- (Exam Topic 1)
A Security Engineer launches two Amazon EC2 instances in the same Amazon VPC but in separate Availability Zones. Each instance has a public IP address and is able to connect to external hosts on the internet. The two instances are able to communicate with each other by using their private IP addresses, but they are not able to communicate with each other when using their public IP addresses.
Which action should the Security Engineer take to allow communication over the public IP addresses?
Correct Answer:
D
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/security-group-rules-reference.html#sg-rules-other-ins
- (Exam Topic 1)
A company has a website with an Amazon CloudFront HTTPS distribution, an Application Load Balancer (ALB) with multiple web instances for dynamic website content, and an Amazon S3 bucket for static website content. The company's security engineer recently updated the website security requirements:
• HTTPS needs to be enforced for all data in transit with specific ciphers.
• The CloudFront distribution needs to be accessible from the internet only. Which solution will meet these requirements?
Correct Answer:
CEF
- (Exam Topic 1)
A global company must mitigate and respond to DDoS attacks at Layers 3, 4 and 7 All of the company's AWS applications are serverless with static content hosted on Amazon S3 using Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53
Which solution will meet these requirements?
Correct Answer:
C
- (Exam Topic 1)
A Security Engineer has been asked to troubleshoot inbound connectivity to a web server. This single web server is not receiving inbound connections from the internet, whereas all other web servers are functioning properly.
The architecture includes network ACLs, security groups, and a virtual security appliance. In addition, the Development team has implemented Application Load Balancers (ALBs) to distribute the load across all web servers. It is a requirement that traffic between the web servers and the internet flow through the virtual
security appliance.
The Security Engineer has verified the following:
* 1. The rule set in the Security Groups is correct
* 2. The rule set in the network ACLs is correct
* 3. The rule set in the virtual appliance is correct
Which of the following are other valid items to troubleshoot in this scenario? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer:
CD
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-eni.html
- (Exam Topic 1)
A company has the software development teams that are creating applications that store sensitive data in Amazon S3 Each team's data must always be separate. The company's security team must design a data encryption strategy for both teams that provides the ability to audit key usage. The solution must also minimize operational overhead
what should me security team recommend?
Correct Answer:
A