment. The security team needs to centrally manage and audit IAM roles that allow cross-account access. Which solution meets these requirements?
Medium298A company uses AWS Organizations with a multi-account strategy. The central IT team needs to enforce that all Amazon S3 buckets across the organization are encrypted with AWS KMS using a specific customer managed key. The security policy must be applied without modifying individual bucket policies. Which approach meets these requirements?
Hard299A company has a complex AWS environment with multiple VPCs connected via a transit gateway. The company wants to centrally manage DNS resolution across all VPCs. Currently, each VPC has its own Amazon Route 53 private hosted zone. The company needs a solution that allows resources in any VPC to resolve DNS names from any other VPC's private hosted zone. Which solution should be implemented?
Medium300A company has multiple AWS accounts for different departments. The finance team wants to centrally manage and optimize EC2 Reserved Instance purchases across all accounts. Which solution should the company implement?
Easy301A company has a central S3 bucket for logs (central-logs-bucket) in account 123456789012. The bucket policy is shown in the exhibit. A developer in account 111111111111 tries to access an object in the bucket using the AWS CLI without the --no-sign-request option. The request fails. What is the MOST likely cause?
Medium302A company has a multi-account AWS environment with over 500 accounts. The security team uses AWS Config to evaluate resource compliance across all accounts. They have set up an AWS Config aggregator in the security account to collect configuration snapshots from all member accounts. Recently, the team noticed that some member accounts are not showing up in the aggregator. The accounts are active and have AWS Config enabled. What should the security team do to troubleshoot this issue?
Medium303A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to centralize CloudTrail logs from all accounts into a single S3 bucket in the audit account. Which configuration is required?
Medium304A solutions architect needs to design a network architecture for a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Transit Gateway. The company requires that all traffic between VPCs be inspected by a central security appliance. What is the MOST efficient way to achieve this?
Easy305A company has a multi-account strategy with a dedicated audit account. The audit account needs to have read-only access to all resources in all other accounts. The security team wants to use IAM roles. What is the MOST scalable way to set up this cross-account access?
Hard306Refer to the exhibit. A solutions architect is troubleshooting why EC2 instances launched in subnet-11111111 cannot access the internet. The subnet is in a VPC with an internet gateway attached. The route table for the subnet has a default route (0.0.0.0/0) pointing to the internet gateway. What is the MOST likely cause?
Hard307A company uses AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. The finance team wants to track costs by project, where each project may use resources across multiple accounts. What is the MOST scalable way to allocate costs?
Easy308A company wants to implement a data lake on AWS with data from multiple sources. They need to store data in its raw format and allow multiple teams to query it using different tools. Which service should be used as the central storage layer?
Easy309A company has a centralized logging account and multiple application accounts. Each application account sends CloudWatch Logs to a cross-account log group in the logging account. The security team wants to ensure that logs are encrypted at rest using a KMS key that only the logging account can manage. Which configuration is required?
Hard310A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to delegate administration of AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO) to a member account. Which step is required to set this up?
Medium311A company wants to centralize management of Amazon EC2 instances across multiple accounts using AWS Systems Manager. The company uses AWS Organizations. What is the simplest way to enable Systems Manager to manage instances in all accounts?
Easy312A company has a global AWS environment with multiple VPCs in different regions. The company uses AWS Transit Gateway to connect VPCs in the same region, but they need to interconnect VPCs across regions. The network team wants a solution that provides transitive routing across regions with minimal latency and operational overhead. Which solution should be implemented?
Hard313A company is setting up a new AWS Organization and wants to implement a data perimeter to ensure that data can only be accessed from approved network locations. Which TWO actions should the company take?
Medium314A multinational corporation is deploying a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations. The security team requires that all S3 buckets across all accounts be encrypted with a specific AWS KMS key managed by the security account. Which solution should the company implement to enforce this policy across the organization?
Medium315A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to centrally manage CloudWatch dashboards. Which solution should they use?
