312-40 Practice Exam Questions and Answers

A web server passes the reservation information to an application server and then the application server queries an Airline service. Which of the following AWS service allows secure hosted queue server-side encryption (SSE), or uses custom SSE keys managed in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)?

GlobalCloud is a cloud service provider that offers various cloud-based secure and cost-effective services to cloud consumers. The customer base of this organization increased within a short period; thus, external auditing was performed on GlobalCloud. The auditor used spreadsheets, databases, and data analyzing software to analyze a large volume of data. Based on the given information, which cloud-based audit method was used by the auditor to collect the objective evidence?

You are the manager of a cloud-based security platform that offers critical services to government agencies and private companies. One morning, your team receives an alert from the platform's intrusion detection system indicating that there has been a potential breach in the system. As the manager, which tool you will use for viewing and monitoring the sensitive data by scanning storage systems and reviewing the access rights

to critical resources via a single centralized dashboard?

The organization TechWorld Ltd. used cloud for its business. It operates from an EU country (Poland and Greece). Currently, the organization gathers and processes the data of only EU users. Once, the organization experienced a severe security breach, resulting in loss of critical user data. In such a case, along with its cloud service provider, the organization should be held responsible for non-compliance or breaches. Under which cloud compliance framework will the company and cloud provider be penalized?

Veronica Lauren has an experience of 4 years as a cloud security engineer. Recently, she joined an IT company as a senior cloud security engineer. In 2010, her organization became a victim of a cybersecurity attack in which the attacker breached her organization's cloud security perimeter and stole sensitive information. Since then, her organization started using Google cloud-based services and migrated the organizational workload and data in the Google cloud environment. Veronica would like to detect security breaches in her organization's cloud security perimeter. Which of the following built-in service of Google Security Command Center can help Veronica in monitoring her organization's cloud logging stream and collect logs from one or multiple projects to detect security breaches such as the presence of malware, brute force SSH attempts, and cryptomining?

Tom Holland works as a cloud security engineer in an IT company located in Lansing, Michigan. His organization has adopted cloud-based services wherein user access, application, and data security are the responsibilities of the organization, and the OS, hypervisor, physical, infrastructure, and network security are the responsibilities of the cloud service provider. Based on the aforementioned cloud security shared responsibilities, which of the following cloud computing service models is enforced in Tom's organization?

Curtis Morgan works as a cloud security engineer in an MN

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Which of the following allows Curtis to establish a fast and secure private connection between multiple on-premises or shared infrastructures with Azure virtual private network?

Alice, a cloud forensic investigator, has located, a relevant evidence during his investigation of a security breach in an organization's Azure environment. As an investigator, he needs to sync different types of logs generated by Azure resources with Azure services for better monitoring. Which Azure logging and auditing feature can enable Alice to record information on the Azure subscription layer and obtain the evidence (information related to the operations performed on a specific resource, timestamp, status of the operation, and the user responsible for it)?

Chris Evans has been working as a cloud security engineer in a multinational company over the past 3 years. His organization has been using cloud-based services. Chris uses key vault as a key management solution because it offers easier creation of encryption keys and control over them. Which of the following public cloud service providers allows Chris to do so?

Martin Sheen is a senior cloud security engineer in SecGlob Cloud Pvt. Ltd. Since 2012, his organization has been using AWS cloud-based services. Using an intrusion detection system and antivirus software, Martin noticed that an attacker is trying to breach the security of his organization. Therefore, Martin would like to identify and protect the sensitive data of his organization. He requires a fully managed data security service that supports S3 storage and provides an inventory of publicly shared buckets, unencrypted buckets, and the buckets shared with AWS accounts outside his organization. Which of the following Amazon services fulfills

Martin's requirement?