Global InfoSec Solution Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that develops mobile-based software and applications. For smooth, secure, and cost-effective facilitation of business, the organization uses public cloud services. Now, Global InfoSec Solution Pvt. Ltd. is encountering a vendor lock-in issue. What is vendor lock-in in cloud computing?
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It is a situation in which a cloud consumer cannot switch to another cloud service broker without substantial switching costs
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It is a situation in which a cloud consumer cannot switch to a cloud carrier without substantial switching costs
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It is a situation in which a cloud service provider cannot switch to another cloud service broker without substantial switching costs
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It is a situation in which a cloud consumer cannot switch to another cloud service provider without substantial switching costs
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Jerry Mulligan is employed by an IT company as a cloud security engineer. In 2014, his organization migrated all applications and data from on-premises to a cloud environment. Jerry would like to perform penetration testing to evaluate the security across virtual machines, installed apps, and OSes in the cloud environment, including conducting various security assessment steps against risks specific to the cloud that could expose them to serious threats. Which of the following cloud computing service models does not allow cloud penetration testing (CPEN) to Jerry?
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For securing data, an AWS customer created a key in the Alabama region to encrypt their data in the California region. Two users were added to the key along with an external AWS account. When the AWS customer attempted to encrypt an S3 object, they observed that the key is not listed. What is the reason behind this?
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It takes time for new keys to be listed
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Encryption key should be in the same region
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S3 cannot be integrated with KMS
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AWS does not support external AWS accounts
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Rebecca Gibel has been working as a cloud security engineer in an IT company for the past 5 years. Her organization uses cloud-based services. Rebecca's organization contains personal information about its clients, which is encrypted and stored in the cloud environment. The CEO of her organization has asked Rebecca to delete the personal information of all clients who utilized their services between 2011 and 2015. Rebecca deleted the encryption keys that are used to encrypt the original data; this made the data unreadable and unrecoverable. Based on the given information, which deletion method was implemented by Rebecca?
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Scott Herman works as a cloud security engineer in an IT company located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His organization uses Office 365 Business Premium that provides Microsoft Teams, secure cloud storage, business email, premium Office applications across devices, advanced cyber threat protection, and device management. Which of the following cloud computing service models does Microsoft Office 365 represent?
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Coral IT Systems is a multinational company that consumes cloud services. As a cloud service consumer (CSC), the organization should perform activities such as selecting, monitoring, implementing, reporting, and securing the cloud services. The CSC and cloud service provider (CSP) have a business relationship in which the CSP delivers cloud services to the CSC. Which cloud governance role is applicable to the organization?
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Cloud service deployment manager
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A private IT company named Altitude Solutions conducts its operations from the cloud. The company wants to balance the interests of corporate stakeholders (higher management, employees, investors, and suppliers) to achieve control on the cloud infrastructure and facilities (such as data centers) and management of applications at the portfolio level. Which of the following represents the adherence to the higher management directing and controlling activities at various levels of the organization in a cloud environment?
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Chris Noth has recently joined CloudAppSec Private Ltd. as a cloud security engineer. Owing to several instances of malicious activities performed by former employees on his organization's applications and data that reside in an on-premises environment, in 2010, his organization adopted cloud computing and migrated all applications and data to the cloud. Chris would like to manage user identities in cloud-based services and applications. Moreover, he wants to reduce the risk caused by the accounts of former users (employees) by ensuring that the users who leave the system can no longer log in to the system. Therefore, he has enforced an IAM standard that can automate the provisioning and de-provisioning of users when they enter and leave the system. Which of the following IAM standards is implemented by Chris Noth?
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Falcon Computers is an IT company that runs its IT infrastructure on the cloud. The organization must implement cloud governance in its corporate cloud environment to align its business vision with the cloud vision. Which of the following cloud governance components can help the organization to align the cloud vision and business vision?
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Cloud center of excellence
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Cosmic IT Services wants to migrate to cloud computing. Before migrating to the cloud, the organization must set business goals for cloud computing as per the guidelines of a standard IT governance body. Which standard IT governance body can help the organization to set business goals and objectives for cloud computing by offering the IT governance named COBIT (Control Objective for Information and Related Technology)?
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International Standards Organization (ISO)
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Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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An organization wants to implement a zero-trust access model for its SaaS application on the GCP as well as its on-premises applications. Which of the following GCP services can be used to eliminate the need for setting up a company-wide VPN and implement the RBAC feature to verify employee identities to access organizational applications?
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Tom Holland works as a cloud security engineer in an IT company located in Lansing, Michigan. His organization has adopted cloud-based services wherein user access, application, and data security are the responsibilities of the organization, and the OS, hypervisor, physical, infrastructure, and network security are the responsibilities of the cloud service provider. Based on the aforementioned cloud security shared responsibilities, which of the following cloud computing service models is enforced in Tom's organization?
