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A company is running a web application on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are in an Auto Scaling group with a dynamic scaling policy based on average CPU utilization. During a flash sale, the application experiences a sudden spike in traffic, but the Auto Scaling group does not scale out quickly enough, causing some requests to fail. Which solution would improve the scaling responsiveness?
2A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application uses a custom TCP protocol and requires session persistence. The application runs on a fleet of EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The current configuration uses a TCP listener with 'source IP' stickiness. However, some clients are being routed to different instances mid-session, causing application errors. What is the most likely cause and solution?
3A solutions architect is designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical application that runs on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The application requires a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 5 seconds and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 1 minute. Which RDS deployment option meets these requirements?
4A company is using AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. The development team wants to deploy a new version of a stack that updates an existing RDS DB instance's DB engine version. The update requires a replacement of the database. Which CloudFormation stack policy setting allows the update to proceed while preventing other resources from being replaced or updated?
5A company is running a stateful application on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The instances store session state locally. The group uses a simple scaling policy based on network traffic. The company notices that when instances are terminated during scale-in, active sessions are lost. What is the MOST effective way to preserve session state during scaling events?
6A company is designing a microservices architecture on Amazon ECS with Fargate. The services need to communicate securely and be accessible only within the VPC. Which TWO steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)
7A company is migrating a large on-premises NoSQL database to Amazon DynamoDB. The database has tables with uneven access patterns, and some items are accessed infrequently but must be retained for compliance. The company wants to optimize costs without sacrificing performance. Which THREE strategies should the solutions architect recommend? (Choose THREE.)
8Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to an IAM role used by an EC2 instance. The EC2 instance has an Elastic IP address of 203.0.113.5 and is running in a VPC with CIDR 10.0.0.0/16. When the application on the instance tries to upload an object to the S3 bucket 'my-bucket', it receives an Access Denied error. What is the MOST likely cause?
9Refer to the exhibit. An Application Load Balancer is configured to route traffic to an Auto Scaling group of web servers. The health check for the target group is failing. The web servers are healthy and running, but the health check endpoint is returning a 503 status code because the application cannot connect to the database. The database is an Amazon RDS instance in the same VPC. Which action should the solutions architect take to resolve the health check failure?
10A company runs a critical web application on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application experiences intermittent high latency, and the operations team suspects that the load balancer is not distributing traffic evenly. Which configuration should the team check to confirm or rule out uneven traffic distribution?
11A company runs a containerized application on Amazon ECS with Fargate launch type. The application needs to access an Amazon RDS database that is in a private subnet. The ECS tasks are also in private subnets. The security group for the RDS instance allows inbound traffic on port 3306 from the security group attached to the ECS tasks. However, the application cannot connect to the database. Which solution should the company implement to resolve this issue?
12A company is designing a multi-tier web application on AWS. The web tier must scale based on CPU utilization, and the application tier must scale based on request count. Both tiers are deployed in a VPC with public and private subnets. Which combination of AWS services should the company use?
13A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to a microservices architecture on AWS. The application currently uses an Oracle database with complex stored procedures. The company wants to minimize changes to the application code during migration. Which database migration strategy should the company use?
14A company runs a stateful web application on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group with a dynamic scaling policy based on CPU utilization. The application maintains session state in memory on each instance. Users report that they are frequently logged out and lose their session data during scaling events. What should the company do to resolve this issue?
15A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for a critical application that runs on EC2 instances in a single AWS Region. The application uses an Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance. The company wants to achieve a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 minute and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 15 minutes for both compute and database tiers. Which TWO options should the company implement? (Choose TWO.)
16A company is deploying a serverless application using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon DynamoDB. The application must meet high availability and low latency requirements. The company expects traffic to spike unpredictably. Which THREE strategies should the company implement to ensure the application can handle the load? (Choose THREE.)
17A company runs a critical web application on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application uses Auto Scaling and a MySQL RDS Multi-AZ DB instance. Users report intermittent connection timeouts, and CloudWatch metrics show CPUUtilization spikes to 90% on the DB instance. The application queries are read-heavy with occasional writes. What is the MOST cost-effective design change to improve performance?
18A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team wants to enforce that all S3 buckets in the organization are encrypted with SSE-KMS using a specific KMS key. What is the MOST effective way to enforce this policy?
19A company wants to migrate an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database is 2 TB in size and has a 10 Gbps network connection to AWS. The migration must have minimal downtime. Which AWS service should be used for the initial data load?
20A company is deploying a multi-tier web application on AWS. The application consists of an Application Load Balancer (ALB), a fleet of EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group, and an Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance. The security team requires that all traffic between the ALB and EC2 instances is encrypted, and that the EC2 instances can only be accessed by the ALB. Which TWO steps should be taken to meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)
21A company runs a production web application on AWS using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) with a target group of EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The application uses a custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that includes the web server and application code. The Auto Scaling group has a launch template that references the AMI. The company updates the application code weekly and creates a new AMI version. The operations team manually updates the launch template to reference the new AMI and then initiates an instance refresh. Recently, a misconfiguration caused the launch template to point to an old AMI after an instance refresh, resulting in a rollback of the application code. The company wants to automate the deployment process to ensure that new AMIs are deployed consistently and safely. Which solution meets these requirements?
22A company is migrating a legacy three-tier web application to AWS. The application uses a MySQL database and stores session data in the database. The company wants to minimize database load and improve scalability. Which TWO actions should the company take to achieve these goals?
23A security engineer is troubleshooting an issue where a cross-account IAM role (arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/CrossAccountRole) is unable to upload objects to an S3 bucket (my-bucket) owned by another account. The bucket policy is shown above. What is the MOST likely reason for the failure?
24A company runs a critical web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database. The operations team reports that the application becomes unresponsive for about 30 seconds every hour at the same time. The team checks the ALB access logs and notices that during the outage, the ALB returns HTTP 504 errors. The RDS monitoring shows a spike in CPU usage and active connections during the same period. The application team confirms there are no scheduled jobs during that time. What should the team do to diagnose the root cause?
25Drag and drop the steps to migrate an on-premises SAP system to AWS using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) into the correct order.
26Drag and drop the steps to set up an SAProuter connection between an on-premises network and AWS for SAP support access into the correct order.
27Drag and drop the steps to optimize SAP HANA performance by moving to an Amazon RDS for SAP HANA instance into the correct order.
28Match the AWS service to its primary use in an SAP environment.
29Match the AWS service to its role in SAP high availability.
30Match the AWS managed service to its SAP-related capability.
31A company is running an SAP HANA database on an Amazon EC2 instance. The instance type is r5.4xlarge with 16 vCPUs and 128 GiB of memory. The storage is configured with a single 400 GB gp2 EBS volume for /hana/data and a separate 100 GB gp2 volume for /hana/log. The database experiences high latency during peak loads. Which change will most likely improve performance?
32An organization uses AWS Systems Manager to run automation documents on their SAP EC2 instances. Recently, some automation runbooks have failed because the EC2 instances did not have the required SSM Agent version. The operations team wants to ensure all existing and future instances automatically have the latest SSM Agent. Which solution meets this requirement?
33A company wants to migrate its on-premises SAP system to AWS. The system consists of an SAP NetWeaver application server and an SAP HANA database. The database requires ultra-low latency storage. Which AWS storage solution is most suitable for the SAP HANA data volume?
