AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — Question 741

A company runs multiple workloads in its on-premises data center. The company's data center cannot scale fast enough to meet the company's expanding business needs. The company wants to collect usage and configuration data about the on-premises servers and workloads to plan a migration to AWS.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Set the home AWS Region in AWS Migration Hub. Use AWS Systems Manager to collect data about the on-premises servers.
• B. Set the home AWS Region in AWS Migration Hub. Use AWS Application Discovery Service to collect data about the on-premises servers.
• C. Use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to create the relevant templates. Use AWS Trusted Advisor to collect data about the on-premises servers.
• D. Use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to create the relevant templates. Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to collect data about the on-premises servers.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

AWS Application Discovery Service is specifically designed to collect configuration, usage, and behavior data from on-premises servers to help plan a migration, with the gathered data being viewed and managed in AWS Migration Hub after setting a home Region. AWS Systems Manager is a management service and is not the primary tool for initial discovery and migration planning. AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) are used for database migrations rather than server discovery, while AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates existing AWS resources against best practices.