AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 168

You have been asked to automate many routine systems administrator backup and recovery activities. Your current plan is to leverage AWS-managed solutions as much as possible and automate the rest with the AWS CLI and scripts.
Which task would be best accomplished with a script?

Answer options

• A. Creating daily EBS snapshots with a monthly rotation of snapshots
• B. Creating daily RDS snapshots with a monthly rotation of snapshots
• C. Automatically detect and stop unused or underutilized EC2 instances
• D. Automatically add Auto Scaled EC2 instances to an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Creating daily EBS snapshots with a monthly rotation of snapshots can be effectively automated using scripts, as it involves repetitive tasks that can be easily scheduled. The other options, while they can also be automated, generally rely more on AWS services directly and may not require the same level of scripting for routine snapshot management.