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Data Security and Governance Questions

Practice questions for Data Security and Governance topic in AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate. 38 questions covering this domain.

38 questions9 easy18 medium11 hard
Q1
hard

Which statement about AWS KMS keys is accurate?

Q2
medium

A data lake administrator needs to grant analysts access to only specific columns and rows in cataloged lake data that is queried from Athena and Reds...

Q3
medium

A compliance officer needs a service focused on operational and risk auditing, governance, and compliance for AWS account activity. Which service best...

Q4
medium

A security team wants automated findings if an S3 bucket becomes publicly accessible and also wants bucket-level visibility into security and access c...

Q5
easy

An application currently stores database credentials in source code. The team wants runtime retrieval and automatic rotation of those credentials. Whi...

Q6
medium

A company wants to adopt Lake Formation gradually so some cataloged data can use both Lake Formation permissions and existing IAM permissions for Amaz...

Q7
easy

A company needs a managed service to create and control the keys used to encrypt and sign data. Which AWS service should it use?

Q8
easy

A security team needs a service that discovers sensitive data in Amazon S3 by using machine learning and pattern matching. Which service should they c...

Q9
hard

An enterprise wants to centrally govern a data lake, apply fine-grained permissions, and share governed data internally and externally across AWS acco...

Q10
medium

A team must enforce that AWS Glue ETL jobs only access specific Amazon S3 buckets and AWS Glue catalog databases by attaching policies to the job's ro...

Q11
hard

A compliance team must redact PII fields from log events at the time of ingestion into Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Which capability should they enable?

Q12
medium

A data engineer wants Amazon Redshift to encrypt data at rest using a customer-managed KMS key. What must be configured?

Q13
medium

A regulated team must ensure data in transit between clients and Amazon RDS is encrypted using TLS. Which option is correct?

Q14
hard

A data engineer needs to restrict S3 bucket access so that only requests originating from a specific VPC are allowed. Which mechanism enforces this?

Q15
easy

Which AWS service provides a fully managed virtual private network endpoint that allows Amazon S3 traffic to remain on the AWS network without using N...

Q16
easy

Which AWS feature default-encrypts every new object uploaded to a new Amazon S3 bucket using SSE-S3 unless the user specifies otherwise?

Q17
medium

Which AWS service allows centralized management of fine-grained access controls (database, table, column, and row/cell level) for data in S3 cataloged...

Q18
hard

A data lake spans multiple AWS accounts. The central account wants to share specific Lake Formation-governed tables with consumer accounts and let tho...

Q19
easy

Which AWS Glue feature encrypts metadata in the AWS Glue Data Catalog and job bookmarks at rest using an AWS KMS key?

Q20
medium

A data engineer wants to allow Amazon Athena to read data from an encrypted S3 bucket where the data is encrypted with SSE-KMS. Which permission must ...

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