{"id":68,"date":"2021-01-04T08:09:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/aws\/Security-Specialty_SCS-C01\/aws-certified-security-specialty-scs-c01-question061\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T08:09:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T08:09:09","slug":"aws-certified-security-specialty-scs-c01-question061","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/aws\/Security-Specialty_SCS-C01\/aws-certified-security-specialty-scs-c01-question061\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Certified Security &#8211; Specialty SCS-C01 &#8211; Question061"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">A distributed web application is installed across several EC2 instances in public subnets residing in two Availability Zones. Apache logs show several intermittent brute-force attacks from hundreds of IP addresses at the layer 7 level over the past six months.<br \/>\nWhat would be the BEST way to reduce the potential impact of these attacks in the future? <br \/><strong><br \/>A.<\/strong> Use custom route tables to prevent malicious traffic from routing to the instances. <br \/><strong>B.<\/strong> Update security groups to deny traffic from the originating source IP addresses. <br \/><strong>C.<\/strong> Use network ACLs. <br \/><strong>D.<\/strong> Install intrusion prevention software (IPS) on each instance.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<style> .hidden-div{ display:none } <\/style>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button onclick=\"getElementById('hidden-div').style.display = 'block'\"> Show Answer <\/button> <button onclick=\"getElementById('hidden-div').style.display = 'none'\">Hide Answer<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"hidden-div\" id=\"hidden-div\"><span style=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">Correct Answer: <strong>C<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/span> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A distributed web application is installed across several EC2 instances in public subnets residing in two Availability Zones. Apache logs show several intermittent brute-force attacks from hundreds of IP addresses at the layer 7 level over the past six months. What would be the BEST way to reduce the potential impact of these attacks in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,64],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aws-certified-security-specialty-scs-c01","tag-aws-certified-security-specialty-scs-c01","tag-question-061"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/aws\/Security-Specialty_SCS-C01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/aws\/Security-Specialty_SCS-C01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/aws\/Security-Specialty_SCS-C01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/aws\/Security-Specialty_SCS-C01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/aws\/Security-Specialty_SCS-C01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/aws\/Security-Specialty_SCS-C01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/aws\/Security-Specialty_SCS-C01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/aws\/Security-Specialty_SCS-C01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/aws\/Security-Specialty_SCS-C01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}