Key points

• Azure Migrate discovers workloads, analyzes dependencies, and creates assessments for migration planning.
• Inventory quality, utilization window, compatibility, licensing, business criticality, and target assumptions affect recommendations.

Best-known use cases

• Build migration waves and cost estimates from measured server and dependency evidence.

What candidates often confuse it with

• Azure Migrate assesses and coordinates workloads; Database Migration Service moves supported databases and Data Box transfers bulk data offline.

Key takeaway

Choose Azure Migrate before committing targets or waves when the current estate and dependencies are uncertain.

Relevant exam tasks

• D4.3.S1 — Evaluate a migration solution that leverages the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
• D4.3.S2 — Evaluate on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration
• D4.3.S3 — Recommend a solution for migrating workloads to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS)

Learn more

• Azure Migrate overview