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AWS Certified Security - Specialty

Provider: Pearson VUE
Format: Multiple choice, multiple response, ordering, and matching
Exam questions: Total questions: 65; Scored questions: 50; Unscored questions: 15; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
Time limit: 170 minutes
Passing score: 750 scaled score
Exam fee: 300 USD

Examination outline

Detection (16%)
- Design and implement monitoring and alerting solutions for an AWS account or organization
- Design and implement logging solutions
- Troubleshoot security monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions
Incident Response (14%)
- Design and test an incident response plan
- Respond to security events
Infrastructure Security (18%)
- Design, implement, and troubleshoot security controls for network edge services
- Design, implement, and troubleshoot security controls for compute workloads
- Design and troubleshoot network security controls
Identity and Access Management (20%)
- Design, implement, and troubleshoot authentication strategies
- Design, implement, and troubleshoot authorization strategies
Data Protection (18%)
- Design and implement controls for data in transit
- Design and implement controls for data at rest
- Design and implement controls to protect confidential data, credentials, secrets, and cryptographic key materials
Security Foundations and Governance (14%)
- Develop a strategy to centrally deploy and manage AWS accounts
- Implement a secure and consistent deployment strategy for cloud resources
- Evaluate the compliance of AWS resources

Examination sources

This examination may be required or accepted as an alternative, depending on the license and application pathway.