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A company is migrating a monolithic e-commerce application to a microservices architecture on AWS. The migration must minimize downtime and allow rollback. Which migration strategy should the company use?

A company is migrating a monolithic application to AWS. They want to minimize refactoring effort while gaining some benefits of the cloud. Which migration strategy is most appropriate?

A company is planning to migrate its on-premises data warehouse to AWS. The data warehouse runs on a large Oracle RAC cluster with complex stored procedures and ETL jobs. The company wants to minimize migration effort while gaining cloud benefits. Which AWS service should be used as the target?

A company is migrating a stateful application to AWS. The application maintains session state in memory on the application server. Which AWS service should be used to store session state for high availability?

A company is migrating a legacy .NET application to AWS. The application uses Windows authentication and COM+ components. The company wants to move to a modern architecture with minimal changes to the application code. The application must run on AWS and integrate with Active Directory for authentication. Which solution should the company use?

A company is migrating a legacy application that uses TCP on port 8080 to AWS. The application must be accessible from the internet. The company wants to use an Application Load Balancer. What must the company do to ensure the load balancer can accept traffic on port 8080?

A company is migrating an on-premises .NET application to AWS. The application uses a SQL Server database with a large number of stored procedures and triggers. The company wants to reduce licensing costs by moving to an open-source database. Which AWS service should the solutions architect use to automate the database conversion?

A retail company is migrating its e-commerce platform from a monolith running on a single on-premises server to AWS. The current application consists of a Java-based web server, a MySQL database, and a caching layer using Redis. The company wants to modernize the architecture by adopting microservices, using serverless where possible, and minimizing operational overhead. The migration must be completed within six months with minimal disruption to ongoing operations. The solutions architect proposes the following initial steps: containerize the Java application and run it on Amazon ECS with Fargate, migrate the MySQL database to Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, and replace Redis with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Serverless. However, the team is concerned about the complexity of the migration and the potential for downtime. Which recommendation should the solutions architect make to address these concerns?

A company is migrating a legacy application that uses a proprietary binary protocol over TCP. The application must be migrated with minimal changes and requires high throughput. Which AWS service should the architect recommend for load balancing?

A company is modernizing a legacy monolithic application by moving it to a microservices architecture on AWS. The application currently uses a relational database with complex joins and stored procedures. The company wants to decouple the database and improve scalability. They plan to use Amazon Aurora and need to minimize the risk of data inconsistencies during the transition. Which strategy should they use to gradually migrate the database while ensuring data consistency?

A company is migrating a large number of on-premises VMs to AWS. They need to assess the current environment and track migration progress. Which THREE AWS services should be used together?

During an on-premises to AWS migration using AWS MGN (Application Migration Service), the replication is stuck at 99% for the last few GB. The source server is a Linux database server with a large InnoDB redo log. What is the most likely cause?

A company is moving a legacy application that uses a shared file system to AWS. The application requires POSIX-compliant file storage that can be accessed by multiple EC2 instances simultaneously. Which AWS storage service should they use?

A company is planning to migrate its on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database is 2 TB in size and the company has a high-speed network connection to AWS. Which AWS service should the company use to migrate the database with minimal downtime?

A company is modernizing a monolithic application into microservices on Amazon ECS. They want to decouple services and improve resilience. Which AWS service should they use for asynchronous communication between microservices?

A company is migrating a batch processing workload to AWS. The workload runs on a schedule and processes large files stored on a network file system. The company wants to use a serverless architecture to reduce costs. Which combination of AWS services should the company use?

A company wants to migrate its on-premises Active Directory to AWS Managed Microsoft AD to support Windows-based workloads on AWS. The company has a complex Active Directory structure with multiple domains, group policies, and trusts with external directories. Which migration approach should the company use?

A company is migrating a data warehouse from on-premises to Amazon Redshift. The current workload runs complex queries that join large tables. The company wants to optimize query performance after migration. Which design should the company implement?

A healthcare company is migrating a legacy patient-records application to AWS. The application runs on two on-premises servers behind a hardware load balancer and uses a shared file system for documents. The company needs a migration plan that provides high availability across two Availability Zones, minimizes changes to the application, and keeps the document store accessible from both servers with POSIX permissions. (Choose two.)

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to AWS. The application runs on a physical server and uses a locally attached tape library for nightly backups. The company wants to eliminate tape management and store backups in Amazon S3. The backup software supports the iSCSI protocol. Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?

A retail company is migrating its on-premises data center to AWS. They have many applications with complex interdependencies. The company wants to group servers into migration waves based on network dependencies to minimize disruption. Which AWS tool should they use to discover these dependencies?

An organization is modernizing a legacy application by breaking it into microservices on AWS. The application processes customer orders and sends notifications. The team wants to decouple the order processing from the notification service to improve scalability. Which AWS service should they use to asynchronously pass messages between the services?

A company is migrating a monolithic application to AWS and wants to adopt a microservices architecture. The application currently runs on a single server and uses a shared MySQL database. Which AWS service can help the company decouple the microservices and enable asynchronous communication?

A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to AWS. The application currently runs on a single Windows Server with IIS and SQL Server. The company wants to adopt a microservices architecture on AWS using containers. The development team has containerized the application into several Docker containers. The company needs a solution that minimizes operational overhead for managing the container orchestration and scaling, and also integrates with AWS services like IAM, CloudWatch, and VPC. Which AWS service should the company use to run the containers?

A company is modernizing an on-premises Java application by moving it to containers on Amazon EKS. The application reads configuration from environment-specific property files and stores user-uploaded documents on a locally mounted NFS share. The company wants the containerized application to be portable across clusters and environments, and it must not require rebuilding the container image per environment. Which two changes should a solutions architect make to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS and needs to ensure that the migration has minimal downtime. The application uses a SQL Server database. The company wants to use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for the migration. What should the company do to minimize downtime during the database migration?

A company is migrating a large-scale .NET application to AWS. The application uses Windows authentication and requires Active Directory integration. The company wants to reduce operational overhead. Which migration approach should they use?

A company is migrating a legacy three-tier web application to AWS. The application consists of a web tier, an application tier, and a database tier. The company wants to minimize downtime and ensure data consistency during the migration. The database is a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 running on-premises. The company plans to use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for the database migration. Which two actions should be taken to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating a legacy .NET application to AWS. The application uses Windows authentication and connects to an on-premises SQL Server database. The company wants to minimize code changes. Which migration strategy is most appropriate?

