Amazon Web Services Updated CLF-C02 Exam Questions and Answers by yasin

AWS Budgets is a service that allows you to set custom budgets for your AWS costs and usage, and receive alerts via email or Amazon SNS notifications if you exceed or are forecasted to exceed your budgeted amount1. You can create budgets based on different dimensions, such as service, linked account, tag, or purchase option, and define various types of alerts, such as actual, forecasted, or RI utilization alerts2. You can also configure custom actions to automatically execute remediation tasks or workflows when a budget threshold is breached3. AWS Budgets is the only service among the options that can send alerts to customers if custom spending thresholds are exceeded. The other options are not AWS services that provide this functionality.

ANetwork ACL (Access Control List)is a stateless firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic at the subnet level within a VPC. It provides an additional layer of security to the VPC by allowing or denying traffic to and from a subnet based on defined rules.

A. Security group: Incorrect, as security groups act as a firewall at the instance level, not the subnet level.

C. Elastic network interface: Incorrect, as it is a virtual network interface that you can attach to an instance, not a firewall feature.

D. AWS WAF: Incorrect, as it is a web application firewall that protects web applications from common exploits, not for subnet-level protection.

AWS Cloud References:

Network ACLs

AWS Security Hub is a cloud security posture management (CSPM) service that performs security best practice checks, aggregates alerts, and enables automated remediation. Security Hub collects findings from the security services enabled across your AWS accounts, such as intrusion detection findings from Amazon GuardDuty, vulnerability scans from Amazon Inspector, and sensitive data identification findings from Amazon Macie. Security Hub also collects findings from partner security products using a standardized AWS Security Finding Format, eliminating the need for time-consuming data parsing and normalization efforts. Customers can designate an administrator account that can access all findings across their accounts. References: AWS Security Hub Overview, AWS Security Hub FAQs

AWS Elastic Beanstalkis a fully managed service designed for developers who want to deploy and manage their applications without having to provision and manage the underlying infrastructure themselves. Developers can simply upload their code, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, including provisioning the necessary resources (such as EC2 instances, load balancers, and auto-scaling).

A. AWS CloudFormation: Incorrect, as it is an infrastructure-as-code service for defining and provisioning AWS resources but does not directly deploy applications.

B. AWS CodeBuild: Incorrect, as it is a service for building and testing code, not for deploying applications.

D. AWS CodeDeploy: Incorrect, as it is specifically designed for automating software deployments to a variety of compute services, including EC2, but it does not manage the underlying infrastructure.

AWS Cloud References:

AWS Elastic Beanstalk