PAS-C01 Practice Test 20 — 15 Questions

Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

gp3 with 10,000 IOPS and 500 MB/s throughput. Amazon EBS gp3 volumes can provision up to 16,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/s throughput independently, making them suitable for SAP BW workloads requiring 10,000 IOPS. gp3 offers a lower cost than io1 because it includes a baseline performance (3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/s) and only charges for additional provisioned IOPS and throughput, whereas io1 charges for every provisioned IOPS. This makes gp3 the most cost-effective choice to meet or exceed the required 10,000 IOPS and 500 MB/s throughput.

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sc1 with 10,000 IOPS

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io1 with 10,000 Provisioned IOPS

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st1 with 10,000 IOPS

Question 2

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?

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AWS DataSync. AWS DataSync is the correct choice because it is purpose-built for efficiently and securely transferring large volumes of data from on-premises or SAP systems to Amazon S3. It automates the transfer process, supports encryption in transit (TLS) and at rest, and can handle the high-throughput requirements of SAP S/4HANA archival jobs without requiring custom scripting or complex network configurations.

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Amazon Kinesis

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Amazon Athena

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AWS Glue

Question 3

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?

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Amazon EFS. Amazon EFS is the correct choice because it provides a fully managed, NFS-based shared file system that can be mounted concurrently by multiple EC2 instances, making it ideal for SAP NetWeaver application servers that require a common file system for shared data such as transport directories, logs, and profile files. EFS supports the NFSv4.1 and NFSv4.0 protocols, ensuring POSIX-compliant file locking and consistency across the cluster.

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AWS Storage Gateway File Gateway

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Amazon S3

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Amazon EBS with multi-attach

Question 4

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?

Accepted Answer

Install the SSM Agent on the EC2 instances.. AWS Systems Manager requires the SSM Agent to be installed and running on EC2 instances to enable communication with the Systems Manager service for patching and other management tasks. Without the agent, Systems Manager cannot send commands, initiate patching workflows, or gather inventory data from the instances. The SSM Agent is pre-installed on many Amazon Linux and Windows AMIs but must be manually installed on custom or imported images.

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Enable SSH access to the instances.

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Assign a separate IAM role to each instance.

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Ensure the instances have public IP addresses.

Question 5

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?

Accepted Answer

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS). AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) supports ongoing replication from an SAP HANA source database to a standby instance in a different Availability Zone using change data capture (CDC). This allows continuous data synchronization without requiring native SAP HANA replication features, making it suitable for high-availability setups where the database layer must be replicated across AZs.

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EC2 Auto Scaling

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Amazon S3

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Amazon RDS Multi-AZ

Question 6

A company wants to automate the deployment of SAP systems on AWS. Which AWS service is most appropriate for infrastructure as code (IaC) for SAP?

Accepted Answer

AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation is the most appropriate service for infrastructure as code (IaC) for SAP because it allows you to define and provision AWS infrastructure declaratively using templates. This enables repeatable, version-controlled deployments of complex SAP landscapes, including EC2 instances, networking, storage, and security groups, which is critical for SAP's strict architectural requirements.

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AWS OpsWorks

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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AWS CodeDeploy

Question 7

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.)

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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS). SAP HANA System Replication (option D) is the native SAP mechanism for replicating HANA databases synchronously or asynchronously, supporting an RPO of 15 minutes with asynchronous replication. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (option B) provides continuous block-level replication for the entire SAP system (including OS and application volumes) and enables automated failover within the 1-hour RTO. Together, they ensure both database consistency and full infrastructure recovery.

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AWS Transit Gateway with VPC peering

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Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication

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AWS CloudEndure Disaster Recovery

Question 8

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?

Accepted Answer

Increase the provisioned IOPS on the EBS volumes.. Increasing the provisioned IOPS on the EBS volumes directly addresses high read latency by raising the I/O performance ceiling for the SAP HANA database. Since the system already uses Provisioned IOPS (io1/io2) volumes, higher IOPS reduces queue depth and read latency under heavy workloads, which is a common requirement for SAP HANA.

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Change the EBS volume type to gp2.

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Disable write caching on the EBS volumes.

