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SCS-C02 · Question #402

A company is using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to deploy an application that deals with sensitive data During a recent security audit, the company identified a security issue in whic

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Submitted by neha2k· Mar 6, 2026Data Protection

Question

A company is using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to deploy an application that deals with sensitive data During a recent security audit, the company identified a security issue in which Amazon RDS credentials were stored with the application code In the company's source code repository A security engineer needs to develop a solution to ensure that database credentials are stored securely and rotated periodically. The credentials should be accessible to the application only The engineer also needs to prevent database administrators from sharing database credentials as plaintext with other teammates. The solution must also minimize administrate overhead Which solution meets these requirements?

Options

  • AUse the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store to generate database credentials.
  • BUse AWS Secrets Manager to store database credentials.
  • CUse the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store to store database credentials. Use IAM roles
  • DUse AWS Secrets Manager to store database credentials.

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#AWS Secrets Manager#credentials rotation#ECS security#database credentials
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