EC-COUNCIL EC-Council Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE) - 312-40 Exam Practice Test

SecureSoft IT Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company located in CharIoTte, 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?

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?

Ewan McGregor works as a cloud security engineer in a multinational company that develops software and applications for eCommerce companies. Owing to the robust services provided by AWS for developing applications and software, his organization migrated to the AWS cloud in
2010. To test whether it is possible to escalate privileges to obtain AWS administrator account access, Ewan attempt to update the login profile with regular user accounts. Which of the following commands should Ewan try to update an existing login profile?

Which compliance framework specifically governs the protection of health information handled by covered entities and business associates in the United States, including those using cloud services?

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?

Rachel Simmons wants to ensure that logs from all AWS accounts within her organization's AWS Organizations structure are aggregated into a single, centralized, tamper-evident location for auditing purposes. Which service combination best achieves this?

Teresa Palmer has been working as a cloud security engineer in a multinational company. Her organization contains a huge amount of data; if these data are transferred to AWS S3 through the internet, it will take weeks. Teresa's organization does not want to spend money on upgrading its internet to a high-speed internet connection. Therefore, Teresa has been sending large amounts of backup data (terabytes to petabytes) to AWS from on-premises using a physical device, which was provided by Amazon. The data in the physical device are imported and exported from and to AWS S3 buckets. This method of data transfer is cost-effective, secure, and faster than the internet for her organization. Based on the given information, which of the following AWS services is being used by Teresa?

WinSun Computers is a software firm that adopted cloud computing. To keep the cloud environment secure, the organization must ensure that it adheres to the regulations, controls, and rules framed by its management in the cloud environment. Which of the following represents the adherence to these regulations, controls, and rules framed by the organization in this scenario?

Rufus Sewell, a cloud security engineer with 5 years of experience, recently joined an MNC as a senior cloud security engineer. Owing to the cost-effective security features and storage services provided by AWS, his organization has been using AWS cloud-based services since 2014. To create a RAID, Rufus created an Amazon EBS volume for the array and attached the EBS volume to the instance where he wants to host the array. Using the command line, Rufus successfully created a RAID. The array exhibits noteworthy performance both in read and write operations with no overhead by parity control and the entire storage capacity of the array is used.
The storage capacity of the RAID created by Rufus is equal to the sum of disk capacity in the set, but the array is not fault tolerant. It is ideal for non-critical cloud data storage that must be read/written at a high speed. Based on the given information, which of the following RAID is created by Rufus?

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?

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?

Chris Evans has been working as a cloud security engineer in a multinational company over the past 3 years. His organization has been using cloud-based services. Chris uses key vault as a key management solution because it offers easier creation of encryption keys and control over them. Which of the following public cloud service providers allows Chris to do so?

A new public web application is deployed on AWS that will run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). An AWS security expert needs to encrypt the newly deployed application at the edge with an SSL/TLS certificate issued by an external certificate authority. In addition, he needs to ensure the rotation of the certificate yearly before it expires. Which of the following AWS services can be used to accomplish this?

TechnoSoft Pvt. Ltd. is a BPO company that provides 24 × 7 customer service. To secure the organizational data and applications from adversaries, the organization adopted cloud computing.
The security team observed that the employees are browsing restricted and inappropriate web pages. Which of the following techniques will help the security team of TechnoSoft Pvt. Ltd. in preventing the employees from accessing restricted or inappropriate web pages?