AWS AWS Migration & Hybrid Cloud 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which AWS service provides a dedicated, private network connection from your on-premises data center directly to AWS?
- AWS VPN
- AWS Direct Connect (Correct answer)
- AWS Transit Gateway
- AWS PrivateLink
Correct answer: AWS Direct Connect
AWS Direct Connect establishes a dedicated network connection bypassing the public internet, offering consistent latency and throughput.
Question 2: Which migration strategy involves moving an application to AWS with the fewest possible changes, essentially a lift-and-shift?
- Replatform
- Repurchase
- Rehost (Correct answer)
- Refactor
Correct answer: Rehost
Rehosting (lift-and-shift) migrates applications to AWS with no code changes, moving servers as-is to EC2 or using tools like AWS MGN.
Question 3: Which AWS service migrates relational databases, data warehouses, and NoSQL databases to AWS with minimal downtime using continuous replication?
- AWS Server Migration Service
- AWS Database Migration Service (Correct answer)
- AWS Glue
- AWS DataSync
Correct answer: AWS Database Migration Service
AWS DMS replicates data continuously from source to target, enabling near-zero downtime cutovers for database migrations.
Question 4: Which AWS service physically ships appliances to your data center for offline petabyte-scale data transfer to AWS S3?
- AWS DataSync
- AWS Transfer Family
- AWS Snowball Edge (Correct answer)
- AWS Storage Gateway
Correct answer: AWS Snowball Edge
AWS Snowball Edge devices are ruggedized appliances shipped to customers for local data collection and large-scale transfer to S3, with optional edge compute.
Question 5: Which AWS service provides automated discovery of on-premises servers, applications, and dependencies to plan a migration?
- AWS Migration Hub
- AWS Application Discovery Service (Correct answer)
- AWS Config
- AWS DMS
Correct answer: AWS Application Discovery Service
AWS Application Discovery Service gathers information about on-premises data centers — server configs, utilization, and dependencies — to inform migration planning.
Question 6: Which AWS service provides a central place to track the progress of application migrations from multiple AWS and partner tools?
- AWS Application Discovery Service
- AWS Control Tower
- AWS Migration Hub (Correct answer)
- AWS Service Catalog
Correct answer: AWS Migration Hub
AWS Migration Hub provides a single location to track migration status across AWS services like MGN and DMS as well as partner tools.
AWS AWS Migration & Hybrid Cloud 1
Which AWS service provides a dedicated, private network connection from your on-premises data center directly to AWS?