A company is migrating a legacy three-tier application from its on-premises data center to AWS. The application consists of a web tier, an application tier, and a database tier. The company wants to improve scalability and reduce operational overhead. The database tier uses Microsoft SQL Server and cannot be modified. The company wants to migrate with minimal changes. Which two actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A media company is migrating a large on-premises video rendering workload to AWS. The workload runs on 100 physical servers and is highly parallelizable. The company wants to minimize infrastructure management and only pay for the compute capacity used. They also need to handle sudden spikes in demand. Which AWS service should they use?

A company is migrating a high-traffic web application to AWS. The application currently runs on physical servers in a colocation facility and uses a custom session state mechanism stored in a local Redis instance on each server. The company wants to modernize the application to be highly available and scalable on AWS with minimal code changes. Which solution meets these requirements?

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to AWS. The application currently runs on a Windows Server with a SQL Server database. The company wants to minimize changes to the application code. Which migration strategy should the company use?

A company is migrating a large-scale Hadoop cluster to Amazon EMR. The migration plan includes moving data from HDFS to Amazon S3. The company wants to minimize costs and ensure data durability. Which approach should the company use?

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to AWS. The application uses a proprietary database that runs on a single Windows server. The company wants to minimize downtime and avoid re-architecting the database. Which migration strategy should the solutions architect recommend?

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to AWS. The application uses a shared file system that must be accessible from multiple Amazon EC2 instances across two Availability Zones. The file system must provide high throughput and support POSIX permissions. Which AWS service should the company use?

A company is migrating a mission-critical application to AWS. The application requires a fixed IP address for whitelisting by external partners. The company plans to use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic. However, ALB does not support static IP addresses. How can the company meet the requirement for static IP addresses while using the ALB?

A company is modernizing a monolithic Java application by decomposing it into microservices. The application currently uses a single relational database. The company wants to migrate to a microservices architecture on AWS with minimal operational overhead. The microservices must be independently deployable and scalable, and each service should own its data. Which approach should a solutions architect recommend?

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS using the rehost (lift-and-shift) strategy. The application uses a proprietary database that is not supported by Amazon RDS. The company wants to automate the migration of multiple servers and minimize downtime. Which AWS service should be used to automate the server migration?

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to AWS. The application uses a monolithic architecture and a self-managed MySQL database. The company wants to reduce operational overhead and improve scalability with minimal application changes. A solutions architect needs to recommend a migration path for the database. Which AWS service should the solutions architect use?

A company is migrating its on-premises data center to AWS. The company has over 200 applications, each with varying dependencies. The migration team wants to use AWS Migration Hub to track the migration progress. Which approach should the team take to ensure successful tracking and minimize manual effort?

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS. The application requires a relational database with high availability and automated failover. The company wants to use a fully managed database service. Which AWS service should the architect choose?

A company is migrating a legacy application that uses a third-party identity provider (IdP) for authentication. The application currently uses SAML 2.0. The company wants to use AWS IAM Identity Center for centralized access management. What is the best approach to integrate the IdP with AWS?

A company is migrating a high-traffic web application from on-premises to AWS. The application uses a MySQL database and stores session state on the web servers. The company wants to ensure that the application can scale horizontally and that users are not logged out when new web servers are added. Which migration strategy should be used for the session state?

A company is migrating a large-scale e-commerce platform from on-premises to AWS. The migration plan includes rehosting the application servers and replatforming the database to Amazon Aurora. The company needs to ensure minimal downtime during the cutover. Which strategy should the company use for the database migration?

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises .NET application to AWS. The application uses Windows Authentication and relies on Active Directory. The company wants to minimize code changes. Which solution should the architect recommend?

A migration engineer is using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) to migrate a Windows server from on-premises. The engineer runs the command above and sees the source server is in the "READY_FOR_TEST" state. What should the engineer do next?

A company is migrating a monolithic e-commerce application to AWS. The application currently runs on a single on-premises server running Windows Server and SQL Server. The company wants to minimize re-architecting effort and time to migrate. Which migration strategy should the company use?

A company is migrating an e-commerce website to AWS. The website has a MySQL database. The company wants to automate the migration of the database schema and data. Which AWS service should they use?

A company is using the 7 Rs strategy to migrate a monolithic application to AWS. They want to move the application to the cloud without modifying the code but plan to later refactor parts of it. Which migration strategy should they choose initially?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database is 2 TB in size and the company has a 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection. They need to minimize downtime. Which approach should the solutions architect recommend?

A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to AWS. The application has tightly coupled components and high latency between them. The company wants to modernize the application into a microservices architecture. Which migration strategy should the company use?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The database is 5 TB and must be migrated with minimal downtime. The company requires continuous replication of changes during the migration and the ability to cut over within a 1-hour maintenance window. Which combination of AWS services should be used to achieve this?

A company is migrating a legacy .NET Framework application to AWS. The application uses Windows authentication and relies on Active Directory for user authentication. The company wants to minimize code changes and maintain the same authentication mechanism. The application will run on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC. Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?

A company is migrating a legacy Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The migration must be completed with minimal downtime and minimal manual effort. Which AWS service should be used?

A company is migrating a stateful firewall appliance to AWS. The appliance currently inspects traffic between multiple on-premises segments. In AWS, the company wants to deploy the appliance in a VPC to inspect traffic between subnets. Which architecture should the company use to ensure that the appliance can inspect all traffic?

A company wants to migrate its on-premises virtualized workloads to AWS using the VMware Cloud on AWS service. The company currently uses VMware vSphere for virtualization. What is the primary benefit of using VMware Cloud on AWS for this migration?

A company is migrating a web application to AWS and wants to use a multi-tier architecture with an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The company needs to store session state for the application. Which TWO approaches should the company use to store session state in a scalable and highly available manner? (Choose TWO.)

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application currently runs on a single on-premises server with a local MySQL database. The company wants to minimize changes and reduce operational overhead. Which TWO strategies should the solutions architect recommend? (Select TWO.)

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application uses a proprietary binary protocol that is not HTTP-based. The application currently runs on a single server and communicates with clients over TCP port 4444. The company wants to use AWS Elastic Load Balancing to distribute traffic across multiple EC2 instances for high availability. Which load balancer type should the company use?

