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SOA-C02 · Question #220

A company's SysOps administrator deploys four new Amazon EC2 instances by using the standard Amazon Linux 2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI). The company needs to be able to use AWS Systems Manager to…

The correct answer is D. Attach an IAM instance profile to the instances. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/setup-instance-profile.html

Submitted by paula_co· Mar 30, 2026Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation

Question

A company's SysOps administrator deploys four new Amazon EC2 instances by using the standard Amazon Linux 2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI). The company needs to be able to use AWS Systems Manager to manage the instances. The SysOps administrator notices that the instances do not appear in the Systems Manager console. What must the SysOps administrator do to resolve this issue?

Options

  • AConnect to each instance by using SSH.
  • BUse AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to create a TLS certificate.
  • CConnect to each instance by using SSH.
  • DAttach an IAM instance profile to the instances.

How the community answered

(52 responses)
  • A
    12% (6)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • D
    83% (43)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/setup-instance-profile.html

Topics

#Systems Manager#IAM instance profile#SSM agent#EC2 management

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