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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

By : Stuart Scott
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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

By: Stuart Scott

Overview of this book

AWS Certified Security – Specialty is a certification exam to validate your expertise in advanced cloud security. With an ever-increasing demand for AWS security skills in the cloud market, this certification can help you advance in your career. This book helps you prepare for the exam and gain certification by guiding you through building complex security solutions. From understanding the AWS shared responsibility model and identity and access management to implementing access management best practices, you'll gradually build on your skills. The book will also delve into securing instances and the principles of securing VPC infrastructure. Covering security threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks such as the DDoS attack, you'll discover how to mitigate these at different layers. You'll then cover compliance and learn how to use AWS to audit and govern infrastructure, as well as to focus on monitoring your environment by implementing logging mechanisms and tracking data. Later, you'll explore how to implement data encryption as you get hands-on with securing a live environment. Finally, you'll discover security best practices that will assist you in making critical decisions relating to cost, security,and deployment complexity. By the end of this AWS security book, you'll have the skills to pass the exam and design secure AWS solutions.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Exam and Preparation
3
Section 2: Security Responsibility and Access Management
8
Section 3: Security - a Layered Approach
15
Section 4: Monitoring, Logging, and Auditing
18
Section 5: Best Practices and Automation
21
Section 6: Encryption and Data Security

Mock exam 1

  1. When IAM policies are being evaluated for their logic of access, which two of the following statements are incorrect?
    1. Explicit denies are always overruled by an explicit allow.
    2. The order in which the policies are evaluated does not matter regarding the end result.
    3. Explicit allows are always overruled by an explicit deny.
    4. Access to all resources is denied by default until access is granted.
    5. Access to all resources is allowed by default until access is denied.
  2. Your security team has been tasked with implementing a solution to monitor your EC2 fleet of instances. Upon review, you decide to implement Amazon Inspector. What are the three prerequisites that you would need to implement before using Amazon Inspector? (Choose three answers)
    1. Deploy Amazon Inspector agents to your EC2 fleet.
    2. Create an IAM service-linked role that allows Amazon Inspector to access your EC2 fleet.
    3. Create an assessment target group for your EC2 fleet.
    4. Deploy an Amazon Inspector log file to your EC2...