AWS Certified Security: Specialty

Overview

The AWS Certified Security: Specialty is geared towards individuals who focus primarily on security within AWS. I found that as a solutions architect, it is extremely important to have security at the forefront of my mind while building. Building an environment secure initially reduces the risk of failing compliance and potential exploitation at production launch.

Exam components

I found that an exam-taker should focus heavily on the following resources:

• AWS KMS
• AWS IAM
• Amazon EC2
• AWS Cloudtrail
• Amazon CloudWatch Events
• AWS Inspector
• AWS WAF
• AWS Shield & Shield Advanced
• AWS Config
• AWS Organizations

Exam components (AWS Documentation)

AWS KMS

AWS Key Management Service

• Product documentation
• Development documentation
• Security documentation
• Quotas (Limits)
• Pricing
• SLA

- FAQ

AWS IAM

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Product documentation
• Development documentation
• Security documentation
• Quotas (Limits)

- FAQ

Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

• Product documentation
• Development documentation
• Security documentation
• Quotas (Limits)
• Pricing
• SLA

- FAQ

AWS Cloudtrail

AWS Cloudtrail

• Product documentation
• Development documentation
• Security documentation
• Quotas (Limits)
• Pricing
• SLA

- FAQ

Amazon CloudWatch Events

Amazon CloudWatch Events

• Security documentation

- Quotas (Limits)

Amazon Inspector

Amazon Inspector

• Product documentation
• Development documentation
• Security documentation
• Quotas (Limits)
• Pricing
• SLA

- FAQ

AWS WAF

AWS Web Application Firewall

• Product documentation
• Development documentation
• Security documentation
• Quotas (Limits)
• Pricing
• SLA

- FAQ

AWS Shield

AWS Shield

• Product documentation
• Development documentation
• Security documentation
• Quotas (Limits)
• Pricing
• SLA

- FAQ

AWS Config

AWS Config

• Product documentation
• Development documentation
• Security documentation
• Quotas (Limits)
• Pricing
• SLA

- FAQ

AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations

• Product documentation
• Development documentation
• Security documentation
• Quotas (Limits)
• Pricing

- FAQ

Training Resources

The following training resources helped prepare for the above components:

• WhizLabs - AWS Certified Security - Specialty Course
• uDemy AWS Certified Security - Specialty Course
• Official AWS Exam Page

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