Who should take this exam?
AWS Certified Security – Specialty is intended for individuals who perform a security role and have at least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads.

Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:

• Five years of IT security experience in designing and implementing security solutions and at least two years of hands-on experience in securing AWS workloads

• Working knowledge of AWS security services and features of services to provide a secure production environment and an understanding of security operations and risks

• Knowledge of the AWS shared responsibility model and its application; security controls for workloads on AWS; logging and monitoring strategies; cloud security threat models; patch management and security automation; ways to enhance AWS security services with third-party tools and services; and disaster recovery controls, including BCP and backups, encryption, access control, and data retention

• Understanding of specialized data classifications and AWS data protection mechanisms, data-encryption methods and AWS mechanisms to implement them, and secure internet protocols and AWS mechanisms to implement them

• Ability to make tradeoff decisions with regard to cost, security, and deployment complexity to meet a set of application requirements
   

What does it take to earn this certification?
To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam (SCS-C01). The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response. Additional information, such as the exam content outline and passing score, is in the exam guide.