A company has a cloud environment with multiple departments. The security team wants to ensure that employees can only access the resources necessary for their job roles. Which measure should the company implement?

Encrypt all data stored in the cloud.

Use a single shared account for all employees.

Enable multi-factor authentication for all users.

Implement role-based access control (RBAC) with least privilege.

What is the primary goal of system hardening in cloud infrastructure?

To encrypt all data stored in the cloud.

To monitor network traffic for malicious activity.

To reduce the attack surface by removing unnecessary services and applying security configurations.

To increase the processing power of cloud servers.

What is the primary purpose of encrypting data in a cloud environment?

To reduce the storage cost of cloud data.

To ensure data is available even during a network outage.

To speed up data transfer between cloud regions.

To protect data from unauthorized access by making it unreadable without the correct decryption key.

What does data integrity ensure in a cloud environment?

That data is available to authorized users when needed.

That data has not been altered or corrupted during storage or transmission.

That data is stored in a specific geographic region.

That data is encrypted to prevent unauthorized access.

Which of the following is an example of an authorization control in a cloud environment?

Using a firewall to block inbound traffic.

Granting a user read-only access to a storage bucket.

Requiring a username and password to log in.

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Domain 4Objective 4

Explain Security Concerns, Measures, or Concepts of Cloud Operations. CLO-002 Practice Questions (Page 4)

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