AWS Certified Security - Specialty

Prove your ability to effectively secure the AWS cloud

Achieving the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security – Specialty certification enables tenured cloud security professional to demonstrate their ability to secure the AWS cloud. The exam is intended for cloud security pros who want to prove their:

• understanding of specialized data classifications and AWS data protection mechanisms.
• understanding of data encryption methods and how to secure Internet protocols, plus the AWS mechanisms to implement them.
• working knowledge of AWS security services and features of services to provide a secure production environment.
• Competency gained from two or more years of production deployment experience using AWS security services and features.
• ability to make tradeoff decisions with regard to cost, security, and deployment complexity given a set of application requirements.
• understanding of security operations and risk.

About the exam

The AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam includes multiple choice, multiple answer questions. You will have almost three hours to complete the 65-question exam. Exams are administered at PSI centers.