34A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to automate the failover of their SAP HANA database across Availability Zones using a multi-AZ setup. They are using Pacemaker and STONITH fencing. Which AWS resource is commonly used as a fencing device for SAP HANA multi-AZ clusters?
35An SAP Basis administrator needs to monitor the performance of their SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The administrator wants to visualize key metrics such as CPU utilization, memory usage, and disk I/O in a single dashboard. Which AWS service should be used to create this dashboard?
36A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the ASCS instance. They plan to use a shared file system for the transport directory. Which AWS storage service is most appropriate for this shared file system?
37An administrator needs to back up an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The backup must be stored in a durable, cost-effective storage solution. Which AWS service is best suited for storing the backup files?
38A company is using AWS Systems Manager to manage their SAP environment. They want to ensure that only specific users can run automation documents on production SAP instances. Which IAM policy action should be used to control access to executing automation documents?
39A company is planning to migrate its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system uses Oracle Database as its backend. The company wants to minimize licensing costs and administrative overhead. Which AWS database service is most suitable for this migration?
40An SAP administrator is configuring high availability for SAP HANA on AWS. Which TWO components are essential for a Pacemaker-based cluster?
41A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to choose instance types that are certified by SAP. Which THREE instance families are SAP-certified for production SAP HANA workloads?
42An SAP administrator needs to set up disaster recovery for an SAP system on AWS. Which TWO AWS services can be used to replicate data across regions?
43An SAP administrator attaches this IAM policy to a user. Which action will the user be allowed to perform on an EC2 instance with the tag 'Environment: Production'?
44An administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown and receives the output. The administrator wants to retrieve the private IP address of the ASCS instance using CloudFormation stack outputs. What is the most efficient way to get this IP address?
45An administrator receives this error when trying to register an SAP system in AWS Systems Manager. What is the likely cause?
46A company is running an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with an EBS gp3 volume. The workload is write-intensive and latency-sensitive. Which configuration change would provide the most consistent I/O performance?
47An SAP system running on AWS uses a large memory-optimized instance (e.g., u-6tb1.metal). The system administrator notices that SAP workloads are occasionally hitting memory swap, causing performance degradation. The SAP application is configured to use SAP HANA. What is the most effective solution to address this issue?
48A company is planning a migration of their SAP ERP system to AWS. They want to use SAP HANA as the database. The current on-premises database size is 2 TB. The migration must have minimal downtime. Which combination of AWS services and methods should be used to achieve a near-zero downtime migration?
49An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing intermittent network connectivity issues between the application server and the database server. Both servers are in the same VPC but in different Availability Zones. The network ACLs and security groups are properly configured. What is the most likely cause and solution?
50A company operates an SAP system on AWS with a shared SAP HANA database across multiple SAP applications. The database size is 5 TB. The operations team wants to implement a disaster recovery strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which solution meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?
51An SAP customer has a mission-critical system running on AWS. They need to ensure that the SAP application can survive an Availability Zone failure without manual intervention. The SAP application is stateless. The database is SAP HANA with System Replication. What is the most comprehensive architecture to achieve automatic failover?
52An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing high CPU usage on the application server during peak hours. The system is already using the largest instance type available in the current generation. What is the most cost-effective solution to handle the peak load?
53A company migrates its SAP HANA database to an EC2 instance with 1 TB of memory. The system is used for both OLTP and OLAP workloads. The performance team notices that memory utilization is high but the CPU is underutilized. Which configuration change would best improve overall system throughput?
54An SAP customer is using AWS Direct Connect to connect their on-premises network to AWS. They have multiple SAP systems in different VPCs. The network team wants to centralize connectivity and simplify routing. Which AWS service should they use to connect all VPCs to the on-premises network?
55Which TWO of the following are benefits of using SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) on AWS? (Choose 2.)
56Which THREE of the following are best practices for securing an SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose 3.)
57Which TWO of the following are valid considerations when sizing an SAP HANA instance on AWS for a production environment? (Choose 2.)
58A company is running a production SAP HANA database on an AWS EC2 instance with a single EBS gp3 volume. The database frequently experiences high write latency during peak hours. Which design change would MOST effectively reduce write latency?
59An SAP system administrator is troubleshooting a high CPU usage issue on an SAP application server (AS) running on an EC2 instance. The administrator suspects that a specific ABAP report is consuming excessive resources. Which AWS service can provide detailed CPU utilization metrics at the process level to confirm the suspicion?
60A company is planning to migrate its SAP landscape to AWS. The SAP systems include a production system, a QA system, and a development system. All systems use the same SAP S/4HANA version. Which strategy is MOST cost-effective for the DR (disaster recovery) setup?
61An SAP Basis team is implementing SAP HANA system replication across two AWS Availability Zones. The HANA primary instance uses Premium SSD v2 (P30) managed disks. The secondary instance must be kept in sync with minimal data loss. Which networking configuration is required to ensure low-latency, high-throughput replication traffic between the instances?
62A company runs SAP ERP on AWS with a Sybase ASE database. The database is on an EC2 instance with a single 500 GB gp2 EBS volume. The volume shows 100% credit balance consumption frequently, causing I/O throttling. What should the company do to resolve the throttling?
63An SAP administrator needs to ensure that Amazon EBS snapshots of SAP HANA data volumes are crash-consistent. The HANA database is on a single EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes. What is the correct approach?
64A company is designing a network architecture for SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The architecture must support high availability by distributing application servers across two Availability Zones. Which AWS service can provide automatic failover for the SAP central services (ASCS) instance?
65An SAP system running on AWS experiences a significant performance degradation after a patching activity. The SAP application (PAS) and database (HANA) run on separate EC2 instances. The network throughput between the two instances has dropped. What is the MOST likely cause?
66A company is migrating its SAP ERP system from on-premises to AWS. The migration involves a heterogeneous database migration from Oracle to SAP HANA. Which AWS service should be used to perform the database migration with minimal downtime?
67A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to choose a storage solution for the HANA data volume that provides high IOPS and low latency. Which TWO storage options are suitable? (Choose TWO.)
68An SAP administrator is configuring high availability for SAP HANA using HANA system replication (HSR) across multiple Availability Zones. The administrator must ensure that the replication traffic is encrypted and uses the most efficient network path. Which TWO configurations meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)
69A company is running an SAP NetWeaver system on AWS. The system includes a primary application server (PAS) and a dialog instance. The administrator wants to monitor the SAP system health using Amazon CloudWatch. Which THREE metrics should be monitored to proactively detect performance issues? (Choose THREE.)
70An SAP application running on AWS is experiencing high latency for database write operations. The system uses SAP ASE on Amazon EC2 with gp2 EBS volumes. Which change is most likely to improve write performance?
71A customer runs SAP HANA on an AWS Multi-AZ deployment with a primary and secondary instance. They want to ensure automatic failover in case of instance failure. What is the recommended approach?
72An SAP system on AWS sends large amounts of batch data via RFC calls between two EC2 instances in the same VPC. The application team reports high network latency. Which configuration change would most effectively reduce latency?
73A company running SAP on AWS needs to back up their SAP HANA database daily with point-in-time recovery. Which service should they use to achieve this with minimal operational overhead?
