Objective 1.3
CLF-C02Understand the benefits of and strategies for migration to the AWS Cloud.
Objective 1.3 sits in Cloud Concepts, which carries 24% of the Cloud Practitioner exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Amazon Web Services (AWS) page it rests on.
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A worked example
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A company moves 200 virtual machines to EC2 with no changes to the applications, to clear a data center by year end. Which strategy is that?
Correct.
Checked against docs.aws.amazon.com, August 2026Concept
Migration strategies differ by how much of the application you touch on the way over. The less you change, the faster and safer the move, and the fewer cloud gains you collect on day one.
Why C
Nothing about the servers changes except where they run, so a large fleet can cross in one program without a compatibility review for every workload.
Source
AWS Docs: Migration strategies (the 7 Rs), checked August 2026Rehost This strategy is also known as lift and shift. Using this strategy, you move your applications from your source environment to the AWS Cloud without making any changes to the application…
Now you: objective 1.3 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
A team moves a self managed SQL Server database onto Amazon RDS and leaves the application code alone. Which strategy is that?
Sample question 2 of 3
Discovery data shows an application at 3 percent average CPU with no inbound connections for 90 days. Which strategy applies?
Sample question 3 of 3
A company must move an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora and keep the source in sync until cutover. Which service does that?
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