MRA Participant runbook

Last update: March 2021

Overview
This runbook helps Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) Participants complete the MRA pre-workshop
questionnaire they have been assigned.
The pre-workshop questionnaire is designed to accelerate the assessment process and to help the MRA
Facilitator tailor and customize the workshop to meet customer needs. Planning and conducting the MRA
workshop involves three main roles:
• Facilitator (owner of the assessment) – A migration expert (AWS or Partner stakeholder)
responsible for conducting MRA and assigning a Sponsor to the pre-workshop questionnaire.
• Sponsor (owner of the MRA pre-workshop questionnaire) – A customer stakeholder (customer
executive sponsor or a primary point of contact) responsible for managing the pre-workshop
questionnaire by assigning Participants and monitoring the status of completion.
• Participant (MRA pre-workshop and workshop participant) – A customer stakeholder who was
identified as a required attendee of the MRA workshop, and who is responsible for taking the pre-
workshop questionnaire.

Tasks

• Prerequisites
o Obtain pre-MRA overview from the Sponsor
o Confirm your participation and any constraints, concerns, or restrictions with your Sponsor
• Take the pre-workshop questionnaire

Prerequisites

As an MRA Participant, you will receive an invitation email from the MRA Sponsor with information about
how to access the pre-workshop questionnaire portal. The email will look similar to the following:

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Taking the pre-workshop questionnaire
As a Participant, you should complete the pre-workshop questionnaire by the defined due date. Please
follow the two steps in this section to access and complete the questionnaire.

Step 1: Sign In to the AWS Business Data Gathering platform

1. Use the URL provided in the email you receive from your Sponsor to access the AWS Business Data
Gathering platform hosted on AWS Accelerate.

2. If this is your first time using this platform, you will have to go through a sign-up process. If you
already have an account, please proceed to step 1.3.

a. Choose Sign up at the bottom of the login screen.

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 b. Provide your username, email, and password, and then choose Sign up. Please ensure that
you use the email address that your Sponsor used to assign the pre-workshop questionnaire
to you. You can use your email address as the username.

c. Check your inbox for an email from no-reply@verificationemail.com and complete the
verification process. The subject of the email will be "AWS Accelerate email verification,"
and it will look similar to the following:

If you don’t receive a verification email, check the following:

• Check your spam or junk folder. The verification email might have been filtered out,
based on your email settings.
• Check with your email network engineer to see if your company network is blocking
emails from Amazon.

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 • Add no-reply@verificationemail.com to the approved sender list for your email
client.
• Check for content or text limits that your organization might have set for incoming
emails, in case incoming AWS emails are being quarantined.

d. Complete the verification process by following the link in the email verification message.
The browser should present the following message.

e. Return to the Accelerate Login page and choose Continue.

3. Sign in with your username and password.

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 After you sign in, you will see the questionnaire.

Step 2: Complete and submit the pre-workshop questionnaire

1. Complete the text fields, select ratings, and provide any additional comments. When you’re done,
choose Submit.

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 You must answer all mandatory questions before you can submit your responses.

• If a question doesn’t apply to your role or you do not have the information required, select
“I don’t know” as an answer.

• If you cannot complete the questionnaire in one session, choose Save to document your
responses in the system and complete it later.

• If you want to change your responses after you submit the questionnaire, you have an
option to resubmit your responses.

2. (Optional) View all questionnaires that have been assigned to you and their due dates by choosing
Questionnaires in the breadcrumb or View Questionnaires in the left navigation bar.

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