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Question 1
A financial services company is creating a cloud migration plan. Its executives want to ensure that cloud investments support new revenue opportunities, reduce business risk, and align with the company’s overall business strategy. Which AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) perspective is most relevant?
A. Business
B. Platform
C. Security
D. Operations
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** The Business perspective of AWS CAF helps organizations ensure that cloud investments align with business outcomes, such as increased revenue, reduced business risk, and improved business performance. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (Platform):** Focuses on designing and implementing the technology infrastructure and cloud architecture. * **C (Security):** Focuses on security controls, identity, compliance, and protection of cloud workloads. * **D (Operations):** Focuses on operating, monitoring, and managing cloud environments efficiently.Question 2
A company is evaluating whether migrating its data center workloads to AWS will reduce costs. The company wants a data-driven assessment that estimates the total cost of ownership and provides right-sizing recommendations before migration. Which AWS service should the company use?
A. Migration Evaluator
B. AWS Application Discovery Service
C. AWS Application Migration Service
D. AWS Migration Hub
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Migration Evaluator provides a data-driven business case for AWS migration. It helps estimate costs, identify right-sized AWS resources, and support migration planning. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS Application Discovery Service):** Collects information about on-premises servers, applications, and dependencies but is not primarily used to create a cost business case. * **C (AWS Application Migration Service):** Replicates and migrates servers to AWS; it does not primarily perform migration cost analysis. * **D (AWS Migration Hub):** Provides a central place to track migration progress across supported tools and services.Question 3
Before migrating a large portfolio of applications, a company needs to inventory its on-premises servers and understand application dependencies. Which AWS service is designed for this discovery activity?
A. AWS Application Discovery Service
B. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
C. AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)
D. AWS Application Migration Service
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS Application Discovery Service collects information about on-premises servers, configurations, utilization, and network dependencies to support migration planning. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS DMS):** Migrates databases and can support ongoing data replication; it is not a general-purpose server and application discovery service. * **C (AWS SCT):** Converts database schemas and code between different database engines. * **D (AWS Application Migration Service):** Replicates and converts source servers for migration to AWS rather than primarily discovering the existing environment.Question 4
A company wants to move several on-premises virtual machines to AWS with minimal application changes. The company prefers a lift-and-shift approach and needs continuous replication of the source servers until the cutover. Which AWS service best meets these requirements?
A. AWS Application Migration Service
B. AWS Migration Hub
C. AWS Application Discovery Service
D. Migration Evaluator
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS Application Migration Service supports lift-and-shift migrations by continuously replicating source servers and launching them as applications on AWS with minimal changes. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS Migration Hub):** Tracks migration progress and application status but does not itself perform server replication. * **C (AWS Application Discovery Service):** Discovers servers and dependencies to help plan migrations but does not migrate the servers. * **D (Migration Evaluator):** Creates a data-driven business case and cost estimate rather than performing the migration.Question 5
An online retailer needs to migrate an on-premises relational database to an AWS database. The retailer must keep the source database available during the migration and wants ongoing replication so that downtime during the final cutover is minimized. Which AWS service should the retailer use?
A. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
B. AWS Application Migration Service
C. AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)
D. AWS Application Discovery Service
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS DMS supports full-load migrations and ongoing change data capture, or replication, which helps keep the target database synchronized and reduces downtime during cutover. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS Application Migration Service):** Migrates servers and applications rather than providing database-focused replication. * **C (AWS SCT):** Converts schemas and database code between different database engines but does not perform the ongoing data migration itself. * **D (AWS Application Discovery Service):** Collects infrastructure and dependency information for migration planning.Question 6
A company is migrating from a commercial database engine to an open-source database engine on AWS. The database engines use different schemas and SQL code. Which AWS service can help convert the database schema and application code?
A. AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)
B. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
C. AWS Application Discovery Service
D. AWS Migration Hub
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS SCT helps convert database schemas, stored procedures, and application SQL code when migrating between different database engines. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS DMS):** Migrates data between databases and can replicate ongoing changes, but it is not the primary tool for converting incompatible schemas and code. * **C (AWS Application Discovery Service):** Discovers servers, applications, and dependencies for migration planning. * **D (AWS Migration Hub):** Tracks migration progress across supported migration tools.Question 7
A program manager is coordinating the migration of hundreds of applications. Different teams are using AWS Application Migration Service and AWS DMS. The manager needs one location to track the status and progress of all application migrations. Which AWS service should the manager use?
A. AWS Migration Hub
B. Migration Evaluator
C. AWS Application Discovery Service
D. AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS Migration Hub provides a central location to track migration progress across applications and supported AWS migration tools. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (Migration Evaluator):** Helps build a migration business case and estimate costs rather than track execution status. * **C (AWS Application Discovery Service):** Collects information about the existing environment and application dependencies. * **D (AWS SCT):** Converts database schemas and code for database migration projects.Question 8
A company is reviewing the expected business benefits of adopting AWS. Which TWO outcomes are associated with cloud adoption and are relevant to the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)? (Select TWO)
A. Improved environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance
B. Increased operational efficiency
C. Elimination of all security responsibilities
D. Guaranteed elimination of all application downtime
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**Correct Answers:** A and B **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Cloud adoption can help organizations improve ESG performance through more efficient resource use, improved governance, and better sustainability practices. * **Why B is correct:** Cloud adoption can increase operational efficiency through automation, managed services, elasticity, and standardized processes. * **Why C is incorrect:** AWS and the customer share security responsibilities. Cloud adoption does not eliminate the customer’s security responsibilities. * **Why D is incorrect:** AWS services can improve resilience and availability, but cloud adoption does not guarantee that all application downtime will be eliminated.Question 9
A company wants to migrate an application to AWS. The company plans to move the application with minimal changes but wants to replace its self-managed database with a managed AWS database service to reduce administrative effort. Which migration strategy is being used?
A. Replatform
B. Rehost
C. Refactor
D. Retire
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Replatforming involves making limited optimizations to an application during migration, such as moving to a managed database service, without fundamentally changing the application architecture. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (Rehost):** Moves the application with little or no modification, commonly known as lift and shift. * **C (Refactor):** Involves substantially redesigning or re-architecting the application to use cloud-native capabilities. * **D (Retire):** Removes an application that is no longer needed instead of migrating it.Question 10
A company is preparing a migration plan and needs to perform two activities: identify the servers and application dependencies in its data center, and create a data-driven estimate of the AWS migration costs. Which TWO AWS services should the company use? (Select TWO)
A. AWS Application Discovery Service
B. Migration Evaluator
C. AWS Migration Hub
D. AWS Application Migration Service
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**Correct Answers:** A and B **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS Application Discovery Service collects information about on-premises servers, applications, utilization, and dependencies to support migration planning. * **Why B is correct:** Migration Evaluator analyzes the existing environment to create a data-driven business case and estimate the expected AWS costs. * **Why C is incorrect:** AWS Migration Hub tracks migration progress but does not primarily perform discovery or cost assessment. * **Why D is incorrect:** AWS Application Migration Service performs lift-and-shift server migrations through replication; it is not primarily a discovery or cost-estimation tool.Question 11
A company wants to understand its current data center environment before beginning a cloud migration. The company needs information about server utilization, dependencies, and application performance to estimate the required AWS resources. Which AWS service should the company use?
A. Migration Evaluator
B. AWS Application Discovery Service
C. AWS Application Migration Service
D. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
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**Correct Answer:** B **Explanation:** * **Why B is correct:** AWS Application Discovery Service collects information about on-premises servers, applications, utilization, and dependencies to support migration planning. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **A (Migration Evaluator):** Provides data-driven business cases and cost estimates for moving to AWS, but it is not primarily the service for detailed application dependency discovery. * **C (AWS Application Migration Service):** Migrates servers to AWS; it does not primarily perform discovery and dependency analysis. * **D (AWS Database Migration Service):** Migrates databases and supports ongoing replication between database environments.Question 12
A company wants to create a business case for migrating its data center workloads to AWS. The company needs an estimate of the expected AWS costs and potential savings based on its existing infrastructure. Which AWS service is most appropriate?
