Exam 6: Securing Cloud Resources

Sansa has moved the only Linux server within VPC1 to the Linux-only VPC15. The remaining servers in VPC1 all run Windows Server. Which of the following should she do on the firewall for VPC1?

Joffrey is about to deploy a new web server. He wants to ensure that when a user accesses the server, that their web browsing session is encrypted between the browser and the server. Which of the following should he use with the web server to provide this functionality?

Tyrion wants to use a virtual firewall to filter the types of traffic that are allowed or not allowed into a virtual private cloud instance he has created on the cloud service provider his company uses. Which of the following can he use to accomplish this goal?

Jon recently returned from an IT conference where he learned about a technology that could alert the administrators to any intrusions that may occur by installing software on each of the servers within the cloud deployment. Unfortunately, this particular system wouldn't stop the intrusion automatically. Which of the following technologies did he learn about?

Walder is reviewing the logs and sees a spike in overnight activity by one of the user accounts that he knows the employee left the organization over a month ago. Which of the following is most likely the cause of these logins?

Myrcella has been hired to perform an audit of a security incident where a large corporation was using an open-source application that they had deployed to a cloud service provider. The application was used to manage the many people whose information it tracked and included a lot of identifying information about them that could be used in identity fraud. Unfortunately, the person that installed the application never removed the default administrative account that was still using the default password. Which of the following describes this scenario?

Theon wants to transfer some files to one of the Linux servers that he manages. Which of the following would ensure that the transmissions are secure while not relying on SSL/TLS for the encryption?

Podrick wants to implement a technology on the company's servers that will detect any intrusions as well as implement rules or other methods to immediately stop traffic that appears to be an intrusion. Which of the following is he looking to install?

Gilly is walking down the hallway at her office when she notices someone in a delivery uniform carrying boxes down the hall without an escort. She also doesn't see a visitor's badge, which is supposed to be clipped to a visitor's collar. Which of the following might have just occurred?

Bran has recently learned about the CIA triad. He knows that encryption is important to a variety of things within his organization's infrastructure. One of those is the ability to ensure that data being transmitted across the network cannot be modified undetected. Which of the following tenets of the CIA triad supports this idea?

Eddard wants to install a VM running in the perimeter network that provides antivirus/anti-malware capabilities for the rest of the network. Which of the following describes the type of VM that he wants to install?

Hodor has a VPC that is only accessed by IP address and does not do any DNS lookups for any of the applications that it runs. Which of the following rules should he add to the firewall?