Certified DevSecOps Engineer (ECDE) v1.0

Kevin Williamson has been working as a DevSecOps engineer in an MNC company for the past 5 years. In January of 2017, his organization migrated all the applications and data from on-prem to AWS cloud due to the robust security feature and cost-effective services provided by Amazon. His organization is using Amazon DevOps services to develop software products securely and quickly. To detect errors in the code and to catch bugs in the application code, Kevin integrated PHPStan into the AWS pipeline for static code analysis. What will happen if security issues are detected in the application code?

Elizabeth Moss has been working as a DevSecOps engineer in an IT company located in San Diego, California. Due to the robust security and cost-effective service provided by AWS, her organization transferred all the workloads from on-prem to AWS cloud in 2017. Elizabeth would like to prevent committing AWS keys into repositories; therefore, she created a global git-templates directory using command line. Then, she created another directory, named it as hooks, wherein she created a file named pre-commit. In the pre-commit file, Elizabeth pasted the script that would prevent committing AWS keys into the repositories. She would like to ensure that the hook is executable. Which of the following command should Elizabeth run to make sure that the pre-commit hook is executable?

Patrick Fisher is a DevSecOps engineer in an IT company that develops software products and web applications. He is using IAST to analyze code for security vulnerabilities and to view real-time reports of the security issues. Patrick is using IAST in development, QA, and production stages to detect the vulnerabilities from the early stage of development, reduce the remediation cost, and keep the application secure. How can IAST perform SAST on every line of code and DAST on every request and response?

Steven Gerrard has been working as a DevSecOps engineer at an IT company that develops software products and applications related to the healthcare industry. His organization has been using Azure DevOps services to securely and quickly develop software products. To ensure that the deployed infrastructure is in accordance with the architecture and industrial standards and the security policies are appropriately implemented, she would like to integrate InSpec with Azure. Therefore, after installation and configuration of InSpec, she created InSpec profile file and upgraded it with personal metadata and Azure resource pack information; then she wrote the InSpec tests. Which of the following commands should Steven use to run InSpec tests to check the compliance of Azure infrastructure?

Victor Garber is a DevSecOps team leader in SanSec Pvt. Ltd. His organization develops various types of software products and web applications. Currently, his team is working on security of Java-based web application product. How can Victor identify vulnerabilities that are missed in pre-production testing activities?

Robin Tunney has been working as a DevSecOps engineer in an IT company located in Charleston, South Carolina. She would like to build a customized docker image using HashiCorp Packer. Therefore, she installed Packer and created a file docker-ubuntu.pkr.hcl; she then added HCL block to it and saved the file. Which of the following commands should Robin execute to build the Docker image using Packer?

Curtis Morgan is working as a DevSecOps engineer at Orchid Pvt. Ltd. His organization develops online teaching software. Beth McCarthy is working in a software development team, and she requested Curtis to help her in making pre-commit hooks executable on her local machine. Curtis went through the “repo\.git\hooks” directory and removed the “.sample” extension from “pre-commit.sample” file by using “chmod +x filename” command and made the pre-commit hook executable on Beth’s local machine. On the next day while developing the code for the software product, Beth accidentally committed the code with sensitive information. What will be the result of this commit?

Dustin Hoffman is a DevSecOps engineer at SantSol Pvt. Ltd. His organization develops software products and web applications related to mobile apps. Using Gauntlt, Dustin would like to facilitate testing and communication between teams and create actionable tests that can be hooked in testing and deployment process. Which of the following commands should Dustin use to install Gauntlt?

Scott Morrison is working as a senior DevSecOps engineer at SUTRE SOFT Pvt. Ltd. His organization develops software and applications for IoT devices. Scott created a user story; he then created abuser stories under the user story. After that, he created threat scenarios under the abuser story, and then he created test cases for the threat scenarios. After defining the YAML, Scott would like to push the user-story driven threat model to the ThreatPlaybook server. Which of the following command Scott should use?

Peter McCarthy is working in TetraVerse Soft Solution Pvt. Ltd. as a DevSecOps engineer. His organization develops customized software products and web applications. To develop software products quickly and securely, his organization has been using AWS cloud-based services, including AWS DevOps services. Peter would like to use CloudMapper to examine the AWS cloud environment and perform auditing for security issues. Which of the following privileges should Peter possess in order to collect information about the AWS account?

SNF Pvt. Ltd. is a software development company located in Denver, Colorado. The organization is using pytm, which is a Pythonic Framework for threat modeling, to detect security issues and mitigate them in advance. James Harden has been working as a DevSecOps engineer at SNF Pvt. Ltd. for the past 3 years. He has created a tm.py file that describes an application in which the user logs the app and posts the comments on the applications. These comments are stored by the application server in the database and AWS lambda cleans the database. Which of the following command James can use to generate a sequence diagram?

Kenneth Danziger is a certified DevSecOps engineer, and he recently got a job in an IT company that develops software products related to the healthcare industry. To identify security and compliance issues in the source code and quickly fix them before they impact the source code, Kenneth would like to integrate WhiteSource SCA tool with AWS. Therefore, to integrate WhiteSource SCA Tool in AWS CodeBuild for initiating scanning in the code repository, he built a buildspec.yml file to the source code root directory and added the following command to pre-build phase curl -LJO https://github.com/whitesource/unified-agent-distribution/raw/master/standAlone/wss_agent.sh. Which of the following script files will the above step download in Kenneth organization’s CodeBuild server?

Sarah Wheeler is an experienced DevSecOps engineer. She recently joined an IT company that develops software products for customers stretched across the globe. Sarah would like to use a security testing tool that protects the application from false positives, network sniffing, tampering with code, etc. The tool should monitor the incoming traffic to the server and APIs for suspicious activities and help her team in remediating them during runtime. Which of the following tools should Sarah select that will help her team in precisely detecting and remediating the security issues in the application code during runtime?

Lisa Kramer carries an experience of 4 years as a DevSecOps engineer in an IT company. The software development team of her organization has developed a Ruby on Rails web application and would like to find vulnerabilities in Ruby dependencies. Therefore, the team leader of the software development team approached Lisa for help in this regard. Which of the following SCA tool should Lisa use to detect vulnerabilities in Ruby dependencies?