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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.
# AWS Security - Domain 5 - 50X - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
## Domain 5: Data Protection
### Task Statement 5.1: Design and implement controls that provide confidentiality and integrity for data in transit.
**Knowledge of:**
- 5.1.1 TLS concepts
- 5.1.2 VPN concepts (for example, IPsec)
- 5.1.3 Secure remote access methods (for example, SSH, RDP over Systems Manager Session Manager)
- 5.1.4 Systems Manager Session Manager concepts
- 5.1.5 How TLS certificates work with various network services and resources (for example, CloudFront, load balancers)
**Skills in:**
- 5.1.6 Designing secure connectivity between AWS and on-premises networks (for example, by using Direct Connect and VPN gateways)
- 5.1.7 Designing mechanisms to require encryption when connecting to resources (for example, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, load balancers, Amazon Elastic File System [Amazon EFS], Amazon API Gateway)
- 5.1.8 Requiring TLS for AWS API calls (for example, with Amazon S3)
- 5.1.9 Designing mechanisms to forward traffic over secure connections (for example, by using Systems Manager and EC2 Instance Connect)
- 5.1.10 Designing cross-Region networking by using private VIFs and public VIFs
### Task Statement 5.2: Design and implement controls that provide confidentiality and integrity for data at rest.
**Knowledge of:**
- 5.2.1 Encryption technique selection (for example, client-side, server-side, symmetric, asymmetric)
- 5.2.2 Integrity-checking techniques (for example, hashing algorithms, digital signatures)
- 5.2.3 Resource policies (for example, for DynamoDB, Amazon S3, and AWS Key Management Service [AWS KMS])
- 5.2.4 IAM roles and policies
**Skills in:**
- 5.2.5 Designing resource policies to restrict access to authorized users (for example, S3 bucket policies, DynamoDB policies)
- 5.2.6 Designing mechanisms to prevent unauthorized public access (for example, S3 Block Public Access, prevention of public snapshots and public AMIs)
- 5.2.7 Configuring services to activate encryption of data at rest (for example, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service [Amazon SQS], Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS)
- 5.2.8 Designing mechanisms to protect data integrity by preventing modifications (for example, by using S3 Object Lock, KMS key policies, S3 Glacier Vault Lock, and AWS Backup Vault Lock)
- 5.2.9 Designing encryption at rest by using AWS CloudHSM for relational databases (for example, Amazon RDS, RDS Custom, databases on EC2 instances)
- 5.2.10 Choosing encryption techniques based on business requirements
### Task Statement 5.3: Design and implement controls to manage the lifecycle of data at rest.
**Knowledge of:**
- 5.3.1 Lifecycle policies
- 5.3.2 Data retention standards
**Skills in:**
- 5.3.3 Designing S3 Lifecycle mechanisms to retain data for required retention periods (for example, S3 Object Lock, S3 Glacier Vault Lock, S3 Lifecycle policy)
- 5.3.4 Designing automatic lifecycle management for AWS services and resources (for example, Amazon S3, EBS volume snapshots, RDS volume snapshots, AMIs, container images, CloudWatch log groups, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager)
- 5.3.5 Establishing schedules and retention for AWS Backup across AWS services
### Task Statement 5.4: Design and implement controls to protect credentials, secrets, and cryptographic key materials.
**Knowledge of:**
- 5.4.1 Secrets Manager
- 5.4.2 Systems Manager Parameter Store
- 5.4.3 Usage and management of symmetric keys and asymmetric keys (for example, AWS KMS)
**Skills in:**
- 5.4.4 Designing management and rotation of secrets for workloads (for example, database access credentials, API keys, IAM access keys, AWS KMS customer managed keys)
- 5.4.5 Designing KMS key policies to limit key usage to authorized users
- 5.4.6 Establishing mechanisms to import and remove customer-provided key material
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.
