CloudFront Security Quiz

5 questions Pass: 70% +25 pts (50 with Pro)

Quiz covering Edge Protection

What you'll be asked

  1. Which AWS service is primarily used in conjunction with CloudFront to provide web application firewall (WAF) capabilities to block malicious traffic?
  2. When configuring an Origin Access Control (OAC) for an S3 bucket origin, what is the primary security benefit?
  3. A developer needs to ensure that sensitive content served via CloudFront is only accessible to users with a valid, time-limited URL. Which feature should they implement?
  4. If you want to protect your origin server from direct public access by requiring that requests originate from CloudFront, but your origin is a custom HTTP server rather than S3, what is the best practice?
  5. A company requires that all requests to their CloudFront distribution be encrypted in transit and that the connection between CloudFront and the custom origin server also be encrypted. Which specific setting must be configured?

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