Scott Herman works as a cloud security engineer in an IT company located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His organization uses Office 365 Business Premium that provides Microsoft Teams, secure cloud storage, business email, premium Office applications across devices, advanced cyber threat protection, and device management.

Which of the following cloud computing service models does Microsoft Office 365 represent?

Rachel McAdams works as a cloud security engineer in an MNC. A DRaaS company has provided a disasterrecovery site to her organization. The disaster recovery sites have partially redundant equipment with daily or weekly data synchronization provision; failover occurs within hours or days with minimum data loss. Based on this information, which of the following disaster recovery sites is provided by the DRaaS company to Rachel's organization?

Shell Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that develops software products and services for

BPO companies. The organization became a victim of a cybersecurity attack. Therefore, it migrated its applications and workloads from on-premises to a cloud environment. Immediately, the organization established an incident response team to prevent such incidents in the future. Using intrusion detection system and antimalware software, the incident response team detected a security incident and mitigated the attack. The team recovered the resources from the incident and identified various vulnerabilities and flaws in their cloud environment.
Which step of the incident response lifecycle includes the lessons learned from previous attacks and analyzes and documents the incident to understand what should be improved?

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?

Terry Diab has an experience of 6 years as a cloud security engineer. She recently joined a multinational company as a senior cloud security engineer. Terry learned that there is a high probability that her organizational applications could be hacked and user data such as passwords, usernames, and account information can be exploited by an attacker. The organizational applications have not yet been hacked, but this issue requires urgent action. Therefore, Terry, along with her team, released a software update that is designed to resolve this problem instantly with a quick-release procedure. Terry successfully fixed the problem (bug) in the software product immediately without following the normal quality assurance procedures. Terry's team resolved the problem immediately on the live system with zero downtime for users. Based on the given information, which of the following type of update was implemented by Terry?

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?

Securelnfo Pvt. Ltd. has deployed all applications and data in the AWS cloud. The security team of this organization would like to examine the health of the organization's website regularly and switch (or failover) to a backup site if the primary website becomes unresponsive.
Which of the following AWS services can provide DNS failover capabilities and health checks to ensure the availability of the organization's website?

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?

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?

Assume you work for an IT company that collects user behavior data from an e-commerce web application. This data includes the user interactions with the applications, such as purchases, searches, saved items, etc. Capture this data, transform it into zip files, and load these massive volumes of zip files received from an application into Amazon S3.
Which AWS service would you use to do this?

Thomas Gibson is a cloud security engineer working in a multinational company. Thomas has created a Route 53 record set from his domain to a system in Florida, and a similar record to machines in Paris and Singapore.

Assume that network conditions remain unchanged and Thomas has hosted the application on Amazon EC2 instance; moreover, multiple instances of the application are deployed on different EC2 regions.
When a user located in London visits Thomas's domain, to which location does Amazon Route 53 route the user request?

QuickServ Solutions is an organization that wants to migrate to the cloud. It is in the phase of signing an agreement with a cloud vendor. For that, QuickServ Solutions must assess the current vendor procurement process to determine how the company can mitigate cloud- related risks. How can the company accomplish that?

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?

TetraSoft Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that provides software and application services to numerous customers across the globe. In 2015, the organization migrated its applications and data from on-premises to the AWS cloud environment. The cloud security team of TetraSoft Pvt. Ltd. suspected that the EC2 instance that launched the core application of the organization is compromised. Given below are randomly arranged steps involved in the forensic acquisition of an EC2 instance. In this scenario, when should the investigators ensure that a forensic instance is in the terminated state?

Global SciTech Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that develops healthcare-related software. Using an incident detection system (IDS) and antivirus software, the incident response team of the organization has observed that attackers are targeting the organizational network to gain access to the resources in the on-premises environment. Therefore, their team of cloud security engineers met with a cloud service provider to discuss the various security provisions offered by the cloud service provider.
While discussing the security of the organization's virtual machine in the cloud environment, the cloud service provider stated that the Network Security Groups (NSGs) will secure the VM by allowing or denying network traffic to VM instances in a virtual network based on inbound and outbound security rules.
Which of the following cloud service provider filters the VM network traffic in a virtual network using NSGs?

You are the manager of a cloud-based security platform that offers critical services to government agencies and private companies. One morning, your team receives an alert from the platform's intrusion detection system indicating that there has been a potential breach in the system. As the manager, which tool you will use for viewing and monitoring the sensitive data by scanning storage systems and reviewing the access rights to critical resources via a single centralized dashboard?

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?