Easy316A company is using AWS Organizations with a hierarchical OU structure. The security team wants to enforce that any new account created in the organization automatically inherits a baseline set of AWS Config rules and a VPC with a default CIDR block. What is the MOST efficient way to achieve this?
Medium317A company uses AWS Organizations with a large number of accounts. The security team needs to enforce that only approved AMIs from a central account can be used to launch EC2 instances in all accounts. Which combination of actions should be taken? (Choose TWO.)
Medium318A company wants to implement a centralized logging solution for its multi-account AWS environment. The solution must be resilient to AWS Regional failures and provide near real-time log delivery. Which combination of services should the company use?
Easy319A company uses AWS Organizations with a single OU for all member accounts. The company wants to restrict the use of specific Amazon EC2 instance types across all member accounts. However, the management account should not be restricted. Which solution meets this requirement?
Hard320Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to a user in the management account of AWS Organizations. The user wants to assume the OrganizationAccountAccessRole in a member account. However, the user receives an access denied error. What is the most likely reason?
Medium321A company needs to share a central Amazon S3 bucket containing common data files with multiple accounts in AWS Organizations. Which approach is most secure and scalable?
Easy322A company has a centralized logging account and multiple member accounts. The security team wants to enable VPC Flow Logs for all VPCs across all accounts and centralize the logs in the logging account. The solution must be automated and ensure that new VPCs are automatically included. Which approach should be taken?
Medium323Refer to the exhibit. A security engineer applied this bucket policy to an S3 bucket. A developer tries to upload an object using the AWS CLI without specifying any encryption. What is the outcome?
Hard324A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a centralized logging account. The security team wants to ensure that all VPC Flow Logs from all accounts are delivered to a central Amazon S3 bucket in the logging account. The logs must be encrypted at rest using AWS KMS. The company currently uses AWS Organizations. Which solution meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?
Hard325A company uses AWS Organizations with 50 accounts. The network team wants to centrally manage VPC flow logs for all accounts, storing them in a central S3 bucket in the security account. The flow logs must be encrypted with a KMS key managed by the security account. What is the MOST efficient way to configure this?
Hard326A global company uses AWS Organizations with hundreds of accounts. The security team requires that all S3 buckets across the organization block public access. They want to enforce this policy without modifying existing bucket policies. Which solution should they use?
Hard327A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple OUs. The security team wants to enforce that no resources can be created outside of approved AWS Regions. Which policy should be used, and how should it be attached?
Easy328A global e-commerce company is migrating its on-premises application to AWS. The application uses Active Directory for authentication and requires integration with AWS Managed Microsoft AD. The company has a multi-account strategy using AWS Organizations. Which TWO steps should the solutions architect take to ensure seamless authentication across the organization?
Easy329A company is designing a multi-account strategy for its AWS environment. Which TWO considerations are important when using AWS Organizations?
Medium330A company uses AWS Organizations with a multi-account setup. The security team needs to ensure that all users in all accounts use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access the AWS Management Console. Which THREE steps should be taken to enforce this?
Hard331A large financial services company uses AWS Organizations with over 200 accounts. The security team has implemented a Service Control Policy (SCP) that denies access to all services except a whitelist that includes Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and Amazon CloudWatch. Recently, the DevOps team reported that they cannot create new EC2 instances in their development account, even though the administrator explicitly attached an IAM policy allowing ec2:RunInstances. The SCP does not explicitly deny EC2. What is the most likely cause of this issue?
Hard332Refer to the exhibit. A security engineer is reviewing this S3 bucket policy. The bucket is used to store sensitive logs from multiple accounts in an AWS Organization. What is the primary purpose of the condition element in this policy?
Medium333A multinational company wants to implement a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations. The security team requires that all new accounts automatically have AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config enabled with specific rules. Which solution should the company use to enforce these settings across all accounts?
Medium334A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple OUs. The DevOps team needs to allow developers to launch EC2 instances only of type t3.micro in the dev OU. Which action should the team take?
