The tech giant TSC uses cloud for its operations. As a cloud user, it should implement an effective risk management lifecycle to measure and monitor high and critical risks regularly. Additionally, TSC should define what exactly should be measured and the acceptable variance to ensure timely mitigated risks.

In this case, which of the following can be used as a tool for cloud risk management?

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Kevin Ryan has been working as a cloud security engineer over the past 2 years in a multinational company, which uses AWS-based cloud services. He launched an EC2 instance with Amazon Linux AMI. By disabling password-based remote logins, Kevin wants to eliminate all possible loopholes through which an attacker can exploit a user account remotely. To disable password-based remote logins, using the text editor, Kevin opened the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and found the #PermitRootLogin yes line.

Which of the following command lines should Kevin use to change the #PermitRootLogin yes line to disable password-based remote logins?

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Cindy Williams works as a cloud security engineer in an IT company located in Seattle, Washington. Owing to the cost-effective security, governance, and storage features provided by AWS, her organization adopted AWS cloud-based services. Cindy would like to detect any unusual activity in her organization’s AWS account. She would like to obtain the event history of her organization’s AWS account activity for security analysis and resource change tracking.

Which of the following AWS service enables operational auditing, compliance, governance, and risk auditing for her organization’s AWS account?

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CyTech Private Ltd. is an IT company located in Jacksonville. Florida. The organization would like to eliminate a single point of failure: therefore. In 2017. the organization adopted a cloud computing service model in which the cloud service provider completely handles the failover. CyTech Private Ltd. added automated failover capabilities to its cloud environment and it has boon testing the functionality to ensure that it is working efficiently.

In which of the following cloud computing service models, failover is completely handled by the cloud service provider?

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Coral IT Systems is a multinational company that consumes cloud services. As a cloud service consumer (CSC), the organization should perform activities such as selecting, monitoring, implementing, reporting, and securing the cloud services. The CSC and cloud service provider (CSP) have a business relationship in which the CSP delivers cloud services to the CSC.

Which cloud governance role is applicable to the organization?

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Sam, a cloud admin, works for a technology company that uses Azure resources. Because Azure contains the resources of numerous organizations and several alerts are received timely, it is difficult for the technology company to identify risky resources, determine their owner, know whether they are needed, and know who pays for them.

How can Sam organize resources to determine this information immediately?

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Colin Farrell works as a senior cloud security engineer in a healthcare company. His organization has migrated all workloads and data in a private cloud environment. An attacker used the cloud environment as a point to disrupt the business of Colin’s organization. Using intrusion detection prevention systems, antivirus software, and log analyzers, Colin successfully detected the incident; however, a group of users were not able to avail the critical services provided by his organization.

Based on the incident impact level classification scales, select the severity of the incident encountered by Colin’s organization?

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Trevor Noah works as a cloud security engineer in an IT company located in Seattle, Washington. Trevor has implemented a disaster recovery approach that runs a scaled-down version of a fully functional environment in the cloud. This method is most suitable for his organization’s core business-critical functions and solutions that require the RTO and RPO to be within minutes.

Based on the given information, which of the following disaster recovery approach is implemented by Trevor?

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An organization wants to detect its hidden cloud infrastructure by auditing its cloud environment and resources such that it shuts down unused/unwanted workloads, saves money, minimizes security risks, and optimizes its cloud inventory. In this scenario, which standard is applicable for cloud security auditing that enables the management of customer data?

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An organization wants to securely connect to the AWS environment with a speed of 20 Gbps directly through its data centers, branch offices, and colocation facilities to ensure that its customers can securely access public (objects stored in Amazon S3) and private (limited access features such as VPC) resources by bypassing the internet service providers in the path.

Which of the following AWS services can be helpful for the organization?

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