A. Migration Evaluator
B. AWS Migration Hub
C. AWS Application Migration Service
D. AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Migration Evaluator helps organizations build a data-driven business case for AWS migration by analyzing existing environments and estimating costs and savings. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS Migration Hub):** Tracks migration progress across applications and migration tools; it does not primarily create a financial business case. * **C (AWS Application Migration Service):** Replicates and migrates servers to AWS. * **D (AWS Schema Conversion Tool):** Converts database schemas and code when moving between different database engines.Question 13
A company is migrating several applications to AWS. The migration team wants one central location to track the status of each application and view migration progress across multiple AWS migration tools. Which service should the team use?
A. AWS Migration Hub
B. AWS Application Discovery Service
C. Migration Evaluator
D. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS Migration Hub provides a central place to discover, group, and track the progress of application migrations across supported migration tools and services. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS Application Discovery Service):** Collects information about on-premises servers and application dependencies. * **C (Migration Evaluator):** Helps develop a business case and estimate migration costs. * **D (AWS DMS):** Migrates and replicates databases rather than providing an overall application migration dashboard.Question 14
A company must move a physical Linux server to AWS with minimal changes to the application. The company wants to continuously replicate the server and perform a short cutover window. Which migration strategy and AWS service should the company use?
A. Rehost using AWS Application Migration Service
B. Refactor using AWS Schema Conversion Tool
C. Retain using AWS Migration Hub
D. Repurchase using Migration Evaluator
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Rehosting, also called “lift and shift,†moves an application with minimal changes. AWS Application Migration Service continuously replicates source servers and supports controlled cutovers to AWS. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (Refactor using AWS SCT):** Refactoring substantially changes an application to take advantage of cloud-native capabilities. AWS SCT is primarily for converting database schemas and code. * **C (Retain using AWS Migration Hub):** Retaining means keeping a workload in its current environment; Migration Hub tracks migration progress but does not perform retention. * **D (Repurchase using Migration Evaluator):** Repurchasing replaces a workload with a different product or service. Migration Evaluator supports business-case analysis rather than performing the migration.Question 15
A company is migrating a large database to AWS. The company must keep the source database available to users during the migration and minimize downtime during the final cutover. Which AWS service should the company use?
A. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
B. AWS Application Discovery Service
C. AWS Migration Hub
D. AWS Application Migration Service
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS DMS can replicate data from a source database to a target database while the source remains operational, allowing a low-downtime migration and final cutover. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS Application Discovery Service):** Discovers servers, applications, and dependencies but does not migrate database data. * **C (AWS Migration Hub):** Tracks migration progress but does not perform database replication. * **D (AWS Application Migration Service):** Migrates servers and applications rather than focusing on database replication.Question 16
A company is moving from a commercial relational database engine to an AWS-supported open-source database engine. The company needs to identify incompatible schema objects and convert database code before migrating the data. Which service should the company use?
A. AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)
B. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
C. AWS Application Discovery Service
D. Migration Evaluator
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS SCT helps convert database schemas, stored procedures, and application code between different database engines and identifies objects that require manual conversion. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS DMS):** Migrates and replicates data, but it does not primarily convert incompatible database schemas and code. * **C (AWS Application Discovery Service):** Collects infrastructure and dependency information. * **D (Migration Evaluator):** Estimates migration costs and helps build a business case.Question 17
A company wants to organize its cloud migration program around business, people, governance, platform, security, and operations considerations. Which AWS resource provides this structured guidance?
A. AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
B. AWS Migration Hub
C. AWS Application Migration Service
D. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS CAF provides guidance for organizing and managing cloud adoption across six perspectives: business, people, governance, platform, security, and operations. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS Migration Hub):** Tracks application migration progress rather than providing an organization-wide cloud adoption framework. * **C (AWS Application Migration Service):** Migrates servers to AWS. * **D (AWS DMS):** Migrates and replicates databases.Question 18
An organization is defining its cloud migration governance model. The team is establishing policies, portfolio management processes, and methods to measure business outcomes. Which AWS CAF perspective is most relevant?
A. Governance
B. People
C. Platform
D. Operations
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** The Governance perspective focuses on orchestrating cloud initiatives, managing risks, prioritizing workloads, and measuring business outcomes. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (People):** Focuses on organizational change, training, and workforce development. * **C (Platform):** Focuses on designing and implementing the AWS environment and technology architecture. * **D (Operations):** Focuses on operating and monitoring cloud workloads after deployment.Question 19
A company is preparing employees for a migration to AWS. The company needs to identify required skills, define training plans, and manage organizational change. Which AWS CAF perspective addresses these activities?
A. People
B. Security
C. Governance
D. Platform
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** The People perspective addresses organizational roles, skills, training, workforce readiness, and change management. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (Security):** Focuses on security assurance, identity, risk management, and compliance. * **C (Governance):** Focuses on policies, portfolio management, and business outcomes. * **D (Platform):** Focuses on the design and implementation of the cloud technology environment.Question 20
A company wants to improve its security controls and compliance processes as part of its cloud adoption plan. Which AWS CAF perspective should guide this work?
A. Security
B. Operations
C. Business
D. People
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** The Security perspective helps organizations establish security assurance, identity and access management, risk management, and compliance practices. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (Operations):** Focuses on monitoring, managing, and operating workloads. * **C (Business):** Focuses on ensuring that cloud investments align with business objectives and outcomes. * **D (People):** Focuses on workforce skills, organizational change, and training.Question 21
A business wants to migrate an application to AWS without making significant changes to the application code. The primary goal is to reduce the time required to complete the migration. Which migration strategy meets this requirement?
A. Rehost
B. Refactor
C. Retire
D. Repurchase
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Rehosting moves an application to AWS with minimal modifications and is often selected to accelerate migration. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (Refactor):** Involves significant changes to the application architecture or code to use cloud-native capabilities. * **C (Retire):** Removes applications that are no longer needed instead of migrating them. * **D (Repurchase):** Replaces an existing application with a different commercial product or service.Question 22
A company discovers that an old internal application is no longer used by any business unit. The company wants to simplify the migration program and reduce unnecessary costs. Which migration strategy should the company choose?
A. Retire
B. Rehost
C. Replatform
D. Replicate
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** The retire strategy removes workloads that are no longer needed, avoiding the cost and effort of migrating them. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (Rehost):** Moves the application to AWS with minimal changes. * **C (Replatform):** Makes limited optimizations while keeping the application’s core architecture. * **D (Replicate):** Refers to copying data or workloads and is not one of the commonly cited migration strategies for eliminating an unused application.Question 23
A company wants to move an application to AWS and make a few optimizations, such as moving from a self-managed database to a managed database service, without redesigning the entire application. Which migration strategy is most appropriate?
A. Replatform
B. Rehost
C. Refactor
D. Retain
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Replatforming, sometimes called “lift, tinker, and shift,†makes targeted optimizations without changing the application’s fundamental architecture. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (Rehost):** Moves the workload with minimal changes and does not normally include targeted modernization. * **C (Refactor):** Redesigns or substantially changes the application to use cloud-native capabilities. * **D (Retain):** Keeps the application in its existing environment rather than moving it to AWS.Question 24
A company is evaluating whether to move several applications to AWS. Some applications have dependencies on the same on-premises servers. The company wants to group related resources and understand which applications should be migrated together. Which service can provide useful discovery information for this planning?
