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SOA-C02 · Question #453

A company's SysOps administrator manages a fleet of Windows Amazon EC2 instances that run in a single AWS account. The instances have a tag that includes a key of 揙S" and a value of "Windows." The…

The correct answer is C. Store the contents of the CloudWatch agent configuration file in Systems Manager Parameter D. Create a Systems Manager State Manager association to run the AmazonCloudWatch-. "Uploading the CloudWatch agent configuration file to Systems Manager Parameter Store" https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Agent- Configuration-File-Details.html Command to start CloudWatch agent by loading configuration file previously…

Submitted by luis.pe· Mar 30, 2026Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation

Question

A company's SysOps administrator manages a fleet of Windows Amazon EC2 instances that run in a single AWS account. The instances have a tag that includes a key of 揙S" and a value of "Windows." The company uses AWS Systems Manager to patch the instances. The company has installed the Amazon CloudWatch agent on the instances, but the configuration is inconsistent. The SysOps administrator needs to reconfigure every instance to use the same predefined CloudWatch configuration. Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Options

  • AStore the CloudWatch agent configuration file in an Amazon S3 bucket.
  • BStore the contents of the CloudWatch agent configuration file in Systems Manager OpsCenter.
  • CStore the contents of the CloudWatch agent configuration file in Systems Manager Parameter
  • DCreate a Systems Manager State Manager association to run the AmazonCloudWatch-
  • ECreate a Systems Manager State Manager association to run the AmazonCloudWatch-

How the community answered

(34 responses)
  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    82% (28)
  • E
    12% (4)

Explanation

"Uploading the CloudWatch agent configuration file to Systems Manager Parameter Store" https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Agent- Configuration-File-Details.html Command to start CloudWatch agent by loading configuration file previously saved in Systems Manager Parameter store: sudo /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl -a fetch-config -m ec2 -s -c ssm:configuration-parameter-store-name https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/install-CloudWatch-Agent- on-EC2-Instance-fleet.html

Topics

#CloudWatch agent#Systems Manager State Manager#Parameter Store#EC2 configuration

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