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PCCSE · Question #248

Which type of RQL query should be run to determine if AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances without encryption was enabled?

The correct answer is B. CONFIG. Determining whether EC2 instances have encryption enabled requires a CONFIG RQL query, which interrogates cloud resource configuration state.

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Question

Which type of RQL query should be run to determine if AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances without encryption was enabled?

Options

  • ANETWORK
  • BCONFIG
  • CEVENT
  • DSECURITY

How the community answered

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  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    93% (28)
  • C
    3% (1)

Why each option

Determining whether EC2 instances have encryption enabled requires a CONFIG RQL query, which interrogates cloud resource configuration state.

ANETWORK

NETWORK queries analyze VPC flow log data and network reachability between resources, not the configuration properties of individual instances.

BCONFIGCorrect

CONFIG queries in Prisma Cloud use the 'config from cloud.resource' source to retrieve and evaluate the configuration attributes of cloud resources as returned by cloud provider APIs. Encryption settings on EC2 volumes or instances are stored as configuration properties - such as 'encrypted: false' on EBS volumes - and are accessible through AWS API calls like 'aws-ec2-describe-volumes'. CONFIG RQL is specifically designed to surface these resource-level attribute checks, making it the correct query type for encryption compliance verification.

CEVENT

EVENT queries analyze CloudTrail and audit log activity - actions taken by users or services - not static resource configuration attributes like encryption settings.

DSECURITY

SECURITY is not a valid Prisma Cloud RQL query type; the three supported types are config, network, and event.

Concept tested: Prisma Cloud CONFIG RQL for cloud resource encryption compliance

Source: https://docs.prismacloud.io/en/enterprise-edition/content-collections/search-and-investigate/config-queries/config-query-attributes

Topics

#RQL Queries#AWS EC2 Security#Configuration Management#Cloud Security Posture

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