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QUESTION: 49 Exam Topic: 1 Exam Pool A

A Security Engineer for a large company is managing a data processing application used by 1, 500 subsidiary companies. The parent and subsidiary companies all use IAM. The application uses TCP port 443 and runs on Amazon EC2 behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). For compliance reasons, the application should only be accessible to the subsidiaries and should not be available on the public internet. To meet the compliance requirements for restricted access, the Engineer has received the public and private CIDR block ranges for each subsidiary

What solution should the Engineer use to implement the appropriate access restrictions for the application?

Create a NACL to allow access on TCP port 443 from the 1;500 subsidiary CIDR block ranges. Associate the NACL to both the NLB and EC2 instances
Create an IAM security group to allow access on TCP port 443 from the 1, 500 subsidiary CIDR block ranges. Associate the security group to the NL Create a second security group for EC2 instances with access on TCP port 443 from the NLB security group.
Create an IAM PrivateLink endpoint service in the parent company account attached to the NLB. Create an IAM security group for the instances to allow access on TCP port 443 from the IAM PrivateLink endpoint. Use IAM PrivateLink interface endpoints in the 1, 500 subsidiary IAM accounts to connect to the data processing application.
Create an IAM security group to allow access on TCP port 443 from the 1, 500 subsidiary CIDR block ranges. Associate the security group with EC2 instances.

Answer(s): D

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QUESTION: 50 Exam Topic: 1 Exam Pool A

A security engineer has noticed that VPC Flow Logs are getting a lot REJECT traffic originating from a single Amazon EC2 instance in an Auto Scaling group. The security engineer is concerned that this EC2 instance may be compromised.

What immediate action should the security engineer take?

What immediate action should the security engineer take?

Remove me instance from the Auto Seating group Close me security group mm ingress only from a single forensic P address to perform an analysis.
Remove me instance from the Auto Seating group Change me network ACL rules to allow traffic only from a single forensic IP address to perform en analysis Add a rule to deny all other traffic.
Remove the instance from the Auto Scaling group Enable Amazon GuardDuty in that IAM account Install the Amazon Inspector agent cm the suspicious EC 2 instance toperform a scan.
Take a snapshot of the suspicious EC2 instance. Create a new EC2 instance from me snapshot in a closed security group with ingress only from a single forensic IP address to perform an analysis

Answer(s): B

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QUESTION: 51 Exam Topic: 1 Exam Pool A

A security engineer needs to configure monitoring and auditing for IAM Lambda.

Which combination of actions using IAM services should the security engineer take to accomplish this goal? (Select TWO.)

Use IAM Config to track configuration changes to Lambda functions, runtime environments, tags, handler names, code sizes, memory allocation, timeout settings, and concurrency settings, along with Lambda IAM execution role, subnet, and security group associations.
Use IAM CloudTrail to implement governance, compliance, operational, and risk auditing for Lambda.
Use Amazon Inspector to automatically monitor for vulnerabilities and perform governance, compliance, operational, and risk auditing for Lambda.
Use IAM Resource Access Manager to track configuration changes to Lambda functions, runtime environments, tags, handler names, code sizes, memory allocation, timeout settings, and concurrency settings, along with Lambda IAM execution role, subnet, and security group associations.
Use Amazon Macie to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data being executed inside the Lambda function.

Answer(s): A,B

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QUESTION: 52 Exam Topic: 1 Exam Pool A

Which of the following are valid configurations for using SSL certificates with Amazon CloudFront? (Select THREE )

Default IAM Certificate Manager certificate
Custom SSL certificate stored in IAM KMS
Default CloudFront certificate
Custom SSL certificate stored in IAM Certificate Manager
Default SSL certificate stored in IAM Secrets Manager
Custom SSL certificate stored in IAM IAM

Answer(s): A,C,D

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QUESTION: 53 Exam Topic: 1 Exam Pool A

A company has several production IAM accounts and a central security IAM account. The security account is used for centralized monitoring and has IAM privileges to all resources in every corporate account. All of the company's Amazon S3 buckets are tagged with a value denoting the data classification of their contents.

A Security Engineer is deploying a monitoring solution in the security account that will enforce bucket policy compliance. The system must monitor S3 buckets in all production accounts and confirm that any policy change is in accordance with the bucket's data classification. If any change is out of compliance; the Security team must be notified quickly.

Which combination of actions would build the required solution? (Choose three.)

Configure Amazon CloudWatch Events in the production accounts to send all S3 events to the security account event bus.
Enable Amazon GuardDuty in the security account. and join the production accounts as members.
Configure an Amazon CloudWatch Events rule in the security account to detect S3 bucket creation or modification events.
Enable IAM Trusted Advisor and activate email notifications for an email address assigned to the security contact.
Invoke an IAM Lambda function in the security account to analyze S3 bucket settings in response to S3 events, and send non-compliance notifications to the Security team.
Configure event notifications on S3 buckets for PUT; POST, and DELETE events.

Answer(s): D,E,F

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QUESTION: 54 Exam Topic: 1 Exam Pool A

A security engineer need to ensure their company's uses of IAM meets IAM security best practices. As part of this, the IAM account root user must not be used for daily work. The root user must be monitored for use, and the Security team must be alerted as quickly as possible if the root user is used.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Set up an Amazon CloudWatch Events rule that triggers an Amazon SNS notification.
Set up an Amazon CloudWatch Events rule that triggers an Amazon SNS notification logs from S3 and generate notifications using Amazon SNS.
Set up a rule in IAM config to trigger root user events. Trigger an IAM Lambda function and generate notifications using Amazon SNS.
Use Amazon Inspector to monitor the usage of the root user and generate notifications using Amazon SNS

Answer(s): A

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QUESTION: 55 Exam Topic: 1 Exam Pool A

An external Auditor finds that a company's user passwords have no minimum length. The company is currently using two identity providers:

· IAM IAM federated with on-premises Active Directory

· Amazon Cognito user pools to accessing an IAM Cloud application developed by the company

Which combination o1 actions should the Security Engineer take to solve this issue? (Select TWO.)

Update the password length policy In the on-premises Active Directory configuration.
Update the password length policy In the IAM configuration.
Enforce an IAM policy In Amazon Cognito and IAM IAM with a minimum password length condition.
Update the password length policy in the Amazon Cognito configuration.
Create an SCP with IAM Organizations that enforces a minimum password length for IAM IAM and Amazon Cognito.

Answer(s): A,D

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QUESTION: 56 Exam Topic: 1 Exam Pool A

A company has hundreds of IAM accounts, and a centralized Amazon S3 bucket used to collect IAM CloudTrail for all of these accounts. A security engineer wants to create a solution that will enable the company to run ad hoc queues against its CloudTrail logs dating back 3 years from when the trails were first enabled in the company's IAM account.

How should the company accomplish this with the least amount of administrative overhead?

Run an Amazon EMP cluster that uses a MapReduce job to be examine the CloudTrail trails.
Use the events history/feature of the CloudTrail console to query the CloudTrail trails.
Write an IAM Lambda function to query the CloudTrail trails Configure the Lambda function to be executed whenever a new file is created in the CloudTrail S3 bucket.
Create an Amazon Athena table that tools at the S3 bucket the CloudTrail trails are being written to Use Athena to run queries against the trails.

Answer(s): D

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Updated on: 24-Mar-2026