PAS-C01 Migration Practice Test 4 — 15 Questions

Question 1

An organization is migrating a large SAP HANA workload to AWS. The current on-premises environment uses IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) for shared storage. Which AWS storage solution should they use to provide a similar shared file system for SAP HANA?

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Accepted Answer

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides a fully managed, highly available shared file system that supports NFS and SMB protocols, similar to IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS). It is certified for SAP HANA and can be used as a shared file system for SAP HANA scale-out and other SAP applications requiring shared storage. This makes it the closest match to GPFS in terms of shared file system capabilities on AWS.

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Amazon S3

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

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Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

Question 2

A company is migrating an SAP system that uses a custom ABAP application with a large number of background jobs. They want to ensure that job scheduling is not disrupted during migration. Which AWS service can help manage job scheduling in the cloud?

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Re-establish job scheduling within the SAP system after migration. Re-establish job scheduling within the SAP system after migration, because SAP background jobs are scheduled and executed by the SAP system's own batch scheduler (transaction SM36/SM37, controlled by background work processes), not by an external AWS service. When migrating to AWS, the SAP application server and its scheduler move with the system, so job scheduling must be reconfigured or validated inside SAP after cutover to preserve the custom ABAP job cadence. Amazon CloudWatch Events (A) is a general AWS event bus for triggering AWS resources and does not natively schedule SAP ABAP background jobs. AWS Lambda (B) runs stateless functions and cannot execute SAP background work processes or manage SAP job definitions. AWS Batch (D) orchestrates containerized or scripted batch workloads on AWS compute and is not integrated with the SAP background job scheduler.

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Amazon CloudWatch Events

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AWS Lambda

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AWS Batch

Question 3

A company is migrating their SAP environment using AWS Launch Wizard. Which THREE prerequisites must be met before using Launch Wizard for SAP deployment? (Choose 3)

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An AWS account with appropriate permissions.. AWS Launch Wizard for SAP deployment requires an AWS account with appropriate permissions (A), a VPC configured with subnets (C), and IAM roles with permissions to create resources (E). While a pre-configured S3 bucket for SAP media is often recommended, it is not a strict prerequisite because the wizard can create a bucket if needed or use an existing one. An existing SAP license is not a prerequisite because the wizard supports bring-your-own-license (BYOL) scenarios. Therefore, the correct answers are A, C, and E.

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A pre-configured Amazon S3 bucket for SAP media.

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An existing SAP license.

Question 4

An AWS IAM policy is attached to a role used by an SAP migration tool (e.g., AWS Application Migration Service) for migrating an SAP system to AWS. The migration fails because the tool cannot create EC2 instances. What is the missing permission?

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ec2:RunInstances. The policy likely allows actions like Describe, Start, Stop, and volume operations for existing resources, but it does not include 'ec2:RunInstances', which is required for the SAP migration tool to provision new EC2 instances for the target SAP system. Without this permission, the migration cannot proceed.

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ec2:DescribeImages

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ec2:AllocateAddress

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ec2:CreateVolume

Question 5

An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit. The SAP application is experiencing performance issues. The administrator notices that one instance is stopped. What is the most likely impact of this on the SAP landscape?

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The SAP application will be unavailable or have reduced capacity.. In a typical SAP landscape, multiple EC2 instances serve different roles (e.g., ASCS, PAS, AAS, HANA DB). If one instance is stopped, the SAP application will either become unavailable (if it hosts a critical component like the database or ASCS) or have reduced capacity (if it is an application server). Either way, the landscape is impacted.

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The SAP system will be fully functional as long as the database is running.

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The running instance will automatically take over the workload.

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The stopped instance will continue to incur charges.

Question 6

An administrator uses AWS Launch Wizard to deploy an SAP S/4HANA system with high availability. After deployment, they notice that only one database instance is created. What is the most likely reason?

