SAP-C02 · Question #290
A company has a legacy monolithic application that is critical to the company's business. The company hosts the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that runs Amazon Linux 2. The company's applicatio
The correct answer is A. Attach a role to the instance with permission to write to Amazon S3. Use the AWS Systems. AWS recommended to stop EC2 instances to create root volume snapshot. When you create a snapshot for an EBS volume that serves as a root device, we recommend that you stop the instance before taking the snapshot. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-creating-sn
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A company has a legacy monolithic application that is critical to the company's business. The company hosts the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that runs Amazon Linux 2. The company's application team receives a directive from the legal department to back up the data from the instance's encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume to an Amazon S3 bucket. The application team does not have the administrative SSH key pair for the instance. The application must continue to serve the users. Which solution will meet these requirements?
Options
- AAttach a role to the instance with permission to write to Amazon S3. Use the AWS Systems
- BCreate an image of the instance with the reboot option turned on. Launch a new EC2 instance
- CTake a snapshot of the EBS volume by using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM).
- DCreate an image of the instance. Launch a new EC2 instance from the image. Attach a role to the
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(45 responses)- A71% (32)
- B4% (2)
- C16% (7)
- D9% (4)
Explanation
AWS recommended to stop EC2 instances to create root volume snapshot. When you create a snapshot for an EBS volume that serves as a root device, we recommend that you stop the instance before taking the snapshot. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-creating-snapshot.html
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