AWS AWS Migration & Hybrid Cloud 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which AWS service extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to on-premises data centers for a consistent hybrid experience?
- AWS Snow Family
- AWS Outposts (Correct answer)
- AWS Local Zones
- AWS Wavelength
Correct answer: AWS Outposts
AWS Outposts delivers fully managed AWS infrastructure and services to on-premises locations, enabling a truly consistent hybrid cloud.
Question 2: Which migration strategy involves dropping an existing on-premises application and replacing it with a cloud-native SaaS alternative?
- Rehost
- Replatform
- Repurchase (Correct answer)
- Retire
Correct answer: Repurchase
Repurchasing means abandoning the current application and moving to a SaaS product — for example, replacing an on-premises CRM with Salesforce.
Question 3: Which AWS Snowball device can both compute locally (run EC2 instances and Lambda) and transfer data to S3?
- AWS Snowcone
- AWS Snowball
- AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized (Correct answer)
- AWS Snowmobile
Correct answer: AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized
Snowball Edge Compute Optimized provides the most vCPUs and GPU options for local edge compute while also enabling large-scale data transfer.
Question 4: Which AWS service provides on-premises file storage that seamlessly integrates with S3 or FSx via NFS or SMB protocols?
- AWS DataSync
- AWS Storage Gateway (Correct answer)
- Amazon EFS
- AWS Transfer Family
Correct answer: AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway connects on-premises environments to AWS storage services, presenting S3 or FSx as a local NFS, SMB, or iSCSI mount.
Question 5: Which service provides a fully managed VMware Cloud on AWS, allowing you to run VMware workloads on dedicated AWS hardware?
- AWS Outposts
- VMware Cloud on AWS (Correct answer)
- Amazon EC2 Bare Metal
- AWS Dedicated Hosts
Correct answer: VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware Cloud on AWS is a jointly developed service that runs the VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) on AWS bare metal infrastructure.
Question 6: What is the maximum data transfer capacity of a single AWS Snowmobile truck?
- 1 PB
- 10 PB
- 100 PB (Correct answer)
- 1 EB
Correct answer: 100 PB
A single AWS Snowmobile can transfer up to 100 petabytes of data, making it suitable for exabyte-scale migrations.
AWS AWS Migration & Hybrid Cloud 2
Which AWS service extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to on-premises data centers for a consistent hybrid experience?