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| Migrating to the AWS Cloud | Coursera |
This introductory course is tailored for individuals seeking a comprehensive exploration of AWS migration. Whether you aim to grasp essential services, strategize organizational migration plans, or assist other teams in their migration endeavors, this course offers invaluable insights. Organized around AWS's three-phase migration framework—assessment, mobilization, and migration with modernization—the course equips you to effectively manage migrations ranging from a few to numerous applications. By mastering this structured approach and familiarizing yourself with AWS tools, features, and services applicable at each stage, you will gain the knowledge needed to proficiently orchestrate AWS migrations.
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Week 1 Quiz
1. What is an example of rehosting an application?- Before moving an application to the cloud, the application is rewritten in a new programing language.
- During a migration, older applications are discovered. They are no longer needed and can be turned off.
- A containerized application can be moved from on premises to the cloud without making any changes.
- All on-premises applications and resources can be easily moved to the cloud except for the load balancers. The existing load balancers are replaced by Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancers.
- Creating a reverse migration plan back to the data center
- Creating the shortest possible migration timeline to encourage a faster migration
- Increasing on-premises capacity through hardware acquisition
- Determining service migration path
- Communicating your plan to coworkers
- AWS is responsible for security of the cloud, and the customer is responsible for security in the cloud.
- Security is a responsibility fully shared between the AWS Partners and the customer.
- Security is entirely the responsibility of AWS, and is verified by auditors.
- Security is the shared responsibility of the customer and their chosen third-party security providers.
- A fully automated migration tool
- Strategies, methodologies, and frameworks for cloud migration and modernization
- Direct access to the AWS Migration team
- A single location to inventory assets and track migration of applications
- Rehost, replatform, retire
- Track, build, migrate
- Assess, mobilize, migrate and modernize
- Track, mobilize, rehost
Week 2 Quiz
1. Which service helps move a mainframe application to the cloud?- AWS Migration Evaluator
- SAP on AWS
- AWS Lambda functions that are written in COBOL
- Mainframe Modernization with AWS
- Mobilization assessment
- Inventory discovery
- Content evaluation
- Application discovery
- A single place to track migrations
- A single place to build AWS CloudFormation templates
- A bucket for AWS CloudTrail logs
- A single place to manage Amazon CloudWatch metrics
- A detailed business case
- A database migration path
- A migration path for mainframe applications
- A plan to create a networking diagram of your data center
- AWS Direct Connect
- AWS Snowmobile
- Virtual private network (VPN)
- Internet gateway
Week 3 Quiz
1. Which service is part of AWS Management and Governance?- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon DynamoDB
- AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Create a single well-organized AWS account
- Set up and govern a secure multi-account AWS environment
- Automate the creation and destruction of your EC2 instances
- Provide scaling of storage capacity through Amazon Simple Storage Service
- Migrate your applications
- Migrate your data and evaluate your applications
- Create a migration plan and refine your business case
- Create mobile-compatible applications to prepare for modernization
- AWS CloudTrail
- AWS Direct Connect
- AWS Application Discovery Service
- Amazon Relational Database Service
- Using VMware vCenter
- Using Lambda functions
- Using serverless servers on premises
- Using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances
Week 4 Quiz
1. Which of the following is one of the 7Rs of migration?- Reautomate
- Replatform
- Reanimate
- Reallocate
- AWS Direct Connect
- AWS Snow Family
- Virtual private network (VPN)
- Amazon DynamoDB
- AWS Control Tower
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS Migration Hub
- AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
- AWS Systems Manager
- AWS Service Catalog
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS Migration Hub
- AWS DMS only supports migrating MySQL databases
- AWS DMS only supports homogeneous migrations
- AWS DMS allows the source database to remain fully operational during migration.
- AWS DMS does not support heterogeneous migrations.
Final Assessment
1. What is an example of rehosting an application?- Before moving an application to the cloud, the application is rewritten in a new programing language.
- During a migration, older applications are discovered. They are no longer needed and can be turned off.
- A containerized application can be moved from on premises to the cloud without making any changes.
- All on-premises applications and resources can be easily moved to the cloud except for the load balancers. The existing load balancers are replaced by Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancers.
- Creating a reverse migration plan back to the data center
- Creating the shortest possible migration timeline to encourage a faster migration
- Increasing on-premises capacity through hardware acquisition
- Determining service migration path
- Communicating your plan to coworkers
- AWS is responsible for security of the cloud, and the customer is responsible for security in the cloud.
- Security is a responsibility fully shared between the AWS Partners and the customer.
- Security is entirely the responsibility of AWS, and is verified by auditors.
- Security is the shared responsibility of the customer and their chosen third-party security providers.
- A fully automated migration tool
- Strategies, methodologies, and frameworks for cloud migration and modernization
- Direct access to the AWS Migration team
- A single location to inventory assets and track migration of applications
- Rebuild
- Foundation
- Re-evaluation
- Mitigation
- Mobilization assessment
- Inventory discovery
- Content evaluation
- Application discovery
- A single place to track migrations
- A single place to build AWS CloudFormation templates
- A bucket for AWS CloudTrail logs
- A single place to manage Amazon CloudWatch metrics
- Using VMware vCenter
- Using Lambda functions
- Using serverless servers on premises
- Using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances
- AWS Direct Connect
- AWS Snowmobile
- Virtual private network (VPN)
- Internet gateway
- Launch replacement applications
- Expand the size of Amazon Simple Storage Service buckets
- Organize instances into application groups
- Remove unwanted resources
- Create test environments for an application
- Migrate databases to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
- Create a map of application dependencies
- Migrate applications into containers
- Migrate your applications
- Migrate your data and evaluate your applications
- Create a migration plan and refine your business case
- Create mobile-compatible applications to prepare for modernization
- AWS CloudTrail
- AWS Direct Connect
- AWS Application Discovery Service
- Amazon Relational Database Service
- AWS Systems Manager
- AWS Service Catalog
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS Migration Hub
- AWS DMS only supports migrating MySQL databases
- AWS DMS only supports homogeneous migrations
- AWS DMS allows the source database to remain fully operational during migration.
- AWS DMS does not support heterogeneous migrations.
- AWS Storage Gateway Volume Gateway
- AWS Storage Gateway Tape Gateway
- AWS Storage Gateway File Gateway
- Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
- AWS Transfer Family
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types
- AWS Snow Family
- AWS management and governance services
- AWS Control Tower
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS Migration Hub
- AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
- Reautomate
- Replatform
- Reanimate
- Reallocate