Domain 1.2: Secure Workloads — AWS SAA-C03 Practice Question 13

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Look for the specific CloudTrail feature designed for this exact purpose: log file integrity validation.

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B.Enable CloudTrail log file integrity validation.✓ Correct

Enable CloudTrail log file integrity validation.

To determine whether a log file was modified, deleted, or unchanged after CloudTrail delivered it, you can use CloudTrail log file integrity validation. This feature is built using industry standard algorithms: SHA-256 for hashing and SHA-256 with RSA for digital signing.

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Choosing S3 Object Lock. While good for compliance, the question specifically asks how to ensure/verify they haven't been tampered with, which is the exact use case for log file integrity validation.

A company uses AWS CloudTrail to log all API activity in its AWS account. The security team needs to ensure that the CloudTrail log files have not been tampered with after they are delivered to Amazon S3. How can this be achieved?

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