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AWS Certified Security Deep Dive is a focused podcast designed for IT professionals, cloud architects, and security enthusiasts aiming to master the AWS Security curriculum. Each episode breaks down key concepts, best practices, and real-world scenarios from the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam, covering topics like identity and access management, data protection, incident response, and infrastructure security. Hosted by industry experts, the show offers actionable insights, exam tips, and updates on AWS security services to help listeners achieve certification and excel in securing cloud environments.
Here are 50 unique questions and answers for Domain 2: Security Logging and Monitoring, covering all task statements, knowledge, and skills as outlined in the AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS-C02) Exam Guide.
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## Domain 2: Security Logging and Monitoring
### Task Statement 2.1: Design and implement monitoring and alerting to address security events.
**Knowledge of:**
- 2.1.1 AWS services that monitor events and provide alarms (for example, CloudWatch, EventBridge)
- 2.1.2 AWS services that automate alerting (for example, Lambda, Amazon Simple Notification Service [Amazon SNS], Security Hub)
- 2.1.3 Tools that monitor metrics and baselines (for example, GuardDuty, Systems Manager)
**Skills in:**
- 2.1.4 Analyzing architectures to identify monitoring requirements and sources of data for security monitoring
- 2.1.5 Analyzing environments and workloads to determine monitoring requirements
- 2.1.6 Designing environment monitoring and workload monitoring based on business and security requirements
- 2.1.7 Setting up automated tools and scripts to perform regular audits (for example, by creating custom insights in Security Hub)
- 2.1.8 Defining the metrics and thresholds that generate alerts
### Task Statement 2.2: Troubleshoot security monitoring and alerting.
**Knowledge of:**
- 2.2.1 Configuration of monitoring services (for example, Security Hub)
- 2.2.2 Relevant data that indicates security events
**Skills in:**
- 2.2.3 Analyzing the service functionality, permissions, and configuration of resources after an event that did not provide visibility or alerting
- 2.2.4 Analyzing and remediating the configuration of a custom application that is not reporting its statistics
- 2.2.5 Evaluating logging and monitoring services for alignment with security requirements
### Task Statement 2.3: Design and implement a logging solution.
**Knowledge of:**
- 2.3.1 AWS services and features that provide logging capabilities (for example, VPC Flow Logs, DNS logs, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch Logs)
- 2.3.2 Attributes of logging capabilities (for example, log levels, type, verbosity)
- 2.3.3 Log destinations and lifecycle management (for example, retention period)
**Skills in:**
- 2.3.4 Configuring logging for services and applications
- 2.3.5 Identifying logging requirements and sources for log ingestion
- 2.3.6 Implementing log storage and lifecycle management according to AWS best practices and organizational requirements
### Task Statement 2.4: Troubleshoot logging solutions.
**Knowledge of:**
- 2.4.1 Capabilities and use cases of AWS services that provide data sources (for example, log level, type, verbosity, cadence, timeliness, immutability)
- 2.4.2 AWS services and features that provide logging capabilities (for example, VPC Flow Logs, DNS logs, CloudTrail, CloudWatch Logs)
- 2.4.3 Access permissions that are necessary for logging
**Skills in:**
- 2.4.4 Identifying misconfiguration and determining remediation steps for absent access permissions that are necessary for logging (for example, by managing read/write permissions, S3 bucket permissions, public access, and integrity)
- 2.4.5 Determining the cause of missing logs and performing remediation steps
### Task Statement 2.5: Design a log analysis solution.
**Knowledge of:**
- 2.5.1 Services and tools to analyze captured logs (for example, Athena, CloudWatch Logs filter)
- 2.5.2 Log analysis features of AWS services (for example, CloudWatch Logs Insights, CloudTrail Insights, Security Hub insights)
- 2.5.3 Log format and components (for example, CloudTrail logs)
**Skills in:**
- 2.5.4 Identifying patterns in logs to indicate anomalies and known threats
- 2.5.5 Normalizing, parsing, and correlating logs
AWS Certified Security Specialist Podcast
AWS Certified Security Deep Dive is a focused podcast designed for IT professionals, cloud architects, and security enthusiasts aiming to master the AWS Security curriculum. Each episode breaks down key concepts, best practices, and real-world scenarios from the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam, covering topics like identity and access management, data protection, incident response, and infrastructure security. Hosted by industry experts, the show offers actionable insights, exam tips, and updates on AWS security services to help listeners achieve certification and excel in securing cloud environments.