74An SAP system is running on EC2 and uses a Classic Load Balancer to distribute traffic to web dispatchers. The operations team notices that the load balancer is not distributing traffic evenly. What is the most likely cause?
75A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the system can handle a sudden increase in user load during month-end closing. Which architectural change would best address this requirement?
76An SAP environment uses Amazon CloudWatch to monitor EC2 instances. The operations team wants to receive a notification when the CPU utilization exceeds 90% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should they use?
77A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to minimize downtime during the cutover. The database is SAP ASE. Which migration strategy is most appropriate?
78An SAP system on AWS needs to store sensitive configuration files securely and automatically rotate the encryption keys. Which AWS service should be used?
79Which TWO of the following are valid strategies to improve the availability of an SAP HANA database on AWS?
80Which THREE services can be used together to implement a disaster recovery solution for SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 1 hour and a recovery point objective (RPO) of less than 15 minutes?
81Which TWO are best practices for securing SAP on AWS?
82A company is running an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The database experiences high write latency during peak hours. Which configuration change would most effectively reduce latency?
83An SAP system administrator notices that an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS is experiencing high network latency between the application server and the database server. Both servers are in the same VPC but in different Availability Zones. What is the most effective way to reduce latency?
84A company wants to set up an SAP HANA system replication across two AWS Regions for disaster recovery. Which AWS service should they use to achieve the lowest possible recovery point objective (RPO)?
85During an SAP system migration to AWS, the team needs to ensure that the SAP application can automatically restart if the EC2 instance fails. Which combination of AWS services should they use?
86An SAP system on AWS uses a shared file system (e.g., /sapmnt) that must be accessible from multiple EC2 instances. Which storage solution provides the highest availability and scalability?
87A company wants to ensure that their SAP HANA database backups are stored securely and can be retained for 7 years for compliance. Which AWS service should they use to archive the backups?
88An SAP system administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance running SAP NetWeaver and set an alarm when it exceeds 90% for 5 minutes. Which AWS service should they use?
89A company is running SAP Business Suite on AWS and wants to improve the disaster recovery posture by replicating data to another AWS Region. The solution must have a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 15 minutes and a recovery point objective (RPO) of less than 5 minutes. Which approach should they take?
90An SAP system administrator needs to grant an external auditor read-only access to view EC2 instance configurations and CloudWatch logs. Which IAM policy should they use?
91An SAP administrator attaches the above IAM policy to a user. What actions can the user perform?
92An SAP administrator runs the above CLI command and sees the output. The EC2 instance i-0a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8 is stopped. What will happen if the administrator attempts to start the instance?
93The above IAM policy is attached to a role named CrossAccountBackupRole in account 123456789012. What does this policy enable?
94Which TWO AWS services can be used to create a private, low-latency network connection between an on-premises data center and an SAP environment on AWS? (Choose two.)
95Which THREE factors should be considered when choosing an EC2 instance type for an SAP HANA production system? (Choose three.)
96Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the backup of SAP HANA databases? (Choose two.)
97A company is running a critical SAP application on SAP HANA in an AWS Single-AZ deployment. The application has experienced downtime twice in the last month due to underlying hardware failures. What is the MOST cost-effective solution to minimize future downtime without compromising performance?
98An SAP Basis administrator needs to migrate an on-premises SAP ERP system running on Oracle to AWS. The system has a 2 TB database and requires minimal downtime (less than 1 hour). The current on-premises network bandwidth to AWS is 1 Gbps. Which migration strategy is MOST appropriate?
99A company runs its SAP S/4HANA system on AWS using a multi-node HANA scale-out configuration. After a recent OS update, the application layer cannot connect to the HANA database. The HANA database processes are running, but the SAP application servers report 'communication failure' errors. Initial checks show that the security group rules allow traffic on the required ports. What is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
100An organization wants to ensure that its SAP HANA database backups are stored in a separate AWS Region for disaster recovery. The backups are currently stored in Amazon S3 in the primary Region. Which AWS service should be used to replicate the backups to another Region automatically?
101A company is planning to run SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ) on AWS. The application servers require consistent low-latency access to a shared file system for storing reports and configuration files. Which AWS storage solution is BEST suited for this requirement?
102An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database performance has degraded significantly during peak hours. The HANA instance is running on an r5.8xlarge EC2 instance with EBS gp2 volumes. Monitoring shows high I/O wait times on the data volume. Which change is MOST likely to improve performance?
103A company is migrating its SAP landscape to AWS and wants to ensure that all SAP systems can communicate with each other using private IP addresses only. The systems are deployed in multiple VPCs. Which AWS solution should be used to enable private connectivity between these VPCs?
104An SAP system uses a custom RFC destination to an external SOAP web service. After a recent network change, the RFC call fails with a timeout error. The SAP administrator has verified that the web service is reachable from the SAP application server using ping. What is the MOST likely cause of the timeout?
105A company runs SAP HANA on AWS using a scale-up configuration. The system is experiencing high CPU utilization on the HANA server during peak load. The SAP administrator wants to add more CPU resources without disruption. Which action should be taken?
106A company is designing an SAP HANA disaster recovery solution on AWS. The primary system is in us-east-1, and the DR system must be in us-west-2. The RPO is 15 minutes, and RTO is 1 hour. Which TWO approaches meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)
107An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing high latency in the application layer. The system uses a load balancer to distribute traffic across multiple EC2 instances. Which THREE actions could help diagnose the latency issue? (Choose THREE.)
108A company is planning to run SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure that the system is highly available. Which TWO AWS services should be combined to achieve HA for the SAP central services (ASCS/SCS) and the database? (Choose TWO.)
109An SAP administrator created the IAM policy shown in the exhibit. When trying to terminate an EC2 instance with ID i-abc123 in us-west-2, the action fails. What is the reason?
110An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit. The SAP HANA instance is running on an r5.4xlarge in us-east-1a. The administrator wants to change the instance type to r5.8xlarge to improve performance. What must the administrator do first?
111An SAP HANA administrator sees the error log entry shown in the exhibit. The error occurs when a scheduled job tries to insert data into the BKPF table. What is the MOST likely cause?
112A company is running an SAP HANA database on an Amazon EC2 instance. The storage is configured with multiple EBS volumes striped using LVM. The company wants to ensure the database performance is consistent and can detect potential bottlenecks. Which AWS service should be used to monitor the EBS volume metrics such as Average Queue Length and Throughput?
113A company is migrating its SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS/ERS) instance. The solution must support automatic failover in case of an instance failure. Which AWS service should be used to manage the floating IP address required for the SAP high availability setup?
114A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a Multi-AZ RDS for SAP HANA as the database. The database instance is m5.8xlarge with 1000 GB of gp2 storage. The application team reports that write latency spikes during peak hours. The average write throughput is 200 MB/s. Which change would most effectively reduce write latency?
115A company is implementing SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the storage configuration meets the required IOPS and throughput. The SAP HANA system uses a scale-out architecture with multiple worker nodes. Which type of Amazon EBS volume is recommended for the /hana/data and /hana/log volumes in a production environment?