An organization is developing a new AWS multitier web application with complex queries and table joins.

However, because the organization is small with limited staff, it requires high availability.
Which of the following Amazon services is suitable for the requirements of the organization?

The cloud administrator John was assigned a task to create a different subscription for each division of his organization. He has to ensure all the subscriptions are linked to a single

Azure AD tenant and each subscription has identical role assignments.
Which Azure service will he make use of?

A web server passes the reservation information to an application server and then the application server queries an Airline service.
Which of the following AWS service allows secure hosted queue server-side encryption (SSE), or uses custom SSE keys managed in AWS

Key Management Service (AWS KMS)?

SecureSoft IT Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company located in Charlotte, North Carolina, that develops software for the healthcare industry. The organization generates a tremendous amount of unorganized data such as video and audio files. Kurt recently joined SecureSoft IT Pvt. Ltd.

as a cloud security engineer. He manages the organizational data using NoSQL databases. Based on the given information, which of the following data are being generated by Kurt's organization?

A client wants to restrict access to its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources to a specified IP range by making a trust-list. Accordingly, the client limits GCP access to users in its organization network or grants company auditors access to a requested GCP resource only.
Which of the following GCP services can help the client?

Georgia Lyman works as a cloud security engineer in a multinational company. Her organization uses cloud-based services. Its virtualized networks and associated virtualized resources encountered certain capacity limitations that affected the data transfer performance and virtual server communication. How can Georgia eliminate the data transfer capacity thresholds imposed on a virtual server by its virtualized environment?

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?

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?

William O'Neil works as a cloud security engineer in an IT company located in Tampa, Florida to create an access key with normal user accounts, he would like to test whether it is possible to escalate privileges to obtain AWS administrator account access. Which of the following commands should William try to create a new user access key ID and secret key for a user?

Shannon Elizabeth works as a cloud security engineer in VicPro Soft Pvt. Ltd. Microsoft Azure provides all cloud-based services to her organization. Shannon created a resource group (ProdRes), and then created a virtual machine (myprodvm) in the resource group. On myprodvm virtual machine, she enabled JIT from the Azure Security Center dashboard.
What will happen when Shannon enables JIT VM access?

An organization with resources on Google Cloud regularly backs up its service capabilities to ensure high availability and reduce the downtime when a zone or instance becomes unavailable owing to zonal outage or memory shortage in an instance. However, as protocol, the organization must frequently test whether these regular backups are configured.
Which tool's high availability settings must be checked for this?

Simon recently joined a multinational company as a cloud security engineer. Due to robust security services and products provided by AWS, his organization has been using AWS cloud- based services. Simon has launched an Amazon EC2 Linux instance to deploy an application. He would like to secure Linux AMI.
Which of the following command should Simon run in the EC2 instance to disable user account passwords?

Brentech Services allows its clients to access (read, write, or delete) Google Cloud Storage resources for a limited time without a Google account while it controls access to Cloud Storage. How does the organization accomplish this?

An IT company uses two resource groups, named Production-group and Security-group, under the same subscription ID. Under the Production-group, a VM called Ubuntu18 is suspected to be compromised. As a forensic investigator, you need to take a snapshot (ubuntudisksnap) of the OS disk of the suspect virtual machine Ubuntu18 for further investigation and copy the snapshot to a storage account under Security-group.

Identify the next step in the investigation of the security incident in Azure?

Ray Nicholson works as a senior cloud security engineer in TerraCloud Sec Pvt. Ltd. His organization deployed all applications in a cloud environment in various virtual machines. Using IDS, Ray identified that an attacker compromised a particular VM. He would like to limit the scope of the incident and protect other resources in the cloud. If Ray turns off the VM, what will happen?

Jayson Smith works as a cloud security engineer in CloudWorld SecCo Pvt. Ltd. This is a third-party vendor that provides connectivity and transport services between cloud service providers and cloud consumers. Select the actor that describes CloudWorld SecCo Pvt. Ltd. based on the NIST cloud deployment reference architecture?

Teresa Ruiz works as a cloud security engineer in an IT company. In January 2021, the data deployed by her in the cloud environment was corrupted, which caused a tremendous loss to her organization. Therefore, her organization changed its cloud service provider. After deploying the workload and data in the new service provider’s cloud environment, Teresa backed up the entire data of her organization. A new employee, Barbara Houston, who recently joined Teresa’s organization as a cloud security engineer, only backed up those files that changed since the last executed backup. Which type of backup was performed by Barbara in the cloud?

