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Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional SAP-C02 Exam

259 Questions120 Minutes70% Passing Score▣ Updated: Sep 2026

Question 234 of 259

Choose 3

A company finds that one of its Amazon EC2 instances suddenly has a high CPU usage. The company does not know whether the EC2 instance is compromised or whether the operating system is performing background cleanup.

Which combination of steps should a security engineer take before investigating the issue? (Choose three.)

A

A. Disable termination protection for the EC2 instance if termination protection has not been disabled.

B

B. Enable termination protection for the EC2 instance if termination protection has not been enabled.

C

C. Take snapshots of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) data volumes that are attached to the EC2 instance.

D

D. Remove all snapshots of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) data volumes that are attached to the EC2 instance.

E

E. Capture the EC2 instance metadata, and then tag the EC2 instance as under quarantine.

F

F. Immediately remove any entries in the EC2 instance metadata that contain sensitive information.

Correct Answer: A, B, C

<p>B. Enable termination protection for the EC2 instance if termination protection has not been enabled.</p>

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