AWS CLF-C02 Practice Question
Under the shared responsibility model, who is responsible for patching the guest operating system of an EC2 instance
Question
Under the shared responsibility model, who is responsible for patching the guest operating system of an EC2 instance?
AAWS
BThe customer ✓
CBoth AWS and the customer share it equally
DThe AWS Marketplace vendor
Correct Answer: B
The customer
Why this is the right answer
Explanation: The customer is responsible for security IN the cloud, including patching the guest OS, applications and configuring firewalls on EC2 instances.
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