Question 490
Which AWS recommendation best addresses this requirement at a foundational level? An operations team wants to discover software vulnerabilities on eligible compute workloads without manually inventorying packages.
Explanation
Correct Answer
Enable Inspector scanning and use the results to prioritize remediation. The case involves: An operations team wants to discover software vulnerabilities on eligible compute workloads without manually inventorying packages. The central AWS principle is that amazon Inspector provides automated vulnerability management for supported workloads. What matters is: Look for vulnerability findings involving installed software or exposed resources. Recommended direction: Enable Inspector scanning and use the results to prioritize remediation. Expected indication of success: Eligible resources appear in vulnerability findings with useful remediation context. Caveat: Inspector reports vulnerabilities but does not guarantee application defects are fixed.
Incorrect Answers
Amazon Macie uses machine learning and pattern matching to identify sensitive data in supported S3 contexts. That addresses a different mechanism; this question turns on Enable Inspector scanning and use the results to prioritize.
Amazon CloudWatch collects metrics and logs and can generate alarms from observed signals. That observation may hold without resolving the relevant issue: Enable Inspector scanning and use the results to prioritize.
Amazon GuardDuty analyzes supported signals to detect potential threats and suspicious activity. It does not verify the requested outcome; here the decisive check concerns Enable Inspector scanning and use the results to prioritize.