Design of SAP Workloads on AWS

A company is planning to migrate its SAP S/4HANA system to AWS. The system requires high availability with an RTO of less than 30 minutes and RPO of less than 15 minutes. The SAP application layer runs on Linux. Which architecture should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A company runs SAP Business Suite on an SAP HANA database on AWS. The database uses EBS gp2 volumes. The operations team notices high latency during peak hours. The metrics show that the volume queue depth is consistently above the recommended threshold. What is the MOST cost-effective change to reduce latency?

A company has an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance with 1.9 TB of memory. The database requires persistent storage. The solutions architect must choose a storage configuration that provides the highest IOPS and throughput while maintaining data durability. Which storage option should the architect choose?

A company runs its SAP ERP system on AWS. The database is SAP HANA on an EC2 instance. The system is critical and requires a recovery point objective (RPO) of less than 5 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 2 hours. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A company is designing a new SAP environment on AWS. The SAP application servers communicate with the database over the network. The architect wants to minimize latency and maximize throughput. Which placement strategy should the architect use?

A company is migrating its SAP NetWeaver system to AWS and wants to implement a high-availability architecture for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). Which TWO of the following are required components in a recommended AWS HA setup for ASCS and ERS?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a large HANA database (10 TB). The database uses EBS gp3 volumes. The system experiences performance degradation due to high disk I/O. The architect decides to migrate to EBS io2 Block Express volumes. Which THREE factors should the architect consider when planning the migration?

A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS. They are experiencing high read latency on their EBS volumes used for /usr/sap. Which of the following is the MOST effective way to improve read performance?

A company plans to migrate their SAP HANA database to AWS. They require the highest availability with automatic failover in case of an AZ failure. Which architecture should they use?

A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS. They notice that their SAP application servers are not evenly distributing load across multiple instances. They have configured an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in front of the SAP Web Dispatchers. What is the MOST likely cause of uneven load distribution?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1. They want a secondary site in us-west-2 with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A company is running SAP HANA on an r5.8xlarge instance. They want to scale up to meet increased memory requirements. Which instance family would be the MOST suitable for a scale-up scenario?

Which TWO of the following are best practices for securing SAP workloads on AWS?

Which THREE of the following are valid considerations when designing an SAP HANA backup strategy on AWS?

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to design a disaster recovery (DR) solution with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 4 hours. The primary region is us-east-1 and the DR region is us-west-2. The SAP application uses an SAP HANA database with a size of 2 TB. Which combination of AWS services should be used to meet the DR requirements most cost-effectively?

An SAP workload on AWS uses an Auto Scaling group for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS) instances. The instances are launched with a custom AMI that includes the SAP software. During a recent failover test, the ASCS instance failed to start after being terminated and re-launched by the Auto Scaling group. The error log indicates that the ASCS instance cannot find the quorum device. What is the most likely cause of this issue?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP ERP system to AWS. The database is SAP HANA with a size of 3 TB. The company wants to minimize downtime during the migration. Which migration strategy should the company use?

A company runs SAP on AWS with an SAP HANA database on an r5.8xlarge instance. The company notices high network latency between the SAP application servers and the HANA database. The application servers are in the same VPC but different subnets. Which design change would MOST effectively reduce latency?

A company is designing a high-availability architecture for SAP NetWeaver on AWS. The architecture includes two application server instances in different Availability Zones, a shared file system using Amazon EFS, and a database using SAP HANA with HANA System Replication (HSR). During a failover test, the application servers cannot connect to the database after the HANA secondary becomes the primary. What is the most likely cause?

A company is designing an SAP HANA database on AWS. The database requires high throughput and low latency for data volumes. Which TWO AWS features should be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS in a single region with a multi-AZ setup. The SAP HANA database uses HANA System Replication (HSR) for high availability. The primary HANA instance is in us-east-1a and the secondary is in us-east-1b. The application servers are split across both AZs. Recently, during a maintenance window, the primary HANA instance failed unexpectedly. The secondary automatically took over. However, after the failover, the application servers in us-east-1a are experiencing higher latency when connecting to the database, while application servers in us-east-1b have normal latency. The network team confirms that the inter-AZ latency is within normal limits. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the increased latency?

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS with an Oracle database. The application servers are deployed in an Auto Scaling group across three Availability Zones. The database is hosted on a single EC2 instance in us-east-1a. The company wants to improve availability with minimal changes to the application. The database must be highly available with automatic failover and no data loss. The database size is 1 TB. The current RTO is 2 hours and RPO is 1 hour. The company is considering using Oracle Data Guard for replication. Which solution should the company implement to meet the HA requirements?

A company runs its SAP S/4HANA production workload on AWS using an 8xlarge instance with 2,000 GB of gp3 storage for /usr/sap and 6,000 GB of io2 Block Express with 64,000 IOPS for /hana/data and /hana/log. The system experiences intermittent performance degradation during peak hours, particularly for batch jobs that heavily write to the database. The SAP team reports that the database response time spikes from under 5 milliseconds to over 200 milliseconds during these periods. The AWS account has a default EBS IOPS limit of 80,000 per region. The current io2 volume is attached as a single volume. Which combination of actions would resolve the performance issue?

A company is running an SAP HANA database on AWS using an i3.16xlarge instance. The database storage is configured with multiple EBS gp2 volumes in a RAID 0 stripe to meet IOPS requirements. During a workload spike, the application experiences increased latency and the database performance degrades. The CloudWatch metrics show high Average Queue Length (avg_queue_len) on the EBS volumes but not 100% utilization of the CPU. Which design change is MOST likely to resolve the performance issue?

A company is designing an SAP S/4HANA deployment on AWS. They want to ensure high availability for the central services (ASCS and ERS) across two Availability Zones. Which TWO of the following are required components for a typical SAP high availability setup on AWS? (Choose TWO.)

A systems administrator is troubleshooting an SAP HANA database that runs on an EC2 instance. The exhibit shows the block device mappings of the EC2 instance. The administrator needs to ensure that the data volumes (/dev/sdf and /dev/sdg) are not accidentally terminated when the instance is terminated. However, the administrator also wants to take a nightly snapshot of these volumes using AWS Backup. Which of the following is a potential issue with the current configuration?

A retail company runs its SAP ERP system on AWS. The system includes an SAP HANA database on an r5.8xlarge instance with 4TB of storage using a single EBS io1 volume with 16000 provisioned IOPS. The application experiences periodic slowdowns during end-of-month financial closing, which typically lasts for 2 hours. The CloudWatch metrics show that during the slowdown, the EBS volume's Average Queue Length peaks at 20, and the instance's EBS Bandwidth is at 3500 Mbps (the maximum for r5.8xlarge is 4750 Mbps). The database team confirms that HANA is not CPU-bound during these periods. The SAP team wants a cost-effective solution to eliminate the performance bottleneck. Which solution should be recommended?

