AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional — Question 404

A company wants to migrate its corporate data center from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The data center includes physical servers and VMs that use VMware and Hyper-V. An administrator needs to select the correct services to collect data for the initial migration discovery process. The data format should be supported by AWS Migration Hub. The company also needs the ability to generate reports from the data.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Use the AWS Agentless Discovery Connector for data collection on physical servers and all VMs. Store the collected data in Amazon S3. Query the data with S3 Select. Generate reports by using Kibana hosted on Amazon EC2.
• B. Use the AWS Application Discovery Service agent for data collection on physical servers and all VMs. Store the collected data in Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Query the data and generate reports with Amazon Athena.
• C. Use the AWS Application Discovery Service agent for data collection on physical servers and Hyper-V. Use the AWS Agentless Discovery Connector for data collection on VMware. Store the collected data in Amazon S3. Query the data with Amazon Athena. Generate reports by using Amazon QuickSight.
• D. Use the AWS Systems Manager agent for data collection on physical servers. Use the AWS Agentless Discovery Connector for data collection on all VMs. Store, query, and generate reports from the collected data by using Amazon Redshift.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The AWS Agentless Discovery Connector only supports VMware vCenter environments, meaning physical servers and Hyper-V VMs require the AWS Application Discovery Service agent to collect discovery data. Storing this discovery data in Amazon S3 allows it to be queried directly using Amazon Athena, which can then be easily integrated with Amazon QuickSight to generate reports. Other options are incorrect because the Agentless Discovery Connector cannot be used for physical servers or Hyper-V, and Amazon EFS is not the standard integration path for Discovery Service data analysis.