[New]AWS Certified Security Speciality Practice Exam SCS-C01

Practice Exams to test your knowledge and passing your AWS Certified Security Speciality [SCS-C01]

Description

Introduction

The AWS Certified Security Specialty (SCS-C01) examination is intended for individuals who perform a security role.

This exam validates an examinee’s ability to effectively demonstrate knowledge about securing the AWS platform. It validates an examinee’s ability to demonstrate:

 An understanding of specialized data classifications and AWS data protection mechanisms.

 An understanding of data-encryption methods and AWS mechanisms to implement them.

 An understanding of secure Internet protocols and AWS mechanisms to implement them.

 A working knowledge of AWS security services and features of services to provide a secure production environment.

 Competency gained from two or more years of production deployment experience using AWS security services and features.

 The ability to make tradeoff decisions with regard to cost, security, and deployment complexity given a set of application requirements.

 An understanding of security operations and risks.

Exam Content

Domain 1: Incident Response

  • Given an AWS abuse notice, evaluate the suspected compromised instance or exposed access keys.
  • Preparation stages for incident response
  • Mitigation steps to perform Incident response steps
  • Verify that the Incident Response plan includes relevant AWS services.
  • Dealing with exposed access keys
  • Evaluated suspected compromised EC2 Instances
  • Evaluate the configuration of automated alerting, and execute possible remediation of security-related incidents and emerging issues.
  • AWS Guard duty
  • Penetration testing

Domain 2: Logging and Monitoring

  • Design and implement security monitoring and alerting.
  • Design and implement a logging solution.
  • Continuous Security Monitoring
  • Introduction to Vulnerability Assessment
  • AWS Inspector
  • AWS Inspector Assessment targets
  • AWS EC2 systems manager
  • AWS Config
  • Understanding CloudWatch
  • VPC Flow Logs
  • CloudWatch Events
  • AWS Cloud Trail
  • AWS Macie
  • AWS Detective
  • AWS Security Hub
  • S3 Event notifications
  • Trusted advisor recommendations
  • Troubleshoot security monitoring and alerting.
  • Troubleshoot logging solutions.

Domain 3: Infrastructure Security

  • Design edge security on AWS.
  • Design and implement a secure network infrastructure.
  • AWS Organizations
  • Managing OUs
  • CloudFront
  • AWS CloudFront Custom SSL
  • Firewalls
  • Security groups
  • Network ACLs
  • IPS/IDS concepts in cloud
  • AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • AWS Shield concepts
  • DDoS Mitigation
  • Network Segmentation
  • Bastion Hosts
  • Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • VPC Endpoints
  • EC2 Tenancy
  • Compliance Frameworks
  • AWS lambda fundamentals
  • AWS Simple Email Service
  • AWS Route53 DNS
  • Troubleshoot a secure network infrastructure
  • Design and implement host-based security

Domain 4: Identity and Access Management

  • Design and implement a scalable authorization and authentication system to access AWS resources.
  • Understand the Principle of Least Privilege
  • IAM Policies
  • IAM JSON Policy Elements
  • IAM Roles
  • IAM Permission boundaries
  • Evaluating effective permissions
  • Understanding Delegation
  • Cross account policies & roles
  • Understanding Federation
  • AWS Directory services
  • AWS Organizations
  • Single Sign-On
  • SAML Overview Concepts
  • S3 Security
  • Cross Account S3 access
  • S3 Versioning
  • S3 MFA delete
  • AWS License manager
  • Troubleshoot an authorization and authentication system to access AWS resources.

Domain 5: Data Protection

  • Design and implement key management and use
  • Cryptography fundamentals
  • Cloud Hardware Security Module (HSM)
  • AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
  • Envelope Encryption
  • KMS Authentication and Access Control
  • CloudTrail and Encryption
  • EBS Architecture and Secure Data Wiping
  • S3 Encryption
  • AWS Certificate Manager
  • ELB- ALB and NLB
  • Docker and container security fundamentals
  • AWS Glacier
  • Troubleshoot key management.
  • Design and implement a data encryption solution for data at rest and data in transit.

Who this course is for:

  • Those interested in gaining the AWS Security Specialty Certification
  • Those who wants to gain deep security insights related to AWS

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