Drag and drop the steps to set up an SAP HANA system replication in AWS using the SAP HANA Cockpit into the correct order.

Drag and drop the steps to perform a backup and restore of an SAP HANA database using AWS Backup into the correct order.

Drag and drop the steps to implement disaster recovery for SAP S/4HANA using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) into the correct order.

Match the SAP system component to its AWS service or concept.

Match the SAP sizing parameter to its AWS EC2 equivalent.

Match the SAP system type to its typical AWS deployment pattern.

A company is designing an SAP S/4HANA workload on AWS. The system must be highly available within a single AWS Region. Which architecture ensures automatic failover for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance?

An SAP Basis team is migrating an SAP Business Suite system to AWS. The system has a large number of background jobs and requires consistent performance for batch processing. Which Amazon EC2 instance type is most suitable for this workload?

A company is designing storage for an SAP HANA database on AWS. The database requires high throughput and low latency for data files. Which storage solution should be used for SAP HANA data volumes?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and needs to restore a database from a backup stored in Amazon S3. The backup was created using the SAP HANA backup to S3 feature (backint). Which AWS service is required to facilitate this restore?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency for disk I/O. The system uses Amazon EBS gp2 volumes. The operations team notices that the volume queue depth is consistently high. Which change is most likely to reduce latency?

A company is planning to run SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the database layer. Which AWS service can be used to achieve automatic failover of an SAP HANA database?

A company is deploying SAP Business Suite on AWS and wants to minimize network latency between the SAP application servers and the database server. Which placement strategy is best?

An SAP HANA database on AWS is using EBS gp3 volumes with 3000 IOPS. The database team observes that the write latency is high during peak hours. The EBS volume is not exceeding its bandwidth limit. What is the most likely cause?

A company wants to automate the installation of SAP software on AWS. Which AWS service is most appropriate for orchestrating the deployment of SAP systems?

Which TWO of the following are best practices for running SAP HANA on AWS? (Select TWO.)

Which THREE of the following are valid strategies for disaster recovery (DR) of SAP workloads on AWS? (Select THREE.)

Which TWO of the following are required for SAP HANA high availability on AWS using HANA System Replication (HSR) with automatic failover? (Select TWO.)

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system requires high availability across two Availability Zones. Which AWS service should be used to manage the virtual IP address for the SAP Central Services (ASCS/ERS) cluster?

An SAP administrator needs to back up an SAP HANA database running on an Amazon EC2 instance. The requirement is to perform daily backups to Amazon S3 with minimal cost and impact on database performance. Which backup strategy should be used?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency in database transactions. The SAP HANA database is running on an r5.24xlarge instance with GP3 EBS volumes. CloudWatch metrics show high Write IOPS but low Read IOPS. The application team expects high write throughput. What should be changed to improve write performance?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The primary region is us-east-1 and the DR region is us-west-2. The RPO is 15 minutes and RTO is 1 hour. Which approach should be used to replicate SAP HANA data?

An SAP application server on an EC2 instance is unable to connect to the SAP HANA database on another EC2 instance. Both instances are in the same VPC and security groups allow traffic. What is the most likely cause?

An SAP system on AWS uses a shared file system via Amazon EFS for transport directory (/usr/sap/trans). The system experiences slow batch jobs. Monitoring shows high read latency on EFS. Which action would most likely reduce latency?

A company running SAP on AWS wants to automate the start and stop of non-production instances to save costs. Which AWS service is best suited for scheduling instance state changes?

An SAP HANA database administrator needs to restore a database from a backup stored in Amazon S3. The backup was taken using SAP HANA Backint. Which AWS service should be used to retrieve the backup files from S3?

A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application servers can communicate with the SAP HANA database using the hostname. The environment uses a Windows Domain Controller for Active Directory. Which DNS resolution strategy should be used?

Which TWO of the following are valid strategies for reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for SAP workloads on AWS?

Which THREE factors must be considered when choosing an EC2 instance type for SAP HANA production workloads?

Which TWO Amazon CloudWatch metrics are most useful for monitoring SAP HANA database performance on EC2?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP HANA database to AWS. They need to ensure high availability with automatic failover. Which AWS service should they use to achieve this?

An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing high latency to its S3-backed backup destination. Which architectural change would most effectively reduce backup latency?

A company runs SAP on AWS with an Oracle database. They want to implement a disaster recovery strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 2 hours. Which combination of AWS services should they use?

A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application servers can automatically scale based on CPU utilization. Which AWS service should they use?

An SAP system on AWS is using an RDS for Oracle database. The operations team notices that database backups are taking longer than expected, impacting performance. Which change would most effectively reduce backup duration without affecting availability?

A company has a large SAP HANA database running on an r5.8xlarge instance. They are planning to migrate to a new instance type that supports more memory for future growth. Which migration approach minimizes downtime and requires no data reload?

An SAP system administrator needs to ensure that all SAP application logs are centrally collected and monitored for errors. Which AWS service should they use to aggregate logs from multiple EC2 instances?

A company runs SAP on AWS with a shared storage solution for transport files. They need a highly available, scalable, and POSIX-compliant file system. Which AWS storage service should they use?

An SAP environment on AWS is using a single Availability Zone. The company wants to achieve high availability for SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). Which architecture should they implement?

A company is designing an SAP HANA disaster recovery solution on AWS across two regions. Which TWO actions meet the requirement of a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 5 minutes?

An SAP system on AWS uses an Oracle database on EC2. The database is experiencing I/O bottlenecks. Which THREE design changes can improve I/O performance?

A company is migrating SAP applications to AWS and needs to ensure that the environment meets SAP certification. Which TWO AWS services are specifically designed to help validate SAP workloads on AWS?

An SAP administrator is creating an IAM policy for an EC2 instance that performs SAP database backups to S3 and creates EBS snapshots. The policy as shown fails to allow the EC2 instance to perform backup operations. What is the most likely reason?

An SAP HANA administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an EC2 instance (r5.8xlarge) running SAP HANA. The instance has two EBS volumes attached. Based on the exhibit, which additional information is needed to determine if the instance is optimized for SAP HANA?

An SAP administrator is deploying an SAP ASCS instance using CloudFormation. The deployment fails because the instance cannot be reached from other SAP components. Based on the exhibit, what is the most likely cause?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a multi-Node HA cluster using Pacemaker and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The SAP application and database are on separate EC2 instances. After a planned failover test, the secondary node fails to take over the database role. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating SAP ECC to AWS and needs to ensure low-latency connectivity between the SAP application and database servers. Which AWS service is most appropriate to achieve this?

