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SCS-C02 · Question #359
A company is deploying a new web application on AWS. Based on their other web applications, they anticipate being the target of frequent DDoS attacks. Which steps can the company use to protect their
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Submitted by mike_84· Mar 6, 2026Infrastructure Security
Question
A company is deploying a new web application on AWS. Based on their other web applications, they anticipate being the target of frequent DDoS attacks. Which steps can the company use to protect their application? Select 2 answers from the options given below.
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- AAssociate the EC2 instances with a security group that blocks traffic from blacklisted IP
- BUse an ELB Application Load Balancer and Auto Scaling group to scale to absorb application
- CUse Amazon Inspector on the EC2 instances to examine incoming traffic and discard malicious
- DUse CloudFront and AWS WAF to prevent malicious traffic from reaching the application
- EEnable GuardDuty to block malicious traffic from reaching the application
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#DDoS protection#WAF#CloudFront#Auto Scaling