A Company Had One of Its Amazon EC2 Key Pairs

question 27

Multiple Choice

A company had one of its Amazon EC2 key pairs compromised. A Security Engineer must identify which current Linux EC2 instances were deployed and used the compromised key pair. How can this task be accomplished?

• A) Obtain the list of instances by directly querying Amazon EC2 using: aws ec2 describe-instances --filters "Name=key-name,Values=KEYNAMEHERE" . Obtain the list of instances by directly querying Amazon EC2 using: aws ec2 describe-instances --filters "Name=key-name,Values=KEYNAMEHERE" .
• B) Obtain the fingerprint for the key pair from the AWS Management Console, then search for the fingerprint in the Amazon Inspector logs.
• C) Obtain the output from the EC2 instance metadata using: curl http: //169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public- keys/0/.
• D) Obtain the fingerprint for the key pair from the AWS Management Console, then search for the fingerprint in Amazon CloudWatch Logs using: aws logs filter-log-events . Obtain the fingerprint for the key pair from the AWS Management Console, then search for the fingerprint in Amazon CloudWatch Logs using: aws logs filter-log-events

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