AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) — Question 457

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?

Answer options

• A. Use the AWS Application Migration Service agentless service and the AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations to generate the TCO report.
• B. Launch a Windows Amazon EC2 instance. Install the Migration Evaluator agentless collector on the EC2 instance. Configure Migration Evaluator to generate the TCO report.
• C. Launch a Windows Amazon EC2 instance. Install the Migration Evaluator agentless collector on the EC2 instance. Configure Migration Hub to generate the TCO report.
• D. Use the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment tool inside the VPC. Configure Migration Evaluator to generate the TCO report.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Migration Evaluator is designed to generate data-driven TCO reports for AWS migrations, and its agentless collector can be installed on an Amazon EC2 instance to discover on-premises inventory via SNMP over the VPN. This satisfies the requirement of not installing software or adding VMs in the on-premises data center. The TCO report itself is configured and generated directly through Migration Evaluator, making Option B the correct choice.