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AWS Certified Security Study Guide, 2nd Edition
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AWS Certified Security Study Guide, 2nd Edition

by Mauricio Muñoz, Dario Lucas Goldfarb, Alexandre M. S. P. Moraes, Omner Barajas, Andres Gonzalez-Santos, Rogerio Kasa
August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
14h 14m
English
Sybex
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Assessment Test

  1. Which one of the following components should not influence an organization’s security policy?
    1. Business objectives
    2. Regulatory requirements
    3. Risk
    4. Cost–benefit analysis
    5. Current firewall limitations
  2. Consider the following statements about the AAA architecture:
    1. Authentication deals with the question “Who is the user?”
    2. Authorization addresses the question “What is the user allowed to do?”
    3. Accountability answers the question “What did the user do?”

      Which of the following is correct?

    1. Only I is correct.
    2. Only II is correct.
    3. I, II, and III are correct.
    4. I and II are correct.
    5. II and III are correct.
  3. What is the difference between denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks?
    1. DDoS attacks have many targets, whereas ...
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