After multiple compromises of its Amazon EC2 instances, a company’s Security Officer is mandating that memory dumps of compromised instances be captured for further analysis. A Security Engineer just received an EC2 abuse notification report from AWS stating that an EC2 instance running the most recent Windows Server 2019 Base AMI is compromised. How should the Security Engineer collect a memory dump of the EC2 instance for forensic analysis?

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A. Give consent to the AWS Security team to dump the memory core on the compromised instance and provide it to AWS Support for analysis.
B. Review memory dump data that the AWS Systems Manager Agent sent to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
C. Download and run the EC2Rescue for Windows Server utility from AWS.
D. Reboot the EC2 Windows Server, enter safe mode, and select memory dump.

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