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Security practice questions

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What to know about Security

Security questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.

Which detail in the question changes the correct answer.

How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.

How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.

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Common Security exam traps

▸Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
▸Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
▸Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
▸Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.

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Security questions

20 questions · select your answer, then reveal the explanation

Question 1easymultiple choice

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A cloud engineer is configuring a web application on AWS and needs to ensure that only HTTP and HTTPS traffic from the internet is allowed to reach the EC2 instances. Which AWS service should be used to control inbound traffic at the instance level?

Trap 1: AWS Shield

AWS Shield is a DDoS protection service, not used for basic inbound traffic filtering.

Trap 2: AWS WAF

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that protects against web exploits, not a basic traffic control.

Trap 3: Network ACL

Network ACLs are stateless and operate at the subnet level, not instance level.

Security practice questions

What to know about Security

Common Security exam traps

Security questions

A cloud engineer is configuring a web application on AWS and needs to ensure that only HTTP and HTTPS traffic from the internet is allowed to reach the EC2 instances. Which AWS service should be used to control inbound traffic at the instance level?

A company is migrating to a public cloud and wants to understand security responsibilities. According to the shared responsibility model, which of the following is the customer responsible for in an IaaS deployment?

A security administrator needs to enforce least privilege for a Kubernetes cluster in a cloud environment. Which approach should be used to restrict permissions for pods that need to access the cloud provider's API?

An organization is moving sensitive data to the cloud and must ensure it is encrypted while stored on disk. Which type of encryption should be implemented?

A cloud administrator needs to provide external partners with access to a cloud application using their existing corporate credentials. Which federation protocol should be used?

A company is using a SaaS application and wants to gain visibility into user activity and enforce data loss prevention policies. Which technology should be deployed?

During a security audit, a cloud engineer discovers that a container image used in production has a known critical vulnerability in a base layer. Which practice should be implemented to prevent this in the future?

An organization needs to store database credentials and API keys securely in the cloud, with automatic rotation every 90 days. Which service should be used?

A cloud architect is designing a network to protect a web application from common attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Which cloud service should be used?

A company requires multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users accessing the cloud management console. Which IAM policy element should be used to enforce this?

A cloud security team is reviewing audit logs and notices that a service account has been used to launch several high-risk API calls that are not part of its normal behavior. Which security control should be implemented to detect such anomalies in real time?

An organization is subject to PCI DSS compliance and must demonstrate that it is meeting security requirements. Which cloud service can aggregate compliance findings and provide a dashboard?

A cloud administrator is configuring network security for a multi-tier application. Which TWO statements about security groups and network ACLs are correct?

A cloud security team is implementing encryption for data at rest using customer-managed keys in a cloud KMS. Which THREE practices should be followed?

A company is adopting a shared responsibility model for a PaaS cloud deployment. Which THREE responsibilities belong to the customer?

A cloud customer is deploying a virtual machine (VM) in a public IaaS environment. According to the shared responsibility model, which of the following security tasks is the customer responsible for?

A cloud administrator needs to ensure that a set of AWS EC2 instances can only be accessed via SSH from the corporate office IP range 203.0.113.0/24. Which configuration should the administrator implement?

A company is migrating a legacy application to a Kubernetes cluster in the cloud. The application requires a database password to be accessible at runtime. Which approach aligns with cloud security best practices for secrets management?

A security auditor is reviewing the IAM configuration for a cloud account. The auditor finds that a user has permissions to create and delete resources in all services. Which principle of security is being violated?

An organization is subject to PCI DSS compliance and must ensure that all data transmitted between its cloud application and users is encrypted. Which encryption method should be enforced?

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