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?

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Michael Keaton has been working as a cloud security specialist in a multinational company. His organization uses Google Cloud. Keaton has launched an application in nl-standard-1 (1 vCPU, 3.75 GB memory) instance.

Over the past three weeks, the instance has had low memory utilization.

Which of the following machine type switching is recommended for Keaton?

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An Azure organization wants to enforce its on-premises AD security and password policies to filter brute-force attacks. Instead of using legacy authentication, the users should sign in to on-premises and cloud-based applications using the same passwords in Azure AD.

Which Azure AD feature can enable users to access Azure resources?

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An AWS customer was targeted with a series of HTTPS DDoS attacks, believed to be the largest layer 7 DDoS reported to date. Starting around 10 AM ET on March 1, 2023, more than 15,500 requests per second (rps) began targeting the AWS customer’s load balancer. After 10 min, the number of requests increased to 2,50,000 rps.

This attack resembled receiving the entire daily traffic in only 10s. An AWS service was used to sense and mitigate this DDoS attack as well as prevent bad bots and application vulnerabilities. Identify which of the following AWS services can accomplish this.

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Elaine Grey has been working as a senior cloud security engineer in an IT company that develops software and applications related to the financial sector. Her organization would like to extend its storage capacity and automate disaster recovery workflows using a VMware private cloud.

Which of the following storage options can be used by Elaine in the VMware virtualization environment to connect a VM directly to a LUN and access it from SAN?

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A mid-sized company uses Azure as its primary cloud provider for its infrastructure. Its cloud security analysts are responsible for monitoring security events across multiple Azure resources (subscriptions, VMs, Storage, and SQL databases) and getting threat intelligence and intelligent security analytics throughout their organization.

Which Azure service would the security analysts use to achieve their goal of having a centralized view of all the security events and alerts?

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Kevin Williamson has been working as a cloud security engineer in a startup IT company. The business performed by his organization does not require live updating. A DRaaS company provided a disaster recovery site to Kevin’s organization with little or no equipment, backup services with no network connectivity, it does not perform automatic failover. and involves data synchronization with a high risk of data loss.

Based on the given information, which of the following disaster recovery sites is provided by the DRaaS company to Kevin’s organization?

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Rebecca Mader has been working as a cloud security engineer in an IT company located in Detroit, Michigan. Her organization uses AWS cloud-based services. An application is launched by a developer on an EC2 instance that needs access to the S3 bucket (photos). Rebecca created a get-pics service role and attached it to the EC2 instance. This service role comprises a permission policy that allows read-only access to the S3 bucket and a trust policy that allows the instance to assume the role and retrieve temporary credentials. The application uses the temporary credentials of the role to access the photo bucket when it runs on the instance.

Does the developer need to share or manage credentials or does the admin need to grant permission to the developer to access the photo bucket?

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Global CyberSec Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that provides software and application services related to cybersecurity. Owing to the robust security features offered by Microsoft Azure, the organization adopted the Azure cloud environment. A security incident was detected on the Azure cloud platform. Global CyberSec Pvt. Ltd.’s security team examined the log data collected from various sources. They found that the VM was affected.

In this scenario, when should the backup copy of the snapshot be taken in a blob container as a page blob during the forensic acquisition of the compromised Azure VM?

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TechGloWorld is an IT company that develops cybersecurity software and applications for various customers across the globe. Owing to the cost-effective security and storage services provided by AWS. TechGloWorld has adopted AWS cloud-based services. A new employee, named Tom Harrison, has joined TechGloWorld as a cloud security engineer. The team leader of cloud security engineers would like to add an 1AM user named Tom to the 1AM group named Admins.

Which of the following commands should be used by the TechGloWorld security team leader?

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