116A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to back up the SAP HANA database daily. The database is 1 TB in size and the backup must be completed within 2 hours. The backup will be stored in Amazon S3. Which approach provides the fastest backup time while minimizing cost?
117A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for SAP on AWS. The primary region is us-east-1 and the DR region is us-west-2. The SAP HANA database is 2 TB. The recovery point objective (RPO) is 15 minutes and the recovery time objective (RTO) is 4 hours. Which solution meets these requirements most cost-effectively?
118A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to configure the SAP application server instances for high availability. Which AWS feature is used to distribute traffic across multiple application server instances in different Availability Zones?
119A company is running SAP HANA on a bare metal EC2 instance. The system experiences a hardware failure that causes an instance stop. The company needs to recover the instance quickly. What should the company do to minimize recovery time?
120A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to implement encryption at rest for all data. The company uses AWS KMS with Customer Managed Keys (CMKs) for the EBS volumes. The SAP application servers need to access an S3 bucket that contains sensitive data. How should the company ensure that the S3 bucket is encrypted with the same CMK?
121Which TWO of the following are required components for an SAP HANA scale-out deployment on AWS that uses shared storage for /hana/shared? (Choose two.)
122Which THREE of the following are valid methods to automate the installation of SAP HANA on AWS? (Choose three.)
123Which TWO of the following are best practices for securing an SAP system on AWS? (Choose two.)
124An SAP administrator created an IAM policy to allow an EC2 instance to upload backups to an S3 bucket. The policy is shown in the exhibit. However, the backup job fails with an access denied error. What is the most likely cause?
125An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit to check the status of a production HANA instance. The output shows the instance is running in us-east-1a. However, the SAP application team reports that the HANA database is not responding. What should the administrator check next to diagnose the issue?
126An SAP administrator is reviewing a CloudFormation template snippet shown in the exhibit. The template creates an EC2 instance for SAP. What is missing from the template to ensure the instance is placed in a specific subnet?
127A company is running a critical SAP HANA database on AWS. The database administrator wants to ensure that the SAP HANA backup files are stored in a secure, durable, and cost-effective manner. They need to retain backups for 7 years to meet compliance requirements. Which AWS service should be used for long-term backup storage?
128An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing performance issues. The operations team suspects that the Amazon EBS volumes attached to the SAP application server are not providing sufficient IOPS. Which AWS service should be used to monitor the IOPS performance of the EBS volumes?
129A company is migrating its SAP landscape to AWS. The SAP systems consist of multiple instances (development, quality, production) running on different EC2 instances. The company wants to automate the provisioning of these instances using infrastructure as code. Which AWS service should be used to define and provision the SAP infrastructure in a repeatable manner?
130An SAP system is running on an EC2 instance with a single Amazon EBS volume for data and log files. The database administrator wants to increase the IOPS performance without changing the instance type. Which action should be taken?
131A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The system is critical and requires high availability. The database is SAP HANA running on two EC2 instances in a cluster. The company wants to ensure that the secondary instance can take over quickly in case of primary failure. Which AWS service should be used to implement a floating IP address that can be moved between the instances?
132An SAP administrator needs to ensure that all API calls made to AWS services by the SAP system are logged for auditing purposes. Which AWS service should be enabled?
133A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and wants to reduce costs by right-sizing the EC2 instances. The administrator has identified that the current instances are over-provisioned for CPU and memory. Which AWS service can provide recommendations for instance type changes based on historical usage?
134An SAP HANA database on AWS requires a backup strategy that includes incremental backups to minimize storage costs. The database is large (2 TB) and the backup window is short. Which AWS service or feature is most suitable for performing incremental backups of SAP HANA?
135A company is deploying a new SAP S/4HANA system on AWS and needs to ensure that the application servers can communicate with the database servers securely and with low latency. The application servers and database servers are in different VPCs. Which AWS service should be used to connect these VPCs?
136Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of SAP HANA databases running on EC2 instances? (Choose two.)
137Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the backup of SAP HANA databases? (Choose two.)
138Which THREE AWS services are commonly used to implement high availability for SAP HANA databases on AWS? (Choose three.)
139Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to an IAM role used by an SAP automation script. The script is failing to start an EC2 instance. What is the most likely cause?
140Refer to the exhibit. An administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown and receives the output. The instance is running, but the SAP application on the instance is not accessible. Which additional AWS CLI command should the administrator run to troubleshoot the network connectivity?
141Refer to the exhibit. A CloudFormation template is used to launch an EC2 instance for SAP. The instance launches but the root volume is only 50 GB. The SAP installation requires at least 100 GB for the root volume. How should the template be modified?
142A company is designing a disaster recovery solution for a critical SAP HANA database running on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the recovery site must be in us-west-2. The database must have a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 2 hours. Which approach meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?
143An SAP administrator needs to migrate an on-premises SAP ERP system to AWS. The current system runs on a single Windows Server with SQL Server and uses 2 TB of storage. The migration must minimize downtime and use native AWS tools. Which service should be used to replicate the on-premises server to AWS?
144A company runs SAP on AWS and uses SAP HANA as its database. The system is experiencing high latency during peak hours. The SAP HANA administrator wants to identify performance bottlenecks at the CPU, memory, and disk I/O levels. Which TWO AWS services can be used together to monitor and correlate these metrics?
145An SAP administrator created the IAM policy shown in the exhibit for a team managing SAP HANA instances. What is the effective permission for the team regarding an EC2 instance with the tag 'Environment=Production'?
146A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. They have two EC2 instances in different Availability Zones within a single AWS Region. Which AWS service should be used to automatically fail over the ASCS instance if the primary instance fails?
147A company is planning to migrate a large SAP HANA database to AWS using AWS Snowball Edge devices. The database size is 50 TB and the migration must be completed within a week. Which TWO actions should the company take to ensure a successful migration?
148An SAP Basis administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP NetWeaver application server running on Amazon EC2. The administrator notices that the CPU utilization is low but the application response times are high. The system is using an Amazon EBS gp2 volume. Which configuration change is most likely to improve performance?
149A company has a mission-critical SAP S/4HANA system running on AWS with a multi-node HANA database. The system must be highly available with an RPO of 0 and an RTO of less than 30 minutes. The database uses SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) with synchronous replication. Which THREE components are essential for this high-availability architecture?
150The exhibit shows an IAM policy for an SAP backup process that uploads backups to S3. An administrator wants to ensure that all uploads are encrypted using SSE-S3. What does this policy enforce?
151A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a shared file system for SAP transport files. The system must support concurrent access from multiple SAP application servers and provide strong consistency. The transport files are typically small (less than 1 MB) and are frequently read and written. Which file storage solution should be used?
152An SAP administrator is configuring backups for an SAP HANA database running on Amazon EC2. The backup must be stored in Amazon S3 for long-term retention. Which AWS service should be used to automate the backup process?
153A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to configure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). The solution must use AWS native services. Which TWO actions should be taken?
154The exhibit shows the block device mapping of an EC2 instance running SAP HANA. The root volume (/dev/xvda) has DeleteOnTermination set to true, and the data volume (/dev/sdf) has DeleteOnTermination set to false. If the instance is terminated, what happens to the data volume?
155A company is running SAP BusinessObjects on AWS. The application servers are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB is configured to use a single target group. The company wants to deploy a new version of the application with zero downtime. Which deployment strategy should be used?
