- (Exam Topic 1)
A company uses SAML federation with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to provide internal users with SSO for their AWS accounts. The company's identity provider certificate was rotated as part of its normal lifecycle. Shortly after, users started receiving the following error when attempting to log in:
"Error: Response Signature Invalid (Service: AWSSecuntyTokenService; Status Code: 400; Error Code: InvalidldentltyToken)"
A security engineer needs to address the immediate issue and ensure that it will not occur again. Which combination of steps should the security engineer take to accomplish this? (Select TWO.)
Correct Answer:
AD
- (Exam Topic 3)
A company's cloud operations team is responsible for building effective security for AWS cross-account access. The team asks a security engineer to help troubleshoot why some developers in the developer account (123456789012) in the developers group are not able to assume a cross-account role (ReadS3) into a production account (999999999999) to read the contents of an Amazon S3 bucket (productionapp). The two account policies are as follows:
Which recommendations should the security engineer make to resolve this issue? (Select TWO.)
Correct Answer:
AD
- (Exam Topic 3)
A company maintains an open-source application that is hosted on a public GitHub repository. While creating a new commit to the repository, an engineer uploaded their AWS access key and secret access key. The engineer reported the mistake to a manager, and the manager immediately disabled the access key.
The company needs to assess the impact of the exposed access key. A security engineer must recommend a solution that requires the least possible managerial overhead.
Which solution meets these requirements?
Correct Answer:
A
- (Exam Topic 1)
An external Auditor finds that a company's user passwords have no minimum length. The company is currently using two identity providers:
• AWS IAM federated with on-premises Active Directory
• Amazon Cognito user pools to accessing an AWS Cloud application developed by the company Which combination o1 actions should the Security Engineer take to solve this issue? (Select TWO.)
Correct Answer:
AD
- (Exam Topic 2)
A company has deployed a custom DNS server in AWS. The Security Engineer wants to ensure that Amazon EC2 instances cannot use the Amazon-provided DNS.
How can the Security Engineer block access to the Amazon-provided DNS in the VPC?
Correct Answer:
D
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-dns.html