Cloud Security and Compliance Questions

Focuses on designing, implementing, testing, and validating secure cloud environments across providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Topics include Identity and Access Management, network security and segmentation, encryption strategies for data at rest and data in transit, secrets management, secure multi tenant design patterns, compliance frameworks and controls, common cloud misconfigurations, cloud native attack vectors, and approaches to penetration testing and security validation for cloud infrastructure and managed services. Candidates should be able to reason about secure architecture decisions, threat models, detection and response strategies, and how compliance requirements affect cloud design.

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Explain how you would manage TLS certificates at scale for a global service: certificate issuance, automated renewal, distribution to edge and services, and revocation. Mention managed options (e.g., AWS Certificate Manager) and when you'd choose a private CA or BYOC (bring-your-own CA).

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Given a Kubernetes manifest and a requirement to block container images from unapproved registries, explain how you would implement a Gatekeeper/OPA constraint that denies deployments that reference images from public Docker Hub. Provide an example Rego or Constraint template snippet (Kubernetes YAML or Rego).

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Describe a time you persuaded a skeptical security team or customer to adopt a cloud-managed security service (for example, managed WAF or DDoS protection). How did you present the technical trade-offs and what evidence or pilots did you use to reach a decision?

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A periodic automated scan reports a publicly accessible S3 bucket that contains backups. Outline a response plan to triage, remediate, notify stakeholders, and verify. Include forensic steps and how to communicate risk and remediation to customers and leadership.

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A customer must comply with software supply chain requirements and wants to ensure container images are secure and provenance is verifiable. Propose a CI/CD pipeline design that includes SBOM generation, static image scanning, image signing/attestations, and runtime verification. Mention OSS or managed tools you would consider.

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