156An SAP administrator needs to provide temporary, time-limited access to an S3 bucket containing SAP backup files for an external auditor. The auditor should be able to download files from the bucket. Which method provides the most secure way to grant access?
157A company is running an SAP HANA database on an AWS EC2 instance. The SAP application team reports occasional performance issues during peak hours. The CloudWatch metrics show high CPU utilization. What is the MOST cost-effective solution to address this issue?
158An SAP system on AWS uses a Multi-AZ DB instance for its database. The operations team notices that during a recent Availability Zone outage, the database failover did not occur automatically. What is the MOST likely cause?
159A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS. The system requires low-latency access to a shared file system for SAP transport directories. The file system must be accessible from multiple EC2 instances in different Availability Zones. Which storage solution meets these requirements?
160An SAP administrator needs to ensure that all changes to an SAP system's AWS resources are tracked and that alerts are sent when SSH access to EC2 instances is modified. Which AWS service should be used?
161An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing high latency for database writes. The database is running on an RDS instance with General Purpose (gp2) storage. What change will PROVIDE the most immediate performance improvement?
162A company is using SAP HANA on AWS and needs to back up the database to Amazon S3. The backup must be encrypted at rest in S3. The company already uses AWS KMS for encryption. What is the MOST secure way to configure the backup?
163An SAP system on AWS needs to be highly available across two Availability Zones. The application tier runs on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The database tier uses an RDS Multi-AZ deployment. What additional step is REQUIRED to ensure complete high availability for the application tier?
164A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to set up a disaster recovery (DR) site in another AWS Region. The RPO is 15 minutes and RTO is 4 hours. The database is SAP HANA. Which approach meets these requirements?
165An SAP system on AWS is experiencing slow performance for batch jobs. The jobs are I/O intensive and write large amounts of data to EBS volumes. CloudWatch metrics show that the EBS volumes are reaching their throughput limits. Which action will MOST effectively improve performance?
166Which TWO options are valid methods for encrypting data at rest in an SAP HANA database running on Amazon EBS? (Choose two.)
167Which THREE factors should be considered when choosing an EC2 instance type for an SAP HANA production system? (Choose three.)
168Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor SAP system availability and send notifications when a system goes down? (Choose two.)
169A company is running an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with a large amount of memory. The system is experiencing performance issues during peak loads. Which AWS service should be used to capture detailed performance metrics for analysis?
170A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which architecture should be used to meet this requirement?
171An SAP administrator uses an IAM role attached to an EC2 instance to perform backups. The backup script fails when trying to write to an S3 bucket and create EBS snapshots. What is the most likely cause?
172A company wants to automate the creation of an SAP application server in AWS. Which AWS service is best suited for this task?
173An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency between the application server and the database server. Both are in the same VPC but different subnets. What is the most effective way to reduce latency?
174An SAP HANA database is running on an EC2 instance with a gp3 EBS volume. The database workload requires high IOPS and throughput. The current configuration shows 16,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/s throughput. Which change could improve performance?
175A company needs to set up a disaster recovery solution for SAP on AWS with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which strategy is most appropriate?
176An SAP system is running on AWS and needs to be migrated from a current generation instance (r3) to a newer generation (r5). What is the recommended process to minimize downtime?
177A company runs SAP on AWS and uses AWS Transit Gateway to connect multiple VPCs. They notice that inter-VPC traffic is being dropped. What is a likely cause?
178Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor SAP system performance and send alerts? (Choose two.)
179Which THREE considerations are important when designing an SAP HANA multi-node (scale-out) deployment on AWS? (Choose three.)
180Which TWO AWS services can be used to store SAP backup data? (Choose two.)
181A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a production database on an r5.24xlarge instance and 15 application servers on r5.4xlarge instances. The system has been stable for months. Recently, the database instance started experiencing high CPU utilization during peak hours, causing performance degradation. The company has reserved capacity for the database instance. The SAP team has already optimized the SQL queries and reduced the CPU usage by 20%, but the CPU still spikes to 95% during peak hours. The team is considering upgrading the database instance to a larger type. However, the next larger instance type (r5.32xlarge) is not available in the current Availability Zone. The company needs a solution that minimizes downtime and cost. What should be done?
182A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and wants to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). They plan to use a cluster manager (Pacemaker) with a shared filesystem. The cluster will span two Availability Zones. The storage for the shared filesystem must be highly available and provide consistent performance. What storage solution should be used?
183A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery (DR) solution with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 4 hours and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 hour. The primary site is in us-east-1, and DR site will be in us-west-2. The database is running on SAP ASE. The company wants to minimize changes to the existing SAP environment and avoid complex replication setups. What is the most suitable DR approach?
184A company is running a business-critical SAP HANA database on an m5.24xlarge EC2 instance. The database stores 3 TB of data on EBS gp3 volumes. The system experiences high latency during peak hours. Which configuration change would most effectively reduce latency without increasing costs significantly?
185An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues between the SAP application servers and the database server. Both are in the same VPC but different subnets. The security groups and network ACLs are correctly configured. The issue occurs only during peak hours. Which of the following is the most likely cause?
186A company wants to automate the backup of its SAP HANA database to Amazon S3. The database is running on an EC2 instance with a 500 GB gp3 volume. The backup should be encrypted at rest in S3. What is the most efficient way to achieve this with minimal operational overhead?
187An SAP Basis team is planning to migrate an SAP ERP system from on-premises to AWS. The system currently uses Oracle Database and runs on a physical server with 256 GB RAM. The team wants to minimize downtime and ensure the migration is supported by SAP. Which AWS service or feature should they use to perform the migration?
188An SAP administrator is trying to set up an AWS CLI script that queries EC2 instance metadata. The script runs on an EC2 instance with an IAM role attached. The IAM role has the following policy: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "ec2:DescribeInstances", "Resource": "*" } ] } What is the most likely cause of the error?
189A company is running SAP NetWeaver on AWS and wants to implement high availability for the ASCS instance. Which AWS service can be used to monitor and automatically restart the ASCS instance if it fails?
190An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing high CPU utilization on the database server. The database is SAP HANA running on an r5.8xlarge instance. Which metric in Amazon CloudWatch would best indicate whether the CPU is being consumed by the HANA process or by other OS processes?
191A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the system can survive a single Availability Zone failure. The SAP HANA database is 1.5 TB in size. What is the most cost-effective high availability solution that meets SAP's support requirements?
192An administrator is setting up an SAP system on AWS and needs to assign a static private IP address to the SAP application server. Which AWS resource should be used to ensure the private IP address remains the same even after an instance stop/start?
193A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. Which TWO AWS features should be combined to achieve this? (Choose TWO.)
194A company is planning to migrate its SAP HANA database to AWS. The database is 5 TB in size and requires high IOPS for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. Which THREE AWS storage options are suitable for SAP HANA data volumes? (Choose THREE.)
195An organization runs SAP on AWS and wants to encrypt all data at rest for the SAP HANA database. The encryption keys must be managed by the customer and rotated annually. Which THREE AWS services can be used together to meet these requirements? (Choose THREE.)
