PAS-C01 Migration Practice Question
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A company is migrating an SAP system from an Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle using AWS DMS. The DMS task fails with the error shown in the exhibit. What is the most likely cause?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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The source endpoint credentials are incorrect.
The error indicates invalid username/password for the source Oracle database. The source endpoint credentials are incorrect. The DMS replication instance may not have network access, but the error is a login failure. The target endpoint is not the issue.
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The DMS replication instance does not have network access to the source database.
Why it's wrong here
Network issues would cause a different error.
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The source endpoint credentials are incorrect.
Why this is correct
ORA-01017 indicates invalid username or password.
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The DMS task requires additional IAM permissions.
Why it's wrong here
IAM would cause authorization errors, not login denied.
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The target endpoint is not configured correctly.
Why it's wrong here
Error is from source, not target.
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