Easy335A company plans to migrate on-premises workloads to AWS. They have 500 VMs and need to ensure consistent network segmentation and security group rules across multiple VPCs in different AWS accounts. The network team uses a centralized hub-and-spoke model with AWS Transit Gateway. Which approach minimizes operational overhead while maintaining security compliance?
Hard336A global company has a multi-region AWS deployment. They need to share a single Amazon RDS for MySQL database across multiple AWS Regions for disaster recovery. The database must have minimal data loss and RTO of less than 1 minute. Which solution meets these requirements?
Hard337A company uses AWS Organizations with 100 accounts. They want to restrict which AWS services can be used in the development OU. Which TWO steps should they take?
Medium338A company is migrating to a multi-account structure and needs to manage DNS resolution across accounts. The company uses Amazon Route 53 private hosted zones. They want a central resolver in the shared services VPC. Which THREE components are required?
Hard339A company applied the above SCP to an OU. A developer in an account under that OU tries to launch a t2.medium EC2 instance. What will happen?
Medium340A company uses AWS Organizations with a central security account. They need to ensure that any S3 bucket created in any account is configured with encryption and versioning enabled. Which THREE steps should they take?
Hard341A company wants to allow developers to manage their own resources in individual AWS accounts while the central IT team manages networking and security. Which AWS service can help enforce that developers cannot modify networking resources?
Easy342Refer to the exhibit. A solutions architect is reviewing this SCP. What is the effect of this SCP when attached to an organizational unit (OU)?
Easy343A company has a multi-account architecture with a shared services account that hosts a central Amazon RDS instance. Member accounts need to access this database. Which TWO actions should the company take to enable secure access?
Hard344A company wants to use AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) to share a subnet in a VPC with other accounts in the organization. Which of the following are required? (Choose THREE.)
Hard345A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple OUs. The DevOps team wants to allow developers in a specific OU to create and manage their own VPCs but restrict them from deleting VPCs created by the central networking team. How can this be achieved?
Medium346A company uses AWS Organizations with a multi-account setup. The central IT team manages a shared services VPC in the network account, which hosts a NAT gateway, a VPN connection to the on-premises network, and a transit gateway. Several application accounts have VPCs attached to the transit gateway. Recently, the application teams report that they cannot reach the on-premises network through the VPN. The network team confirms that the VPN is up and routes are propagated in the transit gateway route tables. However, the application VPCs are not receiving the routes. What is the MOST likely cause?
Hard347A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to delegate administrative tasks for specific AWS services to a member account. Which AWS feature should be used?
Easy348A company is using AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. The finance team wants to track costs by project, but projects span multiple accounts. Which approach should be used to tag resources consistently across accounts?
Medium349A company uses AWS Organizations and has deployed a multi-account strategy. The security team wants to enforce that all S3 buckets have versioning enabled. They create an SCP that denies the PutBucketVersioning action if versioning is not enabled. However, they find that the SCP is not preventing users in member accounts from disabling versioning on existing buckets. What is the most likely reason?
Hard350A company is designing a multi-account strategy using AWS Organizations. Which TWO benefits does this approach provide? (Choose TWO.)
Medium351A company has a multi-account environment with AWS Organizations. The security team wants to enforce that all EC2 instances launched in any account must have a specific tag key 'CostCenter'. Which approach should be used?
Hard352Refer to the exhibit. A company applies this S3 bucket policy to a central logging bucket. CloudTrail trails in multiple accounts are configured to deliver logs to this bucket. Recently, logs stopped being delivered. What is the most likely cause?
Hard353Drag and drop the steps to set up a Direct Connect private virtual interface in the correct order.
Medium354A company has a multi-account AWS environment with hundreds of accounts. The security team needs to centrally manage IAM roles for cross-account access. They want to ensure that when a role is created in a member account, it automatically adheres to the principle of least privilege and is auditable. What solution should they implement?
Hard355A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to centrally manage VPC flow logs for all VPCs across all accounts. Which TWO steps are required to achieve this?
Medium356A company has a production AWS account that is part of an AWS Organization. The account has a VPC with a NAT gateway for internet access. The security team wants to ensure that all outbound traffic to the internet flows through a centralized inspection VPC in the security account for traffic inspection. Which architecture should be used?
