Exam AWS Certified Security - Specialty topic 1 question 91 discussion

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The Security Engineer is given the following requirements for an application that is running on Amazon EC2 and managed by using AWS CloudFormation templates with EC2 Auto Scaling groups:
-Have the EC2 instances bootstrapped to connect to a backend database.
-Ensure that the database credentials are handled securely.
-Ensure that retrievals of database credentials are logged.
Which of the following is the MOST efficient way to meet these requirements?

A. Pass databases credentials to EC2 by using CloudFormation stack parameters with the property set to true. Ensure that the instance is configured to log to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
B. Store database passwords in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store by using SecureString parameters. Set the IAM role for the EC2 instance profile to allow access to the parameters.
C. Create an AWS Lambda that ingests the database password and persists it to Amazon S3 with server-side encryption. Have the EC2 instances retrieve the S3 object on startup, and log all script invocations to syslog.
D. Write a script that is passed in as UserData so that it is executed upon launch of the EC2 instance. Ensure that the instance is configured to log to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

by duduga40 at Sept. 7, 2019, 6:56 p.m.

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NANDY666

Highly Voted 3 years, 8 months ago

B is Correct

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Ayusef

Highly Voted 3 years, 8 months ago

Its clearly B. If you said anything other then that on this one you need to go back to the basics. Granted some of the questions are tricky but this isn't one. Not try to insult anyone but this is a easy one.

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Harryhero

3 years, 8 months ago

How B. is addressing this requirement- Have the EC2 instances bootstrapped to connect to a backend database.

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grekh001

3 years, 8 months ago

None of the answers address the bootstrapping requirement. So we have to assume that the requirement is met outside of these answers. Then we can focus on meeting the other two requirements of securely providing access to the creds and logging access. Answer: B

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