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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate SOA-C03 Practice Question

Your operations team must guarantee that EC2 instances always launch from an Amazon Linux 2 AMI containing the latest security patches and a company-wide hardening script. The image must be rebuilt, tested, and made available to the development account every Monday with no manual steps. Which approach delivers the requirement while minimizing ongoing administrative effort?

  • Add a cron job to each EC2 instance that performs system updates, executes the hardening script, and then uses the AWS CLI to create and manually share a new AMI every week.

  • Create an EC2 Image Builder pipeline that starts from an Amazon Linux 2 base image, adds a component containing the hardening script, schedules a weekly build, runs tests, and automatically shares the resulting AMI with the development account.

  • Schedule a CloudFormation stack to launch a temporary EC2 instance each week, run the hardening script in user data, create an image, and then delete the stack after copying the AMI.

  • Implement a CodePipeline stage that calls AWS CodeBuild to run Packer templates, invoke Lambda tests, and copy the finished AMI to the development account.

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate SOA-C03
Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation
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