Hard357A company has a central IT team that manages networking resources for multiple application teams. Each application team needs to manage its own EC2 instances and RDS databases. Which AWS architecture best supports this separation of duties?
Easy358A company is centralizing its logging across multiple AWS accounts using a central logging account. Each application account delivers its CloudTrail logs and VPC Flow Logs to an S3 bucket in the logging account. The security team needs to query these logs using Amazon Athena. The logs are currently in separate S3 prefixes per account. The team wants to create a single Athena table that can query logs from all accounts without having to modify the table definition every time a new account is added. The logs are in CSV format for VPC Flow Logs and JSON format for CloudTrail. What is the MOST efficient solution?
Medium359A company wants to automate the creation of new AWS accounts and apply baseline security configurations. Which combination of services should be used to achieve this?
Easy360A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to implement a policy that prevents any account from disabling AWS CloudTrail or deleting CloudTrail log files. The solution must be enforceable across all accounts. Which combination of actions should be taken?
Hard361A company has a centralized logging account that receives VPC Flow Logs from all accounts in the organization. The logs are stored in an S3 bucket. A security analyst needs to query the logs to identify traffic to a specific IP address. The analyst has been granted read-only access to the S3 bucket. However, the analyst cannot access the logs. What is the MOST likely cause?
Hard362A company with multiple AWS accounts wants to centralize CloudTrail logging. They create a CloudTrail trail in the management account that logs all events across all accounts and regions. However, the security team notices that some management events from member accounts are not being logged. What is the most likely cause?
Hard363A company uses AWS Organizations with 50 accounts. They need to manage EC2 instance inventory across all accounts. Which THREE steps are necessary to achieve this?
Medium364A startup is using a single AWS account for development, testing, and production. They want to isolate environments and improve security. What is the most aligned AWS best practice?
Easy365Which THREE design patterns are recommended for decoupling components in a microservices architecture on AWS?
Hard366A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to ensure that all member accounts have AWS CloudTrail enabled and logs are delivered to a central S3 bucket in the management account. Which approach is MOST efficient?
Easy367An administrator runs the above command and sees that the 'Prod' account is suspended. What is the MOST likely cause?
Medium368A global company is using a multi-account AWS Organizations setup with a centralized logging account. They want to aggregate CloudTrail logs from all accounts into a single S3 bucket in the logging account. Which combination of steps will meet this requirement?
Medium369A company has a multi-account environment with a central security account. They want to use AWS Security Hub to aggregate findings from all accounts. What is the correct setup?
Medium370A global company is using AWS Organizations with hundreds of accounts. The IT team needs to centrally manage DNS records for all accounts using Amazon Route 53 private hosted zones. The solution must be highly available and support cross-account DNS resolution. What should the team do?
Hard371A company uses AWS Organizations with hundreds of accounts. The security team needs to ensure that no IAM user in any account can create a new IAM user or access key. What is the most scalable way to enforce this?
Hard372A company is migrating to a multi-account AWS environment. They want to centralize DNS management using Amazon Route 53 private hosted zones. The private zones must be accessible from all VPCs in the organization. Which THREE steps are required to achieve this?
Hard373A company is migrating its on-premises Active Directory to AWS Managed Microsoft AD. They need to ensure that users can authenticate to AWS resources using their existing corporate credentials. What is the MOST secure and scalable solution?
Medium374A company ran the command above. The management account (111111111111) has an SCP attached that denies all actions. The DevAccount (222222222222) has no SCP. What can the root user of the DevAccount do?
Hard375A multinational corporation uses AWS Organizations with hundreds of accounts. The security team requires that all Amazon S3 buckets across the organization be encrypted with a specific AWS KMS key from the security account. Which combination of controls should be implemented to enforce this requirement?
Hard376A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a centralized logging account. They want to collect VPC Flow Logs from all accounts and store them in a centralized S3 bucket in the logging account. What is the MOST scalable and cost-effective solution?
