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SOA-C03 · Question #61

A company's AWS accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The organization has all features enabled. The accounts use Amazon EC2 instances to host applications. The company manages the…

The correct answer is A. Configure a home AWS Region in Systems Manager Quick Setup in the organization's. AWS CloudOps automation best practices recommend using AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup for organization-wide management and configuration of EC2 instances. The Default Host Management Configuration Quick Setup automatically enables Systems Manager capabilities such as Patch…

Submitted by omar99· Mar 5, 2026Deployment, provisioning, and automation

Question

A company's AWS accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The organization has all features enabled. The accounts use Amazon EC2 instances to host applications. The company manages the EC2 instances manually by using the AWS Management Console. The company applies updates to the EC2 instances by using an SSH connection to each EC2 instance. The company needs a solution that uses AWS Systems Manager to manage all the organization's current and future EC2 instances. The latest version of Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) is running on the EC2 instances. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • AConfigure a home AWS Region in Systems Manager Quick Setup in the organization's
  • BConfigure a home AWS Region in Systems Manager Quick Setup in the organization's
  • CCreate an AWS CloudFormation stack set that contains a Systems Manager parameter to define
  • DCreate an AWS CloudFormation stack set that contains an EC2 instance profile with the

How the community answered

(40 responses)
  • A
    70% (28)
  • B
    10% (4)
  • C
    18% (7)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

AWS CloudOps automation best practices recommend using AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup for organization-wide management and configuration of EC2 instances. The Default Host Management Configuration Quick Setup automatically enables Systems Manager capabilities such as Patch Manager, Inventory, Session Manager, and Automation across all managed instances within the organization. When deployed from the management account, Quick Setup automatically integrates with AWS Organizations to propagate configuration and permissions to existing and future accounts. This meets the requirement for organization-wide management with no manual configuration or SSH "You can use Quick Setup in the management account of an organization in AWS Organizations to configure Systems Manager capabilities for all accounts and Regions. Quick Setup automatically keeps configurations up to date." Options B, C, and D require custom deployments or manual IAM updates, lacking centralized automation. Therefore, Option A fully satisfies CloudOps standards for automated provisioning and ongoing management of EC2 instances across an organization.

Topics

#Systems Manager#Quick Setup#AWS Organizations#SSM Agent

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