AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 240

Which task is the responsibility of AWS, according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

Answer options

• A. Apply guest operating system patches to Amazon EC2 instances.
• B. Provide monitoring of human resources information management (HRIM) systems.
• C. Perform automated backups of Amazon RDS instances.
• D. Optimize the costs of running AWS services.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because AWS is responsible for managing the infrastructure and services, which includes performing automated backups of Amazon RDS instances. Options A and B are responsibilities that fall on the user, as they manage their instances and applications, while option D, although important, is also the user's responsibility to optimize costs.