A company is migrating a legacy Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The migration must minimize downtime and support ongoing replication. Which AWS service should the company use?

A company is migrating a large Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The migration must have minimal downtime and support ongoing replication. Which AWS service should the company use?

A company is migrating a web application to AWS. The application currently runs on a single server and uses a MySQL database. The company wants to ensure high availability and scalability. The web application is stateless. Which TWO actions should the company take to achieve these goals? (Choose TWO.)

A company is migrating a legacy application that uses Windows Authentication for SQL Server. The company wants to use AWS Managed Microsoft AD. Which migration strategy should be used for the database to maintain compatibility?

A company is migrating a large-scale Oracle data warehouse to Amazon Redshift. The migration must minimize downtime. The source database is 10 TB and runs on a single on-premises server with 1 Gbps network. Which approach should be used for the initial data load?

A company is modernizing a monolithic Java application to run on Amazon ECS with Fargate. The application uses a proprietary configuration management system. Which TWO AWS services can replace the configuration management system to store and retrieve configuration at runtime?

A company is migrating its on-premises virtual machines (VMs) to AWS. The company has 50 VMs running various operating systems and applications. The architect wants to use a service that automates the replication and conversion of the VMs to Amazon EC2 instances. Which AWS service should the architect use?

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises .NET application to AWS. The application uses a SQL Server database and requires full control over the operating system for compliance. Which migration strategy should the solutions architect recommend to minimize rework while meeting compliance requirements?

A company is migrating a large on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database is 2 TB in size and has a 24/7 uptime requirement. The company plans to use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) for continuous replication with minimal downtime. The source database is Oracle 11g running on Linux. During the full load phase, AWS DMS reports high latency and the replication slows down significantly. The source database CPU utilization is at 100% during the migration. The company needs to minimize the impact on production workload. What should the company do to improve the migration performance and reduce impact on the source database?

A company is migrating a large-scale batch processing workload from on-premises to AWS. The workload runs on a schedule and processes data files from an FTP server. The company wants to use AWS services that are serverless and event-driven to reduce operational overhead. The data files will be uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket. Which solution meets these requirements?

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS. The migration plan includes a pilot light strategy. The company has set up a small replica of the environment in AWS. During a disaster, the company wants to quickly provision the full production environment. Which AWS service is best suited for this purpose?

A company is migrating a high-traffic web application to AWS. The application currently runs on physical servers in a data center and uses a shared file system for user-uploaded content. The company wants to minimize changes to the application and ensure the file system is highly available across multiple Availability Zones. Which AWS service should be used to replace the shared file system?

A company is migrating a containerized application to Amazon ECS. The application requires persistent storage that can be shared across multiple containers running on different EC2 instances. Which storage solution should they use?

Which THREE of the following are common challenges when migrating a monolithic application to a microservices architecture on AWS? (Choose three.)

A company is migrating a critical database server to Amazon EC2. The root volume (EBS) is configured with DeleteOnTermination=false. After migration, the company needs to ensure that if the EC2 instance fails, a new instance can be quickly launched using the same data. The company takes regular snapshots of the volume. Which statement is correct regarding the root volume's behavior?

A company is migrating a containerized application from on-premises Kubernetes to Amazon EKS. The application uses persistent volumes for shared configuration files that must be accessible by multiple pods across different Availability Zones. The company wants a fully managed storage solution that supports ReadWriteMany (RWX) access. Which storage option should be used?

A company is migrating a large-scale on-premises Apache Kafka cluster to AWS. The cluster handles real-time streaming data from thousands of IoT devices. The company wants to reduce operational overhead and ensure high availability. Which AWS service should be used?

A company is migrating a legacy application that uses a proprietary binary protocol for communication. The application communicates over TCP/IP. The company wants to modernize the communication layer to use a RESTful API. Which TWO approaches should the company consider?

A company wants to migrate its on-premises file server to AWS. The file server contains 10 TB of data that changes infrequently. The company has a limited bandwidth internet connection and needs to complete the migration within one week. Which AWS service should the company use for the initial data transfer?

A company is migrating an on-premises application to AWS. The application requires low-latency access to a file system that can be mounted by multiple EC2 instances simultaneously. Which AWS storage service should they use?

Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to an IAM user. The user tries to upload an object to `s3://my-bucket/secret/data.txt` from an IP address in the 10.0.0.0/8 range. What will happen?

A company is migrating a stateful application to AWS. The application uses sticky sessions (session affinity) on the current on-premises load balancer. The company wants to use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in AWS. Which feature should be enabled?

A company is migrating a stateful application to AWS. The application runs on a single on-premises server and uses local storage for persistent data. The company wants to achieve high availability and scalability. Which migration approach should the company use?

A company is migrating workloads to AWS using AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN). The source servers are running on VMware vSphere. After installing the AWS Replication Agent on the source servers, the migration waves are set up. However, during a test cutover, the test instance fails to launch with an error 'Insufficient IP address space in the target VPC'. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating a legacy PHP application running on a single on-premises server to AWS. The application stores session data locally on the server's filesystem. The company wants to achieve high availability and elasticity for the application on AWS. What should the company do to handle session state in the new architecture?

A company is modernizing a legacy application by breaking it into microservices. The application has a complex set of dependencies and requires gradual migration. Which design pattern should the company use?

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS and needs to ensure business continuity during the migration. The application must remain available with minimal downtime. Which AWS service should be used to replicate data continuously?

A company is migrating its on-premises file server to AWS. The file server contains 5 TB of data and is accessed by hundreds of users. The company wants a fully managed file storage solution that supports SMB protocol. Which AWS service should the architect consider?

A company is migrating a legacy Java application to AWS. The application currently runs on a single on-premises server and uses a MySQL database. The company wants to modernize the application by decoupling components and improving scalability. Which THREE steps should the architect include in the migration plan?

A company runs a high-traffic web application on physical servers in its own data center. The servers use a proprietary TCP-based protocol on port 9000 that cannot be changed, and the application stores session data in local memory. The company wants to migrate the application to AWS with minimal code changes while enabling horizontal scaling and high availability. Which combination of AWS services should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A company is migrating its on-premises VMware virtual machines to AWS. The company wants to use a lift-and-shift approach and minimize changes to the applications. Which AWS service should be used to automate the migration of these virtual machines?

