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Design Secure Architectures Questions

Practice questions for Design Secure Architectures topic in AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. 60 questions covering this domain.

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Q1
medium

A platform team wants developers to create IAM roles for applications but prevent those roles from ever receiving permissions outside an approved maxi...

Q2
easy

EC2 instances must access an S3 bucket securely without hardcoding credentials into application code. What is the best approach?

Q3
easy

A Lambda function needs to read from DynamoDB and write to S3. What is the correct way to grant these permissions?

Q4
medium

Which AWS service stores database credentials and API keys securely and can rotate them automatically?

Q5
medium

A developer accidentally committed AWS access keys to a public source code repository. What should be done first?

Q6
hard

A financial institution requires that S3 objects cannot be deleted or overwritten for 10 years by any user, including administrators. Which feature en...

Q7
hard

A company must ensure calls from EC2 instances to supported AWS service APIs stay on the AWS network and that those API calls are logged. Which combin...

Q8
medium

On-premises Active Directory users need to sign in to the AWS Management Console using their existing credentials. What should the architect configure...

Q9
easy

What is AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) primarily used for?

Q10
hard

IAM Access Analyzer reports that an S3 bucket is publicly accessible. The bucket contains approved public website assets that are intended to remain p...

Q11
medium

Which service records AWS API calls for governance, compliance, and auditing?

Q12
medium

An IAM policy grants s3:* on all resources, but an AWS Organizations service control policy allows only s3:GetObject. What S3 permissions does the use...

Q13
medium

Which AWS service helps protect a web application from common exploits such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting?

Q14
hard

A company needs to grant a third-party auditor read-only access to its AWS account. Which approach follows security best practices?

Q15
easy

What is the simplest way to ensure all objects uploaded to an S3 bucket are encrypted at rest?

Q16
hard

An IAM user has an identity policy allowing kms:Decrypt on a specific CMK, but Decrypt calls return AccessDenied. The CMK key policy does not referenc...

Q17
hard

An organization with many VPCs needs centralized stateful packet inspection and intrusion prevention for outbound internet traffic routed through Tran...

Q18
easy

Which AWS service continuously analyzes CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and Route 53 DNS logs to detect malicious activity?

Q19
medium

A mobile app needs user sign-up, sign-in, MFA, and JWT issuance for end users. Which Cognito feature should be used?

Q20
medium

An ALB terminates TLS and forwards to EC2 targets. Compliance requires encryption end-to-end to the EC2 instances. What should the architect configure...

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