EC-COUNCIL EC-Council Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE) - 312-40 Exam Practice Test

Ray Nicholson works as a senior cloud security engineer in TerraCloud Sec Pvt. Ltd. His organization deployed all applications in a cloud environment in various virtual machines. Using IDS, Ray identified that an attacker compromised a particular VM. He would like to limit the scope of the incident and protect other resources in the cloud. If Ray turns off the VM, what will happen?

The tech giant TSC uses cloud for its operations. As a cloud user, it should implement an effective risk management lifecycle to measure and monitor high and critical risks regularly. Additionally, TSC should define what exactly should be measured and the acceptable variance to ensure timely mitigated risks. In this case, which of the following can be used as a tool for cloud risk management?

A web server passes the reservation information to an application server and then the application server queries an Airline service. Which of the following AWS service allows secure hosted queue server-side encryption (SSE), or uses custom SSE keys managed in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)?

Billy Pratt works as a cloud security engineer in an MNC. In 2012, his organization transferred all applications and data into an AWS cloud environment. Billy would like to analyze, investigate, and identify the root cause of malicious activities in his organization's AWS cloud environment. Which of the following Amazon services automatically collects data from various AWS resources and utilizes machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to provide a unified and interactive view of resources and users that would help Billy in determining the root cause of suspicious activities?

Thomas Gibson is a cloud security engineer who works in a multinational company. His organization wants to host critical elements of its applications; thus, if disaster strikes, applications can be restored quickly and completely. Moreover, his organization wants to achieve lower RTO and RPO values. Which of the following disaster recovery approach should be adopted by Thomas' organization?

Michael Keaton has been working as a cloud security specialist in a multinational company. His organization uses Google Cloud. Keaton has launched an application in nl-standard-1 (1 vCPU, 3.75 GB memory) instance.
Over the past three weeks, the instance has had low memory utilization. Which of the following machine type switching is recommended for Keaton?

Global CyberSec Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that provides software and application services related to cybersecurity. Owing to the robust security features offered by Microsoft Azure, the organization adopted the Azure cloud environment. A security incident was detected on the Azure cloud platform. Global CyberSec Pvt. Ltd.'s security team examined the log data collected from various sources. They found that the VM was affected. In this scenario, when should the backup copy of the snapshot be taken in a blob container as a page blob during the forensic acquisition of the compromised Azure VM?

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?