DOP-C02 - Security and Compliance (17% of the exam) - Section 6.5

Implement security monitoring and threat detection with Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, Amazon Inspector and Amazon Detective.

Enable Amazon GuardDuty for continuous threat detection across AWS accounts and aggregate findings from multiple security services into a single view with AWS Security Hub. Use Amazon Inspector for automated vulnerability scanning of EC2 instances and container images, and Amazon Detective to investigate the scope and timeline of security findings.

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Practice question for this objective

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A central security team manages an AWS Organizations setup with dozens of member accounts. Each account already has Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, and several AWS Config rules producing findings independently. The team wants a single place that automatically ingests findings from all of these services in a normalised format, deduplicates them, runs compliance checks against the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard, and provides one cross-account dashboard. Which approach meets this requirement with the least custom integration work?

  • AEnable AWS Security Hub with a delegated administrator account and organisation auto-enable, so it ingests findings in the normalised format, deduplicates them, runs the Foundational Security Best Practices standard, and shows a cross-account dashboard. Correct
  • BBuild an AWS Lambda function in each account that reads GuardDuty, Inspector, and Config findings, converts them to a shared schema, and writes them to a central Amazon DynamoDB table that a custom dashboard then queries for cross-account review.
  • CConfigure Amazon Detective as the organisation aggregator so that it normalises GuardDuty, Inspector, and Config findings across all member accounts and evaluates them against the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard in one dashboard.
  • DForward every finding to a central Amazon S3 bucket through Amazon EventBridge rules in each account, then use Amazon Athena queries to deduplicate the records and a separate tool to score them against security best practices.
Use AWS Security Hub as the organisation aggregator that normalises multi-service findings and runs managed security standards across accounts. Security Hub ingests findings from GuardDuty, Inspector, AWS Config, and other integrated services using the AWS Security Finding Format, automatically deduplicates and correlates them, and continuously evaluates resources against managed standards such as the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, while a delegated administrator with organisation auto-enable delivers a single cross-account view without bespoke code.

Why A is correct: Security Hub natively consumes GuardDuty, Inspector, and Config findings in the AWS Security Finding Format, deduplicates them, runs managed compliance standards, and with a delegated administrator gives one organisation-wide dashboard out of the box.

Why B is wrong: A per-account Lambda and DynamoDB table can centralise findings, but it is heavy custom code that you must maintain and it provides no built-in standard compliance scoring, which is the opposite of the least-effort requirement.

Why C is wrong: Detective is tempting as a cross-account security tool, but it focuses on investigation graphs from log sources and does not normalise multi-service findings or run security-standard compliance checks, so it misses the stated needs.

Why D is wrong: Routing findings to S3 and querying with Athena can centralise data, but it requires you to build deduplication and standard scoring yourself, which is far more integration work than a service that does this natively.

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Exam traps in Security and Compliance

Answers that look right on this material and are not. Each one is a distractor from a different question in the DOP-C02 bank for this domain.

  • Enable Amazon GuardDuty, which continuously scans EC2 instances, Amazon ECR container images, and AWS Lambda functions for known software vulnerabilities and re-scans automatically when a new image is pushed or vulnerability data changes.

    Why it is wrong: GuardDuty is tempting because it monitors the same compute, but it detects active threats and anomalous behaviour, not the CVE-level software vulnerabilities in packages and dependencies that this requirement targets.

  • Keep the nightly batch scan but reduce its interval to run every hour through an Amazon EventBridge scheduled rule, so images are never unscanned for more than an hour after they are pushed to the repositories.

    Why it is wrong: An hourly schedule narrows the gap but does not close it, still leaving images unscanned for up to an hour and keeping the cron-driven approach the team explicitly wants to replace with on-push assessment.

  • Use Amazon Inspector to investigate the role by reviewing its historical API activity, the resources it accessed, and how its behaviour deviated from the established baseline derived from CloudTrail and VPC flow logs.

    Why it is wrong: Inspector is tempting as a security tool, but it assesses software vulnerabilities and network reachability of resources, not the historical behaviour of an IAM principal, so it cannot reconstruct the role's activity timeline.

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