196A company has deployed its SAP S/4HANA system on AWS in a single Availability Zone. The system consists of a primary application server (PAS), additional application servers (AAS), and a HANA database server, all running on EC2 instances. The company is experiencing occasional performance degradation during peak hours. The CloudWatch metrics show that the database server's CPU utilization spikes to 90% during these periods, while the application servers' CPU remains below 50%. The storage is configured with two EBS io1 volumes (each 1 TB, 10,000 IOPS) for HANA data and one io1 volume (500 GB, 5,000 IOPS) for log. The network throughput is not saturated. The company wants to resolve the performance issue without increasing costs significantly. Which course of action should the company take?
197A company is running SAP Business Suite on AWS. The system includes a central services (ASCS) instance, a primary application server (PAS), and a database server running SAP HANA. The company recently experienced an outage when the EC2 instance hosting the ASCS instance failed due to a hardware issue. The system was down for 4 hours while the IT team manually recovered the ASCS instance from an AMI. The company wants to implement a highly available ASCS instance with automatic failover and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 15 minutes. The system is currently running in a single Availability Zone. What should the company do to meet these requirements?
198A small business runs its SAP Business One on a single EC2 instance in AWS. The database is SAP HANA, and the application is also on the same instance. The company wants to ensure that in the event of an instance failure, they can quickly restore the system from backups. They take daily EBS snapshots of the root volume and the data volume. One day, the instance fails and becomes unreachable. The IT administrator attempts to launch a new instance from the most recent AMI, but the new instance does not have the same private IP address, causing connectivity issues for the company's on-premises systems that use VPN to connect to the SAP server. The company uses a Site-to-Site VPN connection to the VPC. What should the administrator do to ensure that the private IP address is preserved after recovery?
199A company is running an SAP HANA database on an r5.8xlarge EC2 instance. The database experiences high memory pressure, and they want to add more memory without downtime. What should they do?
200An SAP system is deployed across multiple Availability Zones using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for the SAP Web Dispatcher. Users report that sessions are frequently dropped during peak hours. Which configuration change should resolve this?
201A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and wants to use SAP HANA as the database. Which AWS service can be used to automate the installation and configuration of SAP HANA?
202An SAP application is experiencing high latency when writing to an Amazon EBS volume. The volume is a gp2 type attached to an m5.4xlarge instance. Which change would improve write performance?
203Which TWO options are valid strategies for backing up an SAP HANA database running on Amazon EC2? (Choose two.)
204Which THREE factors should be considered when selecting an EC2 instance type for an SAP HANA production system? (Choose three.)
205Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of an SAP HANA database running on EC2? (Choose two.)
206An SAP administrator creates this IAM policy for an EC2 instance role used by SAP HANA Backint to back up to S3. The backups are failing with access denied errors for S3 operations. What is the most likely cause?
207An SAP HANA administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit. The volume is attached to an SAP HANA server. The HANA database is experiencing low write throughput. Which action would most likely improve performance?
208A company runs its SAP ERP system on AWS using SAP HANA as the database. The HANA database is deployed on an EC2 instance with 2 TB of memory. The system has been running for months, but recently the application team reported that some queries are taking significantly longer than usual. The operations team checks the CloudWatch metrics and sees that the database instance's CPU utilization is consistently above 90% during peak hours. They also notice that the EBS volume used for HANA data files has a read latency of over 20 ms. The volume is a gp3 volume with 16,000 IOPS. The instance type is an x1e.8xlarge. The team suspects that the instance is not optimized for the workload. What should they do to resolve the performance issue?
209A company is planning to migrate its SAP ERP system from an on-premises data center to AWS. The system uses SAP HANA as the database. The current on-premises HANA database size is 1 TB. The company wants to minimize downtime during the migration. The network connection between on-premises and AWS has a bandwidth of 1 Gbps. The company has already set up a Direct Connect connection. They plan to use SAP HANA system replication to replicate the database to an EC2 instance in AWS. However, the initial data transfer will take too long due to the large dataset. What should they do to reduce the initial replication time?
210An SAP administrator needs to ensure that all API calls made to AWS services by the SAP application are logged for auditing purposes. The administrator wants to store these logs in Amazon S3 for long-term retention. Which AWS service should be used to capture the API calls?
211A company runs its SAP Business Suite on AWS with an Oracle database on an EC2 instance. The database is stored on multiple EBS volumes configured as a RAID 0 array. The company wants to migrate the database to SAP HANA on a new EC2 instance. The SAP HANA instance will use EBS volumes for data and log storage. The current Oracle database size is 500 GB. The company needs to minimize downtime during the migration. Which migration strategy should they use?
212An SAP system is deployed on AWS using an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances for the SAP application server layer. The application servers are stateless. The company wants to ensure that when a new instance is launched, it automatically registers with the SAP Web Dispatcher. The Web Dispatcher is configured with an Application Load Balancer (ALB). What is the best way to achieve automatic registration?
213A company is running SAP HANA on an EC2 instance with an EBS volume for data storage. The company wants to take daily snapshots of the EBS volume for backup. However, they are concerned about data consistency because the database is running. What should they do to ensure consistent snapshots?
214A company is migrating an SAP HANA database to AWS. Which TWO configurations are required to ensure high availability for the SAP HANA database in a multi-AZ setup?
215An SAP application on AWS needs to be migrated to a new virtual private cloud (VPC). The SAP system uses SAProuter to connect to SAP support. Which THREE components must be updated or re-configured during the migration to ensure uninterrupted connectivity?
216A company runs its SAP ERP system on AWS using an SAP HANA database on a single EC2 instance. The system experiences intermittent performance degradation during peak hours. The operations team suspects CPU contention, as the instance type is an r5.4xlarge (16 vCPUs). When they check Amazon CloudWatch metrics, they notice that the CPU utilization averages 60%, but occasionally spikes to 100% for a few seconds. The team wants to improve performance without changing the instance type. They are considering using AWS Compute Optimizer or enabling T2/T3 unlimited. What is the MOST effective action to address the CPU spikes?
217A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a high-availability setup using SAP HANA System Replication and a Pacemaker cluster. The cluster consists of two EC2 instances in different Availability Zones, each with an EBS volume for HANA data. The cluster uses a virtual IP address (VIP) managed by the AWS Route 53 health check and failover mechanism. During a recent failover test, the secondary node took over as primary, but the application was unable to connect to the database for several minutes. The investigation reveals that the VIP did not update correctly. The company wants to ensure fast and reliable VIP failover. What should the team do to improve the failover time?
218A company has deployed SAP BusinessObjects (BO) on AWS using a multi-tier architecture with a Windows-based application server and a SQL Server database hosted on Amazon RDS. The application server is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that handles HTTPS traffic. Users report that sometimes they receive a '502 Bad Gateway' error when accessing the BO web interface. The error occurs intermittently and is not reproducible on demand. The operations team checks the ALB logs and sees that the target response time occasionally exceeds 120 seconds. The BO application has a default timeout of 60 seconds. The team also notices that the ALB idle timeout is set to 60 seconds. What is the most likely cause of the 502 errors?
