Exam AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C02 topic 1 question 120 discussion

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A company is running a highly sensitive application on Amazon EC2 backed by an Amazon RDS database. Compliance regulations mandate that all personally identifiable information (PII) be encrypted at rest.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of changes to the infrastructure?

A. Deploy AWS Certificate Manager to generate certificates. Use the certificates to encrypt the database volume.
B. Deploy AWS CloudHSM, generate encryption keys, and use the keys to encrypt database volumes.
C. Configure SSL encryption using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt database volumes.
D. Configure Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) encryption and Amazon RDS encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt instance and database volumes.

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

by BoboChow at Sept. 5, 2022, 8:19 a.m.

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Six_Fingered_Jose

2 years, 7 months ago

Selected Answer: D

answer is D, question is looking for encryption at rest, SSL is encryption in transit

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Umapada

2 years, 7 months ago

yes, SSL is for transit.

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ogerber

2 years, 7 months ago

Selected Answer: C

least changed to infrastructure! its C

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josh_fan

2 years, 8 months ago

Selected Answer: D

Please vote D, as C is for encrypting data in transit. Believe me, I have CISSP certification.

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Ekie

2 years, 8 months ago

I am going with D. SSL/Cert to encrypt in transit. plus must to make sure that data is encrypted at rest wherever it's resting :) at any point of time. while there might be data processed by EC2 using it's EBS, I will go ahead and encrypted it as well as the final destination which is the RDS

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