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SCS-C02 · Question #204

A security analyst attempted to troubleshoot the monitoring of suspicious security group changes. The analyst was told that there is an Amazon CloudWatch alarm in place for these AWS CloudTrail log ev

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Submitted by skyler.x· Mar 6, 2026Security Logging and Monitoring

Question

A security analyst attempted to troubleshoot the monitoring of suspicious security group changes. The analyst was told that there is an Amazon CloudWatch alarm in place for these AWS CloudTrail log events. The analyst tested the monitoring setup by making a configuration change to the security group but did not receive any alerts. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the analyst perform?

Options

  • AEnsure that CloudTrail and S3 bucket access logging is enabled for the analyst's AWS account.
  • BVerify that a metric filter was created and then mapped to an alarm. Check the alarm notification
  • CCheck the CloudWatch dashboards to ensure that there is a metric configured with an appropriate
  • DVerify that the analyst's account is mapped to an IAM policy that includes permissions for

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#CloudWatch metric filter#CloudTrail#security group monitoring#alarm configuration
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