An SAP administrator needs to back up an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The backup must be consistent and restorable to any point in time. Which approach meets these requirements?

A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS with Oracle Database. The system is experiencing high read latency on the database server. The current storage configuration uses EBS gp2 volumes. Which change would most effectively reduce read latency?

A company is designing an SAP HANA disaster recovery (DR) solution on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. The RPO must be less than 15 minutes, and the RTO must be less than 2 hours. Which replication strategy meets these requirements?

An SAP system on AWS uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to multiple SAP Web Dispatchers. The system is experiencing intermittent session drops. What is the most likely cause?

A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a scale-out HANA configuration. The system is experiencing performance degradation during peak hours. Monitoring shows high network throughput on the HANA nodes. Which EC2 instance family is best suited to mitigate this?

A company wants to automate the installation of SAP software on AWS using AWS CloudFormation. Which service is most appropriate to execute the SAP installation scripts?

An SAP HANA database on AWS is using EBS io2 volumes. The company wants to monitor the read and write latency of the database volumes. Which CloudWatch metrics should be used?

Which TWO configurations are required for a high-availability SAP HANA deployment on AWS using Pacemaker? (Choose two.)

Which THREE security best practices should be implemented for SAP systems on AWS? (Choose three.)

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of SAP NetWeaver application servers? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system requires high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which AWS architecture should be used to meet this requirement?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS and notices high latency in database transactions. The database is hosted on an r5.24xlarge instance with 768 GB of EBS gp3 storage. The SAP application servers are in the same VPC but different subnets. What should be changed to reduce latency?

An SAP administrator needs to back up the SAP HANA database daily to Amazon S3 using the Backint agent. What is the prerequisite for this integration?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. The SAP HANA database is 2 TB and requires Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 4 hours. Which solution meets these requirements?

A company runs SAP ERP 6.0 on an Oracle database on EC2. The system is experiencing high CPU usage on the database server during peak hours. Analysis shows that the CPU is consumed by log writes. Which configuration change can reduce CPU usage?

An SAP administrator wants to monitor the CPU utilization of SAP application servers using Amazon CloudWatch. What is the minimum configuration required?

A company is planning to run SAP Business Suite on AWS with an Oracle database. The database requires a shared file system for Oracle Grid Infrastructure (GI). Which AWS storage service should be used?

An SAP HANA system on AWS is experiencing slow backup performance when using Backint to Amazon S3. The backup throughput is only 200 MB/s. The environment uses an m5.24xlarge instance with 25 Gbps network. What is the most likely cause and solution?

A company wants to automate the installation of SAP HANA on AWS using CloudFormation. Which AWS service can provide a Quick Start for SAP HANA?

A company is designing an SAP HANA multi-node scale-out system on AWS. Which two of the following are required for the network configuration? (Select TWO.)

An SAP administrator needs to ensure high availability for SAP NetWeaver ABAP stack on AWS. Which three components should be configured in a multi-AZ active/passive cluster? (Select THREE.)

A company is migrating SAP workloads to AWS and needs to choose storage for SAP HANA. Which two storage options are supported for SAP HANA data volumes? (Select TWO.)

An SAP administrator created the IAM policy above for an EC2 instance role used by SAP HANA Backint agent. The backup to S3 fails with access denied. What is the likely cause?

An SAP HANA database is running on a Dedicated Host in us-east-1a. The system requires a disaster recovery site in us-west-2. What limitation does the use of a Dedicated Host impose on the DR setup?

An SAP administrator wants to attach the EBS volume shown above to two EC2 instances running SAP HANA in a scale-out configuration. What is the issue?

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to ensure high availability for SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). Which architecture meets this requirement?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high write latency on the database layer. The DB is running on an r5.8xlarge instance with EBS gp2 volumes. The SAP team notices that the EBS volume write queue depth is frequently above 16. What is the MOST likely cause and what change should be made?

A customer wants to migrate their SAP HANA database to AWS and needs to ensure that the EBS volumes for /hana/data and /hana/log are configured for maximum throughput and low latency. Which EBS volume type should be used for /hana/data?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high CPU utilization on the application server during peak hours. The SAP administrator wants to add a new application server instance to distribute the load. Which AWS service should be used to automatically register the new instance with the existing SAP system's load balancer?

A company is planning to run SAP S/4HANA on AWS. They need to ensure that the SAP system can be restored within 4 hours in the event of a disaster. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this recovery time objective (RTO)?

An SAP customer is using AWS KMS to encrypt EBS volumes for an SAP HANA database. The database administrator reports that the database is slow after enabling encryption. What is the MOST likely cause?

A customer is running SAP NetWeaver on AWS and wants to use Amazon EFS for shared file storage for the SAP transport directory. Which access option should be used to secure the file system?

An SAP system uses an Amazon RDS for SAP ASE database. The database is experiencing high connection timeouts. The SAP team notices that the RDS instance's maximum connections parameter is set to 500. What should be done to resolve the issue?

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to use a custom AMI for SAP application servers. They need to ensure that the AMI is encrypted using AWS KMS. Which step is required to launch encrypted instances from this AMI?

Which TWO statements are correct regarding SAP HANA backup strategies on AWS? (Choose two.)

Which THREE factors should be considered when choosing an EC2 instance type for SAP HANA? (Choose three.)

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor SAP system performance and send alerts? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating its SAP HANA database to AWS and needs to choose the most appropriate EC2 instance type. The workload requires high memory bandwidth and is CPU-intensive. Which instance family would best meet these requirements?

An SAP Basis administrator notices that the SAP application server on an EC2 instance is experiencing intermittent high latency when writing to the SAP HANA database. The HANA database is on a separate EC2 instance in the same VPC and Availability Zone. Which configuration change is most likely to resolve the issue?

A company is designing a highly available SAP NetWeaver system on AWS. They plan to use a two-node ASCS/ERS cluster with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Which AWS service is required to manage the virtual IP address for the cluster?

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP HANA database running on an r5.24xlarge instance. The database is I/O bound during high load periods. The administrator has already verified that the EBS volumes are not saturated. What should the administrator check next?

A company is implementing SAP S/4HANA on AWS and wants to ensure that the system is backed up properly. They need to back up the HANA database and the application layer. Which approach is recommended for backing up the HANA database?

A company is planning to run SAP Business Suite on AWS. They want to minimize downtime during a failover scenario. Which AWS feature should they use to achieve automatic failover of the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance?

