Knowledge check

  • 4 minutes

Tailwind Traders is assessing their migration to Azure. You're asked to make recommendations and provide input to meet the system requirements.

  • Large data transfers. Large amounts of data need to be transferred between on-premises storage and an Azure storage account. There's a concern the transfer might monopolize network bandwidth. The executive committee has requested an approach where Microsoft handles the shipping and logistics.

  • Migrate to new hardware. The company has requested an inventory of their servers and data. To produce the report, files and security configuration need to be transferred from the source servers to new hardware.

  • Estimate migration costs. The CTO is interested in monthly running costs in Azure. You need to provide an estimate comparison of Azure costs to on-premises costs.

  • Migrate web apps to Azure. The IT department has several Windows ASP.NET test and production web apps they'd like to migrate to Azure.

  • Migrate on-premises SQL Server. The corporate data center has several virtual machines that are running SQL Server. These machines provide database back-end support for the online sales portal. The IT department wants to move this workload to Azure.

Answer the following questions

Choose the best response for each of the questions below. Then select Check your answers.

1.

Which product satisfies the large data transfer requirement?

2.

What product is best for migrating to the new hardware?

3.

What product would you recommend to estimate monthly costs before the migration?

4.

Which product is ideal for migrating web apps to Azure?

5.

What product would you recommend to migrate the on-premises SQL Server databases?