A company attaches the IAM policy shown in the exhibit to an IAM user. The user tries to upload an object to my-bucket using the AWS CLI without the --ssl flag (i.e., using HTTP). What will happen?

Refer to the exhibit. A company is using AWS Migration Hub to track migrations. The above IAM policy is attached to an IAM role used by the migration tool. The migration tool reports that it cannot register the migration task with Migration Hub. Which action should the company add to the policy to fix the issue?

A media company is migrating its on-premises rendering farm to AWS. The rendering application uses a shared file system that must be accessible by hundreds of EC2 instances simultaneously. The file system must provide high throughput and low latency, and support POSIX permissions. The company wants to minimize changes to the application. Which AWS storage service should they use?

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS using a lift-and-shift approach. The application runs on two on-premises servers: a web server and a database server running SQL Server. The company has deployed the web server on an EC2 instance behind an Application Load Balancer, and the database on an RDS for SQL Server Multi-AZ instance. After migration, users report that the application is noticeably slower compared to on-premises. The application uses a large number of database transactions, and latency between the web server and database has increased. The web server is in us-east-1a, and the RDS primary instance is in us-east-1b. The solutions architect verifies that the application is using the RDS endpoint, not the IP address. What should the architect do to reduce latency?

A company is migrating a legacy Windows application to AWS. The application requires a shared file system accessible from multiple EC2 instances. Which AWS storage solution should the company use?

A company is migrating an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server. They need to minimize downtime and ensure data consistency. Which AWS service should they use for the migration?

A company is migrating a monolithic application to AWS. The application consists of a web server, an application server, and a MySQL database. The web server and application server run on the same EC2 instance. The company wants to minimize changes during migration. Which migration strategy should the architect recommend?

A company is planning to migrate a large .NET application to AWS. The application uses IIS and SQL Server. Which TWO AWS services can be used to rehost the application with minimal changes?

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS and wants to ensure business continuity during the cutover. The migration plan includes a pilot light strategy. Which of the following BEST describes the pilot light pattern?

A company is migrating a multi-tier application to AWS and wants to modernize by using containers and serverless technologies. The application consists of a Node.js frontend, a Java backend, and a PostgreSQL database. The company wants to reduce operational overhead and improve scalability. Which TWO strategies should the company use? (Choose two.)

A company is modernizing a legacy application by refactoring it into microservices. The application uses a monolithic database. The company wants to adopt a microservices architecture with independent data stores. What pattern should the company use?

A company is migrating a Windows-based .NET application to AWS. The application uses SQL Server for its database and stores documents on a Windows file share. The company wants to adopt a hybrid model initially, where the application runs on AWS but still connects to on-premises resources for legacy integration. The migration must use a phased approach: first move the compute to AWS, then the database, and finally the file storage. The company has high latency to the internet and wants to optimize data transfer. You have set up a Direct Connect connection. During the first phase, you migrate the web and application servers to Amazon EC2 Windows instances. You need to ensure that the EC2 instances can access the on-premises SQL Server and file share securely. Which combination of actions should be taken?

A company is planning to migrate a three-tier web application to AWS. The application consists of a web server, an application server, and a MySQL database. The company wants to minimize operational overhead and improve scalability. Which THREE AWS services should the company use to modernize the architecture? (Choose THREE.)

A company is migrating a legacy Java application from an on-premises VMware environment to AWS. The application runs on a single server with 16 vCPUs and 32 GB RAM, and uses an NFS share for shared files. The company wants to minimize changes and reduce operational overhead. Which migration strategy best meets these requirements?

A company is migrating a web application to AWS and wants to use a containerized architecture. The application consists of multiple microservices that communicate via REST APIs. The company needs a solution that minimizes operational overhead for managing containers and orchestrating microservices. Which AWS service should the company use?

A company is migrating a 40 TB on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The database must remain fully operational during the migration, and the cutover must complete within a 30-minute maintenance window. The company requires continuous data replication until the final switchover. Which migration approach should a solutions architect recommend?

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application uses a custom authentication mechanism that relies on LDAP. The company wants to minimize changes to the application. Which THREE services should the company consider for integrating LDAP authentication? (Choose THREE.)

A company is migrating 400 on-premises VMware virtual machines to AWS. The migration team wants to use the AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to replicate servers continuously to a staging area and then launch test and cutover instances. The company's security policy requires that all replicated data remain encrypted with customer-managed keys and that the replication traffic never traverse the public internet. The on-premises network is already connected to a VPC through an AWS Site-to-Site VPN. Which combination of actions should the migration team take to meet these requirements?

A company is migrating a multi-tier web application to AWS. The application uses sticky sessions (session affinity). The company wants to use an Application Load Balancer (ALB). How should the architect configure the ALB to support sticky sessions?

A financial services company is migrating a mainframe COBOL application to AWS. The application writes files to a VSAM dataset and is invoked by a CICS transaction manager. The company wants to preserve business logic with minimal rewrite while moving to a managed runtime. Which migration strategy and AWS service combination best meets these requirements?

A company is migrating a critical application from on-premises to AWS. The application uses a Microsoft SQL Server database with Always On Availability Groups for high availability. The company wants to use Amazon RDS for SQL Server to reduce management overhead. The database size is 500 GB. The migration must have minimal downtime and support transactional consistency. The company has a VPN connection to AWS. Which migration strategy should the company use?

A company is migrating a monolithic application to microservices on AWS. The application uses a shared MySQL database. The team wants to decouple the database per microservice. Which strategy should the team use to minimize downtime during migration?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The database is 10 TB and supports a critical application with a maximum allowable downtime of 30 minutes. The company wants to use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) with change data capture (CDC) to minimize downtime. After the initial full load, CDC is replicating ongoing changes. The company needs to perform the final cutover. Which sequence of steps should the company take to achieve the least downtime?

A company is migrating an on-premises data warehouse to Amazon Redshift. The data warehouse contains 50 TB of data and is used for complex analytical queries. The company wants to minimize the migration time and ensure the data is available for querying as soon as possible. Which approach should the company use?

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to AWS. The application runs on a physical server with 16 vCPUs and 64 GB RAM, and it stores data on a local SSD. The company wants to minimize changes to the application and reduce operational overhead. They plan to use a lift-and-shift approach. Which AWS service should a solutions architect recommend to migrate the server?

