SCS-C01: AWS Certified Security – Specialty Practice Exams (Udemy.com)
SCS-C01: AWS Certified Security – Specialty Practice Exams with complete explanations!
Created by: Viktor Afimov
Last updated February 2023
What you will learn
- Preparing for AWS Certified Security – Specialty
How it compares
Against the other 235 rated Udemy courses in AWS on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 23% of them
- Reviews431#156 of 236 by number of reviews
- Last updatedFebruary 2023earlier than 68% of them
Course Description
Become an AWS Certified Security – Specialty! I created this practice exam based on my personal experience taking the exam. There are no questions of the same type in these practice tests, as you need to understand the concepts presented here in order to successfully pass the exam. Each question has a detailed explanation of why this answer is correct.
Real Exam info:
Exam number and titler: SCS-C01: AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Exam Price: $300
Format: Multiple Choice
Number of Questions: 65
Duration: 170 minutes
Passing score: 75%
Practice Exam info:
Real exam experience
Questions with a complete explanation
Format: Multiple Choice
Number of Questions: 2 practice tests, 65 questions each
Duration: 170 minutes
Passing score: 75%
Recommended Knowledge and Experience
At least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads
Security controls for workloads on AWS
A minimum of five years of IT security experience designing and implementing security solutions
Abilities Validated by the Certification
An understanding of specialized data classifications and AWS data protection mechanisms
An understanding of data encryption methods and AWS mechanisms to implement them
An understanding of secure Internet protocols and AWS mechanisms to implement them
A working knowledge of AWS security services and features of services to provide a secure production environment
Competency gained from two or more years of production deployment experience using AWS security services and features
Ability to make tradeoff decisions with regard to cost, security, and deployment complexity given a set of application requirements
An understanding of security operations and risk
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
431 Reviews
Viktor Afimov
Hi, I'm Viktor Afimov. I'm a Senior Security Engineer I have designed, implemented, secured, and monitored global network infrastructures for corporations in the private, public, and voluntary sectors for the last 15 years. Now I'm working in my own company, and I have time to share my experience with you!
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:
- OSCP: Offensive Security Certified Professional
- CISSP : Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- ECES: EC-Council Certified Encryption Specialist
- CND: Certified Network Defender
- CEH (Master): Certified Ethical Hacker
- ECSA: EC-Council Certified Security Analyst
- CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate
- CCDA: Cisco Certified Design Associate
- CCSP: Cisco Certified Security Professional
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
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Reviews
By Karthik Ramachandran on 7/1/2023
I don't recommend this course ! No response from the teacher on any Q&A. Multiple answers are outdated /wrong . No definition on why the wrong answers are wrong ! Even explanation of many correct answers aren't up to the mark. Overall I feel the teacher did not invest enough time in adding explanations or answering Q&A.
By Sanjipta Behera on 4/5/2023
I have recently cleared the AWS Certified Security Speciality exam. This course has really helped me. I highly recommend this course to any one taking the AWS Certified Security Speciality exam. The questions are neither too easy nor too tough. This is exactly the way actual exam questions are. One downside of the course are answer explanations. Many questions explanation missed to explain why a wrong answer is wrong. This is important for a candidate to know why his/her answers are wrong.
By Jeff Babler on 9/6/2022
good test exams (2 long 65xQs and 1 short 20xQs)-- can retake and the explanations are quite comprehensive -- recommend this before taking formal exam.
By Anonymized User on 7/13/2022
Brilliant work from Viktor. These practice tests are really good and the explanations are to the point detailing out the chosen options. Reference links are an add on. Much appreciated.
By Anonymized User on 6/23/2022
Good set of questions, that helps to prepare to exam and to find problematic topics for additional review later. Each answer has an extensive description with a link to documentation, that' s really great. Minus one star, because not all descriptions are 100% relevant to the question
By Anonymized User on 6/2/2022
These practice tests are very good. This practice tests questions are definitely help to understand most of the important topics, the provided explanations are very good and it will help to understand the type of questions will come in the real exam. Thank you so much for making such great exam practice tests.
By Alok Mohata on 4/16/2022
These practice test questions really helped me to pass the exam easily as 15-20 questions were as it in the exam. Because of that I was very confident while giving exam that I will clear it :)
By Rajat Bhardwaj on 2/19/2022
Some of the questions in this test are also available in test provided by other authors. The most confusing part is that the answers are different in both these tests. So really confused which one is correct. e.g. Question - A pharmaceutical company has digitized versions of historical prescriptions stored on premises. The company would like to move these prescriptions to AWS and perform analytics on the data in them. Any operation with this data requires that the data be encrypted in transit and at rest. Which application flow would meet the data protection requirements on AWS? This test says correct answer is Digitized Files > Kinesis Data Analytics. Another test on Udemy has the exact same question with answer as Digitized Files > Kinesis Firehose > S3 > Athena. Similarly there are 2-3 questions which have conflicting answers.
By Sampad Giri on 1/14/2022
Very good question bank. But the explanation should also include regarding the wrong answers and why they are incorrect. This is provided for very few questions only.
By Anders Lundsgard on 8/19/2021
The explanations are often just copy paste text from AWS documentation. Very good that the link to AWS documentation is provided but I would like to have explanations on why the incorrect values are the wrong answers.
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