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SOA-C02 · Question #35

A Development team has an application stack consisting of many OS dependencies and language runtime dependencies. When deploying the application to production, the most important factor is how…

The correct answer is A. Use fully baked AMIs ("golden images") created after each successful build, creating a new Auto. An approved/golden AMI is a base EC2 machine image that contains a pre-configured OS and a well-defined stack of server software fully configured to run your application.

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

Question

A Development team has an application stack consisting of many OS dependencies and language runtime dependencies. When deploying the application to production, the most important factor is how quickly the instance is operational. What deployment methodology should be used to update the running environments to meet the requirement?

Options

  • AUse fully baked AMIs ("golden images") created after each successful build, creating a new Auto
  • BUse user-data scripts to configure the instance correctly on boot by installing all dependencies
  • CUse an AWS Lambda function to only update the application locally on each instance, then re-
  • DUse AWS OpsWorks scripts to execute on reboot of each instance to install all known

How the community answered

(41 responses)
  • A
    78% (32)
  • B
    7% (3)
  • C
    12% (5)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

An approved/golden AMI is a base EC2 machine image that contains a pre-configured OS and a well-defined stack of server software fully configured to run your application.

Topics

#golden AMI#baked images#Auto Scaling deployment#launch speed

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