AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) — Question 478

A company plans to migrate many VMs from an on-premises environment to AWS. The company requires an initial assessment of the on-premises environment before the migration, a visualization of the dependencies between applications that run on the VMs, and a report that provides an assessment of the on-premises environment.

To get this information, the company has initiated a Migration Evaluator assessment request. The company has the ability to install collector software in its on-premises environment without any constraints

Which solution will provide the company with the required information with the LEAST operational overhead?

Answer options

• A. Install the AWS Application Discovery Agent on each on-premises VM. After the data collection period ends, use AWS Migration Hub to view the application dependencies. Download the Quick insights assessment report from Migration Hub.
• B. Install the Migration Evaluator Collector on each on-premises VM. After the data collection period ends, use Migration Evaluator to view the application dependencies. Download and export the discovered server list from Migration Evaluator. Upload the list to Amazon QuickSight When the QuickSight report is generated, download the Quick Insights assessment report.
• C. Setup the AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector in the on-premises environment. After the data collection period ends, use AWS Migration Hub to view the application dependencies. Export the discovered server list from Application Discovery Service. Upload the list to Migration Evaluator. When the Migration Evaluator report is generated, download the Quick Insights assessment.
• D. Set up the Migration Evaluator Collector in the on-premises environment. Install the AWS Application Discovery Agent on each VM. After the data collection period ends, use AWS Migration Hub to view the application dependencies. Download the Quick Insights assessment report from Migration Evaluator.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

To capture detailed application dependency mapping, installing the AWS Application Discovery Agent on each VM is required, as agentless options do not provide this level of detail. Since the company has already initiated a Migration Evaluator request, the Application Discovery Agent can feed data directly into AWS Migration Hub to generate the Quick Insights assessment report. This approach fulfills all requirements with the minimum operational overhead, avoiding unnecessary manual exports, imports, or redundant collector setups.