A company is modernizing a legacy Java application to run on AWS. The application currently uses a monolithic architecture with a shared MySQL database. The company wants to adopt a microservices architecture using containers and wants to decouple the database. The solutions architect proposes using Amazon ECS with Fargate for compute and Amazon RDS for MySQL for the database. However, during the transition, the performance team notices that the database CPU utilization is consistently above 80% during peak hours. The application logs show many slow queries. The team suspects that the database is the bottleneck. The company wants to improve performance without rewriting the application. Which action should the solutions architect take first?

A financial services company is migrating a legacy on-premises Java application to AWS. The application uses an Oracle database and is deployed on WebLogic Server. The company wants to modernize the application by moving to a microservices architecture on AWS. The migration must minimize downtime and ensure data consistency during the transition. Which two strategies should be used to achieve these goals? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating its on-premises PostgreSQL database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The database is 2 TB in size and has a 24-hour maintenance window on weekends. The company needs to minimize downtime and ensure data consistency. Which strategy should the solutions architect recommend?

A company is modernizing a legacy monolithic application by decomposing it into microservices. The application currently uses a single relational database. The company wants to migrate to a microservices architecture on AWS and needs to choose appropriate data storage strategies. The company requires that each microservice has its own database to ensure loose coupling and independent scaling. Which two strategies should the company use to achieve this? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS and needs to ensure it meets a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 5 minutes. The application runs on EC2 with an EBS volume. Which configuration should the company use?

A company is migrating 200 on-premises virtual machines running a mix of Windows and Linux workloads to AWS. The migration must complete within a tight cutover window, and the company wants to minimize manual configuration and scripting. A solutions architect needs to choose a migration approach that supports automated conversion of the source servers into Amazon EC2 instances with minimal changes. Which AWS service should the solutions architect use?

A company is migrating a legacy three-tier Java application from its on-premises data center to AWS. The application uses a proprietary in-memory session store that cannot be modified. The company wants to use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) for the migration and minimize downtime. After the initial replication, the company needs to perform a final cutover with less than 5 minutes of downtime. Which approach should the company take?

A company is using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) to migrate hundreds of on-premises servers to AWS. After the migration, some servers fail a health check. What is the most efficient way to remediate the failed servers?

A company is migrating a containerized application from an on-premises Kubernetes cluster to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The application consists of multiple microservices that communicate with each other and with an on-premises database. The company wants to minimize changes to the application and ensure secure, low-latency connectivity between the EKS cluster and the on-premises database during and after the migration. Which two actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating an on-premises application to AWS. The application requires dedicated hardware for licensing compliance. Which AWS service should the company use to meet this requirement?

A company is migrating a legacy application that uses an Oracle database to AWS. The application is critical and requires high availability with automatic failover. The company wants to use Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database size is 200 GB. The company needs a solution that provides automatic failover to a standby instance in a different Availability Zone with minimal downtime. Which RDS deployment option should the company use?

A company is migrating a large-scale Apache Kafka cluster to Amazon MSK. The cluster has 100 topics with high throughput. The team wants to minimize operational overhead and ensure high availability. Which configuration should be used?

A company is migrating a legacy three-tier application to AWS. The application consists of a Java-based web tier, a business logic tier running on Windows Server 2012, and a Microsoft SQL Server database. The company wants to minimize changes to the application and reduce operational overhead. The business logic tier uses Windows authentication and accesses the database via integrated security. The company requires a highly available architecture across multiple Availability Zones. Which migration strategy should a solutions architect recommend?

A company plans to migrate a legacy on-premises web application to AWS using the 7 Rs (Rehost, Replatform, etc.). The application has tightly coupled components and unpredictable traffic. The team wants to minimize migration risk and time. Which migration strategy should they use?

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS using a rehost (lift-and-shift) approach. The application consists of a web tier and a database tier. The company wants to ensure high availability and disaster recovery. Which TWO actions should the company take? (Choose TWO.)

A company is migrating a high-volume transactional database from on-premises to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The database uses sequences, triggers, and stored procedures. The company needs to minimize downtime during cutover and ensure data consistency. Which two actions should be taken to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating a legacy .NET application from on-premises Windows servers to AWS. The application uses Windows authentication and requires a shared file storage that supports SMB protocol. The company wants to minimize code changes and use a managed AWS service for file storage. Which AWS service should a solutions architect recommend?

A company is migrating a legacy database to Amazon RDS. The database currently runs on a single server with a 2 TB volume. The migration must have less than 30 minutes of downtime. Which approach should be used for the initial data load?

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises application that uses a custom TCP protocol. The application needs to be accessible from the internet while maintaining security. Which AWS service should they use to expose the application without modifying the code?

A company is migrating a multi-tier web application to AWS. The application consists of a web server, application server, and Oracle database. Which TWO AWS services should be used to modernize the application while reducing operational overhead?

A company wants to migrate a legacy Oracle database to AWS with minimal downtime. The database is 2 TB in size and runs on a single on-premises server. The company requires the ability to cut over quickly and roll back if needed. Which AWS service should be used?

A company plans to migrate its on-premises VMware VMs to AWS. The company wants to automate the migration of VM images and minimize manual effort. Which AWS service should the company use?

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS using the 7 Rs migration strategy. The application is tightly coupled with legacy infrastructure and has compliance requirements that prevent any code changes. The migration must be completed in 3 months. Which strategy is most appropriate?

A company is migrating a legacy .NET Framework 4.7 application to AWS. The application uses Windows authentication and COM+ components. Which migration approach is most suitable?

A company is migrating a web application from on-premises to AWS. The application consists of a stateless web tier and a stateful application tier that stores session data in a local file system. The company wants to use AWS Elastic Beanstalk for both tiers. During a test migration, the development team notices that users are being logged out intermittently. The application tier is configured with two EC2 instances behind an internal load balancer. What should the development team do to resolve the issue?

A company is migrating a legacy .NET application from on-premises Windows Server to AWS. The application uses Windows authentication and requires a shared file share for configuration files. The company wants to minimize code changes. Which combination of AWS services should be used?

