INTRODUCTION
Assess your current infrastructure to plan for migration in a proper way. Tools like AWS Migration Evaluator and AWS Migration Hub help with collecting information about your on-prem environment and aligning with appropriate AWS services. It is also necessary for you to talk with everyone in your organization to take organizational business needs into consideration while planning the migration. This week also lets you consider how on-premises usage will map to AWS-based services and tools.
Learning Objectives
- Understand: Which service of AWS migration is used to benefit your organization?
- Identify some tools that can help in carrying out the migration process.
- Conduct a migration readiness assessment so that your environment is set for migration.
WEEK 2 QUIZ
1. Which service helps move a mainframe application to the cloud?
- AWS Migration Evaluator
- SAP on AWS
- AWS Lambda functions that are written in COBOL
- Mainframe Modernization with AWS (CORRECT)
Correct: AWS Mainframe Modernization is a range of managed tools available for providing infrastructure and software services for mainframe application migration, modernization, and running on AWS.
2. Which AWS Migration Evaluator tool is designed to provide visibility into inventory and resource utilization data with a high level of accuracy?
- Mobilization assessment
- Inventory discovery (CORRECT)
- Content evaluation
- Application discovery
Correct: Migration Evaluator assists in the collection of agentless data for information regarding your current inventory and resource utilization. Please see the Migration Evaluator Resources page for more details.
3. What does AWS Migration Hub provide?
- A single place to track migrations (CORRECT)
- A single place to build AWS CloudFormation templates
- A bucket for AWS CloudTrail logs
- A single place to manage Amazon CloudWatch metrics
Correct: The Migration Hub provides a single interface to examine existing servers, plan migrations, and monitor each application’s migration progress.
4. Which resource doesA WS Migration Evaluator help create?
- A detailed business case (CORRECT)
- A database migration path
- A migration path for mainframe applications
- A plan to create a networking diagram of your data center
Correct: Migration Evaluator is contesting with migration assessment services and actually helps the potential clients in developing a directional business case for planning and movement to AWS Cloud.
5. Which networking service transfers large, ongoing amounts of data between a customer’s data center and the cloud?
- AWS Direct Connect (CORRECT)
- AWS Snowmobile
- Virtual private network (VPN)
- Internet gateway
Correct: AWS Direct Connect connects the internal network of a customer to an AWS Direct Connect location over a standard Ethernet fiber-optic cable. This creates direct virtual interfaces to public AWS services or Amazon VPC, bypassing internet service providers in the network path.
CONCLUSION
TBW