219A company is running SAP NetWeaver on AWS with an Oracle database on an EC2 instance. The database uses Oracle Data Guard for disaster recovery across Regions. The primary database is in us-east-1, and the standby is in us-west-2. The database size is 500 GB and the network link between Regions has about 100 Mbps throughput. During a recent disaster recovery drill, the failover to the standby took over 2 hours because the Data Guard redo logs were not fully applied. The team wants to reduce the recovery time objective (RTO). They are considering using Amazon S3 to store archived redo logs, increasing the bandwidth, or using a different replication method. What is the MOST effective action to reduce the RTO?
220A company is using SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) to automate the provisioning and decommissioning of SAP application servers in an AWS environment. The SAP systems are deployed on EC2 instances using Amazon EBS volumes. The operations team has observed that when LaMa triggers a scale-in operation to remove an application server, the instance is terminated, but the associated EBS volumes (including the root volume) are not deleted, resulting in orphaned volumes and increasing storage costs. The team wants to ensure that EBS volumes are automatically deleted when an instance is terminated, especially during LaMa-driven operations. Which solution should the team implement?
221An SAP application running on an EC2 instance is experiencing high latency during peak hours. The instance is in a private subnet with a NAT Gateway for outbound internet. Which action would most effectively reduce latency for SAP users?
222An SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance is configured with multiple EBS volumes using RAID 0 for increased throughput. During a backup operation, the instance experiences a significant drop in I/O performance. Which solution would best address this without affecting ongoing backups?
223An SAP system is running on EC2 with a single Availability Zone. The company needs to increase availability for the SAP application layer. Which is the most cost-effective and reliable approach?
224A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to migrate a large on-premises SAP HANA database to AWS with minimal downtime. Which approach is most suitable?
225An SAP ERP system on AWS is experiencing performance degradation. A review shows that the Amazon EBS volumes used for SAP transport directories are gp2 with high throughput but high latency. The SAP team needs improved I/O performance without changing the total storage capacity. Which action should be taken?
226A company is planning to run SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP system is backed up according to best practices. Which backup strategy is recommended?
227An SAP HANA system is deployed on AWS with a cluster of EC2 instances. The system requires high network throughput between the nodes for HANA scale-out. Which EC2 networking feature should be used?
228An SAP environment on AWS uses Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for shared storage. The system is experiencing high write latency. The storage administrator suspects the volume is not optimized for SAP workloads. Which configuration change would most likely reduce write latency?
229A company is running SAP BusinessObjects on AWS. The application is deployed on EC2 instances with an Application Load Balancer. Users are reporting that the application is sometimes unreachable. What is the most likely cause?
230Which TWO of the following are best practices for securing an SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose two.)
231Which THREE of the following are requirements for running SAP HANA in an AWS multi-zone HA cluster? (Choose three.)
232Which TWO of the following are valid methods for monitoring SAP system performance on AWS? (Choose two.)
233A company runs a critical SAP application on an SAP HANA database in a single Availability Zone on AWS. The database is 2 TB in size. The company needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The DR region must be in a different AWS Region. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
234An SAP Basis administrator is migrating an SAP ERP system from an on-premises environment to AWS. The system uses an SAP HANA database. The migration must have minimal downtime. The administrator plans to use SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) to synchronize data to an AWS HANA instance. However, the network latency between on-premises and AWS is consistently around 50 ms. What should the administrator do to ensure that HSR can maintain synchronization without impacting source system performance?
235A company is deploying an SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ) platform on AWS. The platform consists of multiple web application servers, a CMS database, and an audit database. The company wants to ensure high availability for the CMS database using native SAP tools. Which AWS service should be used to host the CMS database to facilitate the use of SAP's native replication?
236An SAP system administrator is troubleshooting an issue where the SAP HANA database is using more memory than expected on an Amazon EC2 instance. The instance type is an x1e.32xlarge with 3,904 GB of RAM. The HANA global.ini file includes the parameter 'memorymanager = global'. The administrator suspects that the HANA memory limit is not set correctly. What should the administrator check to confirm the memory limit?
237A company is running an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. The system uses an SAP HANA database with a current size of 1.5 TB. The company wants to implement a backup strategy that allows point-in-time recovery (PITR) with an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 4 hours. The backup must be stored in Amazon S3. Which combination of steps should the company take? (Choose TWO.)
238A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and wants to use Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as the shared file system for the SAP transport directory (/usr/sap/trans). The company needs to ensure that the transport directory is highly available and can be accessed from multiple SAP application servers across different Availability Zones. Which configuration should the SAP administrator use?
239A company is running SAP HANA on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes for data and log. The instance is experiencing high write latency on the log volume. The administrator notices that the log volume is a gp2 EBS volume with 1,000 GB size and 3,000 IOPS baseline. The average write IOPS to the log volume is 4,000, with peaks up to 5,500. Which action should the administrator take to resolve the latency?
240A company wants to migrate its SAP ERP system from on-premises to AWS using the SAP Application Performance Standard (SAPS) sizing approach. The current on-premises system has a SAPS rating of 15,000. The company needs to select an EC2 instance type that can provide sufficient compute capacity. Which EC2 instance family is most suitable for SAP HANA workloads?
241An SAP system administrator is configuring an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes. The administrator wants to ensure that the data volumes are mirrored to protect against volume failure. Which RAID configuration should the administrator use for the HANA data volumes?
242A company is running an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. The system experiences high memory usage. The administrator wants to monitor the SAP HANA memory consumption and set alarms for when memory usage exceeds 85% of available memory. Which steps should the administrator take to achieve this? (Choose THREE.)
243A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to set up high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). The company uses a shared file system for the transport directory. Which components are essential for the HA setup? (Choose TWO.)
244A company is running SAP HANA on an EC2 instance. The administrator needs to ensure that the instance is resilient to an Availability Zone failure. Which actions should the administrator take? (Choose TWO.)
245A company runs a critical SAP application on AWS. The SAP team needs to reduce network latency between application servers and the database. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this?
246An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database on an r5.8xlarge instance is experiencing high swap usage. The instance has 256 GB of RAM. The SAP HANA memory usage is 200 GB. What is the most likely cause?
247A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). The solution must use a shared file system for the SAP transport directory. Which combination of AWS services should be used?
248An SAP system on AWS is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues between the application server and the HANA database. The application team confirms the database is healthy. Which AWS service should be used to analyze network traffic between the two instances?
249A company wants to automate the installation of SAP HANA on AWS using CloudFormation. Which AWS resource should be used to run a script that downloads and installs SAP HANA software on an EC2 instance after the instance is launched?
250An SAP system running on AWS is configured with a Multi-AZ RDS for SAP HANA database. The primary database fails, but the automatic failover does not occur. What is the most likely reason?
251An SAP administrator needs to back up SAP HANA database to Amazon S3. Which AWS service or feature should be used to automate this backup?
252A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the system can automatically recover from an Availability Zone failure. The solution must use synchronous replication for zero data loss. Which AWS architecture meets these requirements?
253An SAP system on AWS is experiencing slow performance. The SAP team suspects that the Amazon EBS volumes used for the database are not providing sufficient IOPS. Which step should be taken to identify the bottleneck?
254Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator is reviewing the block device mappings of an EC2 instance. What is the impact of the DeleteOnTermination setting on /dev/sdf?
255Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator is creating an IAM policy for launching EC2 instances. Which instance type will the policy allow?
256Refer to the exhibit. A CloudFormation stack creation failed with the message 'WaitCondition received failed signal'. What is the most likely cause?