A company is migrating a containerized application to AWS. The application consists of multiple microservices that communicate over HTTP. The company wants to minimize operational overhead and automatically scale the services based on demand. Which AWS service should be used?

A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to AWS. The application has a stateful session layer that uses local disk storage. The migration plan involves rehosting the application on Amazon EC2 instances. What architecture change should the company implement to ensure high availability and stateless application tiers?

A company is modernizing a legacy application by refactoring it into microservices. The application uses a monolithic Oracle database. The team wants to use Amazon RDS for Oracle as the migration target. Which migration approach minimizes risk and downtime?

A company is migrating a monolithic application to AWS and wants to modernize it into microservices. The application currently uses a single relational database. Which migration strategy is most appropriate to minimize risk while starting the modernization process?

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS and needs to ensure high availability across two Availability Zones. The application runs on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The database is an on-premises SQL Server that will be migrated later. Which architecture provides high availability for the application tier during the migration?

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS using the 7 Rs migration strategy. The application is a monolithic Java application running on a single on-premises server with a MySQL database. The company wants to reduce operational overhead and improve scalability. The development team has already containerized the application and tested it locally. The company wants to run the containerized application on AWS without managing the underlying infrastructure. Which AWS service should the company use to deploy the containerized application?

A company is planning to migrate a Microsoft SQL Server database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server. They want to automate the migration process and minimize manual effort. Which AWS service should they use?

A company is migrating 50 on-premises VMware virtual machines to AWS. The migration must complete within a four-week maintenance window, and the company wants to minimize application changes. The VMs run a mix of Windows and Linux. Which AWS service should the company use to migrate these VMs to Amazon EC2?

Refer to the exhibit. A company is using AWS Migration Hub to track database migration tasks. The migration task for 'app-server-01' has failed. The progress update stream is 'DMS'. Which AWS service is most likely responsible for the migration failure?

A company is modernizing its legacy PHP application to run on AWS. The application is currently deployed on a single on-premises server with a LAMP stack. The company wants to use containerization to improve scalability and deployment speed. Which AWS service should be used to run the containers with minimal operational overhead?

A company is migrating an on-premises Java application to AWS. The application uses a shared file system for storing configuration files and user uploads. The company wants to minimize changes to the application and ensure that the file system is highly available and scalable. Which AWS service should be used?

A company is migrating a legacy .NET Framework 4.8 application to AWS. The application uses Windows authentication integrated with Active Directory and relies on a shared file system for configuration files. The company wants to minimize operational overhead and use managed services. Which combination of AWS services should the company use to modernize the application?

A company is migrating a .NET application from Windows Server to Linux on EC2. The application uses a proprietary COM+ component that cannot be recompiled. Which migration path should they take?

A company is migrating a legacy three-tier application to AWS. The application tier is stateless and can be containerized, but the database tier is a commercial relational database that the vendor will only license on specific instance types. The company wants to reduce operational overhead for the database while keeping the same engine and minimizing schema changes. Which migration approach should a solutions architect recommend?

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application requires a relational database with read replicas for reporting. The company wants to minimize operational overhead. Which TWO database services meet these requirements?

A company is migrating an application that uses a commercial database to Amazon RDS. The database size is 500 GB. Which migration approach minimizes downtime?

Drag and drop the steps to configure an Application Load Balancer with HTTPS listeners in the correct order.

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS. The application requires consistent performance and low latency. The company has selected an instance type that meets the performance requirements. However, during testing, the application experiences variable performance due to CPU stealing from other instances on the same physical host. What should the company do to mitigate this issue?

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application requires a relational database. The company wants to minimize operational overhead. Which TWO options should the company consider? (Choose two.)

A company wants to migrate a legacy monolithic application to AWS with minimal changes. The application currently runs on a single on-premises server with a Microsoft SQL Server database. The company wants to use AWS managed services to reduce operational overhead. Which combination of services should the company use to meet these requirements?

A healthcare company is migrating a legacy patient records system to AWS. The system uses an Oracle database with complex stored procedures and triggers. The company wants to move to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL to reduce licensing costs. They need to convert the schema and code with minimal manual effort. Which AWS service should they use?

A company is migrating a large Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS DMS. The database is 5 TB and has frequent write operations. The migration must have minimal downtime. Which configuration should be used?

A company wants to modernize a batch processing application that runs on EC2 instances using a cron job. The job processes files from an S3 bucket and takes about 2 hours. They want to reduce operational overhead. Which service should they use?

A company is migrating an on-premises monolithic application to AWS. The application uses a legacy database that cannot be easily refactored. The company wants to minimize changes to the application code while gaining scalability and high availability. Which migration strategy should the architect recommend?

A company is using AWS Migration Hub to track a server migration. The migration task has failed with the error shown in the exhibit. Which action should the solutions architect take to resolve the issue?

A company is migrating a legacy e-commerce application to AWS. The application includes a web tier, an application tier, and a MySQL database. The company wants to improve scalability and reduce operational overhead. The architect plans to use Amazon RDS for MySQL and refactor the application to use Auto Scaling for the web and application tiers. However, the application currently stores session state locally on the web servers. What should the architect do to address session state management in the new architecture?

A company is migrating a high-traffic web application from on-premises to AWS. The application uses a shared file system for storing user uploads, and the company wants to ensure high availability and durability across multiple Availability Zones. The migration must be completed with minimal changes to the application code. Which AWS service should be used for the shared file system?

A company is migrating a legacy CRM application from a colocation facility to AWS. The application uses a client-server architecture with a thick client installed on employee desktops. The company wants to reduce desktop administration and provide remote access. Which migration approach should the architect recommend?

A company is migrating a legacy application that uses SOAP web services to AWS. The application currently runs on a single on-premises server. The company wants to minimize changes and reduce operational overhead. Which approach should the company take?

A company is migrating its on-premises VMware VMs to AWS using AWS MGN. After the test cutover, the migrated EC2 instance fails the health check. The source VM runs Windows Server 2016 with a static IP. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating a web application to AWS. The application uses a three-tier architecture with a web server, application server, and MySQL database. The company wants to ensure high availability by deploying across multiple Availability Zones. The web and application servers are stateless. Which solution provides the HIGHEST availability with the LEAST administrative effort?

A company is migrating a critical application from on-premises to AWS. The application uses a shared file system for user uploads and logs. The company wants a highly available, durable, and low-latency solution. Which AWS storage service should the company use?

