Cloud-Security-Engineer Prisma Cloud Architecture And Components Practice Question

You are configuring agentless scanning for AWS within Prisma Cloud. The setup requires creating a cross-account IAM role. Which specific permission must be included in the IAM policy to allow Prisma Cloud to take EBS volume snapshots for vulnerability analysis without exposing encryption keys?

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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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ec2:CreateSnapshot, ec2:DescribeSnapshots, and KMS decryption permissions for encrypted volumes

Agentless scanning requires permissions to describe instances, create EBS snapshots, and use customer-managed KMS keys (if encrypted volumes are scanned) to read volume data securely.

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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iam:CreateUser and iam:DeleteAccessKey
Why it's wrong here
Agentless scanning does not require IAM user management permissions.
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s3:PutBucketPolicy and s3:DeleteBucketOwnershipControls
Why it's wrong here
S3 bucket permissions are unrelated to EBS snapshot creation for agentless disk scanning.
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ec2:RunInstances and ec2:TerminateInstances
Why it's wrong here
Agentless scanning is read-only and does not launch or terminate EC2 instances.
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ec2:CreateSnapshot, ec2:DescribeSnapshots, and KMS decryption permissions for encrypted volumes
Why this is correct
Taking snapshots and reading encrypted volume metadata requires explicit EC2 snapshot and KMS grant permissions.

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