Easy377A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a central networking account that hosts all VPCs and a shared services account that hosts common resources like directory services. The company wants to allow all accounts to use the same VPC for their workloads instead of creating separate VPCs. The security team requires that traffic between accounts is encrypted in transit and that accounts cannot directly access each other's resources without going through the central networking account. The network team proposes using AWS Transit Gateway with inter-region peering and VPC attachments. However, the security team is concerned about compliance with encryption requirements. What should the network team do to meet the requirements?
Easy378Refer to the exhibit. A security engineer ran this AWS CLI command to investigate who created a CloudTrail trail in January 2024. The command returned no results. However, the security team knows that a trail was created during that period. What is the most likely reason for the empty result?
Hard379A company has a data lake in AWS using S3 and Glue. The security team requires that all data in the data lake be encrypted at rest using a customer-managed KMS key. However, some users are able to upload data without encryption. What is the most effective way to enforce encryption?
Hard380A company has multiple AWS accounts managed via AWS Organizations. The security team wants to restrict the use of specific instance types across all accounts. Which TWO methods can be used to enforce this restriction?
Hard381A company uses AWS Organizations and has a member account that needs to access a shared S3 bucket in another member account. The bucket policy allows access from the account's root user. What is the simplest way to grant an IAM user in the member account access?
Medium382A company has multiple AWS accounts managed using AWS Organizations. The security team wants to enforce that all new accounts automatically have a specific AWS Config rule enabled to prohibit public S3 bucket access. Which solution requires the least operational overhead?
Medium383A company uses AWS Organizations and has a central IT team that manages VPCs. The team wants to ensure that only authorized accounts can create VPCs, and that all VPCs must have a specific tag. Which solution enforces this?
Medium384A company's AWS environment includes multiple VPCs across several accounts that are connected via a transit gateway. The network team wants to monitor all network traffic between VPCs for security analysis. Which solution is the most scalable and cost-effective?
Medium385A company wants to implement a single sign-on (SSO) solution for its employees to access multiple AWS accounts. The company has an existing identity provider (IdP) that supports SAML 2.0. Which AWS service should be used to integrate with the IdP?
Easy386A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a centralized logging account. The security team needs to analyze VPC Flow Logs from all accounts using Amazon Athena. Which THREE steps are required to enable this analysis? (Choose THREE.)
Hard387A company has a centralized logging solution using Amazon OpenSearch Service (Elasticsearch) and wants to ensure logs from all AWS accounts are shipped to a central account. Which AWS service can be used to collect and forward logs from multiple accounts to a single destination?
Easy388A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. The security team wants to ensure that all accounts use AWS CloudTrail with logs delivered to a central S3 bucket. Which TWO actions should be taken to enforce this?
Medium389A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team requires that all S3 buckets across the organization have server-side encryption enabled. Which is the MOST efficient way to enforce this policy?
Medium390A company uses AWS Organizations with 500 accounts. They want to enforce that all accounts use a specific set of allowed AMIs for EC2. What is the MOST scalable solution?
Hard391A company wants to implement a data lake strategy using Amazon S3 across multiple AWS accounts. They need to ensure that data is encrypted at rest using a centralized AWS KMS key from a security account. Which THREE steps should they take?
Hard392A company needs to share a VPC subnet with multiple accounts in the same AWS Organization. What is the MOST secure way to achieve this?
Easy393A company has a decentralized IT structure where each business unit manages its own AWS accounts. The central IT team wants to enforce security policies across all accounts but allow business units to retain administrative control. Which solution should the central IT team implement?
Easy394A company uses AWS Organizations with a management account and several member accounts. The security team wants to ensure that all member accounts have AWS CloudTrail enabled and that logs are delivered to a centralized S3 bucket in the management account. What should they do?
Easy395A company has multiple AWS accounts managed via AWS Organizations. The security team requires that all S3 buckets across all accounts be encrypted with AWS KMS and that bucket policies enforce HTTPS. What is the MOST efficient way to enforce these policies across all accounts?
Medium396A company wants to ensure that no IAM user in any account can create access keys. The company uses AWS Organizations. Which approach should be used?
