Amazon SCS-C03 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

A company runs several applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The company needs a solution to detect any Kubernetes security risks by monitoring Amazon EKS audit logs in addition to operating system, networking, and file events. The solution must send email alerts for any identified risks to a mailing list that is associated with a security team.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

A corporate cloud security policy states that communications between the company's VPC and KMS must travel entirely within the AWS network and not use public service endpoints.
Which combination of the following actions MOST satisfies this requirement? (Choose two.)

A company requires a specific software application to be installed on all new and existing Amazon EC2 instances across an AWS Organization. SSM Agent is installed and active. How can the company continuously monitor deployment status of the software application?

A company finds that one of its Amazon EC2 instances suddenly has a high CPU usage. The company does not know whether the EC2 instance is compromised or whether the operating system is performing background cleanup.
Which combination of steps should a security engineer take before investigating the issue?
(Choose three.)

A security engineer needs to prepare a company's Amazon EC2 instances for quarantine during a security incident. The AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) has been deployed to all EC2 instances. The security engineer has developed a script to install and update forensics tools on the EC2 instances. Which solution will quarantine EC2 instances during a security incident?

A security engineer discovers that a company's user passwords have no required minimum length. The company is using the following two identity providers (IdPs):
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) federated with on-premises
Active Directory
- Amazon Cognito user pools that contain the user database for an AWS
Cloud application that the company developed
Which combination of actions should the security engineer take to implement a required minimum length for the passwords? (Choose two.)

A company uses AWS Organizations and has an SCP at the root that prevents sharing resources with external accounts. The company now needs to allow only the marketing account to share resources externally while preventing all other accounts from doing so. All accounts are in the same OU. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company uses several AWS CloudFormation stacks to handle the deployment of a suite of applications. The leader of the company's application development team notices that the stack deployments fail with permission errors when some team members try to deploy the stacks.
However, other team members can deploy the stacks successfully.
The team members access the account by assuming a role that has a specific set of permissions.
All team members have permissions to perform operations on the stacks.
Which combination of steps will ensure consistent deployment of the stacks MOST securely?
(Select THREE.)

A company has AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. An Amazon S3 bucket in one account is publicly accessible. A security engineer must remove public access and ensure the bucket cannot be made public again. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A security administrator is setting up a new AWS account. The security administrator wants to secure the data that a company stores in an Amazon S3 bucket. The security administrator also wants to reduce the chance of unintended data exposure and the potential for misconfiguration of objects that are in the S3 bucket. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A company's security team wants to receive email notification from AWS about any abuse reports regarding DoS attacks. A security engineer needs to implement a solution that will provide a near- real-time alert for any abuse reports that AWS sends for the account. The security engineer already has created an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic and has subscribed the security team's email address to the topic. What should the security engineer do next to meet these requirements?

A company uses Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters to run its Kubernetes-based applications. The company uses Amazon GuardDuty to protect the applications.
EKS Protection is enabled in GuardDuty. However, the corresponding GuardDuty feature is not monitoring the Kubernetes-based applications.
Which solution will cause GuardDuty to monitor the Kubernetes-based applications?

A company needs a cloud-based, managed desktop solution for its workforce of remote employees. The company wants to ensure that the employees can access the desktops only by using company- provided devices. A security engineer must design a solution that will minimize cost and management overhead. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company runs critical workloads in an on-premises data center. The company wants to implement an AWS based disaster recovery (DR) solution that will achieve an RTO of less than 1 hour. The company needs to continuously replicate physical and virtual servers. The company must optimize costs for data storage and bandwidth usage. The DR solution must be automated.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company runs a public web application on Amazon EKS behind Amazon CloudFront and an Application Load Balancer (ALB). A security engineer must send a notification to an existing Amazon SNS topic when the application receives 10,000 requests from the same end-user IP address within any 5-minute period. Which solution will meet these requirements?