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An IT company uses two resource groups, named Production-group and Security-group, under the same subscription ID. Under the Production-group, a VM called Ubuntu18 is suspected to be compromised. As a forensic investigator, you need to take a snapshot (ubuntudisksnap) of the OS disk of the suspect virtual machine Ubuntu18 for further investigation and copy the snapshot to a storage account under Security-group. Identify the next step in the investigation of the security incident in Azure?
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Copy the snapshot to file share
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Generate shared access signature
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Mount the snapshot onto the forensic workstation
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Frances Fisher has been working as a cloud security engineer in a multinational company. Her organization uses Microsoft Azure cloud-based services. Frances created a resource group (devResourceGroup); then, she created a virtual machine (devVM) in that resource group. Next. Frances created a Bastion host for the virtual machine (devVM) and she connected the virtual machine using Bastion from the Azure portal. Which of the following protocols Is used by Azure Bastion to provide secure connectivity to Frances' virtual machine (devVM) from the Azure portal?
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An Azure organization wants to enforce its on-premises AD security and password policies to filter brute-force attacks. Instead of using legacy authentication, the users should sign in to on-premises and cloud-based applications using the same passwords in Azure AD. Which Azure AD feature can enable users to access Azure resources?
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SeaCloud Soft Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that develops software and applications related to the healthcare industry. To safeguard the data and applications against The organization did not trust the cloud service attackers, the organization adopted cloud computing. provider; therefore, it Implemented an encryption technique that secures data during communication and storage. SeaCloud Soft Pvt. Ltd. performed computation on the encrypted data and then sent the data to the cloud service provider. Based on the given information, which of the following encryption techniques was implemented by SeaCloud Soft Pvt. Ltd. ?
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Ciphertext attribute based encryption
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Identity-based encryption
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GlobalCloud is a cloud service provider that offers various cloud-based secure and cost-effective services to cloud consumers. The customer base of this organization increased within a short period; thus, external auditing was performed on GlobalCloud. The auditor used spreadsheets, databases, and data analyzing software to analyze a large volume of data. Based on the given information, which cloud-based audit method was used by the auditor to collect the objective evidence?
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The GCP environment of a company named Magnitude IT Solutions encountered a security incident. To respond to the incident, the Google Data Incident Response Team was divided based on the different aspects of the incident. Which member of the team has an authoritative knowledge of incidents and can be involved in different domains such as security, legal, product, and digital forensics?
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Curtis Morgan works as a cloud security engineer in an MNC. His organization uses Microsoft Azure for office-site backup of large files, disaster recovery, and business-critical applications that receive significant traffic, etc. Which of the following allows Curtis to establish a fast and secure private connection between multiple on-premises or shared infrastructures with Azure virtual private network?
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Jimmi Simpson has been working as a cloud security engineer in an IT company situated in Uvonia. Michigan. His organization uses Microsoft Azure's cloud-based services. Jimml wants a cloud-based, scalable SIEM and SOAP solution that uses threat intelligence and provides intelligent security analytics across his organization. Which of the following Microsoft Azure services provides of single solution for threat visibility, alert detection, threat response, and proactive hunting that reduces the number of attacks, provides a birds-eye view across the organization, generates high volumes of alerts, and ensures long resolution time frames?
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TeratInfo Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that develops software products and applications for financial organizations. Owing to the cost-effective storage features and robust services provided by cloud computing, TeratInfo Pvt. Ltd. adopted cloud-based services. Recently, its security team observed a dip in the organizational system performance. Susan, a cloud security engineer, reviewed the list of publicly accessible resources, security groups, routing tables, ACLs, subnets, and IAM policies. What is this process called?
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Checking audit and evidence-gathering features in the cloud service
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Checking for the right implementation of security management
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Performing cloud reconnaissance
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Karen Gillan has recently joined an IT company as a cloud security engineer. Her organization would like to adopt cloud-based services to provide 24 x 7 customer support to its clients. It wants to transfer its customer database and transaction details along with the applications used for managing and supporting its customers. Before migrating to cloud, which of the following analyses should be performed by Karen on the security capabilities and services provided by cloud service providers to understand the security requirements of the organization and those provided by the cloud service provider?
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Rufus Sewell, a cloud security engineer with 5 years of experience, recently joined an MNC as a senior cloud security engineer. Owing to the cost-effective security features and storage services provided by AWS, his organization has been using AWS cloud-based services since 2014. To create a RAID, Rufus created an Amazon EBS volume for the array and attached the EBS volume to the instance where he wants to host the array. Using the command line, Rufus successfully created a RAID. The array exhibits noteworthy performance both in read and write operations with no overhead by parity control and the entire storage capacity of the array is used. The storage capacity of the RAID created by Rufus is equal to the sum of disk capacity in the set, but the array is not fault tolerant. It is ideal for non-critical cloud data storage that must be read/written at a high speed. Based on the given information, which of the following RAID is created by Rufus?
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