What is a key security practice when developing automation scripts that interact with cloud resources?

Run scripts with administrative privileges to ensure they have full access.

Use long-lived credentials embedded in the script for simplicity.

Avoid logging any activity to prevent exposing sensitive information.

Grant the script the minimum permissions necessary to perform its tasks.

A company uses Puppet to manage configuration on their on-premises servers. They are expanding to Azure and want to manage the new Azure VMs with the same Puppet infrastructure. What is the primary challenge they will face?

Puppet cannot manage Linux VMs in Azure.

Azure VMs cannot run Puppet agents.

The Azure VMs need to be able to communicate with the Puppet master, which may require network connectivity between the on-premises network and Azure.

Puppet does not support Azure as a platform.

Which security best practice should be applied when storing secrets (such as API keys) in Infrastructure as Code scripts?

Embed them in the version control repository for easy access.

Share them via email to team members for convenience.

Store them in plain text in the script for simplicity.

Use a secure secret management service and reference it in the script.

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Questions 21–25

What is a key security practice when developing automation scripts that interact with cloud resources?

A company uses Puppet to manage configuration on their on-premises servers. They are expanding to Azure and want to manage the new Azure VMs with the same Puppet infrastructure. What is the primary challenge they will face?

Which security best practice should be applied when storing secrets (such as API keys) in Infrastructure as Code scripts?

Which Git command is used to save a snapshot of changes to the local repository?

Which Infrastructure as Code tool is native to AWS and uses templates written in JSON or YAML to define resources?

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