ANS-C01 Network Security, Compliance and Governance Practice Question
A security team needs to implement a solution to detect and alert on suspicious network traffic within a VPC. The solution should analyze VPC Flow Logs and generate findings for potential threats. Which THREE AWS services can be used together to achieve this?
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Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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VPC Flow Logs
The correct combination is A (VPC Flow Logs) as the data source, B (Amazon Detective) for deep investigation of findings, and C (Amazon GuardDuty) which automatically analyzes VPC Flow Logs for threat detection. Options D (AWS CloudTrail) is incorrect because it logs API calls, not network traffic. Option E (AWS Config) is incorrect as it tracks resource configuration changes.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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VPC Flow Logs
Why this is correct
Captures network traffic metadata.
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Amazon Detective
Why this is correct
Can analyze and investigate security findings from GuardDuty.
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Amazon GuardDuty
Why this is correct
Uses Flow Logs to detect threats.
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AWS CloudTrail
Why it's wrong here
Logs API calls, not network traffic.
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AWS Config
Why it's wrong here
Monitors resource configuration, not network traffic.
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