A. AWS Application Discovery Service
B. AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)
C. AWS Application Migration Service
D. Migration Evaluator
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS Application Discovery Service gathers information about server configurations, utilization, and application dependencies to support migration planning and workload grouping. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS SCT):** Converts database schemas and code between database engines. * **C (AWS Application Migration Service):** Replicates and migrates servers after migration planning. * **D (Migration Evaluator):** Helps estimate migration costs and build a business case, but it is not primarily used for detailed dependency mapping.Question 25
A company wants to migrate a large number of on-premises servers to AWS. The company wants an automated service that continuously replicates source servers and supports non-disruptive testing before the final cutover. Which service should the company use?
A. AWS Application Migration Service
B. AWS Migration Hub
C. AWS Application Discovery Service
D. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS Application Migration Service automates the replication and migration of physical, virtual, or cloud servers to AWS and supports testing before cutover. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS Migration Hub):** Provides centralized migration tracking but does not replicate servers. * **C (AWS Application Discovery Service):** Discovers infrastructure and dependencies but does not perform server migration. * **D (AWS DMS):** Replicates and migrates databases rather than complete application servers.Question 26
A company wants to migrate data from an on-premises source database to an AWS target database. The company must keep the target synchronized with ongoing changes in the source until the migration is complete. Which capability should the company use?
A. Continuous replication with AWS DMS
B. Application dependency discovery with AWS Application Discovery Service
C. Server replication with AWS Application Migration Service
D. Schema assessment with AWS Migration Hub
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS DMS supports ongoing replication, which keeps the target database synchronized with changes made to the source database during migration. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS Application Discovery Service):** Identifies infrastructure and application dependencies but does not replicate database changes. * **C (AWS Application Migration Service):** Replicates servers and applications, not database content as its primary function. * **D (AWS Migration Hub):** Tracks migration status and does not provide schema conversion or database replication.Question 27
A company has a database that uses a proprietary commercial engine. The company wants to move to an open-source database engine on AWS to reduce licensing costs. The company expects that database procedures and schema objects will require conversion. Which service should the company use first?
A. AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)
B. AWS Application Migration Service
C. AWS Migration Hub
D. Migration Evaluator
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS SCT assesses and converts database schemas and code between different database engines, helping identify conversion complexity before data migration. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS Application Migration Service):** Migrates servers and applications rather than converting database schemas. * **C (AWS Migration Hub):** Tracks application migration progress across tools. * **D (Migration Evaluator):** Estimates migration costs and savings but does not convert database objects.Question 28
A company’s leadership wants its cloud migration to reduce operational risk, improve efficiency, and support improved environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. Which resource helps the company structure its cloud adoption activities to pursue these outcomes?
A. AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
B. AWS Application Discovery Service
C. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
D. AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS CAF provides organizational and strategic guidance for cloud adoption, including outcomes such as reduced business risk, improved operational efficiency, increased revenue, and improved ESG performance. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B (AWS Application Discovery Service):** Supports technical discovery and migration planning. * **C (AWS DMS):** Supports database migration and replication. * **D (AWS SCT):** Supports database schema and code conversion.Question 29
A company plans to migrate its applications in phases. The migration team wants to use AWS Migration Hub to monitor progress, AWS Application Discovery Service to understand dependencies, and AWS Application Migration Service to move servers. Which statement best describes the role of AWS Migration Hub?
A. It provides centralized tracking of application migration progress.
B. It converts schemas between different database engines.
C. It continuously replicates database changes to a target database.
D. It automatically estimates the financial benefits of cloud adoption.
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS Migration Hub centralizes migration tracking and provides visibility into the progress of applications migrated with supported tools. * **Why distractors are incorrect:** * **B:** Schema conversion is performed by AWS SCT. * **C:** Database change replication is a capability of AWS DMS. * **D:** Migration Evaluator helps estimate costs and potential savings for a migration business case.Question 30
A company is planning its migration strategy for a portfolio of applications. Some applications should be moved with minimal changes, some should be modernized, and others are no longer needed. Which three migration strategies should the company consider? (Select THREE)
A. Rehost
B. Refactor
C. Retire
D. Encrypt
E. Monitor