Free Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE) Exam 312-40 Exam Practice Test

Rick Warren has been working as a cloud security engineer in an IT company for the past 4 years. Owing to the robust security features and various cost-effective services offered by AWS, in 2010, his organization migrated to the AWS cloud environment. While inspecting the intrusion detection system, Rick detected a security incident. Which of the following AWS services collects logs from various data sources and stores them on a centralized location as logs files that can be used during forensic investigation in the event of a security incident?

• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS CloudFormation
• Amazon CloudFront
• Amazon CloudTrail

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?

• After deleting the snapshot from the source resource group
• Before mounting the snapshot onto the forensic workstation
• After mounting the snapshot onto the forensic workstation
• Before deleting the snapshot from the source resource group

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?

• Cloud Broker
• Cloud Auditor
• Cloud Carrier
• Cloud Provider

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 is compliant with the cloud computing law that protects the student information collected by educational institutions and their associated vendors. Based on the information given, which law does Daffod adhere to?

• ECPA
• FERPA
• CLOUD
• FISMA

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?

• FERPA
• CLOUD
• FISMA
• ECPA

An IT organization named WITEC Solutions has adopted cloud computing. The organization must manage risks to keep its business data and services secure and running by gaining knowledge about the approaches suitable for specific risks. Which risk management approach can compensate the organization if it loses sensitive data owing to the risk of an activity?

• Risk mitigation
• Risk acceptance
• Risk avoidance
• Risk transference

Richard Harris works as a senior cloud security engineer in a multinational company. His organization uses Microsoft Azure cloud-based services. Richard would like to manage, control, and monitor the access to important resources in his organization. Which service in Azure AD can enable Richard to manage, control, and monitor the access to resources in Azure. Azure AD. and other Microsoft online services such as Microsoft Intune or Microsoft 365?

• Privileged Identity Management
• Federated Identity Management
• Privileged Access Management
• System for Cross-Domain Identity Management

Jordon Bridges has been working as a senior cloud security engineer in a multinational company. His organization uses Google cloud-based services. Jordon stored his organizational data in the bucket and named the bucket in the Google cloud storage following the guidelines for bucket naming.Which of the following is a valid bucket name given by Jordon?

• company-storage-data
• Company-storage-data
• Company-Storage-Data
• company storage data

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?

• Create evidence volume from the snapshot
• Provision and launch a forensic workstation
• Mount the evidence volume on the forensic workstation
• Attach the evidence volume to the forensic workstation

Chris Noth has been working as a senior cloud security engineer in CloudAppSec Private Ltd. His organization has selected a DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) company to provide a disaster recovery site that is fault tolerant and consists of fully redundant equipment with network connectivity and real-time data synchronization. Thus, if a disaster strikes Chris' organization, failover can be performed to the disaster recovery site with minimal downtime and zero data loss. Based on the given information, which disaster recovery site is provided by the DRaaS company to Chris' organization?

• Hot Site
• Cold Site
• Remote site
• Warm Site