Easy397A large enterprise uses AWS Organizations with 200 accounts. The central security team has implemented a service control policy (SCP) that denies all actions unless the request comes from a specific set of allowed AWS services. The SCP is attached to the root OU. Recently, the DevOps team reported that they cannot launch Amazon EC2 instances in any account, even though they have full administrator access via IAM roles. The security team verifies that the SCP is correctly configured and that allowed services include EC2. However, the error message states 'Action 'ec2:RunInstances' is not authorized.' The DevOps team is using the AWS Management Console. What is the MOST LIKELY cause?
Hard398A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to centralize CloudTrail logs in a single S3 bucket in the security account. Which policy should be applied to the S3 bucket to allow cross-account delivery from all member accounts?
Easy399A company has a single AWS account and wants to implement a multi-account strategy for better isolation. Which AWS service is designed to help centrally manage multiple accounts?
Easy400A company uses AWS Organizations with several OUs for different environments (dev, test, prod). They want to restrict the use of specific EC2 instance types in the prod OU only. Which approach should they use?
Easy401A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a central logging account. They want to ensure that all VPC Flow Logs are enabled for every VPC in every account and that the logs are sent to a central S3 bucket. What combination of services should they use to automatically enforce this?
Hard402A company uses AWS Organizations and has a requirement that all root user activities in member accounts must be immediately reported to the security team. Which combination of actions should be taken to meet this requirement? (Choose the best answer.)
Easy403A company has a multi-account AWS environment. They want to use AWS CloudTrail to log all API calls across all accounts and deliver the logs to a central S3 bucket in the logging account. They have configured a trail in the management account that logs management events for all accounts. However, they notice that the logs from member accounts are not being delivered to the central S3 bucket. What is the most likely cause?
Easy404A company has a central logging account that receives VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail logs, and AWS Config logs from all accounts in the organization. The logs are stored in S3 buckets. The security team wants to analyze these logs using Amazon Athena. What is the MOST cost-effective way to ensure that the Athena queries only scan the necessary data?
Hard405A company has multiple AWS accounts managed through AWS Organizations. The security team wants to enforce that all new member accounts automatically have AWS Config enabled with a specific set of rules. Which solution is the MOST efficient?
Medium406A company is implementing a data lake on Amazon S3. The security policy requires that all data be encrypted at rest using AWS KMS and that access must be logged. The data lake has millions of objects, and the security team wants to detect any changes to bucket policies or encryption settings. Which combination of services should be used?
Medium407A company attaches the above SCP to the root organizational unit. The development team in a member account wants to launch an EC2 instance in the ap-southeast-1 region. What will happen?
Medium408A company is migrating to AWS and plans to use a multi-account strategy. The management account will be used solely for administrative purposes. Which best practice should be followed when setting up AWS Organizations?
Easy409A company has a multi-account AWS environment with a centralized network account that hosts a transit gateway. The company wants to share the transit gateway with multiple member accounts. Which AWS service should be used to share the transit gateway?
Easy410A company wants to provide its developers with access to a shared development environment in AWS. The developers are in different AWS accounts, and they need to assume an IAM role in the development account. What is the secure way to allow cross-account access?
Easy411A company is using AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. The finance team wants to track costs by business unit. Each business unit has its own AWS account. The team needs a solution that allows them to generate cost reports filtered by business unit without additional overhead. Which action should be taken?
Easy412A company uses AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. The finance team needs to track costs by department, which are tagged with 'department' tags. However, some resources are not tagged. The team wants to ensure that all new resources are tagged, and existing untagged resources are identified. What should they do?
Medium413A company has multiple AWS accounts managed via AWS Organizations. The security team wants to enforce that all S3 buckets across all accounts are encrypted with AWS KMS keys managed by the security team. What is the MOST scalable and maintainable solution?
Medium414A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple OUs. The security team wants to ensure that no account in the 'Production' OU can disable AWS CloudTrail or delete CloudTrail log files. Which two steps should be taken? (Choose TWO.)
