Why is securing the hypervisor critical in a multi-tenant cloud environment?

Because a compromise of the hypervisor could expose all virtual machines running on the host

Because the hypervisor is the only component that can access the internet

Because the hypervisor stores all encryption keys for the cloud

Because the hypervisor manages the physical security of the data center

Certified Cloud Security Professional

Domain 1Objective 3

Understand Security Concepts Relevant to Cloud Computing CCSP Practice Questions (Page 12)

Part of the Cloud Concepts, Architecture and Design domain, which accounts for 17% of the CCSP exam. ISC2 does not publish an official question count, but from its 180-minute exam (~70–120 total, ~12–20 in this domain), expect 2–3 from this objective — we provide 56 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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20concepts

17%of the exam

20 Concepts in This Objective

Cryptography fundamentals
Key management in the cloud
Identity and access management (IAM)
Privileged access management
Service and workload access
Data sanitization methods
Media lifecycle management
Network security controls
Traffic inspection and monitoring
Geofencing and geographic restrictions
Hypervisor security
Container security
Ephemeral computing and serverless security
Virtualization isolation
Common cloud threats
Threat modeling and risk assessment
Patching and vulnerability management
Baselining and configuration management
Immutable architecture
System hardening

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