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SOA-C02 · Question #238
A SysOps administrator configured AWS Backup to capture snapshots from a single Amazon EC2 instance that has one Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume attached. On the first snapshot, the…
The correct answer is B. 16 GiB. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSSnapshots.html#how_snapshots_
Submitted by weili_xi· Mar 30, 2026Reliability and Business Continuity
Question
A SysOps administrator configured AWS Backup to capture snapshots from a single Amazon EC2 instance that has one Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume attached. On the first snapshot, the EBS volume has 10 GiB of data. On the second snapshot, the EBS volume still contains 10 GiB of data, but 4 GiB have changed. On the third snapshot, 2 GiB of data have been added to the volume, for a total of 12 GiB. How much total storage is required to store these snapshots?
Options
- A12 GiB
- B16 GiB
- C26 GiB
- D32 GiB
How the community answered
(52 responses)- A8% (4)
- B75% (39)
- C13% (7)
- D4% (2)
Explanation
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSSnapshots.html#how_snapshots_
Topics
#EBS incremental snapshots#snapshot storage calculation#AWS Backup#data protection
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