6.2. Key Concepts Review

First Principle: Synthesizing and interrelating core cloud security concepts and their underlying first principles provides a holistic mental model, enabling agile problem-solving and robust security design.

This section provides a condensed review of the most critical cloud security concepts and their AWS service mappings. It's designed to consolidate your understanding and highlight the relationships between different principles and security domains. This comprehensive recall is essential for the multi-faceted questions on the SCS-C02 exam.

Scenario: You need to rapidly recall key distinctions between IAM policy types or the capabilities of different threat detection services to quickly analyze a complex exam question.

Reflection Question: How does having a "holistic mental model" of interconnected cloud security concepts and AWS services, rather than isolated facts, empower you to solve complex, multi-domain security problems efficiently?

💡 Tip: Use this section as a quick-reference guide during your final review, or as a starting point for active recall exercises.