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The deployment encountered an error and only created one instance.. High availability for SAP HANA typically requires at least two nodes (primary and secondary). If only one is created, the HA configuration may have failed or the parameter was ignored. The backup retention and instance classes are correct.

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The instance class r5.8xlarge is not certified for HANA.

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The HighAvailability parameter was set to false.

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The Launch Wizard does not support HA for HANA.

Question 7

A company is migrating a critical SAP HANA database from on-premises to AWS. The database is 6 TB, and the migration must be completed within a 4-hour downtime window. The network bandwidth between on-premises and AWS is 1 Gbps. Which approach should the company take to meet the downtime requirement?

Accepted Answer

Use AWS Snowball Edge to physically transfer the data, then use AWS DMS for ongoing replication.. With 6 TB of data and only 1 Gbps bandwidth, a full network transfer would take over 13 hours (6 TB * 8 / 1 Gbps ≈ 13.3 hours), exceeding the 4-hour downtime window. AWS Snowball Edge allows physical transfer of the bulk data offline, and then AWS DMS with CDC can replicate ongoing changes, minimizing downtime to only the final cutover. This hybrid approach meets the 4-hour requirement.

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Use AWS SCT to convert the schema, then export to Amazon S3 and restore into HANA on EC2.

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Use AWS DMS with change data capture (CDC) and start with a full load over the network.

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Perform a direct online migration using AWS DMS over the existing network.

Question 8

A company is migrating its SAP NetWeaver system from on-premises to AWS. The system uses a central instance (ASCS) and multiple dialog instances. The migration must be completed with minimal downtime. Which approach should the company use?

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Use SAP Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM) to perform a system copy into pre-provisioned EC2 instances with the same sizing.. Using SAP Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM) to perform a system copy into pre-provisioned EC2 instances with the same sizing is the recommended approach for migrating SAP NetWeaver with minimal downtime. SWPM's system copy (homogeneous or heterogeneous) preserves the SAP system identity, customizing, and data, and pre-provisioning matching EC2 instances ensures performance parity and a controlled cutover.

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Use AWS CloudEndure Migration to continuously replicate the SAP system.

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Uninstall SAP from on-premises and perform a fresh installation on AWS, then restore the database backup.

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Use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to replicate the entire on-premises system to AWS.

Question 9

A company is migrating its SAP HANA database to AWS. The database is 3 TB and runs on a dedicated physical server. The company wants to use a HANA-certified EC2 instance. Which instance type should the company choose?

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x1e.32xlarge. SAP HANA requires memory-optimized, HANA-certified EC2 instances, and for a 3 TB in-memory database the instance must provide at least 3 TB of RAM. The x1e.32xlarge offers approximately 3,904 GiB (about 3.8 TiB) of memory, making it the only listed option that satisfies the 3 TB requirement and is SAP HANA certified. This makes it the correct choice for a dedicated, large-scale HANA deployment.

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i3.16xlarge

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m5.24xlarge

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r5.24xlarge

Question 10

A company is migrating its SAP system to AWS and wants to use a high-availability setup for the database layer. Which AWS service should the company use to achieve automatic failover for SAP HANA?

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Amazon Route 53 with health checks. Amazon Route 53 can be configured with DNS failover using health checks to automatically redirect traffic to a standby SAP HANA database in the event of a primary failure. Option A is wrong because Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network, not relevant for database failover. Option B is wrong because Elastic Load Balancing is designed for distributing traffic across multiple instances, not for database layer failover. Option D is wrong because AWS Global Accelerator improves application performance by routing traffic over the AWS global network, but it does not provide automatic failover for SAP HANA.

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Amazon CloudFront

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Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

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AWS Global Accelerator

Question 11

A company is planning to migrate its SAP NetWeaver system to AWS. Which TWO AWS services can be used to store the SAP transport directory?

