AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 540

A company is learning about its responsibilities that are related to the management of Amazon EC2 instances.

Which tasks for EC2 instances are the company’s responsibility, according to the AWS shared responsibility model? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Install and patch the machine hypervisor.
• B. Patch the guest operating system.
• C. Encrypt data at rest on associated storage.
• D. Install the physical hardware and cabling.
• E. Provide physical security for the EC2 instances.

Correct answer: B, C

Explanation

According to the AWS shared responsibility model, AWS manages the physical infrastructure, virtualization layer, and hardware (options A, D, and E). The customer is responsible for configuring and securing everything within their instances, which includes patching the guest OS (option B) and securing their data through encryption (option C).