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AWS Certified Security – Specialty

About AWS Certified Security – Specialty

This credential helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives. Earning AWS Certified Security – Specialty validates expertise in securing data and workloads in the AWS Cloud.

 

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified Security – Specialty is intended for individuals who perform a security role and have at least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have

  • Five years of IT security experience in designing and implementing security solutions and at least two years of hands-on experience in securing AWS workloads
  • Working knowledge of AWS security services and features of services to provide a secure production environment and an understanding of security operations and risks
  • Knowledge of the AWS shared responsibility model and its application; security controls for workloads on AWS; logging and monitoring strategies; cloud security threat models; patch management and security automation; ways to enhance AWS security services with third-party tools and services; and disaster recovery controls, including BCP and backups, encryption, access control, and data retention
  • Understanding of specialized data classifications and AWS data protection mechanisms, data-encryption methods and AWS mechanisms to implement them, and secure internet protocols and AWS mechanisms to implement them
  • Ability to make tradeoff decisions with regard to cost, security, and deployment complexity to meet a set of application requirements
What does it take to earn this certification?

To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam (SCS-C01). The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response. Additional information, such as the exam content outline and passing score, is in the exam guide.

Prepare for your exam

You’ve set your goal. Now it’s time to build knowledge and skills to propel your career. Check out these resources from AWS Training and Certification that are relevant to AWS Certified Security – Specialty. We don’t require that you take any specific training before you take an exam. These recommended resources are opportunities to learn from the experts at AWS.

Exam overview

Level: Specialty
Length: 170 minutes to complete the exam
Cost: 300 USD
Visit Exam pricing for additional cost information.

Format: 65 questions; either multiple choice or multiple response.
Delivery method: Pearson VUE and PSI; testing center or online proctored exam.

AWS Certified Security FAQs

There is no pre-requisite for the AWS Certified Security – Specialty Certification Exam. You can directly appear for this amazon AWS certification exam.

Some recommended knowledge and experience for AWS Certified Security – Specialty Certification are:

  • At least five years of experience in IT security, designing and implementing solutions for security.
  • Minimum of two years of hands-on experience in securing AWS workloads. 
  • Understanding of security controls for AWS workloads.

The important topics and concepts covered in the AWS Certified Security – Specialty Certification exam are:

  • S3
  • KMS
  • EBS, ELB, EC2 Auto Scaling
  • Elastic cache, Elastic Beanstalk
  • VPC, ROUTE53 Basics OpsWork
  • IAM, IAM Policy, IAM User, IAM Group
  • Cloudformation,Cloudwatch,Cloudtrail

Worth mentioning whitepapers for the preparation of AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam are:

  • Security and Compliance documentation.
  • Compliance resources.
  • AWS Key Management Service Best Practices.

We are offering 300 AWS Certified Security – Specialty practice questions, 40 unique section test questions and 7+ hours of AWS Security certification training videos for AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam. Our AWS Security – Specialty Online Course and Practice Tests are designed to help you understand the technical concepts covered in the main exam.

Also, we have a team of AWS experts who are ready to clarify any queries within 48 hours. This would be sufficient to pass AWS Certified Security – Specialty Certification with proper dedication and hard work.

As per AWS, your outcomes for the assessment are accounted for as a score from 100 – 1000, with a minimum passing score of 750.

You would be able to understand and have in-depth knowledge about AWS security services and to perform AWS data protection mechanism on AWS Cloud using AWS best practices using AWS through our 7+ hours training online course covering all important concepts of the real exam.

 AWS Certified Security – Specialty Questions includes:

  1. Multiple-choice: Has one correct response and three incorrect responses.
  2. Multiple-response: Has two or more correct responses out of five or more options.

Yes. We are offering AWS Certified Security – Specialty free tests 15 practice questions for the free evolution of our tool that you can try before purchasing our complete AWS Security – Specialty practice tests. Also, you will find the 15% discount coupon inside the free exam.

You have to pay a fee of 300 USD to take this certification exam.

You will have to complete the exam within a time frame of 170 minutes.

You will have to answer a total of 65 questions.

Yes. AWS revises the exam syllabus based on the current trends, to meet the industry standards. We have SMEs who monitor the changes into the exam syllabus and update the questions to ensure that we provide up to date preparation material to our students.