AWS Certified Security - Specialty - SCS-C02
Practice Exams
Advance your career in cloud cybersecurity with the AWS Certified Security - Specialty Exam Simulator! Tailored for professionals, this tool offers realistic practice exams to mirror the official exam.
Questions update: Jun 06 2024
Questions count: 5439
Example questions
Domains: 6
Tasks: 6
Services: 26
Don't be fooled by the relatively short list of exam scope services. You really have to know them all in great detail. Each service is integrated with others and encompasses countless concepts and technologies you must be well familiar with.
The AWS Certified Security - Specialty certification is known for its high level of difficulty, requiring both broad and deep knowledge of security principles and AWS services. This certification tests your ability to secure applications and data on the AWS platform, demanding a thorough understanding of core security services and best practices for securing AWS environments.
The exam emphasizes an understanding of key AWS security services such as IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, Config, Shield, WAF, Security Hub, and GuardDuty. You need to know how these services work, how to configure them, and how to integrate them into a secure architecture.
You must be able to solve complex, real-world security problems. This includes designing secure infrastructures, implementing robust access controls, managing data protection, and performing incident response. Understanding how to monitor and audit AWS environments for compliance and security issues is also essential, involving tools like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config.
Regulatory compliance is another critical aspect. Candidates must understand various regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI-DSS, and how to implement and maintain compliance within AWS environments. This includes using AWS services to meet these regulatory standards and setting up audit trails and monitoring systems to ensure ongoing compliance.
The certification also requires a solid grasp of AWS's global infrastructure, including regions and availability zones, and how to design applications that ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
Furthermore, the exam demands familiarity with advanced security practices, including encryption mechanisms, secure data storage and transfer, and identity and access management. You need to understand how to leverage these practices to protect sensitive data and maintain security across various AWS services.
How AWS Exam Simulator works
The Simulator generates on-demand unique practice exam question sets fully compatible with the selected AWS Official Certificate Exam.
The exam structure, difficulty requirements, domains, and tasks are all included.
Rich features not only provide you with the same environment as your real online exam but also help you learn and pass AWS Certified Security - Specialty - SCS-C02 with ease, without lengthy courses and video lectures.
See all features - refer to the detailed description of AWS Exam Simulator description.
| Exam Mode | Practice Mode | |
|---|---|---|
| Questions count | 65 | 1 - 65 |
| Limited exam time | Yes | An option |
| Time limit | 170 minutes | 10 - 200 minutes |
| Exam scope | 6 domains with appropriate questions ratio | Specify domains with appropriate questions ratio |
| Correct answers | After exam submission | After exam submission or after question answer |
| Questions types | Mix of single and multiple correct answers | Single, Multiple or Both |
| Question tip | Never | An option |
| Reveal question domain | After exam submission | After exam submission or during the exam |
| Scoring | 15 from 65 questions do not count towards the result | Official AWS Method or mathematical mean |
Exam Scope
The Practice Exam Simulator questions sets are fully compatible with the official exam scope and covers all concepts, services, domains and tasks specified in the official exam guide.
For the AWS Certified Security - Specialty - SCS-C02 exam, the questions are categorized into one of 6 domains: Threat Detection and Incident Response, Security Logging and Monitoring, Infrastructure Security, Identity and Access Management, Data Protection, Management and Security Governance, which are further divided into 6 tasks.
AWS structures the questions in this way to help learners better understand exam requirements and focus more effectively on domains and tasks they find challenging.
This approach aids in learning and validating preparedness before the actual exam. With the Simulator, you can customize the exam scope by concentrating on specific domains.
Exam Domains and Tasks - example questions
Explore the domains and tasks of AWS Certified Security - Specialty - SCS-C02 exam, along with example questions set.
Exam Technologies and Concepts
Infrastructure as code (IaC)
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) involves managing and provisioning computing infrastructure via machine-readable definition files, supported by AWS services like CloudFormation for automating resource setup, CDK for defining infrastructure with programming languages, OpsWorks for configuration management, Elastic Beanstalk for simplified application deployment, and the widely-used Terraform for multi-cloud infrastructure management, enabling consistent, error-free, and streamlined deployment across environments.
