SAP-C02 Refactor / Re-architect Practice Question
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?
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
✓
Refactor / Re-architect
The refactor/re-architect strategy involves re-architecting the application into microservices. Option A is wrong because repurchase involves buying a new product, not re-architecting. Option B is wrong because rehost (lift-and-shift) does not modernize. Option D is wrong because replatform (lift-tinker-and-shift) makes minor optimizations but does not change architecture.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
Repurchase
Why it's wrong here
Repurchase involves replacing with a SaaS product.
- ✗
Rehost
Why it's wrong here
Rehost does not change the architecture.
- ✓
Refactor / Re-architect
Why this is correct
This strategy changes the application architecture to microservices.
- ✗
Replatform
Why it's wrong here
Replatform makes minor optimizations but not architectural changes.
Go deeper
Related to this question
About these practice questions
This SAP-C02 question is part of Courseiva's 1,660-question bank — original exam-style content with full explanations and wrong-answer analysis, never real exam questions or exam dumps. Learn why practice questions differ from exam dumps →
JA
Written by Johnson Ajibi, MSc IT Security
Senior Network & Security Engineer · founder of Courseiva
This SAP-C02 practice question is part of Courseiva's free Amazon Web Services certification practice question bank. Courseiva provides original exam-style practice questions with explanations, topic-based practice, mock exams, readiness tracking, and study analytics to help learners prepare for the SAP-C02 exam.