Exam AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner topic 1 question 277 discussion

https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/#:~:text=Use%20AWS%20Certificate%20Manager%20(ACM,and%20your%20internal%20connected%20resources. Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources. ACM removes the time-consuming manual process of purchasing, uploading, and renewing SSL/TLS certificates. To use SSL/ TLS encryption, you need to setup and assign the SSL/ TLS certificates first.

A. WAF You use AWS published API calls to access AWS WAF through the network. Clients must support Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 or later.

D = CORRECT

D is Answer

D. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) "Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources. ACM removes the time-consuming manual process of purchasing, uploading, and renewing SSL/TLS certificates." https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/#:~:text=Use%20AWS%20Certificate%20Manager%20(ACM)%20to%20provision%2C%20manage%2C%20and%20deploy%20public%20and%20private%20SSL/TLS%20certificates%20for%20use%20with%20AWS%20services%20and%20your%20internal%20connected%20resources.%20ACM%20removes%20the%20time%2Dconsuming%20manual%20process%20of%20purchasing%2C%20uploading%2C%20and%20renewing%20SSL/TLS%20certificates.

Answer is A. AWS WAF. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is used to centrally manage SSL/TLS certificates but it is not used to secure web applications to encrypt trafic. AWS WAF can do this. https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/features/ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/data-protection.html

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is a service that allows you to provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services and your internal resources. By using ACM, you can easily obtain SSL/TLS certificates for your web application to enable encrypted communication between your users and your web servers, enhancing the security of your consumer web application.

Helps provision and manage SSL and TLS Certificates Provides public and private certificate for free Integrates with Elastic Load balancing , api gateway and more

D. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

d is correct: https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/

A - no, it’s web app firewall B - no, DDoS protection C - No. helps to launch web resources into a virtual private network D - yes

Please see https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager before you want to choose A

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is a service that provides SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services and applications deployed in AWS. It makes it easy to provision, manage, and deploy SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services such as Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon API Gateway. With ACM, customers can deploy SSL/TLS certificates to secure their web applications and encrypt traffic between their users and the application.

The company can use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to secure its consumer web application by using SSL/TLS to encrypt traffic. ACM provides SSL/TLS certificates that can be used with Amazon CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancing, and other services to secure traffic to and from the application.

I vote D

Provision and manage certificates so you can securely stop traffic to your website or application - ACM

Both can do the job, but D: AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) announced by AWS stating the required task explicitly in the question.