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ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question

A security incident response team suspects a Linux virtual machine running in an IaaS environment has been used to exfiltrate data. The VM is hosted on a KVM-based hypervisor and is still running. To collect volatile evidence while maintaining forensic soundness and a clear chain of custody, which action should the cloud administrator perform FIRST?

  • Use the hypervisor's suspend-and-snapshot function to capture a snapshot that includes the VM's memory, then export the memory file for analysis.

  • Log in to the VM via SSH and run dd against /dev/mem to create a memory dump inside the guest, then download the file.

  • Reboot the physical host into rescue mode and copy the server's RAM contents to an external forensic drive.

  • Gracefully power off the VM and retrieve the latest virtual disk backup from the provider's backup repository.

ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
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