Jimmi Simpson has been working as a cloud security engineer in an IT company situated in Livonia, Michigan. His organization uses Microsoft Azure’s cloud-based services. Jimmi wants a cloud-based, scalable SIEM and SOAR solution that uses threat intelligence and provides intelligent security analytics across his organization. Which of the following Microsoft Azure services provides a 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 security incident has occurred within an organization’s AWS environment. A cloud forensic investigation procedure is initiated for the acquisition of forensic evidence from the compromised EC2 instances. However, it is essential to abide by the data privacy laws while provisioning any forensic instance and sending it for analysis. What can the organization do initially to avoid the legal implications of moving data between two AWS regions for analysis?

The GCP environment of a company named Magnitude IT Solutions encountered a security incident. To respond to the incident, the Google Data Incident Response Team was divided based on the different aspects of the incident. Which member of the team has an authoritative knowledge of incidents and can be involved in different domains such as security, legal, product, and digital forensics?

Daffod is an American cloud service provider that provides cloud-based services to customers worldwide. Several customers are adopting the cloud services provided by Daffod because they are secure and cost- effective. Daffod complies with the cloud computing law enacted in the US to realize the importance of information security in the economic and national security interests of the US. Based on the given information, which law order does Daffod adhere to?

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?

Richard Roxburgh works as a cloud security engineer in an IT company. His organization was dissatisfied with the services of its previous cloud service provider. Therefore, in January 2020, his organization adopted AWS cloud-based services and shifted all workloads and data in the AWS cloud. Richard wants to provide complete security to the hosted applications before deployment and while running in the AWS ecosystem. Which of the following automated security assessment services provided by AWS can be used by Richard to improve application security and check the application for any type of vulnerability or deviation from the best practices automatically?

Global InfoSec Solution Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that develops mobile-based software and applications. For smooth, secure, and cost-effective facilitation of business, the organization uses public cloud services. Now, Global InfoSec Solution Pvt. Ltd. is encountering a vendor lock-in issue. What is vendor lock-in in cloud computing?

Global CloudEnv is a cloud service provider that provides various cloud-based services to cloud consumers. The cloud service provider adheres to the framework that can be used as a tool to systematically assess cloud implementation by providing guidance on the security controls that should be implemented by specific actors within the cloud supply chain. It is used as the standard to assess the security posture of organizations on the Security, Trust, Assurance, and Risk (STAR) registry. Based on the given information, which of the following cybersecurity control frameworks does Global CloudEnv adhere to?

An organization, PARADIGM PlayStation, moved its infrastructure to a cloud as a security practice. It established an incident response team to monitor the hosted websites for security issues. While examining network access logs using SIEM, the incident response team came across some incidents that suggested that one of their websites was targeted by attackers and they successfully performed an SQL injection attack. Subsequently, the incident response team made the website and database server offline. In which of the following steps of the incident response lifecycle, the incident team determined to make that decision?

Kelsey Lewis has been working as a cloud security engineer in a BPO company that provides 24 × 7 customer service. Owing to the cost-effective storage and security features provided by cloud computing, her organization adopted the cloud environment 4 years ago. Kelsey implemented the TLS protocol to provide security to e-mail communications, voice over IP (VoIP) communication, web traffic, messaging clients, file transfers, and internet services (Domain Name Service (DNS) and Network Time Protocol (NTP)). Which certificate is used by TLS for communication authentication and encryption between hosts?

Lexie Roth works as a cloud security engineer in an IT company located in Boston, Massachusetts. Her organization generates a huge amount of data. To increase the storage size, speed, and fault tolerance, Lexie would like to configure and create a RAID. Therefore, she created a RAID on Windows Server 2016, which includes block-level striping with a distributed parity. The parity information is distributed among all drives, except one. The data chunks in the RAID are larger than the regular I/O size, but they can be re-sized. To prevent data loss after a drive fails, data are calculated from the distributed parity. The RAID configured by Lexie requires at least three disks, but for robust performance, Lexie used seven disks. Based on the given information, which of the following RAID was configured and created by Lexie?

Billy Pratt works as a cloud security engineer in an MNC. In 2012, his organization transferred all applications and data into an AWS cloud environment. Billy would like to analyze, investigate, and identify the root cause of malicious activities in his organization’s AWS cloud environment. Which of the following Amazon services automatically collects data from various AWS resources and utilizes machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to provide a unified and interactive view of resources and users that would help Billy in determining the root cause of suspicious activities?

