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Question#1

A company needs a solution to protect critical data from being permanently deleted. The data is stored in Amazon S3 buckets.
The company needs to replicate the S3 objects from the company's primary AWS Region to a secondary Region to meet disaster recovery requirements. The company must also ensure that users who have administrator access cannot permanently delete the data in the secondary Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Configure AWS Backup to perform cross-Region S3 backups. Select a backup vault in the secondary Region. Enable AWS Backup Vault Lock in governance mode for the backups in the secondary Region
B. Implement S3 Object Lock in compliance mode in the primary Region. Configure S3 replication to replicate the objects to an S3 bucket in the secondary Region.
C. Configure S3 replication to replicate the objects to an S3 bucket in the secondary Region. Create an S3 bucket policy to deny the s3:ReplicateDelete action on the S3 bucket in the secondary Region
D. Configure S3 replication to replicate the objects to an S3 bucket in the secondary Region. Configure S3 object versioning on the S3 bucket in the secondary Region.

Explanation:
Implementing S3 Object Lock in compliance mode on the primary Region and configuring S3
replication to a secondary Region ensures the immutability of S3 objects, preventing them from being deleted or altered. This setup meets the requirement of protecting critical data from permanent deletion, even by users with administrative access. The replicated objects in the secondary Region inherit the Object Lock from the primary, ensuring consistent protection across Regions and aligning with disaster recovery requirements.

Question#2

A consultant agency needs to perform a security audit for a company's production AWS account. Several consultants need access to the account. The consultant agency already has its own AWS account.
The company requires multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all access to its production account. The company also forbids the use of long-term credentials.
Which solution will provide the consultant agency with access that meets these requirements?
A. Create an 1AM group. Create an 1AM user for each consultant. Add each user to the group. Turn on MFAfor each consultant.
B. Configure Amazon Cognito on the company's production account to authenticate against the consultant agency's identity provider (IdP). Add MFAto a Cognito user pool.
C. Create an 1AM role in the consultant agency's AWS account. Define a trust policy that requires MFA. In the trust policy, specify the company's production account as the principal. Attach the trust policy to the role.
D. Create an 1AM role in the company's production account. Define a trust policy that requires MFA. In the trust policy, specify the consultant agency's AWS account as the principal. Attach the trust policy to the role.

A. D

Question#3

A company needs to log object-level activity in its Amazon S3 buckets. The company also needs to validate the integrity of the log file by using a digital signature.

A. Create an AWS CloudTrail trail with log file validation enabled. Enable data events. Specify Amazon S3 as the data event type.
B. Create a new S3 bucket for S3 server access logs. Configure the existing S3 buckets to send their S3 server access logs to the new S3 bucket.
C. Create an Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group. Configure the existing S3 buckets tosend their S3 server access logs to the log group.
D. Create a new S3 bucket for S3 server access logs with log file validation enabled. Enable data events. Specify Amazon S3 as the data event type.

Question#4

A company is hosting multiple applications within a single VPC in its IAM account. The applications are running behind an Application Load Balancer that is associated with an IAM WAF web ACL. The company's security team has identified that multiple port scans are originating from a specific range of IP addresses on the internet.
A security engineer needs to deny access from the offending IP addresses.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Modify the IAM WAF web ACL with an IP set match rule statement to deny incoming requests from the IP address range.
B. Add a rule to all security groups to deny the incoming requests from the IP address range.
C. Modify the IAM WAF web ACL with a rate-based rule statement to deny the incoming requests from the IP address range.
D. Configure the IAM WAF web ACL with regex match conditions. Specify a pattern set to deny the incoming requests based on the match condition

Explanation:
Note that the IP is known and the question wants us to deny access from that particular address and so we can use IP set match policy of WAF to block access.

Question#5

A company uses Amazon EC2 Linux instances in the AWS Cloud. A member of the company's security team recently received a report about common vulnerability identifiers on the instances.
A security engineer needs to verify patching and perform remediation if the instances do not have the correct patches installed. The security engineer must determine which EC2 instances are at risk and must implement a solution to automatically update those instances with the applicable patches.
What should the security engineer do to meet these requirements?

A. Use AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to view vulnerability identifiers for missing patches on the instances. Use Patch Manager also to automate the patching process.
B. Use AWS Shield Advanced to view vulnerability identifiers for missing patches on the instances. Use AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to automate the patching process.
C. Use Amazon GuardDuty to view vulnerability identifiers for missing patches on the instances. Use Amazon Inspector to automate the patching process.
D. Use Amazon Inspector to view vulnerability identifiers for missing patches on the instances. Use Amazon Inspector also to automate the patching process.

Explanation:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/10/now-use-aws-systems-manager-to-view-vulnerability-id

Exam CodeSCS-C02
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Exam Code: SCS-C02
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Updated:  Sep 22,2026

 

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