Migration and Transfer

Question 1

What is the AWS Application Discovery Service?

Answer 1

It helps plan migration projects by gathering info about on-prem data centers

Question 2

Using AWS Application Discover, What two options are available

Answer 2

Agentless and Agent-Based

Question 3

What is the big difference between agent-based and agentless options in AWS Application Discovery Service?

Answer 3

Agent based discovery agent will find details of the networking components between systems.

Question 4

Where do you view application discovery service reports?

Answer 4

AWS Migration Hub?

Question 5

What tool is used to migrate workloads from on-prem?

Answer 5

AWS Application Migration Service.. Lift and shift..

Question 6

Is AWS Database Migration Service Multi-AZ compliant?

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

What is AWS DataSync?

Answer 7

Move large data to/from.. On-prem or cloud..

Question 8

What protocols does AWS DataSync support?

Answer 8

NFS, SMB, HDFS, S3, etc..

Question 9

Does DataSync require and agent?

Answer 9

Yes

Question 10

What targets can be used for AWS DataSync?

Answer 10

S3, EFS, FSx

Question 11

Can replication tasks be scheduled in AWS DataSync?

Answer 11

Yes. Hourly, daily, or weekly

Question 12

Are file permissions and metadata preserved when syncing using AWS DataSync?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

Can AWS DataSync sychronize between AWS services?

Answer 13

Yes. S3 to EFS, EFS to FSx, etc…

Question 14

What are the two use cases for the AWS Snow Family?

Answer 14

Data Migration and to collect and process data at the edge.

Question 15

How big is the snowball Edge Storage Optimized device?

Answer 15

80TB HDD capacity

Question 16

How big is the snowball Edge Compute Optimized device?

Answer 16

42TB HDD

Question 17

What is AWS SnowCone?

Answer 17

Rugged, Secure and portable

Question 18

What sizes does AWS SnowCone come in?

Answer 18

Snowcone is 8TB of HDD storage
Snowcone SSD is 14TB of SSD storage

Question 19

Does AWS Snowcone support AWS DataSync?

Answer 19

Yes. You can ship the physical device to AWS or use DataSync

Question 20

What is AWS SnowMobile?

Answer 20

It is for exabytes of data. Good for PB worth of data migration.

Question 21

What AWS service is used to manage your Snow devices?

Answer 21

AWS OpsHub

Question 22

What is the main selling point for AWS Graviton processors?

Answer 22

Best price for the performance

Question 23

What is AWS SAM?

Answer 23

Serverless Application Model. It is a framework that is configured via YAML

Question 24

To build an application in AWS SAM, what is the command?

Answer 24

SAM BUILD

Question 25

How does SAM package and SAM deploy work?

Answer 25

SAM package zips and uploads everything to S3 and SAM deploy sends it to cloudformation to be built or changed.

Question 26

How can you run AWS Lambda functions locally?

Answer 26

AWS SAM CLI

Question 27

How do you start a SAM project?

Answer 27

SAM INIT

Question 28

What is AWS Batch

Answer 28

Fully Managed Servce. Run batch jobs as docker images

Question 29

What is the big difference between AWS Glue and Batch?

Answer 29

Glue is meant for ETL and Batch is made for any batch processing job. Not for ETL.