Question 1
During a cloud environment vulnerability assessment, which service endpoint is commonly targeted to retrieve AWS credentials from an EC2 instance?
Correct Answer:
169.254.169.254 (Instance Metadata Service)
Question 2
What is a 'misconfigured S3 bucket' vulnerability in AWS cloud environments?
Correct Answer:
An S3 bucket with overly permissive ACLs that allow public read or write access
Question 3
Which attack targets virtualization platforms by exploiting a guest virtual machine to gain access to the underlying hypervisor or other VMs?
Correct Answer:
VM escape
Question 4
What is the primary security concern with 'shared responsibility model' misunderstandings in cloud vulnerability assessments?
Correct Answer:
Organizations assume the cloud provider secures everything, leaving their own configurations and data unprotected
Question 5
Which cloud security tool is used by assessors to identify misconfigured IAM policies, open security groups, and exposed resources in AWS environments?
Correct Answer:
ScoutSuite
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