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Question 1hardmulti select
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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.)

Question 2hardmultiple choice
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A company is migrating a 2 TB Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The database has frequent write operations and the migration must have minimal downtime. The team uses AWS DMS for ongoing replication. After the initial full load, the target Aurora instance becomes unresponsive during ongoing replication. What is the MOST likely cause?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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A company is planning to migrate a legacy application to AWS. The application requires a fixed IP address that clients whitelist. The company wants to achieve high availability across two Availability Zones. Which architecture should they use?

Question 4easymultiple choice
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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?

Question 5easymultiple choice
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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?

Question 6mediummulti select
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A company is migrating a large Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The migration must have minimal downtime and support ongoing replication. Which THREE steps should the company take?

Question 7hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 8mediummultiple choice
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A company is deploying a web application using the above CloudFormation template. The template fails to create the Auto Scaling group. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

# CloudFormation template snippet
Resources:
  MyAutoScalingGroup:
    Type: AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup
    Properties:
      AvailabilityZones:
        - us-east-1a
        - us-east-1b
      LaunchConfigurationName: !Ref MyLaunchConfig
      MinSize: '2'
      MaxSize: '10'
      DesiredCapacity: '2'
      TargetGroupARNs:
        - !Ref MyTargetGroup
  MyLaunchConfig:
    Type: AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup
    Properties:
      ImageId: ami-12345678
      InstanceType: t2.micro
      SecurityGroups:
        - !Ref MySecurityGroup
Question 9hardmultiple choice
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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?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
# Output from: aws migrationhub list-migration-tasks --region us-east-1
{
    "MigrationTaskSummaryList": [
        {
            "MigrationTaskName": "app-server-01",
            "ProgressUpdateStream": "DMS",
            "Status": "FAILED",
            "ResourceAttributeList": [
                {
                    "Type": "IP_ADDRESS",
                    "Value": "192.168.1.10"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
```
Question 10hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 11hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 12hardmulti select
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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?

Question 13easymulti select
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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?

Question 14hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 15hardmultiple choice
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A company is planning to migrate a 50 TB Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The company requires minimal downtime and wants to use AWS DMS for the migration. The source database is currently running on a dedicated server with high transaction volume. The network bandwidth between on-premises and AWS is 1 Gbps. What additional step should the company take to accelerate the migration and reduce downtime?

Question 16mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 17hardmultiple choice
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A company is migrating a stateful application that maintains session state in memory on a single server. The migration target is a highly available architecture on AWS. Which design should be used to preserve session state without modifying the application?

Question 18hardmultiple choice
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A company is migrating a legacy on-premises web application to AWS. The application consists of a stateless web tier and a stateful application tier that stores session data in memory. The company wants to achieve high availability and elasticity. The migration must minimize code changes. The solutions architect proposes using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) with sticky sessions and an Auto Scaling group for the web tier. For the application tier, they plan to use an ALB with sticky sessions and an Auto Scaling group. During testing, users report that they are unexpectedly logged out and lose session data. The application logs show that requests from the same user are being sent to different instances. Which change should the solutions architect make to resolve this issue?

Question 19mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 20hardmultiple choice
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A company is migrating a large-scale, stateful application to AWS. The application maintains session state in memory on the current on-premises servers. The company needs a solution that preserves session state during migration and minimizes latency for users worldwide. Which strategy should the company use?

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