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Amazon EFS. Amazon EFS (B) is correct because it provides a shared, POSIX-compliant NFS file system that can be mounted concurrently by multiple SAP NetWeaver application servers, which is exactly what the shared /usr/sap/trans transport directory requires. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server (C) is also correct because it delivers a fully managed SMB file share that supports shared access across multiple Windows-based SAP instances, satisfying the transport directory's need for a common, concurrently accessible file store. Amazon S3 (A) is object storage and cannot be mounted as a native shared file system for the transport directory's file-level operations. Amazon RDS (D) is a managed relational database service and has nothing to do with file-based transport storage. Amazon EBS (E) provides block storage attached to a single EC2 instance, so it cannot serve as a shared transport directory across multiple SAP servers.

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Amazon S3

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Amazon RDS

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Amazon EBS

Question 12

An SAP administrator is trying to run an AWS DMS replication task from an EC2 instance that has this IAM role. The task fails with an access denied error. What is the most likely cause?

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The policy does not include permissions for dms:DescribeReplicationTasks.. The most likely cause is that the IAM role lacks permissions for dms:DescribeReplicationTasks, which is required for the DMS replication task to run. The error is access denied, indicating missing permissions. The role must include all necessary DMS actions, including DescribeReplicationTasks, to successfully execute the task.

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The EC2 instance role is not attached to the instance.

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The S3 bucket name is incorrect.

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The S3 actions require additional permissions for the bucket.

Question 13

A company is using this CloudFormation template to provision infrastructure for an SAP HANA migration. When the stack is created, the RDS instance fails to launch. What is the most likely reason?

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Amazon RDS does not support the SAP HANA engine.. Amazon RDS does not offer SAP HANA as a supported database engine — RDS supports engines like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MariaDB, and Amazon Aurora. SAP HANA on AWS must be deployed on EC2 instances (or via SAP HANA Cloud), so a CloudFormation template attempting to launch an RDS instance with the SAP HANA engine will fail.

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The InstanceType parameter is not properly referenced.

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The DBInstanceClass db.x1e.2xlarge is not valid.

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The AMI ID is invalid.

Question 14

A company is migrating a large SAP HANA database to AWS. The database is 4 TB in size. They need to transfer the initial data with the least possible network usage and minimal impact on production. The data is stored on a network-attached storage (NAS) device. Which approach should they use?

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Use AWS Snowball Edge to transfer data offline. AWS Snowball Edge is the correct choice because it physically ships the 4 TB dataset to AWS, avoiding any WAN transfer over the production network entirely. For large one-time migrations from NAS devices, offline transfer eliminates bandwidth contention with production traffic and is far faster than saturating a Direct Connect or internet link. AWS ingests the device into S3, from which the data can be loaded into SAP HANA on AWS.

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Use AWS CLI with multipart upload over AWS Direct Connect

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Use AWS DataSync to transfer data over the internet

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Use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for continuous replication

Question 15

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS. The SAP application runs on a Windows Server with an MSSQL database. The migration must be completed within a strict 4-hour downtime window. The current database is 500 GB. Which migration strategy should be used to meet the downtime requirement?

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Use an SAP-certified backup/restore tool (e.g., Commvault) to restore to Amazon EC2 with MSSQL. For migrating an SAP ERP system with MSSQL database to AWS within a 4-hour downtime window, using an SAP-certified backup/restore tool (e.g., Commvault) to restore to Amazon EC2 with MSSQL is the best approach. This method leverages native MSSQL backup and restore capabilities, which are optimized for large databases and can complete within the downtime window. Option A (SAP SWPM export/import) is typically slower and may exceed 4 hours. Option C (AWS DMS with ongoing replication) is not ideal because DMS may not fully support SAP-specific schemas and could introduce compatibility issues, and the cutover may not be faster than backup/restore. Option D (AWS CloudEndure Migration) is designed for server-level replication, not database-optimized transfer, and may not meet the strict time constraint.

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Use SAP SWPM export/import to migrate the database

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Use AWS DMS with ongoing replication, then cutover

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Use AWS CloudEndure Migration to replicate the entire server