ECCouncil EC-Council Certified DevSecOps Engineer (ECDE) - 312-97 Exam Practice Test

Steven Smith has been working as a DevSecOps engineer in an IT company that develops software products related to the financial sector. His team leader asked him to integrate Conjur with Jenkins to secure the secret credentials. Therefore, Steven downloaded Conjur.hpi file and uploaded it in the Upload Plugin section of Jenkins. He declared host and layers, and declared the variables. Which of the following commands should Steven use to set the value of variables?

A retail company uses Google Cloud to manage its CI/CD pipeline. At 9 AM on June 1, 2024, the team initiated a deployment process to update their application across three Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. The deployment was triggered by a YAML file, which defined sequential steps for building, testing, and deploying container images. During the process, notifications were automatically sent to Pub/Sub topics to inform the team about deployment status and approvals. Identify the Google Cloud service responsible for executing the deployment.

Olivia Carter, a DevSecOps Engineer at SecureDev Solutions, is responsible for enhancing the security of the company's software development lifecycle. Her team frequently uses open-source libraries in their projects, making vulnerability detection a critical priority. To ensure continuous security monitoring, Olivia integrates Mend Bolt with GitHub Actions. This setup allows her team to Automatically scan dependencies for vulnerabilities with every code commit, receive real-time alerts and remediation suggestions within GitHub and ensure security risks are mitigated before merging code into the main branch. What should Olivia configure in GitHub Actions to enable Mend Bolt's automated security scanning for each commit?

Mark Reynolds, a DevSecOps Engineer at CloudGuard Solutions, is responsible for securing sensitive data in a multi-cloud application. His team follows security best practices to prevent hardcoding API keys, database credentials, and encryption certificates in their application code or CI/CD pipelines. To achieve this, Mark needs a centralized, secure, and scalable way to store and manage secrets, ensuring only authorized services and users can access them while maintaining strict audit logging for compliance. Which Google Cloud service should Mark use to securely store and manage these sensitive credentials?

Attackers exploited a vulnerability in a healthcare organization's application, injected malicious commands into user input fields, gained unauthorized access to the underlying server, exfiltrated patient records, and tampered with critical files. In this case, which of the following tools can assist the DevSecOps engineer of the organization in flagging the injection vulnerability in the codebase and provide actionable recommendations to fix the issue in their Azure DevOps pipeline?

CyberNova Technologies, a software development company, has been focusing on improving the security posture of its applications. To enhance security, the company has implemented role-based access controls, enforced encryption for data transmission, standardized authentication mechanisms, and established secure channels for inter-service communication. Additionally, it has ensured that all security policies, compliance requirements, and risk assessments are properly conveyed to the development and operations teams to minimize security gaps. Which of the following secure coding principles is best demonstrated by CyberNova Technologies?

Emma Williams, a DevSecOps engineer at CyberTech Solutions, is responsible for enhancing security in the Plan stage of the DevSecOps pipeline. To ensure security is embedded early, she performs threat modeling to identify potential risks, architectural flaws, high-risk components, and necessary security controls before development begins. Additionally, Emma ensures that developers receive secure code training and are educated on how to effectively use security tools in their workflow. Which of the following security activities is a key part of the DevSecOps Plan stage and helps in filtering relevant security requirements based on business functionality and performance?

Emma, a DevSecOps engineer, is working on a project where all development tasks are tracked in Jira. To maintain clear traceability, she ensures that each code change is linked to a corresponding Jira Story. After picking up a new feature, she updates the Story status, begins coding, and later commits her changes to GitHub. To ensure seamless tracking, she includes a specific reference in the commit message so that the Story remains connected to the change set and can be monitored throughout the pipeline. What should Emma include in her commit message to maintain proper traceability?