An organization wants to detect when an administrator makes changes to an application service's configuration, such as changing the authentication settings or disabling logging. What should the organization enable?

Enable audit logs for the application service and configure alerts for configuration change events.

Enable application service's performance monitoring and set alerts for high CPU usage.

Use the application service's built-in backup feature to restore previous configurations.

Set up a network security group to restrict access to the application service's management endpoints.

Which action is part of hardening a cloud application service platform?

Disabling unused features and modules

Removing all authentication to simplify access

Allowing all inbound traffic to the application

Enabling all default features to ensure functionality

GIAC Public Cloud Security

Domain 2Objective 3

Securing Cloud Application Service Platforms GPCS Practice Questions (Page 8)

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Securing Cloud Application Service Platforms GPCS Practice Questions (Page 8)

Questions 36–37

An organization wants to detect when an administrator makes changes to an application service's configuration, such as changing the authentication settings or disabling logging. What should the organization enable?

Which action is part of hardening a cloud application service platform?

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