An SAP administrator needs to migrate an on-premises SAP HANA system to AWS. The total size of the HANA data and log volumes is 5 TB. The administrator wants to minimize downtime and use the fastest possible initial data transfer method. Which approach should they use?

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and is experiencing high costs due to underutilized EC2 instances. The SAP system is non-production and can tolerate interruptions. Which approach would most cost-effectively reduce costs without compromising the ability to resume operations quickly?

An SAP administrator is setting up a new SAP HANA system on AWS and needs to ensure that the system can recover from an Availability Zone failure. Which strategy should they implement for high availability?

A company is deploying a mission-critical SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. They need to ensure the highest level of availability and minimize data loss. Which TWO strategies should they implement? (Choose two.)

An SAP administrator is designing a backup strategy for an SAP HANA database on AWS. They want to use the Backint interface with Amazon S3. Which THREE components are required? (Choose three.)

A company is planning to migrate its SAP landscape to AWS. They want to use AWS services to reduce operational overhead. Which TWO services can help automate the deployment and configuration of SAP systems? (Choose two.)

A company is planning to migrate its SAP HANA database to AWS. They require high availability with automatic failover in less than 30 seconds. Which AWS service should be used to meet this requirement?

A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to implement a disaster recovery strategy for their SAP NetWeaver system. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. They want to minimize data loss and recovery time. Which approach meets these requirements?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance is experiencing high I/O latency. The instance is using EBS gp2 volumes. Which change would most effectively reduce I/O latency for the SAP HANA data volume?

A company wants to run SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application and database are deployed according to AWS best practices. Which deployment method should they use?

An SAP Basis administrator is setting up an SAP HANA database in a Multi-AZ deployment on AWS. They need to ensure that the database remains available during an Availability Zone failure. Which AWS services should be used together to achieve this?

A company has an SAP HANA database running on a r5.8xlarge EC2 instance with 3.5 TB of data. They want to back up the database to Amazon S3 using Backint. What is the most cost-effective and performant backup strategy?

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and wants to ensure that their SAP system is backed up according to SAP best practices. Which backup method should they use for the SAP HANA database?

An SAP administrator needs to configure high availability for SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP. They plan to use AWS services. Which combination of services is required?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and wants to encrypt the EBS volumes at rest. They also need to manage the encryption keys themselves. Which solution should they use?

A company is planning to migrate their SAP HANA database to AWS. Which TWO of the following are valid EC2 instance types for SAP HANA? (Choose 2.)

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue with SAP HANA. The database is running on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. Which TWO metrics should be monitored to identify disk I/O bottlenecks? (Choose 2.)

A company is designing a disaster recovery solution for SAP S/4HANA. They need to meet an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 2 hours. Which THREE components should be included in the DR plan? (Choose 3.)

An SAP administrator is creating an IAM policy for an automation script that needs to start and stop a specific SAP HANA EC2 instance. The policy is shown in the exhibit. However, the script fails with an authorization error when trying to start the instance. What is the most likely cause?

An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit to check the configuration of an SAP HANA EC2 instance. The instance is running in us-east-1a. They need to deploy a second SAP HANA instance for high availability in a different Availability Zone. Which Availability Zone should be used?

An SAP administrator configures SAP HANA backup using Backint as shown in the exhibit. The backup job fails with an error indicating that the bucket 'sap-hana-backup-prod' does not exist. The administrator confirms that the bucket name is correct. What is the most likely cause of the failure?

A company is designing an SAP HANA multi-node scale-out deployment on AWS. The system requires high bandwidth and low latency between nodes. Which AWS networking feature should be used to meet these requirements?

An SAP application on AWS is experiencing high network latency and packet loss between the SAP application server and the SAP HANA database. The application and database are in the same AWS Region and Availability Zone. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating an SAP S/4HANA system to AWS and needs to choose the storage for the HANA database. The database requires high IOPS and low latency. Which AWS storage solution is most suitable?

An SAP NetWeaver system on AWS needs to be highly available across two Availability Zones. Which AWS service should be used to manage the floating IP address used by the SAP application servers?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and wants 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. Which solution meets these requirements?

An SAP customer wants to reduce the cost of running a non-production SAP system on AWS. The system is used only during business hours (8 AM to 6 PM) on weekdays. What is the most cost-effective solution?

A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the database and application servers are in the same placement group to minimize latency. However, the instance types required for the HANA database are not available in the same placement group due to insufficient capacity. What should the company do to maintain low latency?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing performance degradation. The CloudWatch metrics show that the EBS volumes used for the HANA data files have an average queue length of 10 and average latency of 50 ms. What is the most likely cause?

A company wants to implement a backup strategy for SAP HANA on AWS. The backup must be stored securely and be accessible for restore to a different AWS Region. Which combination of AWS services should be used?

Which TWO of the following are recommended best practices for running SAP HANA on AWS? (Choose two.)

Which THREE of the following are valid considerations for designing SAP workloads on AWS to achieve high availability within a single AWS Region? (Choose three.)

Which TWO of the following are valid methods to monitor SAP HANA performance on AWS? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating its SAP HANA database to AWS. Which instance type is specifically designed for SAP HANA and certified for production workloads?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP application server on AWS is experiencing high latency when connecting to the SAP HANA database. The database is on a separate EC2 instance in the same VPC. What is the MOST likely cause?

An SAP Basis team is designing a high-availability architecture for SAP NetWeaver on AWS. They plan to use a shared file system for the transport directory and SAP profiles across multiple availability zones. Which AWS storage service should they use?

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS. They want to implement automated backups for the SAP HANA database using AWS Backup. Which AWS service should they use to orchestrate the HANA backup?

During a SAP migration to AWS, the team needs to ensure that the SAP license is compliant. Which of the following is a requirement for running SAP production systems on AWS?

An SAP system administrator needs to monitor the memory usage of SAP HANA on AWS. Which CloudWatch metric or log should be used to track HANA memory consumption?

A company is setting up a disaster recovery (DR) site for SAP on AWS. They need to replicate the SAP HANA database to another region. Which AWS service is BEST suited for this?

An SAP administrator wants to ensure that the SAP application server can communicate with the HANA database using the private IP address within the same VPC. What configuration is necessary?

A company is designing a multi-tier SAP architecture on AWS. They want to separate the SAP application tier and database tier into different subnets for security. Which AWS networking component should they use to connect the tiers?

Which TWO of the following are best practices for running SAP HANA on AWS?

Which THREE of the following are valid considerations when designing a SAP landscape on AWS?

Which TWO of the following are valid storage options for SAP HANA data files on AWS?