SeaCloud Soft Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that develops software and applications related to the healthcare industry. To safeguard the data and applications against attackers, the organization adopted cloud computing. The organization did not trust the cloud service provider; therefore, it implemented an encryption technique that secures data during communication and storage. SeaCloud Soft Pvt. Ltd. performed computation on the encrypted data and then sent the data to the cloud service provider. Based on the given information, which of the following encryption techniques was implemented by SeaCloud Soft Pvt. Ltd.?

Sandra Oliver has been working as a cloud security engineer in an MNC. Her organization adopted the Microsoft Azure cloud environment owing to its on-demand scalability, robust security, and high availability features. Sandra’s team leader assigned her the task to increase the availability of organizational applications; therefore, Sandra is looking for a solution that can be utilized for distributing the traffic to backend Azure virtual machines based on the attributes of the HTTP request received from clients. Which of the following Azure services fulfills Sarah’s requirements?

Martin Sheen is a senior cloud security engineer in SecGlob Cloud Pvt. Ltd. Since 2012, his organization has been using AWS cloud-based services. Using an intrusion detection system and antivirus software, Martin noticed that an attacker is trying to breach the security of his organization. Therefore, Martin would like to identify and protect the sensitive data of his organization. He requires a fully managed data security service that supports S3 storage and provides an inventory of publicly shared buckets, unencrypted buckets, and the buckets shared with AWS accounts outside his organization. Which of the following Amazon services fulfills Martin’s requirement?

Melissa George is a cloud security engineer in an IT company. Her organization has adopted cloud-based services. The integration of cloud services has become significantly complicated to be managed by her organization. Therefore, her organization requires a third-party to consult, mediate, and facilitate the selection of a solution. Which of the following NIST cloud deployment reference architecture actors manage cloud service usage, performance, and delivery, and maintains the relationship between the CSPs and cloud consumers?

Katie Holmes has been working as a cloud security engineer over the past 7 years in an MNC. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cloud service provider could not provide cloud services efficiently to her organization. Therefore, Katie suggested to the management that they should design and build their own data center. Katie’s requisition was approved, and after 8 months, Katie’s team successfully designed and built an on-premises data center. The data center meets all organizational requirements; however, the capacity components are not redundant. If a component is removed, the data center comes to a halt. Which tier data center was designed and constructed by Katie’s team?

Falcon Computers is an IT company that runs its IT infrastructure on the cloud. The organization must implement cloud governance in its corporate cloud environment to align its business vision with the cloud vision. Which of the following cloud governance components can help the organization to align the cloud vision and business vision?

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?

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?

Samuel Jackson has been working as a cloud security engineer for the past 12 years in VolkSec Pvt. Ltd., whose applications are hosted in a private cloud. Owing to the increased number of users for its services, the organizations is finding it difficult to manage the on-premises data center. To overcome scalability and data storage issues, Samuel advised the management of his organization to migrate to a public cloud and shift the applications and data. Once the suggestion to migrate to public cloud was accepted by the management, Samuel was asked to select a cloud service provider. After extensive research on the available public cloud service providers, Samuel made his recommendation. Within a short period, Samuel along with his team successfully transferred all applications and data to the public cloud. Samuel’s team would like to configure and maintain the platform, infrastructure, and applications in the new cloud computing environment. Which component of a cloud platform and infrastructure provides tools and interfaces to Samuel’s team for configuring and maintaining the platform, infrastructure, and application?

Global SoftTechSol is a multinational company that provides customized software solutions and services to various clients located in different countries. It uses a public cloud to host its applications and services. Global SoftTechSol uses Cloud Debugger to inspect the current state of a running application in real-time, find bugs, and understand the behavior of the code in production. Identify the service provider that provides the Cloud Debugger feature to Global SoftTechSol?

Gabriel Bateman has been working as a cloud security engineer in an IT company for the past 5 years. Owing to the recent onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, his organization has given the provision to work from home to all employees. Gabriel’s organization uses Microsoft Office 365 that allows all employees access files, emails, and other Office programs securely from various locations on multiple devices. Who among the following is responsible for patch management in Microsoft Office 365?

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?

The TCK Bank adopts cloud for storing the private data of its customers. The bank usually explains its information sharing practices to its customers and safeguards sensitive data. However, there exist some security loopholes in its information sharing practices. Therefore, hackers could steal the critical data of the bank’s customers. In this situation, under which cloud compliance framework will the bank be penalized?

Cindy Williams has been working as a cloud security engineer in an IT company situated in Austin, Texas. Owing to the robust security and cost-effective features provided by AWS, her organization adopted AWS cloud-based services. Cindy has deployed an application in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance. Which of the following cloud computing service model does the Amazon EC2 instance represent?