Module 9: Migration and Innovation

Question 1

What does the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework provide?

Answer 1

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, which provides

guidance to support organizational change throughout the cloud adoption process.

Question 2

What is the goal of the Business Perspective and some common roles in this perspective?

Answer 2

the Business perspective ensures that IT aligns with business needs and IT investments link to key business results. Common roles include Business managers, Finance Managers, Budget Owners

Question 3

What is the goal of the People Perspective and some common roles in this perspective?

Answer 3

The People perspective supports development of an organization-wide change management strategy for successful cloud adoption. Common roles include Human resources, Staffing, People managers

Question 4

What is the goal of the Governance Perspective and some common roles in this perspective?

Answer 4

The Governance perspective focuses on the skills and processes to align IT strategy with business strategy. This ensures that you maximize the business value and
minimize risks. Common roles include Chief Information officer (CIO), Program managers, Enterprise architects

Question 5

What is the goal of the Platform Perspective and some common roles in this perspective?

Answer 5

The Platform perspective includes principles and patterns for implementing new solutions in the cloud, and migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud. Common roles include Chief technology officer (CTO), IT managers, Solutions architects

Question 6

What is the goal of the Security Perspective and some common roles in this perspective?

Answer 6

The Security perspective ensures that an organization meets security objectives for visibility, auditability, control, and agility. Common roles include Chief information security officer (CISO), IT security managers, IT security analysts

Question 7

What is the goal of the Operations Perspective and some common roles in this perspective?

Answer 7

The Operations perspective helps you to enable, run, use, operate, and recover IT workloads to the level agreed on with your business stakeholders. Common roles include IT operations managers, IT support managers

Question 8

What are the 6 Migration Strategies?

Answer 8

1. Rehosting - moving applications without changes.
2. Replatforming - making a few cloud optimizations to realize a tangible benefit.
3. Refactoring/re-architecting - reimagining how an application is architected and developed by using cloud-native features.
4. Repurchasing - moving from a traditional license to a software as a service model.
5. Retaining - keeping applications that are critical for the business in the source environment.
6. Retiring - removing applications that are no longer needed

Question 9

What is the AWS Snow Family?

Answer 9

The AWS Snow Family is a collection of physical devices that help to physically transport up to exabytes of data into and out of AWS

Question 10

What are the 3 AWS Snow Family Devices?

Answer 10

1. AWS Snowcone - AWS Snowcone is a small, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device
2. AWS Snowball - Either Snowball Edge Storage Optimized (well suited for large-scale data migrations and recurring transfer workflows) or Snowball Edge Compute Optimized (well suited for powerful computing resources for use cases such as machine learning, analytics, etc.)
3. AWS Snowmobile - exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move large amounts of data to AWS

Question 11

What is the Well-Architectured Framework and its 5 associated pillars?

Answer 11

The Well-Architected Framework helps you understand how to design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the AWS Cloud.

1. Operational excellence - focuses on running and monitoring systems to deliver business value and continually improve processes
2. Security - ability to protect information, systems, and assets while delivering business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
3. Reliability - ability of a system to recover from disruptions and dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand
4. Performance efficiency - ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements, and maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve.
5. Cost optimization - ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point