AWS Security Specialty Practice Exams

SCS-C02

AdvancedSpecialtySecurity Engineer

Specialized knowledge of securing AWS workloads: IAM, data protection, incident response.

170

minutes

75%

passing score

$300

exam fee

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5 flashcard sets · 5 learning tests · 2 timed exams · 100-question bank

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Overview

What this certification is and how the exam works.

The AWS Certified Security – Specialty validates deep expertise in securing AWS workloads: threat detection and incident response, logging and monitoring, infrastructure protection, identity and access management, data protection, and governance. The exam has 65 questions in 170 minutes and targets security professionals with several years of AWS experience.

Why should I take the exam?

What this credential does for your career.

1Cloud security specialists are among the scarcest and best-paid profiles in the market
2Regulated industries (finance, healthcare, government) actively require certified security expertise
3Covers the exact services — GuardDuty, KMS, Security Hub, IAM — that real AWS security work revolves around
4A Specialty credential differentiates you above the Associate-level crowd

Skills measured

What you need to know to pass this exam.

✓Detect threats and respond to security incidents with GuardDuty and Detective
✓Design security logging and monitoring with CloudTrail and Security Hub
✓Secure network infrastructure: VPC, WAF, Shield, and Network Firewall
✓Manage identities and enforce least-privilege access with IAM
✓Protect data in transit and at rest with KMS, CloudHSM, and TLS
✓Implement governance with Organizations, Config, and Audit Manager

About our SCS-C02 practice exams

Our AWS Security Specialty SCS-C02 question bank holds 100 exam-style questions with a written explanation on every answer, mapped to the six exam domains published for SCS-C02, covering Threat Detection and Incident Response, Security Logging and Monitoring and Infrastructure Security, and three more.

Alongside the bank there are two full-length timed exams at the real 170-minute limit and 75% pass mark, plus five topic-based learning tests for working a single domain at a time. Randomised mock exams are dealt on demand from the full 100-question pool, so you never run out of fresh papers.

Questions: 100
Exam domains: 6
Timed exams: 2
Pass mark: 75%

How our practice content is created

Practice questions are independently developed using the official AWS SCS-C02 exam guide and AWS documentation. Each question is checked for alignment with the current exam objectives and reviewed for technical accuracy before publication.

The SCS-C02 bank cites 97 distinct AWS documentation pages, and every question links the source it was written against — so you can check any answer at first hand.

Official SCS-C02 exam guide

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