Security & ComplianceQuestion 26 of 100
Under the shared responsibility model, which task is the customer responsible for?
a.Maintaining the hypervisor that isolates instances
b.Replacing failed physical disks in the data center
c.Managing operating-system patches on their EC2 instances
d.Securing the physical network cabling
Explanation
For services like EC2, the customer manages the guest operating system, including patching, along with application software and firewall configuration. AWS handles the underlying physical and virtualization infrastructure.
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