AWS AWS Migration & Hybrid Cloud

Question 1

Which AWS service provides a dedicated, private network connection from your on-premises data center directly to AWS?

Accepted Answer

AWS Direct Connect

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Rehost

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

AWS Database Migration Service

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

AWS Snowball Edge

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

AWS Application Discovery Service

Answer

AWS Application Discovery Service gathers information about on-premises data centers — server configs, utilization, and dependencies — to inform migration planning.

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AWS AWS Migration & Hybrid Cloud