AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional — Question 549

In Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, you can specify storage volumes in addition to the root device volume when you create an AMI or when launching a new instance using______.

Answer options

• A. block device mapping
• B. object mapping
• C. batch storage mapping
• D. datacenter mapping

Correct answer: A

Explanation

A block device mapping is used in Amazon EC2 to specify additional storage volumes to attach when creating an AMI or launching an instance. The other options, such as object storage mapping, batch storage mapping, and datacenter storage mapping, are not valid AWS terms or features for volume configuration.