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SCS-C02 · Question #19

A company uses Amazon RDS for MySQL as a database engine for its applications. A recent security audit revealed an RDS instance that is not compliant with company policy for encrypting data at rest. A

The correct answer is A. Create an AWS Config rule to detect the creation of unencrypted RDS databases. Create an D. Take a snapshot of the unencrypted RDS database. Copy the snapshot and enable snapshot. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/automatically-remediate- unencrypted-amazon-rds-db-instances-and-clusters.html

Submitted by jakub_pl· Mar 6, 2026Data Protection

Question

A company uses Amazon RDS for MySQL as a database engine for its applications. A recent security audit revealed an RDS instance that is not compliant with company policy for encrypting data at rest. A security engineer at the company needs to ensure that all existing RDS databases are encrypted using server-side encryption and that any future deviations from the policy are detected. Which combination of steps should the security engineer take to accomplish this? (Choose two.)

Options

  • ACreate an AWS Config rule to detect the creation of unencrypted RDS databases. Create an
  • BUse AWS System Manager State Manager to detect RDS database encryption configuration drift.
  • CCreate a read replica for the existing unencrypted RDS database and enable replica encryption in
  • DTake a snapshot of the unencrypted RDS database. Copy the snapshot and enable snapshot
  • EEnable encryption for the identified unencrypted RDS instance by changing the configurations of

How the community answered

(21 responses)
  • A
    86% (18)
  • C
    5% (1)
  • E
    10% (2)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/automatically-remediate- unencrypted-amazon-rds-db-instances-and-clusters.html

Topics

#RDS encryption#AWS Config#EBS snapshot#data at rest

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