Secure remote access
Secure remote access enables safe and encrypted connections to networks and resources from remote locations. AWS enhances secure remote access with services like AWS Client VPN for securely connecting to AWS and on-premises networks, AWS Direct Connect for private network connections, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for managing user access. These tools ensure secure, reliable, and managed remote access to critical resources.
Certificate management
Certificate management involves overseeing the lifecycle of digital certificates to ensure secure communications and authentication. AWS enhances certificate management with services like AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for provisioning, managing, and deploying SSL/TLS certificates, ACM Private CA for creating private certificates, and AWS Secrets Manager for securely storing and retrieving certificates. These tools simplify the management process, ensuring robust security and compliance.
Exam Services
AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudTrail is a service that provides a comprehensive log of user activity and API usage across the AWS infrastructure, enabling security monitoring, compliance auditing, and operational troubleshooting.
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides data and actionable insights to monitor applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health.
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AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is a unified tool that allows you to manage and automate AWS services directly from the terminal or command prompt.
AWS Config
AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources, providing a detailed view of their compliance with the configurations specified by your internal guidelines and regulatory standards.
AWS Management Console
The AWS Management Console is a web-based interface that allows users to access and manage Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its resources, offering an intuitive and easy-to-navigate user experience for configuring AWS services, monitoring their performance, and managing billing and security.
AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations is a cloud service from Amazon Web Services that allows you to centrally manage and govern your environment as you scale your AWS resources across multiple accounts.
AWS Systems Manager
AWS Systems Manager is a management service that provides visibility and control over your AWS resources, enabling you to automate operational tasks, gather system inventory, apply OS patches, automate the creation of Amazon Machine Images, and configure your operating systems and applications.
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides real-time guidance to help users optimize their Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure for cost, performance, security, and fault tolerance by scanning their environment and offering recommendations based on best practices.
Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) is a service that allows users to launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network that they can define and control, including IP address ranges, subnets, route tables, and gateways.
AWS Audit Manager
AWS Audit Manager is a cloud service provided by Amazon Web Services that helps users automate the process of auditing and compliance by continuously collecting evidence, thus enabling them to assess their AWS environment against industry standards and regulations.
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AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is a service provided by Amazon Web Services that simplifies the creation, management, and deployment of SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources.
AWS CloudHSM
AWS CloudHSM is a cloud-based hardware security module service offered by Amazon Web Services that provides key storage and cryptographic operations within a tamper-resistant hardware appliance.
Amazon Detective
Amazon Detective is a security service that automatically collects, organizes, and analyzes data from AWS resources to help users easily investigate and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities.
AWS Directory Service
AWS Directory Service is a managed service provided by Amazon Web Services that allows users to connect AWS resources with an existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory or to set up and operate a new, fully managed directory in the AWS Cloud.
AWS Firewall Manager
AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service that allows you to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts and applications, simplifying your AWS network firewall administration.
Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts and workloads.
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AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On)
AWS IAM Identity Center (formerly AWS Single Sign-On) is a cloud service that enables secure and unified authentication for users to access AWS accounts and business applications with a single set of credentials.
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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a cloud service that helps securely control access to AWS resources by allowing you to create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources.
Amazon Inspector
Amazon Inspector is a security assessment service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that automatically assesses applications for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices, and produces a detailed list of security findings prioritized by level of severity.
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AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the cryptographic keys used to secure your data across AWS services and in your applications.
Amazon Macie
Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect sensitive data in AWS.
AWS Network Firewall
AWS Network Firewall is a managed service provided by Amazon Web Services that enables users to deploy essential network protections such as stateful firewall rules, intrusion detection and prevention, and web filtering within their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environments.
AWS Security Hub
AWS Security Hub is a cloud security management service that aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes security alerts or findings from multiple AWS services and AWS Partner Network (APN) security solutions, providing a comprehensive view of security and compliance across an AWS environment.
AWS Shield
AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS against DDoS attacks.
AWS WAF
AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) is a web application firewall service that helps protect web applications and APIs from common web exploits and bots that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.
AWS Tools and SDKs
AWS Tools and SDKs are a collection of software and tools provided by Amazon Web Services to facilitate the development, deployment, and management of applications and services on the AWS platform.