312-40 Practice Questions

Allen Smith works as a cloud security engineer in a multinational company. Using an intrusion detection system, the incident response team of this company identified that an attacker has been continuously attacking the organization's AWS services. The team leader asked Allen to track the changes made to AWS resources and perform security analysis. Which AWS service can provide the AWS API call history for AWS accounts, including calls made via the AWS Management Console or Command Line tools, AWS Software Development Kits, and other AWS services to Allen?

SecureSoft IT Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company located in Charlotte, North Carolina, that develops software for the healthcare industry. The organization generates a tremendous amount of unorganized data such as video and audio files. Kurt recently joined SecureSoft IT Pvt. Ltd. as a cloud security engineer. He manages the organizational data using NoSQL databases. Based on the given information, which of the following data are being generated by Kurt's organization?

Jordon Bridges has been working as a senior cloud security engineer in a multinational company. His organization uses Google cloud-based services. Jordon stored his organizational data in the bucket and named the bucket in the Google cloud storage following the guidelines for bucket naming. Which of the following is a valid bucket name given by Jordon?

Scott Herman works as a cloud security engineer in an IT company. His organization has deployed a 3-tier web application in the same Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud. Each tier (web interface (UI), API, and database) is scaled independently of others. Scott Herman obtained a requirement that the network traffic should always access the database using the API and any request coming directly from the web interface to the database should not be allowed. How should Scott configure the network with minimal steps?

Bruce McFee works as a cloud security engineer in an IT company. His organization uses AWS cloud-based services. Because Amazon CloudFront offers low-latency and high-speed data delivery through a user-friendly environment, Bruce's organization uses the CloudFront content delivery network (CDN) web service for the fast and secure distribution of data to various customers throughout the world. How does CloudFront accelerate content distribution?

TechGloWorld is an IT company that develops cybersecurity software and applications for various customers across the globe. Owing to the cost-effective security and storage services provided by AWS. TechGloWorld has adopted AWS cloud-based services. A new employee, named Tom Harrison, has joined TechGloWorld as a cloud security engineer. The team leader of cloud security engineers would like to add an 1AM user named Tom to the 1AM group named Admins. Which of the following commands should be used by the TechGloWorld security team leader?

Richard Branson works as a senior cloud security engineer in a multinational company. Owing to the cost-effective security features and services provided by cloud computing, his organization uses cloud-based services. Richard deliberately wants to cause problems in an application/software system deployed in the production environment as a part of the testing strategy and analyze how the application/software system deals with the disruption, detects vulnerabilities, and fixes them. Which of the following refers to the process of experimenting on a software system that is deployed in production to check the system's capability to withstand sudden and unexpected conditions?

Global CyberSec Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that provides software and application services related to cybersecurity. Owing to the robust security features offered by Microsoft Azure, the organization adopted the Azure cloud environment. A security incident was detected on the Azure cloud platform. Global CyberSec Pvt. Ltd.'s security team examined the log data collected from various sources. They found that the VM was affected. In this scenario, when should the backup copy of the snapshot be taken in a blob container as a page blob during the forensic acquisition of the compromised Azure VM?

An organization wants to implement a zero-trust access model for its SaaS application on the GCP as well as its on-premises applications. Which of the following GCP services can be used to eliminate the need for setting up a company-wide VPN and implement the RBAC feature to verify employee identities to access organizational applications?

Richard Branson works as a senior cloud security engineer in a multinational company. Richard wants to see the actions performed on AWS resources, the services accessed, users who made requests, and the users or services that performed an action on an AWS service. Which of the following AWS services will provide a log of all system and user actions that affect AWS resources within Richard's organizational AWS account?