SCS-C02 Amazon Web Services AWS Certified Security - Specialty Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
Prepare effectively for your Amazon Web Services SCS-C02 AWS Certified Security - Specialty certification with our extensive collection of free, high-quality practice questions. Each question is designed to mirror the actual exam format and objectives, complete with comprehensive answers and detailed explanations. Our materials are regularly updated for 2025, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.
A company stores images for a website in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company is using Amazon CloudFront to serve the images to end users. The company recently discovered that the images are being accessed from countries where the company does not have a distribution license.
Which actions should the company take to secure the images to limit their distribution? (Select TWO.)
A company has an application on Amazon EC2 instances that store confidential customer data. The company must restrict access to customer data. A security engineer requires secure access to the instances that host the application. According to company policy, users must not open any inbound ports, maintain bastion hosts, or manage SSH keys for the EC2 instances.
The security engineer wants lo monitor, store, and access all session activity logs. The logs must be encrypted.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to retain tog data archives for several years to be compliant with regulations. The tog data is no longer used but It must be retained
What Is the MOST secure and cost-effective solution to meet these requirements?
A company is running internal microservices on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with the Amazon EC2 launch type. The company is using Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) private repositories.
A security engineer needs to encrypt the private repositories by using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). The security engineer also needs to analyze the container images for any common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs).
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon CloudWatch to monitor application metrics. A security engineer needs to centralize the metrics from several AWS accounts. The security engineer also must create a dashboard to securely share the metrics with customers.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to follow security best practices to deploy resources from an AWS CloudFormation template. The CloudFormation template must be able to configure sensitive database credentials.
The company already uses AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) and AWS Secrets Manager.
Which solution will meet the requirements?
A company is using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to deploy an application that deals with sensitive data During a recent security audit, the company identified a security issue in which Amazon RDS credentials were stored with the application code In the company's source code repository
A security engineer needs to develop a solution to ensure that database credentials are stored securely and rotated periodically. The credentials should be accessible to the application only The engineer also needs to prevent database administrators from sharing database credentials as plaintext with other teammates. The solution must also minimize administrate overhead
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company has configured a gateway VPC endpoint in a VPC. Only Amazon EC2 instances that reside in a single subnet in the VPC can use the endpoint The company hasmodified the route table for this single subnet to route traffic to Amazon S3 through the gateway VPC endpoint. The VPC provides internet access through an internet gateway.
A security engineer attempts to use instance profile credentials from an EC2 instance to retrieve an object from the S3 bucket, but the attempt fails. The security engineer verifies that the EC2 instance has an 1AM instance profile with the correct permissions to access the S3 bucket and to retrieve objects. The security engineer also verifies that the S3 bucket policy is allowing access properly. Additionally, the security engineer verifies that the EC2 instance's security group and the subnet's network ACLs allow the communication.
What else should the security engineer check to determine why the request from the EC2 instance is failing?
Developers in an organization have moved from a standard application deployment to containers. The Security Engineer is tasked with ensuring that the containers are secure. Which strategies will reduce the attack surface and enhance the security of the containers? (Select TWO.)
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 AWS. 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 subsidianes 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?
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.
A company's security engineer has been asked to monitor and report all AWS account root user activities.
Which of the following would enable the security engineer to monitor and report all root user activities'? (Select TWO.)
A company's Security Engineer is copying all application logs to centralized Amazon S3 buckets. Currently, each of the company's applications is in its own IAM account, and logs are pushed into S3 buckets associated with each account. The Engineer will deploy an IAMLambda function into each account that copies the relevant log files to the centralized S3 bucket.
The Security Engineer is unable to access the log files in the centralized S3 bucket. The Engineer's IAM user policy from the centralized account looks like this:
The centralized S3 bucket policy looks like this:
Why is the Security Engineer unable to access the log files?
A company runs an online game on AWS. When players sign up for the game, their username and password credentials are stored in an Amazon Aurora database.
The number of users has grown to hundreds of thousands of players. The number of requests for password resets and login assistance has become a burden for the company’s customer service team.
The company needs to implement a solution to give players another way to log in to the game. The solution must remove the burden of password resets and login assistance while securely protecting each player's credentials.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is building an application on AWS that will store sensitive information. The company has a support team with access to the IT infrastructure, including databases. The company's security engineer must introduce measures to protect the sensitive data against any data breach while minimizing management overhead. The credentials must be regularly rotated.
What should the security engineer recommend?
Amazon CtoudWatch Logs agent is successfully delivering logs lo the CloudWatch Logs service. However, logs stop being delivered after the associated log stream has been active for a specific number of hours.
What steps are necessary to identify the cause of this phenomenon? (Select TWO.)
Amazon GuardDuty has detected communications to a known command and control endpoint from a company's Amazon EC2 instance. The instance was found to be running a vulnerable version of a common web framework. The company's security operations team wants to quickly identity other compute resources with the specific version of that framework installed.
Which approach should the team take to accomplish this task?
A security engineer needs to configure an Amazon S3 bucket policy to restrict access to an S3 bucket that is named DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET. The policy must allow access to only DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET from only the following endpoint: vpce-1a2b3c4d. The policy must deny all access to DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET if the specified endpoint is not used.
Which bucket policy statement meets these requirements?
A company uses an external identity provider to allow federation into different IAM accounts. A security engineer for the company needs to identify the federated user that terminated a production Amazon EC2 instance a week ago.
What is the FASTEST way for the security engineer to identify the federated user?
A company runs a cron job on an Amazon EC2 instance on a predefined schedule. The cron job calls a bash script that encrypts a 2 KB file. A security engineer creates an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key with a key policy. The key policy and the EC2 instance role have the necessary configuration for this job.
Which process should the bash script use to encrypt the file?