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Move the HANA data to instance store volumes.

Question 9

Which TWO of the following are required to enable SAP HANA System Replication across two AWS Availability Zones?

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The primary and secondary instances must be in the same AWS region. SAP HANA System Replication requires both primary and secondary instances to be in the same AWS region because the replication protocol (based on TCP/IP) relies on low-latency, synchronous or asynchronous data transfer that is only feasible within a region's Availability Zones. Cross-region replication would introduce latency exceeding SAP's recommended thresholds (typically <1 ms RTT for synchronous replication), risking data consistency and failover reliability.

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A Virtual Private Gateway must be attached to the VPC

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A cluster placement group must be used

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An Application Load Balancer must be configured for the replication traffic

Question 10

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?

Accepted Answer

Change the instance type to c5.9xlarge. Switching to a compute-optimized instance like c5.9xlarge provides more CPU resources for the same memory footprint, addressing high CPU utilization. Option B is wrong because adding memory won't help if CPU is the bottleneck. Option C is wrong because increasing EBS volume size does not improve CPU. Option D is wrong because Provisioned IOPS addresses disk performance, not CPU.

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Increase the instance memory by selecting r5.12xlarge

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Increase the size of the EBS root volume

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Add Provisioned IOPS to the EBS volumes

Question 11

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?

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AWS Launch Wizard. Option B is correct because AWS Launch Wizard automates the deployment of SAP systems. Option A is wrong because AWS CloudFormation is for infrastructure as code, not a migration service. Option C is wrong because AWS Server Migration Service is for server-level migration, not SAP-specific. Option D is wrong because AWS Application Discovery Service is for discovery, not migration.

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AWS Application Discovery Service

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AWS CloudFormation

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AWS Server Migration Service

Question 12

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

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Amazon CloudWatch. Option A is correct because CloudWatch provides monitoring for EC2. Option B is correct because Amazon CloudWatch Logs can collect application logs. Option C is wrong because AWS Config is for configuration compliance. Option D is wrong because AWS CloudTrail is for API auditing. Option E is wrong because AWS Shield is for DDoS protection.

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AWS CloudTrail

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AWS Shield

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AWS Config

Question 13

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

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Use EBS-optimized instances for HANA workloads.. Options A and C are correct. A is correct because using EBS-optimized instances ensures dedicated network bandwidth for EBS. C is correct because EBS snapshots provide point-in-time backups. B is incorrect because instance store is ephemeral. D is incorrect because a single AZ does not provide high availability. E is incorrect because disabling multi-threading is not a best practice.

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Deploy HANA in a single Availability Zone to reduce costs.

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Disable hyper-threading on the HANA instance.

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Store HANA data on instance store volumes for better performance.

Question 14

An SAP administrator is setting up an S3 bucket to store SAP HANA backup files. The backups must be encrypted at rest using an AWS KMS customer managed key. Which bucket policy condition key should be used to enforce that only requests using KMS encryption with that specific key are allowed?

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s3:x-amz-server-side-encryption-aws-kms-key-id. The s3:x-amz-server-side-encryption-aws-kms-key-id condition key allows restricting to a specific KMS key. Option B is wrong because s3:x-amz-server-side-encryption only checks if encryption is enabled, not the key. Option C is wrong because kms:EncryptionContext is for KMS actions, not S3. Option D is wrong because s3:ServerSideEncryption is not a valid condition key.

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kms:EncryptionContext

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s3:ServerSideEncryption

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s3:x-amz-server-side-encryption

Question 15

An SAP administrator runs the df command on an SAP HANA server and sees the output above. The /hana/data filesystem is 96% full. Which action should be taken to prevent the database from running out of space?

Accepted Answer

Increase the size of the EBS volume and extend the filesystem. The filesystem is nearly full. The best action is to increase the size of the EBS volume and then extend the filesystem. Option A is wrong because deleting logs may not be sufficient and could disrupt operations. Option B is wrong because moving to a new instance requires migration. Option D is wrong because increasing IOPS does not add capacity.

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Increase the IOPS of the EBS volume

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Delete old database logs to free up space

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Migrate the database to a larger instance type