IBM Cloud Security Engineer v1 Specialty

Certification Overview

A Security Engineer is a person who anticipates and maintains a security posture by identifying and remediating vulnerabilities through the implementation of threat protection, responding to security incident escalations, and proactively engineering security and compliance best practices. This individual can perform these tasks with minimal direction. Security Engineers often serve as member of a larger team dedicated to cloud-based management and development and may also collaborate with architects, developers, and SREs to secure parts of hybrid environments in an end-to-end infrastructure.

Recommended Skills

• Cloud concepts, Cloud Native, and IBM Cloud
• IBM Cloud Reference Architecture
• IT architectures and using Cloud solution patterns and Cloud Native architecture
• Strong familiarity with cloud capabilities, products, and services around security in IBM Cloud
• Strong skills in scripting and automation
• Security logging and monitoring
• Security as it relates to virtualized and containerized environments
• Familiarity with DevSecOps, Network, Data, and System security

Requirements

• Exam S2000-012 : IBM Cloud Security Engineer v1 Specialty

Exam Objectives

• During exam development, the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) define all of the tasks, knowledge and experience that an individual would need in order to successfully fulfill their role with the product or solution. These are represented by the objectives below and the questions on the exam are based upon these objective.

Number of questions : 44

Number of questions to pass : 24

Time allowed : 75 minutes

Status : Live