257Which TWO AWS services can be used to provide shared storage for SAP systems running on multiple EC2 instances?
258Which THREE factors should be considered when selecting an EC2 instance type for an SAP HANA production system?
259Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the health and performance of an SAP HANA database on AWS?
260A company is running SAP HANA on an EC2 instance. The storage is configured with multiple EBS volumes striped using LVM. The SAP administrator notices that disk I/O latency spikes during peak hours. Which change would MOST effectively reduce latency without incurring additional cost?
261An SAP system running on AWS experienced a database failure. The recovery plan uses cross-Region Amazon RDS snapshots. The RPO is 15 minutes and the RTO is 2 hours. Which AWS service should be used to automate snapshot replication across Regions?
262An SAP application must be highly available across two Availability Zones in a single Region. The SAP Central Services (ASCS) and ERS are to be deployed on EC2 instances. Which AWS service should be used to manage the floating IP address for the ASCS instance?
263A company is migrating its on-premises SAP landscape to AWS. The SAP system uses Oracle Database. The migration must minimize downtime. Which AWS service should be used for the database migration?
264A company runs SAP on EC2 instances in a private subnet. The instances need to download patches from the internet but must not be directly accessible from the internet. Which configuration meets these requirements?
265An SAP system uses Amazon EFS for shared file storage. The SAP application writes many small files concurrently, causing high metadata operations. Which EFS performance mode should be selected to optimize for this workload?
266A company is designing a disaster recovery solution for SAP HANA. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. The RPO is 5 minutes and the RTO is 30 minutes. Which replication method meets these requirements?
267An SAP application on EC2 is experiencing high CPU utilization. The instance is part of an Auto Scaling group. The CPU metric shows spikes every hour. Which scaling policy should be used to preemptively scale out before the spike?
268An SAP system needs to store audit logs for 7 years to meet compliance requirements. The logs are accessed rarely. Which storage class is MOST cost-effective?
269A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and needs to backup the database. Which TWO services can be used together to create a backup strategy that meets the requirement of point-in-time recovery? (Choose two.)
270An SAP system is deployed on EC2 instances in a VPC. The security team requires that all traffic between the SAP application and database tiers must be encrypted in transit. Which TWO actions should be taken to meet this requirement? (Choose two.)
271A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS. The migration must be completed within a limited time window. Which THREE services can be used to accelerate the migration? (Choose three.)
272Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to an IAM user. Which EC2 instance can the user terminate?
273Refer to the exhibit. A CloudFormation stack for an SAP deployment is in state UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED. What is the MOST likely cause?
274Refer to the exhibit. An SAP HANA database backup fails with 'Cannot allocate memory'. The EC2 instance type is r5.2xlarge with 64 GB RAM. What is the MOST likely cause?
275A company is running a critical SAP HANA database on a single EC2 instance with a large gp2 EBS volume. They need to ensure high availability with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 15 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 5 minutes. Which solution meets these requirements?
276A company is migrating its SAP ERP system running on Oracle to SAP HANA on AWS. The system has a database size of 2 TB. During migration planning, the team needs to minimize downtime. Which strategy should be used?
277A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to encrypt all data at rest for the SAP HANA database. Which AWS service should be used to manage the encryption keys?
278An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP HANA database running on an r5.8xlarge EC2 instance. The application team reports that queries are slow during peak hours. CloudWatch metrics show high CPU utilization and high memory usage. Which instance type should the administrator choose to improve performance?
279A company is designing an SAP HANA disaster recovery solution across AWS Regions. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. The database size is 5 TB. The RTO is 1 hour and RPO is 15 minutes. Which method should be used for SAP HANA replication?
280An SAP system uses an NFS share from an EFS file system for transport files. Recently, the transport directory performance has degraded. Which change would most likely improve performance?
281A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to automate the installation of SAP applications using infrastructure as code. Which AWS service should be used to define the infrastructure?
282A company has an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The database requires 10,000 IOPS consistently. The current volume type is gp3 with 3000 IOPS. Which change should be made to meet the IOPS requirement?
283An SAP system needs to send email notifications from the SAP application server running on EC2. Which AWS service should be used?
284A company is planning to migrate its SAP ERP system to SAP HANA on AWS. Which TWO AWS services can be used to assess the current on-premises environment and plan the migration?
285A company is running SAP HANA on EC2 instances with EBS volumes. They need to ensure data durability and backup. Which THREE actions should be taken?
286Which TWO AWS services are commonly used to monitor the performance of SAP applications and infrastructure?
287A company is running an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with Amazon EBS volumes. The database is experiencing high write latency. The storage is configured as two gp2 volumes in a RAID 0 stripe. Which change is most likely to improve write performance?
288A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to maintain high availability. The SAP Central Services (ASCS) and ERS instances are currently on two separate physical servers. The company wants to use a single EC2 instance for both roles with Pacemaker clustering. Which configuration ensures that both instances can run simultaneously on the same host?
289A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for its SAP environment on AWS. The primary region is us-east-1 and the DR region is us-west-2. The SAP application and database must be recoverable within 4 hours (RTO) and with a maximum data loss of 15 minutes (RPO). The database is SAP HANA. Which combination of services meets these requirements?
290An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing performance degradation. The system uses a shared file system for /sapmnt and /usr/sap/trans. The file system is hosted on an Amazon EFS file system. Which configuration change is most likely to improve throughput for these file systems?
291A company is troubleshooting an issue where SAP users cannot log in to the SAP GUI. The SAP application server is running on an EC2 instance behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB is configured to use the HTTPS listener on port 443. Which configuration is most likely causing the issue?
292A company is running SAP BusinessObjects on AWS. The application server is on an EC2 instance, and the database is on Amazon RDS for SQL Server. Users report that reports are taking longer to generate than expected. Which AWS service can be used to analyze the performance bottleneck?
293A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application can communicate with the corporate LDAP server for authentication. The LDAP server is on-premises. Which AWS service should be used to establish a secure connection?
294A company is running SAP HANA in a multi-node scale-out configuration on AWS. The cluster uses AWS Placement Groups with the 'cluster' placement strategy. The system is experiencing network latency between nodes. Which change should the company make to reduce latency?
295A company needs to automate the start and stop of SAP applications in non-production environments to reduce costs. The SAP systems run on multiple EC2 instances. Which AWS service can be used to schedule start and stop actions?
296A company is setting up SAP HANA database backups to Amazon S3. Which TWO actions are required to ensure secure and efficient backup operations? (Choose TWO.)
297A company is designing a highly available SAP NetWeaver system on AWS. The architecture includes two EC2 instances running the ABAP application server in an Auto Scaling group. Which THREE components are required to maintain session persistence and distribute traffic? (Choose THREE.)
298A company is running SAP HANA on an EC2 instance. The storage is provided by multiple EBS volumes. Which THREE considerations are important when configuring EBS volumes for SAP HANA? (Choose THREE.)
299Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is created for an automated script that starts and stops EC2 instances. The script is failing to stop an instance with the tag 'Environment: non-production'. What is the most likely cause?
300Refer to the exhibit. An SAP HANA administrator runs the command to check the attached volume. The volume is attached to an instance but the database is reporting low IOPS. What should the administrator check next?
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