312-40 Practice Questions

Teresa Palmer has been working as a cloud security engineer in a multinational company. Her organization contains a huge amount of data; if these data are transferred to AWS S3 through the internet, it will take weeks. Teresa's organization does not want to spend money on upgrading its internet to a high-speed internet connection. Therefore, Teresa has been sending large amounts of backup data (terabytes to petabytes) to AWS from on-premises using a physical device, which was provided by Amazon. The data in the physical device are imported and exported from and to AWS S3 buckets. This method of data transfer is cost-effective, secure, and faster than the internet for her organization. Based on the given information, which of the following AWS services is being used by Teresa?

A new public web application is deployed on AWS that will run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). An AWS security expert needs to encrypt the newly deployed application at the edge with an SSL/TLS certificate issued by an external certificate authority. In addition, he needs to ensure the rotation of the certificate yearly before it expires. Which of the following AWS services can be used to accomplish this?

Securelnfo Pvt. Ltd. has deployed all applications and data in the AWS cloud. The security team of this organization would like to examine the health of the organization's website regularly and switch (or failover) to a backup site if the primary website becomes unresponsive. Which of the following AWS services can provide DNS failover capabilities and health checks to ensure the availability of the organization's website?

Jerry Mulligan is employed by an IT company as a cloud security engineer. In 2014, his organization migrated all applications and data from on-premises to a cloud environment. Jerry would like to perform penetration testing to evaluate the security across virtual machines, installed apps, and OSes in the cloud environment, including conducting various security assessment steps against risks specific to the cloud that could expose them to serious threats. Which of the following cloud computing service models does not allow cloud penetration testing (CPEN) to Jerry?

FinTech Inc. is an IT company that utilizes a cloud platform to run its IT infrastructure. Employees belonging to various departments do not implement the rules and regulations framed by the IT department, which leads to fragmented control and breaches that affect the efficiency of cloud services. How can the organization effectively overcome shadow IT and unwarranted usage of cloud resources in this scenario?

Chris Noth has been working as a senior cloud security engineer in CloudAppSec Private Ltd. His organization has selected a DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) company to provide a disaster recovery site that is fault tolerant and consists of fully redundant equipment with network connectivity and real-time data synchronization. Thus, if a disaster strikes Chris' organization, failover can be performed to the disaster recovery site with minimal downtime and zero data loss. Based on the given information, which disaster recovery site is provided by the DRaaS company to Chris' organization?

A multinational company decided to shift its organizational infrastructure and data to the cloud. Their team finalized the service provider. Which of the following is a contract that can define the security standards agreed upon by the service provider to maintain the security of the organizational data and infrastructure and define organizational data compliance?

Dustin Hoffman works as a cloud security engineer in a healthcare company. His organization uses AWS cloud- based services. Dustin would like to view the security alerts and security posture across his organization's AWS account. Which AWS service can provide aggregated, organized, and prioritized security alerts from AWS services such as GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, IAM Analyzer, Systems Manager, Firewall Manager, and AWS Partner Network to Dustin?

Luke Grimes has recently joined a multinational company as a cloud security engineer. The company has been using the AWS cloud. He would like to reduce the risk of man-in-the-middle attacks in all Redshift clusters.

Which of the following parameters should Grimes enable to reduce the risk of man-in-the-middle attacks in all Redshift clusters?

Elaine Grey has been working as a senior cloud security engineer in an IT company that develops software and applications related to the financial sector. Her organization would like to extend its storage capacity and automate disaster recovery workflows using a VMware private cloud. Which of the following storage options can be used by Elaine in the VMware virtualization environment to connect a VM directly to a LUN and access it from SAN?