An SAP administrator is creating an IAM policy to allow SAP basis users to manage their own SAP EC2 instances. The policy above is intended to allow users to start, stop, and reboot instances tagged with their username. However, users report that they cannot start instances. What is the MOST likely reason?

An SAP Basis administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on a SAP HANA database running on an r5.4xlarge instance with dedicated tenancy. The instance is part of a placement group named 'sap-cluster'. The administrator suspects network throughput is suboptimal. Based on the exhibit, what is the MOST likely reason?

An SAP administrator is configuring the /hana/data volume for SAP HANA on an EC2 instance. The exhibit shows the /etc/fstab entry. What is the purpose of the 'noatime' mount option?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to minimize network latency between the SAP application servers and the database. Which AWS service or feature should be used to meet this requirement?

A company runs its SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with Amazon EBS volumes. The system is experiencing high write latency. The current EBS volume type is gp2. Which change should a solutions architect recommend to improve write performance for the SAP HANA data volume?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for its SAP system on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site in us-west-2. The RTO is 4 hours and RPO is 1 hour. Which AWS service should be used for cross-region replication of the SAP HANA database backups stored in Amazon S3?

An SAP system on AWS needs to be highly available across multiple Availability Zones (AZs). The SAP Central Services (ASCS) and the database are both critical. Which architecture should be used?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the system can be restored to a specific point in time within the last 24 hours with minimal data loss. The database is 2 TB in size. Which backup strategy meets these requirements with the lowest cost?

An SAP system uses Amazon EFS for shared file storage for transport directories. The system is deployed across multiple Availability Zones. Which EFS performance mode is most suitable for this workload?

A company is planning to run SAP NetWeaver on AWS and wants to use Auto Scaling for the application server tier. Which consideration is critical when implementing Auto Scaling for SAP application servers?

A company has an SAP HANA database on an r5.8xlarge EC2 instance. The database is experiencing high CPU utilization during peak hours. The company wants to improve performance without changing the instance family. Which action should be taken?

An SAP system on AWS needs to send alerts when the CPU utilization of the application server exceeds 90% for more than 5 minutes. Which AWS service should be used to set up this monitoring?

Which TWO of the following are best practices for running SAP HANA on AWS? (Choose TWO.)

Which THREE of the following are valid options for high availability of SAP HANA on AWS? (Choose THREE.)

Which TWO of the following are recommended practices for securing SAP workloads on AWS? (Choose TWO.)

An SAP workload is running on an EC2 instance in a private subnet. The application needs to access an S3 bucket for backups. Which AWS service should be used to enable private connectivity without traversing the internet?

A company is migrating its SAP HANA database to AWS. The database requires high I/O and low latency. Which storage option should be used for the /hana/data volume?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency for database queries. The administrator notices that the EBS volume used for /hana/log has a baseline IOPS of 5000 but the workload requires 8000 IOPS. What should the administrator do to resolve this?

Which AWS service is used to automate the installation and configuration of SAP applications on AWS according to best practices?

A company runs SAP ERP on AWS. The system needs to be highly available with automatic failover in case of an Availability Zone failure. Which architecture should be used?

An administrator needs to back up SAP HANA database to S3 with encryption. The backup must be encrypted at rest in S3. Which combination of actions should be taken?

An SAP system on AWS is running on an r5.16xlarge instance. The system is experiencing network throughput bottlenecks. Which step should be taken to improve network performance?

A company is designing a disaster recovery strategy for SAP S/4HANA. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. The RPO must be less than 30 minutes and RTO less than 2 hours. Which approach meets these requirements?

An administrator is troubleshooting an SAP system where the application server cannot connect to the database server. Both servers are in the same VPC but different subnets. Security groups allow traffic on the database port. What is the next step to diagnose the issue?

Which TWO metrics should be monitored to ensure the health of an SAP HANA database running on AWS? (Select two.)

Which THREE considerations are important when designing a SAP workload for high availability on AWS? (Select three.)

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of SAP applications? (Select two.)

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system has strict high availability requirements with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The SAP application and database (SAP HANA) must be in the same AWS Region but can be in different Availability Zones. Which architecture should the company use to meet these requirements?

An SAP Basis administrator notices that the SAP HANA database performance has degraded significantly after migrating to AWS. The database is running on an r5.8xlarge instance with 3.6 TB of Amazon EBS gp3 storage. The administrator checks Amazon CloudWatch metrics and finds that the Read/Write latency is consistently above 10 ms and the queue depth is averaging 32. What is the MOST likely cause of the performance degradation?

A company is planning to run SAP S/4HANA on AWS. They need to ensure that the SAP system can be accessed from the corporate network via a secure VPN connection. Which AWS service should be used to establish this connectivity?

A company is running SAP NetWeaver on AWS. The system uses an SAP HANA database. The operations team needs to monitor the database performance and receive alerts when specific metrics exceed thresholds. Which AWS service should be used to collect and analyze SAP HANA metrics?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) solution for SAP HANA on AWS. 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 1 hour. The company wants to use SAP HANA System Replication (HSR). Which configuration meets these requirements?

A company is deploying SAP Business Suite on AWS. They need to ensure that the SAP system can handle a sudden increase in user load without manual intervention. Which AWS service should be used to automatically scale the SAP application servers?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS. They want to ensure that the database is backed up automatically and the backups are stored securely and durably. Which AWS service should be used to store the backup files?

An SAP on AWS environment is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues between the SAP application servers and the SAP HANA database. Both are in the same VPC but in different Availability Zones. The network team has confirmed that the security groups allow traffic on the required ports. What is a likely cause of the issue?

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and needs to encrypt data at rest for all SAP-related storage. Which combination of AWS services can be used to achieve this? (Select TWO.)

A company is planning to migrate its SAP landscape to AWS. The environment includes SAP HANA databases for production and non-production. Which AWS service can be used to automate the provisioning of the SAP HANA infrastructure? (Select TWO.)

An SAP HANA database on AWS is running on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes striped using LVM. The database administrator needs to increase the total storage capacity without downtime. Which approach should be taken? (Select TWO.)

A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). Which AWS services can be used to implement a failover cluster for ASCS and ERS? (Select THREE.)

A company is running SAP HANA in a production environment on AWS. The database administrator wants to implement automated backups using AWS Backup. Which of the following are supported by AWS Backup for SAP HANA? (Select THREE.)

