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AWS Certified Security - Specialty

AWS certification recognizing expertise in securing workloads and architectures on AWS.

Licensing authority: AWS Training and Certification

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AWS Certified Security - Specialty

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
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