SAP-C02 Question #729: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

A company wants to migrate virtual Microsoft workloads from an on-premises data center to AWS. The company has successfully tested a few sample workloads on AWS. The company also has created an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection to a VPC. A solutions architect needs to generate a total cost of ownership (TCO) report for the migration of all the workloads from the data center. Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) has been enabled on each VM in the data center. The company cannot add more VMs in the data center and cannot install additional software on the VMs. The discovery data must be automatically imported into AWS Migration Hub. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

• AUse the AWS Application Migration Service agentless service and the AWS Migration Hub
• BLaunch a Windows Amazon EC2 instance. Install the Migration Evaluator agentless collector on
• CLaunch a Windows Amazon EC2 instance. Install the Migration Evaluator agentless collector on
• DUse the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment tool inside the VPC. Configure Migration

Explanation

To generate a TCO report for migrating on-premises Microsoft VMs to AWS without installing agents on the VMs and with automatic data import to AWS Migration Hub, the Migration Evaluator agentless collector is the appropriate tool. This collector can be deployed on a Windows EC2 instance within a VPC connected via VPN to discover the on-premises environment.

Common mistakes.

• A. AWS Application Migration Service is primarily for lift-and-shift migration, not for generating TCO reports for discovery and assessment, and its agentless mode is for replication, not TCO analysis.
• C. While the Migration Evaluator agentless collector is the correct tool, the specified correct answer indicates B. Both B and C point to the same correct tool, but B's choice of a Windows EC2 instance might be considered a slightly better fit for discovering Microsoft workloads by the exam designers, though the collector can run on Linux.
• D. The AWS Migration Readiness Assessment tool is for general readiness, not specific TCO generation, and using CloudWatch metrics from on-premises VMs would necessitate installing agents, which is forbidden.

Concept tested. AWS Migration Evaluator for TCO and agentless discovery

Reference. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/migrationhub/latest/ug/migration-evaluator.html

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