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A Security Engineer is a person who anticipates and maintains a security posture by identifying and remediating vulnerabilities through the implementation of threat protection, responding to security incident escalations, and proactively engineering security and compliance best practices.  This individual can perform these tasks with minimal direction. Security Engineers often serve as member of a larger team dedicated to cloud-based management and development and may also collaborate with architects, developers, and SREs to secure parts of hybrid environments in an end-to-end infrastructure.

Candidates interested in pursuing this exam are recommended to have already earned either the Professional Architect, Professional Developer, or Professional SRE certification.

Exam Code: S2000-012

Exam Name: IBM Cloud Security Engineer v1 Specialty

Number of questions: 44

Number of questions to pass: 24

Time allowed: 75 minutes

Languages: English, Japanese

Price per exam: $100 USD

Articulate the security requirements for and implications of connecting to resources and services

Configure VPN settings for a VPC

Identify features and limitations of hardware firewall (FortigatE. in securing Classic resources

Identify and assess the security ramifications of multi-region deployments  

Articulate how to connect on premise VMWare environments with IBM Cloud VMWare solutions

Articulate how to connect using Juniper vSRX

Secure interconnected services with VSIs in VPC  

Articulate how to create secure internal and external connections with Power VSIs  

Identify solutions in Code Engine

Implement security controls on Bare Metal in Classic infrastructure

Implement security controls at the Kubernetes layer in IKS  

Implement security controls at the infrastructure layer in IKS (VPC.  

Implement security controls at the infrastructure layer in IKS (ClassiC.  

Implement security controls at the OpenShift platform layer in Red Hat OpenShift   

Implement security controls at the infrastructure layer in RedHat OpenShift (VPC.  

Implement security controls at the infrastructure layer in RedHat OpenShift (ClassiC.   

Implement security in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Satellite   

Implement secure connections to and from VMware Solutions Dedicated clusters with other IBM Cloud   

Implement secure connections to and from VMware Solutions Shared clusters with other IBM Cloud services  

Implement IAM on IBM Cloud services

Implement authentication with App ID

Manage access to IBM Cloud resources

Report and audit user activity for security insights

Manage alerts relating to Security Threats  

Manage alerts relating to Compliance   

1. IBM Cloud deploys a VMware vCenter Server instance with a combination of public and private VLANs. What are two components of traffic running on a private VLAN as part of the solution setup?

A. Public connectivity for TCP

B. vMotion and NFS storage traffic

C. Management communications and NSX VTEP

D. Tunneling for VMware workload deployments

E. Key encryption flows for secure KMIP exchange

Answer: B, C

 

2. A client wants to create multiple PowerVS instances in two different regions on IBM Cloud and has ordered Direct Link 2.0 providing connections to each region to achieve high availability. What is the secured way for these PowerVS instances to route network communication across regions?

A. It is not possible for PowerVS in different regions to communicate

B. Implement an IBM Transit Gateway to route between the PowerVS regions

C. Configure GRE tunnels on proxies in the IBM Cloud environment

D. Define public IPs for both instances allowing them to connect to each other over the internet

Answer: C

 

3. What are two valid status conditions when running a readiness check on the Juniper vSRX on IBM Cloud?

A. Ready

B. Blocked

C. Complete

D. Unchecked

E. Network status down

Answer: A, D

 

4. A client wants to move their existing workloads to IBM Cloud VMware solutions, Bare Metal, Power servers and KVM. What is the value for client using VMware vSphere 7.0 and NSX-T on IBM Cloud?

A. Client can route traffic between VMware ESX, Bare Metal, PowerVS, and KVM servers using NSX-T

B. Client can route traffic between VMware ESX, Bare Metal, and KVM servers using NSX-T

C. Client can create Tier 0/1 gateway allowing traffic to flow between VMware servers

D. VMware solutions offer comprehensive migration capability for other workloads

Answer: A

 

5. A Security Engineer is contacted by a developer who needs a virtual server instance (VSI) that is only allowed to send outbound traffic; all ingress traffic should be blocked. The Security Engineer decides to use the IBM Cloud console to create security rules on VSI groups.

Which additional modifications are required on this new security group to meet the stated requirements?

A. Add a rule to permit all egress traffic

B. No additional modifications are required

C. Apply the security group to the Public Gateway

D. Remove the default rule allowing all ingress traffic

Answer: B

 

6. The architecture of the IBM Cloud for VMware Regulated Workloads is designed for which two use cases?

A. Isolation of FedRAMP workloads only

B. Isolation of sensitive workloads

C. Integration of highly secure KMIP and DevSecOps regulations

D. Support compliance for financial services industry security standards only

E. Support compliance to industry security standards or governmental regulations

Answer: B, E

 

7. A national car dealership runs its point-of-sales system on IBM Cloud VPC. The Security Engineer is planning to create an IBM Cloud VPN Gateway between IBM Cloud VPC and on-premises network infrastructure. What type of VPN packets are accepted by IBM Cloud VPN Gateway?

A. SSL Framing Encapsulation

B. Extended Address Encapsulation

C. IP Encapsulating Security Payload

D. NAT-T Encapsulation

Answer: D

 

8. What are the two default deployment configuration options of a FortiGate Security Appliance?

A. Four VLAN

B. Multi-tenant

C. Virtual Domain

D. Four 10 Gbps bonded interfaces

E. Frontend Customer Router VLAN

Answer: C, E

 

9. A nutrition research lab requires IBM Cloud hardware to meet security and compliance requirements. The customer contacted the Security Engineer at IBM to discuss a hardware solution that will help protect against software attacks and protect the integrity of the data stored on the server.

Which enhanced security capabilities of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers were recommended by the Security Engineer?

A. Intel Trusted Execution Technology

B. Single Root I/O Virtualization

C. Intel Turbo Boost Technology

D. AMD Secure Virtualization

Answer: A

 

10. What type of information is required for an IPsec policy creation on an IBM Cloud VPC?

A. Encryption algorithm, IBM Cloud service endpoints, and Preshared key

B. Authentication algorithm, IKE Version, Key Lifetime, and Delegate-VPC

C. Authorization algorithm, IKE Version, Delegate-VPC, and Preshared key

D. Authentication algorithm, Encryption algorithm, Diffie-Hellman group, and Key Lifetime

Answer: D