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SCS-C03 · Question #120

A security engineer needs to prepare a company's Amazon EC2 instances for quarantine during a security incident. The AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) has been deployed to all EC2 instances. The s

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Submitted by jordan8· Mar 6, 2026Incident Response

Question

A security engineer needs to prepare a company's Amazon EC2 instances for quarantine during a security incident. The AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) has been deployed to all EC2 instances. The security engineer has developed a script to install and update forensics tools on the EC2 instances. Which solution will quarantine EC2 instances during a security incident?

Options

  • ACreate a rule in AWS Config to track SSM Agent versions.
  • BConfigure Systems Manager Session Manager to deny all connection requests from external IP
  • CStore the script in Amazon S3 and grant read access to the instance profile.
  • DConfigure IAM permissions for the SSM Agent to run the script as a predefined Systems Manager

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#EC2 quarantine#Systems Manager#SSM Agent#incident response
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