A company is running a mission-critical SAP S/4HANA system on AWS in the us-east-1 region. The system uses a two-tier architecture with the SAP application server and HANA database on the same EC2 instance. The instance type is an r5.24xlarge with 12 x 2 TB gp3 EBS volumes striped using LVM. The HANA data volume is 10 TB. The company has a disaster recovery (DR) requirement with an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 4 hours. The DR site must be in us-west-2. The company currently takes daily EBS snapshots of the data volume and copies them to us-west-2. However, they are not meeting the RPO. The operations team is considering implementing SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) asynchronously to the DR region. However, network latency between us-east-1 and us-west-2 averages 60 ms. The SAP HANA database has a heavy write workload, with average log writes of 500 MB/sec. The team is concerned that the replication may fall behind and cause data loss. What should the team do to meet the DR requirements while minimizing data loss?

A company is migrating its SAP Business Warehouse (BW) system to AWS. The source system runs on an on-premises IBM AIX server with an Oracle database. The target AWS environment will use SAP HANA as the database. The migration tool is SAP Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM). The company has a requirement to minimize downtime during the migration. The SAP BW system has 5 TB of data. The network bandwidth between on-premises and AWS is 1 Gbps. The migration team plans to use AWS Direct Connect for the data transfer. They estimate that the initial data load will take approximately 12 hours. However, the cutover window is limited to 8 hours. What should the migration team do to meet the cutover window?

An SAP Basis administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP HANA database running on AWS. The database is on an EC2 instance of type r5.12xlarge with 8 x 1 TB EBS io2 Block Express volumes configured for maximum IOPS. The application team reports that batch jobs are taking longer than expected. The administrator checks Amazon CloudWatch metrics and sees that the EBS write latency averages 2 ms, which is within the expected range. However, the CPU utilization is at 95% consistently during batch runs. The HANA index server is using 70% of the CPU. The administrator also notices that the HANA threads are mostly waiting on 'lock wait' events. What is the MOST likely cause of the performance issue?

A company is planning to migrate SAP S/4HANA to AWS. The system has a high transaction rate and requires low network latency between SAP application servers and the database. Which AWS infrastructure design minimizes network latency between the SAP application tier and the database tier?

A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS. The database size is 2 TB. They need to restore the database to a point-in-time from the last 24 hours. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this with minimal impact on production performance?

An SAP system on AWS experiences intermittent connectivity issues between the SAP Central Services (SCS) instance and the application servers. The SCS instance is in a private subnet in us-east-1a, and the application servers are spread across us-east-1a and us-east-1b. Security groups allow traffic on all required ports. What is the MOST likely cause of the intermittent connectivity?

A company is designing an SAP HANA disaster recovery (DR) solution on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. The RPO is 15 minutes, and the RTO is 2 hours. Which AWS service should be used for replicating the SAP HANA database to the DR site?

An SAP workload on AWS uses a single Availability Zone deployment. The company wants to improve high availability without changing the existing architecture significantly. Which action should be taken?

A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The SAP application servers and database are in the same VPC. The security team requires encryption in transit between all SAP components. Which combination of services and configurations meets this requirement?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS and wants to use SAP HANA as the database. The current on-premises database is 4 TB. Which EC2 instance type is optimized for SAP HANA workloads and provides sufficient memory?

An SAP system on AWS uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to multiple SAP application servers. The ALB is configured with a TCP listener. Users report that some sessions are terminated unexpectedly. What is the MOST likely cause?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the database can be restored to any point in time within the last 48 hours with minimal data loss. Which backup strategy should be used?

A company is planning to deploy SAP S/4HANA on AWS with high availability. Which TWO actions should be taken to achieve high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS/ERS) instance?

A company is migrating an SAP NetWeaver system to AWS. The system uses an on-premises shared file system (NFS). Which TWO AWS services can provide a scalable, highly available NFS share for SAP transport directories?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and wants to encrypt the database at rest. Which THREE options are available to achieve this?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command and receives the output shown. The SAP application server (instance i-0abcd1234) is in 'running' state, but the SAP application is not reachable. The security group allows inbound traffic on port 3200. What is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a production system in us-east-1 and a disaster recovery (DR) system in us-west-2. The DR system is a standby HANA system using HANA System Replication (HSR) with asynchronous replication. The primary system has a memory of 2 TB and uses x1e.16xlarge instances. The DR system uses identical instance types. Recently, the network latency between the primary and DR sites increased from 50 ms to 150 ms due to a change in the network path. The SAP Basis team notices that the replication lag has increased significantly, and the DR system is now behind by several minutes. The RPO requirement is 30 seconds. The team must resolve the issue without changing the DR site location or the bandwidth. Which action should the team take to meet the RPO?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system on Oracle to SAP HANA on AWS. The migration requires near-zero downtime. The company has a test environment that can be used for the migration rehearsal. The SAP HANA database will be 3 TB. Which migration approach should the company use to achieve near-zero downtime?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP HANA workload to AWS. The system requires high network throughput and low latency between application and database servers. Which AWS networking feature should be used to meet these requirements?

An SAP system on AWS experiences intermittent performance issues. CloudWatch metrics show high CPU credit usage on the t3.large EC2 instance hosting the SAP application. The instance is configured as a 'standard' placement group. What is the MOST likely cause and recommended action?

A company runs SAP ECC on AWS with a multi-ASCS architecture for high availability. During a failover test, the secondary ASCS instance does not take over. The cluster logs indicate that the 'aws-cluster' resource agent failed to release the Elastic IP. What is the MOST likely cause?

An SAP administrator wants to automate the creation of a DR environment for SAP HANA on AWS. The DR site should be in a different region and must be started only during a disaster. Which AWS service should be used to orchestrate the DR process?

Which TWO are best practices for designing high availability for SAP NetWeaver on AWS? (Choose two.)

Which THREE are valid strategies for backing up an SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose three.)

Which TWO are required considerations when sizing an SAP HANA instance on AWS for a production environment? (Choose two.)

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a single-instance deployment. The database is hosted on an r5.8xlarge instance with 5000 provisioned IOPS EBS volumes. Recently, the system experienced a performance degradation during peak hours. CloudWatch metrics show that the EBS volume read latency is consistently above 10 ms, and the queue length is frequently peaking at 20. The instance is in the same Availability Zone as the EBS volumes. What should the administrator do to resolve the performance issue?

An organization has a production SAP ERP system on AWS with a multi-node SAP HANA scale-out configuration. The system uses a cluster placement group for low latency. During a maintenance window, the administrator needs to stop and start all instances. After restart, the HANA nodes cannot communicate with each other. The cluster placement group is still intact, but the private IP addresses have changed. The HANA topology relies on hostnames resolved via /etc/hosts. What is the MOST likely cause and solution?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS with a multi-AZ deployment using HANA System Replication (HSR). The primary site is in us-east-1a and the secondary in us-east-1b. Each site has an ASCS and PAS. The HANA database uses a virtual IP address managed by a Route 53 health check with a failover routing policy. During a recent AZ failure in us-east-1a, the automatic failover to the secondary site took over 15 minutes. The recovery time objective (RTO) is 5 minutes. Analysis shows that the Route 53 health check failed but the failover did not trigger quickly because the DNS TTL was set to 300 seconds. What changes should be made to meet the RTO?

