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A company has an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key with imported key material. Company policy requires all encryption keys to be rotated every year.

What should a security engineer do to meet this requirement for this customer managed key?

A. Enable automatic key rotation annually for the existing customer managed key.
B. Use the AWS CLI to create an AWS Lambda function to rotate the existing customer managed key annually.
C. Import new key material to the existing customer managed key. Manually rotate the key.
D. Create a new customer managed key. Import new key material to the new key. Point the key alias to the new key.

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

by mikelord at Oct. 4, 2024, 1:34 a.m.

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m_ch333

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Selected Answer: D

D. - you cannot enable automatic key rotation for a KMS key with imported key material - You can reimport the same key material, but you cannot import different key material into that KMS key https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/importing-keys-considerations.html

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IPLogic

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Selected Answer: D

The correct approach to meet the requirement of rotating the encryption key annually for a customer managed key with imported key material is: D. Create a new customer managed key. Import new key material to the new key. Point the key alias to the new key. Automatic key rotation is not supported for keys with imported key material. Therefore, you need to manually manage the rotation by creating a new key and updating the alias to point to the new key each year.

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IPLogic

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Option C (Import new key material to the existing customer managed key. Manually rotate the key) is not suitable because AWS KMS does not support re-importing key material into an existing key. Once key material is imported into a KMS key, it cannot be changed or re-imported. Therefore, the correct approach is to create a new customer managed key, import the new key material into this new key, and then update the key alias to point to the new key (Option D).

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723993f

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Selected Answer: C

c is the answer, d is unnecessary work kms cmk = metadata (id, other field) + imported material (crypto) thus kms cmk can continue to be as is with the same id, and we can import new material to it why not d - there is no mention of an alias being used, and no its not obvious, one must mention that an alias was created and being used by apps for D to be a viable solution

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molerowan

3 months ago

Imported key material cannot be replaced in the same KMS key https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/importing-keys-considerations.html

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dhewa

8 months ago

Selected Answer: D

To comply with the policy of rotating encryption keys annually, the recommended approach is to create a new customer managed key, import new key material to this new key, and then update the key alias to point to the new key. This ensures that the key rotation is handled correctly and securely.

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