A town wants to discover, assess, and migrate on-premises virtual machines into Azure. Which service suite is aimed at that purpose?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Azure Migrate is the city’s moving-assessment kit—find the old VMs, size them up, then help get them to Azure. Data Box ships offline bulk data; Archive is a blob tier; Cloud Shell is a browser terminal. Different tools, different jobs.
Full Explanation
Azure Migrate is the service suite aimed at discovering, assessing, and migrating on-premises virtual machines into Azure. For a town planning a move of existing servers, Migrate provides the central hub to inventory workloads, evaluate readiness and sizing, and progress migration—exactly the assessment-and-migration story AZ-900 expects. When the scenario emphasizes VM discovery and migration planning rather than shipping disks or changing blob tiers, Azure Migrate is the answer.
Azure Data Box as the only VM assessment dashboard is incorrect; Data Box is for offline physical data transfer appliances, not the primary VM assessment dashboard. Azure Blob Archive tier as a live VM migration orchestrator confuses a cold blob access tier with migration orchestration—Archive does not move running VMs. Azure Cloud Shell as a replacement for migration assessment is wrong; Cloud Shell is a browser-based authenticated shell environment, not a migration assessment suite.
Exam caveat: Migrate assessments depend on accurate discovery agents or appliances and honest dependency mapping; incomplete inventory yields optimistic readiness scores. Operational check: onboard a pilot on-premises VM into Azure Migrate, review the assessment output for size and readiness warnings, and record next migration steps in the town’s cloud move checklist.