A company is migrating a stateful web application to AWS. The application currently runs on a single on-premises server and uses local storage for session data. The company wants to make the application highly available and scalable. What should the solutions architect do?

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS and wants to use a containerized architecture. The application requires persistent storage that can be shared across multiple containers in an Amazon ECS cluster. Which TWO storage solutions should the company consider? (Choose TWO.)

A company plans to modernize an existing .NET Framework 4.7 application running on Windows Server 2012 R2. The company wants to move to a containerized architecture on AWS with minimal code changes. Which service should the company use to meet these requirements?

A company is using AWS DMS to migrate a SQL Server database to Amazon Redshift. The initial full load completed, but the ongoing replication task failed with the error shown. What is the MOST likely cause?

A company is migrating a legacy .NET application to AWS. The application uses Windows authentication and has a dependency on a local file system. The company wants to minimize code changes. Which combination of services should be used?

A company is migrating a critical 3-tier application to AWS. The application consists of a web tier, an application tier, and a PostgreSQL database. The web and application tiers are stateless and run on Linux. The company has deployed the web tier on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) across two Availability Zones. The application tier is deployed on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones. The PostgreSQL database is migrated to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with Multi-AZ deployment. The application uses sticky sessions (session affinity) to maintain user sessions on the web tier. After migration, users report that they are frequently logged out and lose session data. The web tier logs show that requests are being routed to different web instances. What is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

A company is planning a hybrid cloud migration and needs to establish a dedicated network connection between its on-premises data center and AWS with consistent low latency. Which AWS service should be used?

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to AWS. The application uses a shared file system for user home directories. Which AWS service should the company use to minimize changes to the application while providing scalable, highly available file storage?

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to AWS. The application requires a relational database with Oracle compatibility and the ability to run read replicas across multiple Availability Zones. Which AWS service should the company use to minimize migration effort?

A company is migrating a large-scale data analytics workload from on-premises to AWS. The workload uses Apache Spark to process terabytes of data daily. The company wants to use Amazon EMR for the migration. The current on-premises cluster has 20 nodes, each with 64 vCPUs and 256 GB of RAM. The data is stored in HDFS on the cluster. The company wants to minimize costs while maintaining performance. The data sources are in Amazon S3 and on-premises. The company has set up a dedicated AWS Direct Connect connection. Which EMR configuration should the company use?

A company is migrating a large e-commerce platform to AWS using a lift-and-shift approach. The application consists of a web tier, application tier, and a MySQL database. After migration, users report intermittent slow page loads. The operations team notices high CPU utilization on the application tier instances. Which THREE steps should the team take to address the performance issues?

A company wants to migrate a legacy .NET application to AWS. The application uses Windows authentication and requires a shared file system. Which TWO AWS services should the company use to modernize this application? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating a stateful application that uses local storage on EC2. They want to modernize to a stateless architecture using Amazon EFS for shared storage. What is the best approach to migrate the existing data?

A company is migrating a high-traffic web application to AWS. The application currently runs on physical servers in a data center and uses a shared storage area network (SAN) for storing static assets. The company wants to modernize the application to be highly available and scalable across multiple Availability Zones. The static assets are accessed frequently and must be served with low latency globally. Which solution should the company implement?

A company is moving its application from on-premises to AWS. They want to use the same third-party software licenses on AWS. Which AWS purchasing option allows them to bring their own licenses?

A company wants to modernize a legacy monolithic application by decomposing it into microservices. The application handles HTTP requests and uses a MySQL database. The company needs to decouple the microservices and improve scalability. Which AWS services should be used?

A company is migrating a web application to AWS and wants to use a microservices architecture. The application needs to communicate synchronously via REST APIs. Which TWO AWS services should the architect consider for implementing API communication?

A company is modernizing a legacy application by breaking it into microservices. The application uses a shared MySQL database. The team wants to refactor the database to use Amazon DynamoDB for better scalability. Which migration strategy should be used?

A company is migrating a legacy e-commerce platform to AWS. The platform includes a MySQL database that experiences heavy read traffic. The company wants to improve performance and reduce latency for read operations. Which TWO actions should the solutions architect take?

A company is planning to modernize a legacy Java application that runs on a single on-premises server. The application uses a proprietary file-based storage system. The company wants to migrate to AWS with the following goals: reduce operational overhead, improve availability, and minimize code changes. Which TWO strategies should the company use? (Choose two.)

An organization is planning to migrate a large number of on-premises virtual machines to AWS. The migration must be automated and support replication of live workloads with minimal downtime. Which AWS service is best suited for this task?

A company is migrating a multi-tier web application to AWS. The application uses a commercial database that requires a license. The company wants to reduce licensing costs. Which migration strategy should be considered?

A company is migrating a web application to AWS and wants to decouple the frontend and backend tiers to improve scalability. The frontend runs on Amazon EC2 behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The backend processes orders asynchronously. Which service should the company use to decouple the tiers?

A company is planning to migrate its on-premises infrastructure to AWS. The company wants to assess the current environment and create a migration plan. Which TWO AWS services should be used for discovery and assessment?

A company is modernizing a .NET Framework application to run on AWS. The application currently uses Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services. The company wants to minimize code changes and run on Linux. Which approach should the company take?

A company is migrating its on-premises applications to AWS. The company has a mix of Windows and Linux servers. The migration team wants to automate the discovery of application dependencies and track the migration progress. Which TWO AWS services should the team use? (Choose TWO.)

A company is modernizing its application by breaking a monolith into microservices on Amazon EKS. The application uses a shared PostgreSQL database. The company wants to implement a database-per-service pattern. The migration must be done with zero downtime. Which approach should the company use?

A company is modernizing a monolithic application by decomposing it into microservices. The application currently uses a single MySQL database. The company wants to use a polyglot persistence approach, with different microservices using the most appropriate database type. The team has limited experience with NoSQL databases. Which strategy should the team use to minimize risk during the migration?

A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to AWS. The application consists of a web tier and a backend that uses a Microsoft SQL Server database. The company wants to modernize the application by decoupling the database from the application and moving to a managed database service. The migration must minimize downtime and ensure data consistency. Which strategy should be used?

A company is planning a large-scale migration of hundreds of applications to AWS. Which TWO strategies should the architect consider to reduce migration risks?

