AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — Question 107

A company wants to migrate an on-premises data center to AWS. The data center hosts an SFTP server that stores its data on an NFS-based file system. The server holds 200 GB of data that needs to be transferred. The server must be hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance that uses an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to automate this task? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Launch the EC2 instance into the same Availability Zone as the EFS file system.
• B. Install an AWS DataSync agent in the on-premises data center.
• C. Create a secondary Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume on the EC2 instance for the data.
• D. Manually use an operating system copy command to push the data to the EC2 instance.
• E. Use AWS DataSync to create a suitable location configuration for the on-premises SFTP server.

Correct answer: B, E

Explanation

The correct answers are B and E. Installing the AWS DataSync agent in the on-premises data center (B) allows for efficient transfer of data to AWS. Additionally, using AWS DataSync to create a location configuration for the SFTP server (E) facilitates the automated migration process. Options A, C, and D are not necessary for automating the data transfer task and do not leverage AWS DataSync's capabilities effectively.