Migration & Modernisation

An enterprise is planning a massive migration of 1,000 VMware virtual machines to AWS. They need to discover dependencies between applications to plan migration waves. Which AWS service should they use?

An enterprise is evaluating its on-premises application portfolio for cloud migration. They want a data-driven business case that includes Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis and right-sized AWS resource recommendations based on actual on-premises utilization. Which AWS tool should they use?

A company needs to migrate a 50 TB Oracle database from their on-premises data center to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The migration must have near-zero downtime. Which combination of AWS services should be used?

A startup is building a new serverless application. They need a fully managed GraphQL API layer that can securely access data from Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and Amazon OpenSearch Service. Which AWS service should they use to build this API?

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application uses hardcoded IP addresses to communicate with an on-premises mainframe. The mainframe cannot be updated to use DNS. How can the architect ensure the AWS application can communicate with the mainframe over AWS Direct Connect?

A company is migrating a large volume of data (100 PB) from their on-premises data center to Amazon S3. They have a 1 Gbps internet connection. The migration must be completed within 3 months. Which migration strategy is MOST appropriate?

A company is migrating a critical on-premises database to Amazon RDS for MySQL. The migration must have zero data loss (RPO=0) during the cutover. The on-premises database is 5 TB. Which TWO steps are REQUIRED to achieve this using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)? (Select TWO)

A company is migrating a monolithic application to a microservices architecture on Amazon EKS. They want to implement a service mesh to handle service-to-service communication, mutual TLS (mTLS) encryption, and advanced traffic routing (like canary deployments). Which THREE AWS services or features can be used to achieve this? (Select THREE)

A data analytics company is migrating a 500 TB data warehouse to Amazon Redshift. The data is currently stored in an on-premises Hadoop cluster. The migration must be completed quickly, but the company's internet connection is only 100 Mbps. Which THREE steps form the BEST migration strategy? (Select THREE)

A company is modernizing a legacy batch processing system. The new architecture will be event-driven. Files uploaded to Amazon S3 must trigger a workflow that extracts metadata, runs a machine learning inference using Amazon SageMaker, and updates an Amazon DynamoDB table. The workflow has multiple steps, conditional logic, and requires error handling and retries. Which TWO AWS services should be used to orchestrate and execute this workflow? (Select TWO)

A global enterprise is migrating 500 applications to AWS. They need a comprehensive strategy to discover on-premises dependencies, plan migration waves, execute lift-and-shift migrations, and track the overall progress. Which FOUR AWS services should they use? (Select FOUR)

A company is migrating a legacy Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The database is 5 TB and requires minimal downtime during the cutover. Which combination of AWS services should the architect use?

An enterprise is planning a massive migration of 10 PB of data from an on-premises SAN to Amazon S3. They have a 1 Gbps internet connection. They need to complete the migration within one month. What is the MOST feasible migration strategy?

A company is migrating a large portfolio of applications to AWS. They want to track the migration status of each application, including the servers and databases associated with them, in a single dashboard. Which AWS service should they use?

A company is migrating a monolithic application to AWS. The application has hardcoded IP addresses and cannot be easily refactored. They need to ensure the application retains its IP addresses during and after the migration. Which AWS service or feature should they use?

A company is migrating a large portfolio of VMware virtual machines to AWS. They want to use AWS Application Migration Service (MGN). What is the FIRST step required to begin replicating the VMs to AWS?

A company wants to modernize their application by moving from EC2 instances to containers. They want to use Kubernetes but do not want to manage the underlying EC2 instances or the Kubernetes control plane. Which AWS service should they use?

A company is migrating a legacy application that requires a relational database. The application uses complex SQL queries and stored procedures. The company wants to minimize database licensing costs and operational overhead. Which migration strategy is BEST?

A company is planning to migrate 500 on-premises VMs to AWS. They need to discover dependencies, analyze utilization, and estimate the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) on AWS. Which service provides these capabilities?

A company needs to migrate a 50 TB Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The migration must have minimal downtime. Which combination of tools should be used?

A company is modernizing a batch processing application. The application receives files in S3, processes them, and stores results in DynamoDB. Processing takes between 2 and 10 minutes per file. The workload is highly variable. Which compute option is MOST cost-effective and requires the least operational overhead?

A company wants to migrate a massive 10 PB data archive from their on-premises SAN to Amazon S3 Glacier. Their internet connection is 1 Gbps. What is the MOST efficient migration strategy?

An architect is modernizing a monolithic application by breaking it into event-driven microservices. Service A needs to publish events that are consumed by Service B, Service C, and a third-party SaaS application. Which AWS service is BEST suited as the event router?

A company is migrating a fleet of 500 VMware virtual machines to AWS. They want to perform a lift-and-shift migration with minimal downtime and continuous block-level replication. Which service should they use?

A database migration requires moving a 5 TB MySQL database from on-premises to Amazon Aurora MySQL. The migration must have less than 10 minutes of downtime. Which TWO tools should be used together? (Select TWO)

A company is evaluating their application portfolio for migration to AWS. They want to use the '7 Rs' migration strategies. Which THREE scenarios correctly map to their respective strategies? (Select THREE)

A company is migrating a large on-premises NFS file share to AWS. They want to maintain the NFS interface for legacy applications while storing the actual data in Amazon S3 for cost savings. Which THREE steps are required? (Select THREE)

An enterprise is modernizing their data analytics platform. They want to build a serverless data lake architecture. Data will be ingested from various sources, transformed, and queried using standard SQL. Which THREE services form the core of this architecture? (Select THREE)

An enterprise is planning a massive migration of 1,000 on-premises virtual machines to AWS. They need to perform a discovery phase to map dependencies between applications, understand resource utilization, and estimate the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) on AWS. Which AWS service should they use?

An enterprise is migrating a 50 TB Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The migration must have near-zero downtime. The source database uses complex stored procedures and proprietary Oracle features. How should the Solutions Architect execute this migration?