SCS-C03 Security Foundations and Governance Practice Question
A security auditor requires a centralized view of security findings across all AWS accounts in an organization. Which service should be enabled to aggregate and prioritize these findings?
Answer choices
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
✓
AWS Security Hub
AWS Security Hub serves as the central hub for security posture management. By enabling Security Hub in the management account and configuring it to aggregate data from member accounts, auditors gain a unified dashboard. This is essential for maintaining governance and compliance at scale, as it correlates findings from GuardDuty, Inspector, and IAM Access Analyzer into a single actionable view, significantly reducing the operational overhead of manual account-by-account reviews.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
AWS Config
Why it's wrong here
AWS Config is primarily a resource inventory and configuration history service. While it evaluates compliance against rules, it does not provide the centralized threat-centric finding aggregation dashboard that Security Hub offers for cross-account security management, making it secondary to Security Hub for this specific auditor requirement.
- ✓
AWS Security Hub
Why this is correct
Security Hub provides a comprehensive view of security alerts and compliance status across an entire AWS Organization. It integrates with native AWS services and third-party partner products to normalize data into the AWS Security Finding Format, facilitating efficient monitoring, prioritization, and automated remediation workflows for security teams.
- ✗
Amazon GuardDuty
Why it's wrong here
GuardDuty is a threat detection service that monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior. While it feeds findings into Security Hub, it is not designed to act as the primary dashboard for aggregate organizational security findings or compliance posture management, which is the specific function of Security Hub.
- ✗
AWS IAM Access Analyzer
Why it's wrong here
IAM Access Analyzer helps identify resources shared with external entities by analyzing resource-based policies. Although it provides valuable security insights regarding permissions, it is specialized for identity and access governance rather than providing a holistic dashboard for security findings across all AWS services and accounts.
About these practice questions
This SCS-C03 question is part of Courseiva's 99-question bank — original exam-style content with full explanations and wrong-answer analysis, never real exam questions or exam dumps. Learn why practice questions differ from exam dumps →
JA
Written and reviewed by Johnson Ajibi, MSc IT Security
Senior Network & Security Engineer · founder of Courseiva
Last reviewed September 2026 · checked against the official Amazon Web Services exam blueprint
This SCS-C03 practice question is part of Courseiva's free Amazon Web Services certification practice question bank. Courseiva provides original exam-style practice questions with explanations, topic-based practice, mock exams, readiness tracking, and study analytics to help learners prepare for the SCS-C03 exam.