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SAP-C02 · Question #188

A company is planning to migrate its on-premises data analysis application to AWS. The application is hosted across a fleet of servers and requires consistent system time. The company has…

The correct answer is A. Configure a DHCP options set with the on-premises NTP server address. Setting a VPC DHCP options set with your on-prem NTP server IP makes every EC2 instance automatically use that clock source. Traffic rides the existing Direct Connect, so no extra tunnels or servers are needed - minimal admin overhead while meeting the requirement to sync to…

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Question

A company is planning to migrate its on-premises data analysis application to AWS. The application is hosted across a fleet of servers and requires consistent system time. The company has established an AWS Direct Connect connection from its on-premises data center to AWS. The company has a high-precision stratum-0 atomic dock network appliance that acts as an NTP source for all on-premises servers. After the migration to AWS is complete, the clock on all Amazon EC2 instances that host the application must be synchronized with the on-premises atomic clock network appliance. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?

Options

  • AConfigure a DHCP options set with the on-premises NTP server address.
  • BCreate a custom AMI to use the Amazon Time Sync Service at 169.254.169.123
  • CDeploy a third-party time server from the AWS Marketplace.
  • DCreate an IPsec VPN tunnel from the on-premises atomic clock network appliance to the VPC to

How the community answered

(17 responses)
  • A
    76% (13)
  • B
    6% (1)
  • C
    6% (1)
  • D
    12% (2)

Explanation

Setting a VPC DHCP options set with your on-prem NTP server IP makes every EC2 instance automatically use that clock source. Traffic rides the existing Direct Connect, so no extra tunnels or servers are needed - minimal admin overhead while meeting the requirement to sync to the on-prem atomic clock.

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