SAP-C02 Practice Question: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
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?
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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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Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift is the AWS data warehouse service that can migrate from Oracle RAC with minimal changes using the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT). Option A is incorrect because Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL database, not a data warehouse. Option B is incorrect because Amazon RDS for Oracle is a relational database service and not optimized for data warehousing workloads. Option D is incorrect because Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is a relational database, not a data warehouse.
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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Amazon DynamoDB
Why it's wrong here
DynamoDB is a NoSQL database, not suitable for data warehouse workloads.
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Amazon RDS for Oracle
Why it's wrong here
RDS is not designed for data warehouse workloads.
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Amazon Redshift
Why this is correct
Redshift is AWS's data warehouse service, suitable for migrating from Oracle.
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
Why it's wrong here
Aurora is a relational database, not a data warehouse.
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