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SCS-C02 Question #472: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is B: Enable Amazon GuardDuty. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule to send alerts to the SNS topic. Amazon GuardDuty includes built-in threat detection capabilities that can identify suspicious activity such as cryptocurrency mining. When GuardDuty detects cryptocurrency-related activity, it generates a finding that can be used to trigger alerts. By configuring an Amazon EventB

Submitted by emma.c· Mar 6, 2026

Question

A security engineer needs to implement a solution to determine whether a company's Amazon EC2 instances are being used to mine cryptocurrency. The solution must provide notifications of cryptocurrency-related activity to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • ACreate AWS Config custom rules by using Guard custom policy. Configure the AWS Config rules
  • BEnable Amazon GuardDuty. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule to send alerts to the SNS topic
  • CEnable Amazon Inspector. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule to send alerts to the SNS topic
  • DEnable VPC flow logs. Send the flow logs to an Amazon S3 bucket. Set up a query in Amazon

Explanation

Amazon GuardDuty includes built-in threat detection capabilities that can identify suspicious activity such as cryptocurrency mining. When GuardDuty detects cryptocurrency-related activity, it generates a finding that can be used to trigger alerts. By configuring an Amazon EventBridge rule to capture these specific findings and send notifications to an SNS topic, the solution provides real-time alerts for cryptocurrency mining activity on EC2 instances.

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