SAP-C02 Practice Question: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
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?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Provision an Amazon MSK cluster with 3 brokers per AZ across 3 AZs.
Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka that reduces operational overhead. Deploying an MSK cluster with 3 brokers per AZ across 3 AZs provides high availability and fault tolerance, as data is replicated across AZs. Option A is wrong because Kinesis Data Streams is a different streaming service with different semantics and not a drop-in replacement for Kafka. Option B is wrong because SQS FIFO queues are not designed for high-throughput pub/sub streaming like Kafka. Option C is wrong because self-managing Kafka on EC2 increases operational overhead, which the team wants to minimize.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with enhanced fan-out.
Why it's wrong here
Kinesis is a different streaming service; requires application changes.
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Use Amazon SQS FIFO queues with message deduplication.
Why it's wrong here
SQS is not suitable for Kafka-style streaming with multiple consumers per partition.
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Deploy Apache Kafka on Amazon EC2 with Spot Instances and EBS volumes.
Why it's wrong here
Self-managed Kafka increases operational overhead; Spot Instances risk data loss.
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Provision an Amazon MSK cluster with 3 brokers per AZ across 3 AZs.
Why this is correct
MSK is a managed Kafka service; multi-AZ provides high availability.
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