Medium415A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to centralize operational data such as cost reports, security findings, and resource inventory. The solution should provide a single pane of glass for the operations team. Which AWS service should be used?
Medium416A company uses AWS Organizations with a multi-account strategy. The DevOps team wants to allow developers to launch EC2 instances only in specific Regions and only with approved AMIs. Which AWS service should be used to enforce these controls across all accounts?
Easy417A company uses AWS Organizations with a large number of accounts. The networking team wants to centrally manage VPCs and subnets using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) and share subnets to member accounts. What must be done in the member accounts to use shared subnets?
Hard418A company has multiple AWS accounts managed through AWS Organizations. The central IT team wants to allow developers to launch EC2 instances only in specific Regions, but allow full access to all other services. What is the BEST approach?
Hard419A company has a production AWS account that contains sensitive data. The security team wants to ensure that no one can disable AWS CloudTrail or delete the CloudTrail S3 bucket. Which THREE actions should be taken to protect these resources? (Choose three.)
Hard420A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to centralize logging of all API calls. Which TWO services should be used together to achieve this?
Hard421A company is using AWS Organizations and wants to allow certain member accounts to create VPCs with specific CIDR ranges. Which mechanism should be used to enforce this restriction?
Easy422A company has a multi-account architecture with a central networking account that hosts a Transit Gateway. Each workload account has VPCs attached to the Transit Gateway. The company wants to centrally manage DNS resolution across all VPCs using Route 53 Resolver. They create a Route 53 Resolver outbound endpoint in the networking account and associate it with the workload VPCs via RAM. However, workload accounts cannot resolve on-premises hostnames. What is the missing configuration?
Hard423A company has a multi-account AWS environment and wants to enforce that all IAM roles in member accounts must include a specific tag (e.g., CostCenter). Which THREE steps should be taken to enforce this policy using AWS Organizations?
Hard424A company has a management account in AWS Organizations and several member accounts. The security team wants to ensure that any IAM user created in any member account must have a password policy that enforces a minimum length of 14 characters. The team wants a preventive control that is enforced automatically. Which approach should be used?
Hard425Refer to the exhibit. A company attached the above SCP to an OU in AWS Organizations. The SCP is intended to allow only t3.micro and t3.small EC2 instances. However, users in accounts within that OU are still able to launch other instance types. What is the most likely reason?
Hard426A company uses AWS Control Tower to manage a multi-account environment. They need to deploy a custom CloudFormation template to all accounts in a specific organizational unit (OU) whenever a new account is added. What should they use?
Medium427A company is designing a serverless event-driven architecture using AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, and Amazon DynamoDB. The architecture must handle sudden spikes in traffic without losing events. Which configuration ensures the highest reliability?
Hard428A global e-commerce company uses AWS Organizations with over 500 accounts. They have a central security account that aggregates CloudTrail logs and VPC Flow Logs from all accounts. The security team needs to analyze these logs using Amazon Athena and visualize the results in Amazon QuickSight. The logs are stored in an S3 bucket in the security account, and each member account writes its own prefix. The current setup uses a bucket policy to allow member accounts to write logs. Recently, the security team has been unable to query logs for the past week. They suspect the issue is related to a new SCP that was applied to the root. The SCP denies s3:PutObject unless the request includes a specific tag. Which action should the security team take to restore log delivery without compromising security?
Hard429A company wants to implement a least-privilege permission model across all AWS accounts. The security team needs to ensure that no IAM user has full administrator access. However, the operations team occasionally needs emergency access. Which solution meets these requirements?
Hard430A company wants to implement a least-privilege security model across multiple AWS accounts. Which TWO services can help enforce this?
Medium431A company is implementing a data lake on Amazon S3. The data lake must be accessible from multiple accounts within the same AWS Organization. Objects must be encrypted at rest, and the company wants to use a single AWS KMS key for simplicity. Which solution meets these requirements?
Medium432Which THREE components are required to set up a centralized logging solution for multiple AWS accounts using Amazon S3? (Choose THREE.)
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