ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
Your organization operates hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances across multiple AWS accounts. To satisfy corporate asset-management policy, you must automatically collect an up-to-date inventory of each instance's operating system, installed applications, network configuration, and patch status, and store the data centrally for ad-hoc queries. The solution should impose minimal performance overhead on the instances. Which AWS service best meets these requirements?
AWS Systems Manager Inventory runs a lightweight agent that automatically gathers detailed metadata-such as OS type, application list, network settings, and patch levels-from managed instances on a defined schedule, then stores the data in AWS Systems Manager and Amazon S3 or Amazon Athena tables for centralized querying. AWS Config tracks resource configuration changes but does not natively capture software inventories. Amazon Inspector focuses on vulnerability assessments rather than broad asset inventories. AWS CloudTrail records API activity and cannot enumerate software or patch data on instances. Therefore, Systems Manager Inventory is the most appropriate choice for comprehensive, low-overhead hardware and software inventory collection.
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