Cloud-Security-Engineer Cloud Workload Protection Practice Question

An administrator needs to deploy the Prisma Cloud Defender on a Linux virtual machine hosted in AWS EC2 to protect the host against runtime threats. Which method should the administrator use to automatically install the Defender?

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Execute the installation script generated from the Prisma Cloud Compute console directly on the EC2 instance.

Prisma Cloud provides a specialized install script generated from the Prisma Cloud Console under Compute > Defend > Defenders > DaemonSet / Manual / Single container, which can be executed via user data or SSH.

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Execute the installation script generated from the Prisma Cloud Compute console directly on the EC2 instance.
Why this is correct
The installation script connects back to the Prisma Cloud Console and installs the container/host defender correctly.
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Attach an AWS IAM policy named 'PrismaCloudDefender' to the EC2 instance metadata.
Why it's wrong here
IAM policies grant permissions, not software installation capability.
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Configure an AWS CloudWatch alarm to trigger the Prisma Cloud agent download.
Why it's wrong here
CloudWatch alarms cannot install software on EC2 instances.
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Enable AWS Inspector, which natively includes the Prisma Cloud Defender runtime.
Why it's wrong here
AWS Inspector is a separate native service and does not include Prisma Cloud Defenders.

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