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AWS SAP-C02: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization Practice Questions

5 free sample questions from the Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization domain, with answers and explanations. The full SAP-C02 bank has 59 questions across 4 domains. Questions are scenario-based and written from the official AWS exam guide.

1.

A migration program spanning hundreds of servers across several tools needs a single place to discover, plan, track, and visualize migration progress. Which service should the architect recommend?

  • A. AWS Migration Hub✓ Correct
  • B. Amazon QuickSight only
  • C. AWS Secrets Manager
  • D. AWS Trusted Advisor
Explanation

AWS Migration Hub provides a central location to discover servers, plan migrations, and track progress across multiple AWS and partner migration tools. Trusted Advisor (D) gives best-practice checks, QuickSight (B) is BI, and Secrets Manager (C) stores secrets.

2.

A company must transfer 400 TB from an on-premises datacenter with limited bandwidth to Amazon S3 within a tight timeline. Which service should the architect recommend?

  • A. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
  • B. AWS Snowball (Snow Family) for offline bulk transfer✓ Correct
  • C. AWS Direct Connect provisioned in one day
  • D. Uploading over the existing internet connection with the AWS CLI
Explanation

For hundreds of TB over limited bandwidth on a deadline, AWS Snowball ships a physical appliance for offline bulk transfer. Internet upload (D) would take far too long on limited bandwidth, Kinesis (A) is for streaming ingestion, and Direct Connect (C) takes weeks to provision and still streams over the wire.

3.

A company wants to move an on-premises application to AWS quickly with minimal changes, then optimize later. Which of the 7 Rs migration strategies is this?

  • A. Retire
  • B. Rehost (lift and shift)✓ Correct
  • C. Retain
  • D. Refactor (re-architect)
Explanation

Rehosting (lift and shift) moves an application to AWS with minimal changes, prioritizing speed, with optimization deferred. Refactor (D) re-architects for cloud-native benefits (more effort), retire (A) decommissions, and retain (C) keeps it on-premises.

4.

As part of modernization, a team wants to replace a batch-oriented monolith component with event-driven, serverless functions triggered by new data arriving in S3. Which service should the architect recommend?

  • A. AWS Lambda triggered by S3 event notifications✓ Correct
  • B. A cron job on a persistent EC2 instance polling S3
  • C. Amazon Redshift Spectrum
  • D. AWS Direct Connect
Explanation

Lambda invoked by S3 event notifications gives event-driven, serverless processing that scales automatically and bills per use — a common modernization pattern. A polling EC2 cron job (B) is server-based and less responsive, Redshift Spectrum (C) queries S3 data for analytics, and Direct Connect (D) is connectivity.

5.

A company wants ongoing, incremental synchronization of on-premises file data to Amazon S3/EFS over the network as part of a phased migration. Which service should the architect recommend?

  • A. AWS Batch
  • B. AWS Snowmobile
  • C. AWS DataSync✓ Correct
  • D. Amazon SNS
Explanation

AWS DataSync efficiently and incrementally transfers and synchronizes file/object data between on-premises storage and AWS over the network. Snowmobile (B) is for exabyte-scale one-time physical transfer, SNS (D) is pub/sub messaging, and Batch (A) runs compute jobs.

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