SOA-C02 Practice Question: AWS Security Hub for aggregated security findings…
The CISO asks for a centralized dashboard showing security findings from GuardDuty, Macie, Inspector, and Firewall Manager across 30 AWS accounts. Findings must be normalized into a single format so they can be prioritized by severity without switching between services. Which AWS service provides this capability?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many exam-takers confuse Amazon Detective (a visualization/investigation tool) with Security Hub (a centralized finding aggregation and prioritization service), or they assume a custom Lambda solution is acceptable despite the exam's emphasis on managed, scalable services that reduce operational burden.
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
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Enable AWS Security Hub with an administrator account in the organization; integrate GuardDuty, Macie, Inspector, and Firewall Manager as finding providers
AWS Security Hub is designed to aggregate, normalize, and prioritize security findings from multiple AWS services (GuardDuty, Macie, Inspector, Firewall Manager) and third-party tools across accounts. By designating an administrator account in AWS Organizations, you can centrally view all findings in a single dashboard, with a standardized findings format (AWS Security Finding Format, ASFF) that includes severity, resource, and remediation fields. This directly meets the CISO's requirement for a centralized, normalized, severity-prioritized view without switching between services.
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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Enable AWS Security Hub with an administrator account in the organization; integrate GuardDuty, Macie, Inspector, and Firewall Manager as finding providers
Why this is correct
Security Hub's organization integration automatically enables member accounts and routes their findings to the designated administrator account. All findings — regardless of source service — are normalized to ASFF with a consistent severity schema. The security team sees one consolidated dashboard instead of five separate consoles.
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Deploy a custom Lambda function that polls each service's API and writes findings to a DynamoDB table for a custom dashboard
Why it's wrong here
Building a custom aggregation pipeline replicates what Security Hub already provides as a managed service, with significant additional development and maintenance overhead. Each service has a different API schema; normalizing them requires custom mapping logic that Security Hub handles natively.
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Enable Amazon Detective to investigate and correlate security findings across all accounts
Why it's wrong here
Amazon Detective analyzes CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and GuardDuty findings to help investigate the scope and root cause of a security incident. It is an investigation tool, not an aggregation or prioritization dashboard. It does not ingest findings from Macie, Inspector, or Firewall Manager.
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Configure AWS Config conformance packs to evaluate security compliance checks across all accounts and report to an aggregator account
Why it's wrong here
Config conformance packs check resource configurations against rules and report compliance. They cover configuration compliance, not runtime threat detection or data security findings from services like GuardDuty (threat detection) or Macie (S3 data sensitivity). Security Hub aggregates both configuration and runtime findings.
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