EC-Council 312-40 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 22,2026- Exam Code: 312-40
- Exam Name: Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE)
- Certification Provider: EC-Council
- Latest update: Oct 22,2026
Rachael Taylor works as a cloud security engineer in CyTech Private Ltd whose previous cloud service provider used to levy high charges for resource utilization. Rachael would like to check resource utilization to Identify resources that are not in use. but the cloud service provider did not have the provision that allows cloud consumers to view resource utilization. Because AWS provides various cloud-based services, including resource utilization and a secure environment to cloud consumers, her organization adopted AWS cloud-based services. Rachael would like to view operational performance, resource utilization, and overall demand patterns, including metrics such as disk reads and writes, CPU utilization, and network traffic.
Which of the following AWS services fulfills Racheal’s requirements?
- A . Amazon CloudWatch Security
- B . Amazon CloudTrail Security
- C . Amazon Route 53 Security
- D . Amazon CloudFront Security
Jimmi Simpson has been working as a cloud security engineer in an IT company situated in Uvonia. Michigan. His organization uses Microsoft Azure’s cloud-based services. Jimml wants a cloud-based, scalable SIEM and SOAP solution that uses threat intelligence and provides intelligent security analytics across his organization.
Which of the following Microsoft Azure services provides of single solution for threat visibility, alert detection, threat response, and proactive hunting that reduces the number of attacks, provides a birds-eye view across the organization, generates high volumes of alerts, and ensures long resolution time frames?
- A . Anomaly Detector
- B . Application Insights
- C . Azure Sentinel
- D . Cloud App Security
SevocSoft Private Ltd. is an IT company that develops software and applications for the banking sector. The security team of the organization found a security incident caused by misconfiguration in Infrastructure-as-Code (laC) templates. Upon further investigation, the security team found that the server configuration was built using a misconfigured laC template, which resulted in security breach and exploitation of the organizational cloud resources.
Which of the following would have prevented this security breach and exploitation?
- A . Testing of laC Template
- B . Scanning of laC Template
- C . Striping of laC Template
- D . Mapping of laC Template
A large e-commerce company named ShopZone uses GCP to host its online store. Recently, the company noticed several errors reported by customers while trying to make purchases on their website. They suspect that there may be some issue with the payment processing system. To investigate this issue, the cloud forensic team of the company decided to look at the logs for the payment processing system and identify anomalies that may be causing the problem.
Which of the following GCP log categories helps the team gain the relevant information?
- A . Component Logs
- B . User-written logs
- C . Platform logs
- D . Security logs
Georgia Lyman is a cloud security engineer; she wants to detect unusual activities in her organizational Azure account. For this, she wants to create alerts for unauthorized activities with their severity level to prioritize the alert that should be investigated first.
Which Azure service can help her in detecting the severity and creating alerts?
- A . Windows Defender
- B . Cloud Operations Suite
- C . Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- D . Cloud DLP
GlobalCloud is a cloud service provider that offers various cloud-based secure and cost-effective services to cloud consumers. The customer base of this organization increased within a short period; thus, external auditing was performed on GlobalCloud. The auditor used spreadsheets, databases, and data analyzing software to analyze a large volume of data.
Based on the given information, which cloud-based audit method was used by the auditor to collect the objective evidence?
- A . Gap Analysis
- B . CAAT
- C . Striping
- D . Re-Performance