AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 297

A user has launched an EC2 instance from an instance store backed AMI. The infrastructure team wants to create an AMI from the running instance. Which of the below mentioned credentials is not required while creating the AMI?

Answer options

• A. AWS account ID
• B. X.509 certificate and private key
• C. AWS login ID to login to the console
• D. Access key and secret access key

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Bundling an instance store-backed EC2 instance into an AMI requires the AWS account ID, X.509 certificates to sign the image, and API credentials (access key and secret access key) to upload the bundle to Amazon S3. In contrast, the AWS console login ID is only used for web-based GUI access and is not required for the command-line bundling and registration process.