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Amazon AWS Certified Security-Specialty Exam
AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS-C01) (Page 8 )

Updated On: 7-Feb-2026
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A company's application runs on Amazon EC2 and stores data in an Amazon S3 bucket The company wants additional security controls in place to limit the likelihood of accidental exposure of data to external parties

Which combination of actions will meet this requirement? (Select THREE.)

  1. Encrypt the data in Amazon S3 using server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed encryption keys (SSE-S3)
  2. Encrypt the data in Amazon S3 using server-side encryption with IAM KMS managed encryption keys (SSE-KMS)
  3. Create a new Amazon S3 VPC endpoint and modify the VPC's routing tables to use the new endpoint
  4. Use the Amazon S3 Block Public Access feature.
  5. Configure the bucket policy to allow access from the application instances only
  6. Use a NACL to filter traffic to Amazon S3

Answer(s): B,C,E



A security engineer must use IAM Key Management Service (IAM KMS) to design a key management solution for a set of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that contain sensitive data. The solution needs to ensure that the key material automatically expires in 90 days.

Which solution meets these criteria?

  1. A customer managed CMK that uses customer provided key material
  2. A customer managed CMK that uses IAM provided key material
  3. An IAM managed CMK
  4. Operating system-native encryption that uses GnuPG

Answer(s): B



To meet regulatory requirements, a Security Engineer needs to implement an IAM policy that restricts the use of IAM services to the us-east-1 Region.

What policy should the Engineer implement?









  1. Option A
  2. Option B
  3. Option C
  4. Option D

Answer(s): B



A company's security engineer is configuring Amazon S3 permissions to ban all current and future public buckets However, the company hosts several websites directly off S3 buckets with public access enabled

The engineer needs to bock me pubic S3 buckets without causing any outages on me easting websites The engineer has set up an Amazon CloudFrom distribution (or each website

Which set or steps should the security engineer implement next?

  1. Configure an S3 bucket as the origin an origin access identity (OAI) for the CloudFront distribution Switch the DNS records from websites to point to the CloudFront distribution Enable Nock public access settings at the account level
  2. Configure an S3 bucket as the origin with an origin access identity (OAI) for the CloudFront distribution Switch the ONS records tor the websites to point to the CloudFront disinfection Then, tor each S3 bucket enable block public access settings
  3. Configure an S3 bucket as the origin with an origin access identity (OAI) for the CloudFront distribution Enable block public access settings at the account level
  4. Configure an S3 bucket as the origin for me CloudFront distribution Configure the S3 bucket policy to accept connections from the CloudFront points of presence only Switch the DNS records for the websites to point to the CloudFront distribution Enable block public access settings at me account level

Answer(s): A



A security engineer has noticed an unusually high amount of traffic coming from a single IP address. This was discovered by analyzing the Application Load Balancer's access logs. How can the security engineer limit the number of requests from a specific IP address without blocking the IP address?

  1. Add a rule to the Application Load Balancer to route the traffic originating from the IP address in question and show a static webpage.
  2. Implement a rate-based rule with IAM WAF
  3. Use IAM Shield to limit the originating traffic hit rate.
  4. Implement the GeoLocation feature in Amazon Route 53.

Answer(s): C






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