AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) — Question 159

A DevOps engineer is implementing governance controls for a company that requires its infrastructure to be housed within the United States. The engineer must restrict which AWS Regions can be used, and ensure an alert is sent as soon as possible if any activity outside the governance policy takes place. The controls should be automatically enabled on any new Region outside the United States (US).

Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Create an AWS Organizations SCP that denies access to all non-global services in non-US Regions. Attach the policy to the root of the organization.
• B. Configure AWS CloudTrail to send logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and enable it for all Regions. Use a CloudWatch Logs metric filter to send an alert on any service activity in non-US Regions.
• C. Use an AWS Lambda function that checks for AWS service activity and deploy it to all Regions. Write an Amazon EventBridge rule that runs the Lambda function every hour, sending an alert if activity is found in a non-US Region.
• D. Use an AWS Lambda function to query Amazon Inspector to look for service activity in non-US Regions and send alerts if any activity is found.
• E. Write an SCP using the aws:RequestedRegion condition key limiting access to US Regions. Apply the policy to all users, groups, and roles.

Correct answer: A, B

Explanation

The correct actions are A and B because creating an AWS Organizations SCP restricts access to non-US Regions, ensuring compliance with governance policies, while configuring AWS CloudTrail with alerts enables monitoring for any unauthorized activity. Options C and D do not provide a comprehensive governance solution as they rely on periodic checks rather than proactive restrictions and alerts, and option E, while effective, does not cover the need for immediate alerts on service activity.