312-40 Practice Exam Questions and Answers

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)?

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?

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?

The organization TechWorld Ltd. used cloud for its business. It operates from an EU country (Poland and Greece). Currently, the organization gathers and processes the data of only EU users. Once, the organization experienced a severe security breach, resulting in loss of critical user data. In such a case, along with its cloud service provider, the organization should be held responsible for non-compliance or breaches. Under which cloud compliance framework will the company and cloud provider be penalized?

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?

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?

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?

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?

For securing data, an AWS customer created a key in the Alabama region to encrypt their data in the California region. Two users were added to the key along with an external AWS account. When the AWS customer attempted to encrypt an S3 object, they observed that the key is not listed. What is the reason behind this?

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?