A company is deploying a new SAP BusinessObjects system on AWS. The system will consist of multiple servers: a CMS database server, an audit database server, and several processing servers. The administrator needs to ensure that all servers can communicate with each other and with corporate on-premises systems via a VPN connection. The AWS environment is in a single VPC with public and private subnets. Which network architecture should be used to meet these requirements?

An SAP system on AWS uses a large memory instance (x1e.32xlarge) for HANA. The administrator notices that the system is experiencing high swap usage. The HANA memory usage is at 90% of physical RAM. The instance has 4 TB of RAM, and the HANA data size is 3.8 TB. The administrator wants to avoid swap usage to maintain performance. Which solution should be implemented?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a multi-tier landscape (DEV, QAS, PRD). The PRD system uses a clustered setup with two application servers behind an Application Load Balancer. The database is a single-node HANA on an r5.24xlarge instance. The administrator receives an alert that the PRD application is slow. CloudWatch metrics show high CPU utilization on the two application servers (average 95%) and high DB connection count. The ALB shows increased request latency. The database CPU is at 60%. The administrator suspects a SQL query performance issue. What should be the first step to identify the root cause?

An organization is migrating its SAP ECC system to AWS. The system currently uses a physical IBM Db2 database. The company wants to minimize licensing costs and management overhead after migration. The SAP system will be deployed on Amazon EC2. Which database option should the company choose?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system requires high availability with automatic failover and minimal data loss. Which TWO strategies should the company implement to meet these requirements?

A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to monitor the performance of its SAP HANA database. The operations team wants to receive alerts when the CPU utilization exceeds 90% for more than 5 minutes. Which THREE steps should be taken to set up this monitoring and alerting?

An organization runs SAP BusinessObjects on AWS and wants to improve the performance of report generation. The current environment uses EBS gp2 volumes. Which TWO changes could potentially reduce report generation time?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for its SAP environment on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site must be in us-west-2. The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is 15 minutes, and the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is 4 hours. Which TWO AWS services should be used to meet these objectives?

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP NetWeaver system running on AWS. The system uses an Oracle database. The CPU utilization of the database server is consistently below 30%, but application response times are slow. Which THREE checks should the administrator perform to identify the bottleneck?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system from an on-premises environment to AWS. The database is SAP HANA. The migration must minimize downtime. Which TWO approaches should the company consider?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS using an r5.8xlarge instance with 3.8 TB of EBS gp3 storage. The HANA data volume is 2 TB. The system is experiencing performance issues, and the database administrator suspects that the storage I/O is the bottleneck. Which TWO actions should be taken to improve I/O performance?

An organization has an SAP S/4HANA system running on AWS. The system uses a multi-node HANA scale-out configuration. The company wants to implement a disaster recovery solution with an RPO of less than 1 hour and an RTO of less than 2 hours. The DR site is in a different AWS Region. Which THREE components should be included in the DR plan?

A company runs SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) on AWS with an Oracle database. The system is deployed on a single EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The company has scheduled a maintenance window for applying Oracle patches. The database administrator (DBA) will apply the patches during the maintenance window, which requires the database to be shut down. The DBA wants to minimize downtime and ensure that if the patching fails, the system can be rolled back quickly. The current setup includes daily EBS snapshots of the data volume, but these are taken at midnight. What should the DBA do to minimize downtime and ensure a quick rollback?

An organization runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a single-host HANA database on an EC2 instance. The company wants to implement high availability (HA) for the HANA database within the same AWS Region. The HA solution must ensure automatic failover with minimal data loss. The SAP application servers are already distributed across multiple Availability Zones (AZs). The database administrator proposes using SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) with synchronous replication. However, the network latency between the primary and secondary HANA instances is consistently between 2 ms and 4 ms. What should the administrator do to ensure that the HA solution meets the requirements?

A company runs SAP Business Warehouse (BW) on AWS. The system uses an SAP HANA database that is also used for other SAP systems. The company wants to set up monitoring to ensure that the HANA database is performing optimally. They have installed the AWS CloudWatch agent on the HANA server to collect operating system metrics. However, they also need to collect HANA-specific metrics such as memory usage and SQL execution times. Which additional step should the company take to collect these metrics?

An organization runs SAP ERP on AWS with an SAP HANA database. The database is deployed on an EC2 instance with EBS storage. The company is planning to upgrade the HANA database from version 2.0 to 2.0 SPS 05. The upgrade process requires a system copy to a new instance. The company wants to minimize the downtime during the upgrade and ensure that the existing system remains available until the new system is ready. The current HANA instance has 1 TB of data. The company has a test environment that can be used for the upgrade. Which approach should the company take to minimize downtime?

A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to implement a high-availability (HA) solution for SAP Central Services (ASCS/ERS) using Amazon EC2 instances. Which AWS service is essential for managing the virtual IP address (VIP) required for the HA cluster?

An SAP Basis administrator is troubleshooting a slow-performing SAP ERP system on AWS. The system uses Amazon EBS volumes with Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) for database storage. Which metric in Amazon CloudWatch would best indicate whether the EBS volume is experiencing a performance bottleneck?

A company is planning to migrate an SAP HANA database to AWS. They need to ensure that the instance type supports the required amount of memory and that the storage can handle high IOPS. Which AWS service can help determine the appropriate instance type and storage configuration based on the SAP workload requirements?

An SAP administrator is setting up an SAP HANA system replication across two AWS Availability Zones (AZs). The primary and secondary instances use EBS volumes for data and log storage. What is the best practice for ensuring data consistency and minimizing data loss during a failover?

A company runs SAP NetWeaver on AWS. The system uses a shared file system for transport files via Amazon EFS. Recently, the transport directory performance has degraded. Which configuration change is most likely to improve the I/O performance for the transport directory?

A company is deploying an SAP BusinessObjects (BO) platform on AWS. To ensure high availability of the BO servers, which AWS service should be used to distribute incoming traffic across multiple BO instances in different Availability Zones?

An SAP administrator needs to implement a backup strategy for an SAP HANA database on AWS that provides point-in-time recovery (PITR) with minimal RPO. Which combination of AWS services should be used?

During a migration of an SAP system to AWS, the administrator notices that the SAP application servers are experiencing high network latency when communicating with the SAP HANA database. The application and database servers are in different VPCs connected via VPC peering. Which design change would most effectively reduce the latency?

