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ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question

During an investigation in an IaaS environment, a security engineer discovers that an active Windows Server virtual machine may be exfiltrating sensitive data. The engineer can immediately perform any of the following actions: request a hypervisor memory dump of the running VM, trigger a crash-consistent snapshot of its virtual disks, download the cloud provider's API access logs, or retrieve the last 24 hours of firewall logs. To best preserve digital evidence in line with the accepted order of volatility, which action should the engineer perform first?

  • Download the cloud provider's API access logs before they are overwritten.

  • Trigger an immediate crash-consistent snapshot of the VM's virtual disks.

  • Collect the past 24 hours of firewall logs from the provider's archive.

  • Request a hypervisor-level memory snapshot of the live virtual machine.

ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
Cloud Security Operations
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