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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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Answers to Assessment Test

  1. E. Specific control implementations and limitations should not drive a security policy. In fact, the security policy should influence such decisions, and not vice versa.
  2. D. Accountability is not part of the AAA architecture; accounting is.
  3. C. When a DoS attack is performed in a coordinated fashion, with a simultaneous use of multiple source hosts, the term distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is used to describe it.
  4. C. It’s the other way around.
  5. C. AWS is responsible for its regions, availability zones, and hypervisor software. In the standard shared responsibility model, AWS is not responsible for user-configured features such as data encryption, firewall configuration, network traffic protection, and identity ...
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