A company wants to use an SAP-certified AMI for a non-production SAP system to reduce deployment time. Which AWS service provides access to SAP-certified AMIs?

A company is designing an SAP environment on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for SAP HANA. Which TWO AWS services or features are commonly used to achieve this? (Choose TWO.)

An SAP administrator is setting up a disaster recovery (DR) site for SAP S/4HANA in a different AWS Region. To minimize data loss, which THREE strategies should be implemented? (Choose THREE.)

A company is planning to run SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure that the architecture supports high availability for the application layer. Which TWO components are essential for an HA SAP NetWeaver application server setup? (Choose TWO.)

An SAP administrator created the IAM policy shown in the exhibit to allow a monitoring tool to start and stop SAP application servers tagged with Environment=Production. When testing the policy, the tool fails to start an instance. What is the most likely cause?

An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit for an EC2 instance used as an SAP HANA database server. The server has two EBS volumes attached: a root volume (/dev/xvda) and a data volume (/dev/sdf). Based on the output, what will happen when the instance is terminated?

An administrator is reviewing a CloudFormation template to deploy an SAP ASCS instance. The template snippet is shown in the exhibit. What is a potential issue with this configuration for a production deployment?

A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The application team reports that batch jobs are failing intermittently with database connection timeouts. The SAP system uses a single Availability Zone deployment. Which design change should the architect recommend to improve database availability?

An architect is designing a disaster recovery (DR) solution for an SAP ERP system on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. The SAP application uses an Oracle database. The RTO is 4 hours and RPO is 1 hour. Which solution meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?

A company plans to migrate its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system currently runs on IBM Db2 and uses a large amount of memory. The architect needs to choose an EC2 instance type that is SAP certified and provides high memory. Which instance family should the architect select?

An SAP Basis administrator notices that the SAP application is running slowly during peak hours. The system is deployed on a single r5.8xlarge instance with 256 GiB of memory. CloudWatch metrics show high CPU utilization but moderate memory usage. Which action should the architect take to improve performance?

A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS with an Oracle database. The database is stored on Amazon EBS volumes. The architect wants to implement a backup strategy that meets a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which solution is the most cost-effective?

An architect is designing a network topology for an SAP system on AWS. The SAP application servers must be placed in private subnets, and the web dispatchers must be accessible from the internet. Which configuration should the architect use to meet these requirements?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the database can survive a single Availability Zone failure without manual intervention. The SAP HANA system is currently deployed on a single EC2 instance. Which solution meets this requirement?

An architect is designing a storage solution for an SAP Business Warehouse (BW) system on AWS. The system requires high throughput for data extraction and transformation. The existing on-premises system uses SAN storage with 10,000 IOPS. Which Amazon EBS volume type should the architect choose to meet or exceed this performance at the lowest cost?

A company is planning to run SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The architect needs to ensure that the EC2 instances are SAP certified for the specific SAP HANA version. Where should the architect verify the instance certification?

An architect is designing a disaster recovery plan for an SAP system using SAP HANA. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. The RPO is 15 minutes and RTO is 1 hour. Which TWO AWS services or features should the architect use to meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)

A company runs SAP ERP on AWS with an Oracle database. The architect wants to implement a backup strategy that provides point-in-time recovery (PITR) with an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 2 hours. Which TWO solutions should the architect consider? (Choose TWO.)

An architect is designing a highly available SAP NetWeaver architecture on AWS. The system uses an SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which THREE components are required to achieve high availability for the SAP environment? (Choose THREE.)

A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the database layer. Which AWS service should be used to replicate the database to a standby instance in a different Availability Zone?

A company is planning to migrate their SAP ECC system to AWS. They want to minimize downtime and use an automated approach. Which AWS service should be used for the migration?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database is running on an EC2 instance with a single EBS volume for /hana/data and /hana/log. The system is experiencing high latency during write operations. What is the most cost-effective design change to improve performance?

A company is running SAP Business Suite on AWS and needs to back up the SAP HANA database daily. Which AWS service can be used to automate HANA backups to Amazon S3?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing performance degradation. The SAP administrator wants to monitor the EC2 instance's CPU utilization and memory usage. Which AWS service should be used to collect memory metrics?

A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the system can survive a single Availability Zone failure. Which architecture meets this requirement?

An SAP system is running on AWS and needs to be accessible over the internet securely. Which AWS service should be used to provide secure remote access for administrators?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and wants to use storage that offers the highest IOPS for the SAP HANA database. Which storage option should be used?

An SAP NetWeaver system on AWS is configured with a shared file system between the application servers. Which AWS storage service should be used for this shared file system?

Which TWO options are best practices for securing SAP systems on AWS?

Which THREE considerations are important when designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for SAP on AWS?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of an SAP system running on EC2?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP HANA database to AWS. Which instance type is specifically designed for SAP HANA workloads on AWS?

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and wants to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this?

A company is designing a multi-zone SAP system on AWS. They want to minimize network latency between SAP application servers and the SAP HANA database. What is the best practice for deploying these components?

An SAP administrator needs to integrate SAP S/4HANA with Amazon S3 for archival purposes. Which AWS service should be used to enable secure and efficient data transfer from SAP to S3?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and needs to back up the database to Amazon S3. Which approach provides the most efficient and cost-effective backup strategy?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high read latency from the SAP HANA database. The system uses Provisioned IOPS EBS volumes. Which action would most likely improve read latency?

A company wants to use AWS Systems Manager to automate patching of SAP application servers. What is a prerequisite for Systems Manager to manage these EC2 instances?

A company is deploying a new SAP HANA database on AWS and needs to ensure the EBS volumes are optimized for throughput. Which EBS volume type should be used for the HANA data and log volumes?

An SAP system on AWS uses a Classic Load Balancer to distribute traffic to web dispatchers. The system is experiencing intermittent timeouts. What is the most likely cause?

Which TWO of the following are recommended best practices for deploying SAP HANA on AWS? (Choose two.)

Which THREE of the following are valid methods to secure network traffic between SAP application servers and the SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose three.)

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for SAP HANA on AWS. Which TWO of the following are valid DR approaches? (Choose two.)

An SAP administrator created the IAM policy shown in the exhibit to allow an EC2 instance to back up to an S3 bucket. However, the backup fails with an access denied error. What is the most likely issue?

An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit for an EC2 instance running SAP HANA. The administrator notices that the /dev/sdf volume does not have DeleteOnTermination set to true. What is the impact of this configuration?

An administrator creates a CloudFormation stack with the template shown in the exhibit. The stack creates an Auto Scaling group with a desired capacity of 2. However, only one instance is launched. What is the most likely reason?