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    PracticeAWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03)AWS SAA-C03 Practice Exam 1Question 10
    Medium1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 1.2: Secure WorkloadsDomain 1SecurityGuardDutyMacie

    AWS SAA-C03 · Question 10 · Domain 1.2: Secure Workloads

    A company wants to improve its threat detection and response capabilities in AWS. They need a solution that continuously monitors for malicious activity, such as unauthorized access to EC2 instances, and another solution that identifies sensitive data stored in S3 buckets. Which TWO services should be used? (Select TWO.)

    Answer options:

    A.

    Amazon GuardDuty

    B.

    AWS WAF

    C.

    AWS Shield

    D.

    Amazon Macie

    E.

    AWS Secrets Manager

    How to approach this question

    Match 'malicious activity monitoring' with GuardDuty and 'sensitive data in S3' with Macie.

    Full Answer

    Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior. Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect sensitive data in AWS S3.

    Common mistakes

    Confusing GuardDuty with Inspector (vulnerability management) or Macie with GuardDuty.
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