A company is migrating a batch processing workload to AWS. The workload runs a Java application that processes files from an S3 bucket. The company wants to minimize operational overhead. Which AWS service should the company use to run the Java application?

A company is migrating its on-premises VMware VMs to AWS. The company wants to use the same management tools and maintain consistency. Which AWS service should be used for this migration?

A company is migrating a monolithic application to AWS. The application currently runs on a single on-premises server and uses a MySQL database. The company wants to minimize changes to the application code during migration. Which migration strategy should the company use?

A company is migrating a legacy .NET Framework 4.7 application to AWS. The application currently uses Windows Authentication and stores session state in-process. The company wants to minimize code changes and use AWS managed services. Which TWO strategies should the company adopt?

A company is migrating a multi-tier e-commerce application to AWS. The application consists of a web tier, an application tier, and a MySQL database tier. The company wants to improve scalability and availability while reducing administrative overhead. Which THREE actions should the solutions architect take? (Select THREE.)

A company is migrating a large Hadoop cluster to Amazon EMR. The cluster uses HDFS for storage. The company wants to decouple compute and storage to reduce costs. Which approach should the company take?

Drag and drop the steps to configure an S3 bucket as a static website hosting in the correct order.

A company is migrating a multi-tier web application to AWS and wants to use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate provisioning. Which AWS services can the company use to define and manage infrastructure declaratively? (Choose TWO.)

A company is migrating a 10 TB Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The migration must have minimal downtime and support ongoing replication. The application uses stored procedures and advanced Oracle features. The company has already set up an AWS DMS replication instance and validated connectivity. However, during the full load, DMS reports errors for certain tables containing LOBs. What is the most likely cause and solution?

A company is migrating a legacy three-tier application to AWS. The application uses a self-managed Oracle database on an EC2 instance. The company wants to move to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with minimal downtime and no data loss. The database is 2 TB and experiences continuous write traffic. A solutions architect must recommend a migration strategy that keeps the source and target databases synchronized until cutover. Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take?

A company is migrating a monolithic Java application to AWS. The application uses a shared file system for storing user-uploaded documents. The company wants to refactor the application to use a microservices architecture with decoupled storage and compute. The application currently writes files to a local directory and serves them via a web server. Which AWS service should be used to store the documents to enable stateless compute and independent scaling?

A company is migrating a monolithic Java application to AWS. The current architecture uses a single Oracle database. The migration plan is to refactor the application into microservices and use separate Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases per service. The company also wants to implement a CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild. Which tool should the company use to automate the database schema changes for each microservice?

A company is migrating its on-premises data warehouse to AWS. The data warehouse contains 50 TB of data and is used for complex analytical queries. The company wants a fully managed, petabyte-scale solution that can handle the queries efficiently. Which AWS service should be used?

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to AWS. The application runs on a physical server with a large local PostgreSQL database. The company wants to minimize downtime during the migration and ensure the on-premises and AWS environments remain synchronized until cutover. The application can tolerate a brief period of read-only mode during the final cutover. Which migration strategy should a solutions architect recommend?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to AWS. The database is 2 TB in size and has a low-latency connection to AWS via AWS Direct Connect. The company wants to minimize downtime during the migration. Which AWS service should the architect use for the initial data load?

A company is migrating a web application to AWS and wants to automatically scale the application based on CPU utilization. The application runs on a set of EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. Which combination of AWS services should they use?

A company is migrating its on-premises file server to AWS. The file server contains 50 TB of data stored on a Windows Server with NTFS permissions. The company needs to maintain the folder structure and permissions after migration. The migration must be completed within one week. The company has a 100 Mbps internet connection. Which approach should the solutions architect recommend?

A company is planning to migrate a large-scale Hadoop cluster to Amazon EMR. The cluster currently processes batch jobs using a mix of MapReduce and Spark. The company wants to minimize changes to the existing code and operational processes. Which migration approach should the architect recommend?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. They need to minimize downtime and ensure data integrity. Which AWS service should they use for the migration?

A company is modernizing a monolithic application into microservices on AWS. The application currently uses a single SQL database. Which THREE AWS services can help decouple the data layer and enable event-driven communication between microservices?

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS and needs to decouple the application components. The application currently uses a monolithic architecture with direct calls between components. Which AWS services can help decouple the components? (Choose THREE.)

A company is migrating a large-scale batch processing system from on-premises to AWS. The system runs millions of short-lived jobs each day. The company wants to minimize operational overhead and cost. Which AWS compute service should the company use?

A company is migrating a stateful web application to AWS. The application uses local storage for user sessions. Which AWS service can help make the application stateless and scalable?

A company is migrating a batch processing application to AWS. The application reads large CSV files from an on-premises NFS server, processes them, and writes results to a local database. The company wants to reduce operational overhead and leverage AWS managed services. The migration should be completed with minimal code changes. Which migration approach should be used?

A company wants to assess its on-premises environment for migration to AWS. The company needs to collect utilization data for servers and applications. Which AWS service should the company use?

A company is migrating a containerized application from on-premises Kubernetes to Amazon EKS. The application requires persistent storage with high IOPS and must be accessible by multiple pods across different Availability Zones. Which storage solution should be used?

A financial services company is migrating 45 on-premises physical servers to AWS. Many servers have underutilized resources and inconsistent tagging. The migration team must right-size instances and reduce costs. They need a service that collects server utilization and dependency data to form migration groups. Which AWS service should they use?

A company is migrating a critical application from on-premises to AWS using a lift-and-shift approach. The application requires consistent low-latency access to an on-premises database. Which network solution should the company implement to meet the latency requirement during the migration?

A company is planning to migrate a web application to AWS. The application currently runs on a single on-premises server with a few thousand users. The company wants to use a managed container service and minimize operational overhead. Which AWS service should the company use to run the application?

A company is migrating a 10 TB Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The database is business-critical and must have minimal downtime. The company has set up AWS DMS with ongoing replication from the source. During the migration, the company notices that DMS is failing with an error indicating insufficient memory. What should the company do to resolve this issue and complete the migration?

A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to AWS. The application has a tightly coupled architecture and uses a relational database with complex stored procedures. The company wants to modernize the application by breaking it into microservices but wants to minimize the risk of a complete rewrite. Which approach should be taken?