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Exam AWS Certified Security - Specialty topic 1 question 54 discussion

Exam question from Amazon's AWS Certified Security - Specialty
Question #: 54
Topic #: 1
[All AWS Certified Security - Specialty Questions]

A Security Engineer has been asked to troubleshoot inbound connectivity to a web server. This single web server is not receiving inbound connections from the internet, whereas all other web servers are functioning properly.
The architecture includes network ACLs, security groups, and a virtual security appliance. In addition, the Development team has implemented Application Load
Balancers (ALBs) to distribute the load across all web servers. It is a requirement that traffic between the web servers and the internet flow through the virtual security appliance.
The Security Engineer has verified the following:
1. The rule set in the Security Groups is correct
2. The rule set in the network ACLs is correct
3. The rule set in the virtual appliance is correct
Which of the following are other valid items to troubleshoot in this scenario? (Choose two.)

  • A. Verify that the 0.0.0.0/0 route in the route table for the web server subnet points to a NAT gateway.
  • B. Verify which Security Group is applied to the particular web server's elastic network interface (ENI).
  • C. Verify that the 0.0.0.0/0 route in the route table for the web server subnet points to the virtual security appliance.
  • D. Verify the registered targets in the ALB.
  • E. Verify that the 0.0.0.0/0 route in the public subnet points to a NAT gateway.
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Suggested Answer: BD 🗳️

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mojoa
Highly Voted 2 years, 6 months ago
The issue would not be nat related so eliminate A and E . Problem is inbound so eliminate C. This leaves B and D.
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vavofa5697
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Thanks, but can you elaborate how "C. Verify that the 0.0.0.0/0 route in the route table for the web server subnet points to the virtual security appliance." is not related to "inbound connection"?
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pk0619
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Inbound path from internet is via ALB. For connections, initiated by the server - the outbound path to internet is via security appliance.
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INASR
Highly Voted 2 years, 6 months ago
B & D are correct answers
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Kdosec
2 years, 5 months ago
I don't know why the answer is B because the question mentioned that "The Security Engineer has verified the following: 1. The rule set in the Security Groups is correct", so it neans that Security groups have been checked and verified correctly, isn't it ?
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jackn
2 years, 5 months ago
yes, it states "THE RULE SET in the Security Groups is correct" it doesn't say this SG is applied / attached to this particular web server's ENI
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Raphaello
Most Recent 2 months ago
Selected Answer: BD
BD are the correct answers here.
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Sickcnt
9 months, 1 week ago
Selected Answer: BD
B,C,D could all be true but based on the context of the question we can eliminate "C" (with some basic assumptions) "This single web server is not receiving inbound connections from the internet, whereas all other web servers are functioning properly." This means there are also alot of EC2s behind the loadbalancer. They are probably residing on the same subnet (It would be really weird if all EC2s were on subnet A and our single EC2 would be on subnet B) (Or if all EC2 instances were on a different subnet) Since a route table is associated with a subnet if it was configured incorrectly > We would have problems on multiple EC2 instances for the return traffic. So answer C can be eliminated, but anyone whos saying the reason is that its OUTBOUND traffic has clearly no idear how networking works (Even if a HTTP(s) connection comes in our EC2 server would need to respond to it for it to be a complete connection)
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Arvind_Kumar_Avinash
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Guys, B and D are the correct answers. Keep in mind that partial credit is not awarded for multiple-response questions (ref: https://aws.amazon.com/certification/policies/before-testing/) i.e. you have to select both B and D to get any marks awarded.
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sky_top_onestart
1 year, 4 months ago
C,D C --- It is required Routing Table., so verfification required. B ---- The Security Engineer has verified the following: 1. The rule set in the Security Groups is correct
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hubekpeter
1 year, 4 months ago
Selected Answer: BD
ACE answers will affect the whole subnet and every workload running there. So logically A&C remained.
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hubekpeter
1 year, 4 months ago
Sorry B&D. Examtopics please add EDIT feature.
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janvandermerwer
1 year, 5 months ago
Selected Answer: BD
B - Confirm security group is actually attached to teh instance, if every other server is working fine... D - If every server is working fine, must be something instance specific, likely not attached to the ALB via a target group.
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sapien45
1 year, 9 months ago
Selected Answer: BD
is not accepting incoming connections from the internet, The problem has to to wqith ingress connectiions AEC out
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teo2157
1 year, 12 months ago
Selected Answer: BD
B & D, D is pretty obvius and the discussion is focused in B or C and the key here is the wording as usual, although it's said "The rule set in the Security Groups is correct" the option C mentions "Verify WHICH Security Group is applied to the particular web serverג€™s elastic network interface (ENI).", so WHICHis the word because although sg rules are correct, not necessarely can be assigned to web server ENI.
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Radhaghosh
2 years, 2 months ago
B. Verify which Security Group is applied to the particular web serverג€™s elastic network interface (ENI). D. Verify the registered targets in the ALB.
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sam_live
2 years, 2 months ago
I would select options C & D. Because unless you explicitly configure the instances to route traffic via the security appliance it won't do by itself. the question says the it must traverse via the virtual security appliance.
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LaLune
2 years, 3 months ago
* The question stipulates that the security group are ok (1) --> B is eliminated * The NAT is outbound user control traffic not inbound as the question specified --> A & E discarded * For the 2 choices, we have C and D which seem normal as: 1) if that particular was not properly registered with the target it will not receive inbound traffic; 2) If the web server subnet associated route table is not pointing to the virtual security appliance it won't recive traffic. So, we can safely say C & D are the correct answers.
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lmtony
2 years, 5 months ago
B & D is correct why? if relevant to routing (0/0), then all server must affect -> A, C, E is wrong if relate to inbound connectivity -> NAT gateway is not relevant -> A, E is wrong.
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EA_Practice
2 years, 5 months ago
Anyone can explain why, besides re-stating the same ? Can't picture what is connected to what: - without an exhibit this is a cruel Q.
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sanjaym
2 years, 5 months ago
Ans: BD
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devjava
2 years, 5 months ago
Ans > B,D
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