PAS-C01 Migration Practice Test 9 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A company is migrating an SAP HANA system to AWS using SAP HANA System Replication (HSR). The migration must have a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 2 hours. Which TWO actions should the company take to meet these objectives?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

Accepted Answer

Deploy the target system in a different Availability Zone. Option A is correct because deploying the target SAP HANA system in a different Availability Zone provides the fault isolation and low-latency network connectivity needed for SAP HANA System Replication to operate effectively, enabling an RTO under 2 hours and supporting an RPO under 15 minutes. Option E is correct because SAP HANA System Replication in synchronous mode ensures that every committed transaction is replicated to the secondary site before the primary acknowledges it, which delivers an RPO of essentially zero (well under the 15-minute requirement). Option B is not appropriate because Amazon EBS snapshots are point-in-time backups with replication intervals typically measured in hours, which cannot guarantee an RPO under 15 minutes. Option C is not suitable because placing the target in a different AWS Region introduces higher network latency that makes synchronous HSR impractical and would typically require asynchronous replication, risking a higher RPO. Option D is incorrect because using a single Availability Zone for both source and target eliminates the fault isolation needed for HSR to provide meaningful disaster recovery and would not meet the stated RTO/RPO objectives.

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Use Amazon EBS snapshots for data replication

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Place the target system in a different AWS Region

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Use a single Availability Zone for both source and target

Question 2

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS using the SAP Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM) tool. The migration must comply with SAP's 'bring your own license' (BYOL) model. Which THREE steps should the company take to ensure compliance?

Accepted Answer

Decommission the source system after successful migration. Option B is correct because SAP's BYOL model requires that the original on-premises source system be decommissioned after a successful migration, preventing the same license from being used on two systems simultaneously. Option C is correct because SAP Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM) provides a system copy functionality that is the SAP-supported method for creating the target system on AWS while preserving the licensed SAP landscape. Option D is correct because SAP license keys are hardware-dependent (tied to the host's hardware fingerprint), so new license keys must be generated and installed for the AWS instances to keep the system licensed and compliant. Option A is not correct because AWS License Manager tracks AWS and third-party licenses but does not govern SAP BYOL compliance, which is managed through SAP's own licensing mechanisms. Option E is not correct because reusing the source system's IP address is neither required nor sufficient for BYOL compliance and is generally impractical in AWS VPC networking.

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Use AWS License Manager to track SAP licenses

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Configure the target system with the same IP address as the source

Question 3

A company is planning to migrate an SAP HANA database to AWS. Which THREE factors should the company consider when selecting an EC2 instance type for the SAP HANA database?

Accepted Answer

The instance must be EBS-optimized. Option B is correct because SAP HANA requires high, consistent storage throughput and low latency, so the EC2 instance must be EBS-optimized to provide dedicated bandwidth to Amazon EBS volumes used for data and log areas. Option D is correct because SAP HANA is an in-memory database, so the instance type must be memory-optimized (such as r5, r6i, or x1e) to accommodate the large working memory and SAP HANA memory sizing requirements. Option E is correct because AWS and SAP require that the chosen instance type appear on the SAP Certified Instance Types list for SAP HANA, ensuring the hardware has been validated and certified for production SAP HANA workloads. Option A is not correct because burstable performance instances (T-family) are not certified or suitable for production SAP HANA, which needs sustained CPU and memory performance. Option C is not correct because, while many certified SAP HANA instance types are built on the AWS Nitro System, being Nitro-based is not itself a stated selection factor required by SAP certification for HANA instance selection.

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The instance type must support burstable performance

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The instance must be based on the AWS Nitro System

Question 4

A company wants to migrate its SAP application to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS). Which AWS feature should be used to achieve this?

Accepted Answer

Amazon Route 53 health checks with failover routing. Amazon Route 53 health checks with failover routing. SAP ASCS high availability requires a failover mechanism that redirects clients to a standby node when the primary ASCS instance becomes unavailable, and Route 53 health checks combined with failover routing policies accomplish this by monitoring the primary endpoint and automatically resolving DNS to the secondary endpoint on failure. This DNS-based failover is the standard AWS approach for ASCS/ERS high availability in SAP deployments. Option A (ELB) is not suitable because ASCS uses specific enqueue and message server ports and is not a stateless HTTP workload that ELB load balancing targets. Option B (Auto Scaling groups) provides horizontal scaling and instance replacement but does not perform the cluster-style failover needed for ASCS. Option D (CloudFront) is a CDN for caching content and has no role in SAP ASCS failover.

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Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

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Auto Scaling groups

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Amazon CloudFront

Question 5

During a migration of an SAP system to AWS, the team discovers that the on-premises storage uses a proprietary deduplication technology. The SAP database will be migrated to Amazon EBS volumes. How should the team address the storage space requirements on AWS?

Accepted Answer

Provision EBS volumes based on the logical size of the database. AWS does not support proprietary deduplication. The team should provision EBS volumes based on the logical size of the database after verifying the actual data size. Option C (using same physical size) is incorrect because deduplication reduces storage. Option A (compression at OS level) may not be effective. Option D (using S3) is not block storage.

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Use OS-level compression on the EBS volumes

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Provision EBS volumes with the same physical size as on-premises

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Use Amazon S3 for database storage

Question 6

A company is migrating its SAP landscape to AWS and plans to use SAP HANA as the database. The HANA system requires high network throughput between application and database servers. Which EC2 placement strategy should be recommended?

Accepted Answer

Cluster placement group. For high network throughput between SAP HANA application and database servers, the recommended placement group is Cluster. Cluster placement groups place instances within the same rack, providing the lowest latency and the highest possible network throughput, which is critical for SAP HANA's in-memory database communication. Option A (No placement group) may result in variable performance. Option B (Partition placement group) is designed for large distributed systems requiring fault isolation across partitions, not for maximizing throughput. Option C (Spread placement group) provides fault isolation but at the cost of lower network throughput compared to Cluster, as instances are placed on distinct hardware and may have higher latency.

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No placement group

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Partition placement group

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Spread placement group

Question 7

A company is migrating its SAP system to AWS and needs to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements that mandate data encryption at rest. Which AWS service should be used to manage encryption keys for Amazon EBS volumes?

Accepted Answer

AWS Key Management Service (KMS). WS Key Management Service (KMS). KMS is used to create and control encryption keys for encrypting Amazon EBS volumes. Option A (AWS Secrets Manager) is for managing secrets like database credentials, not encryption keys. Option B (AWS Certificate Manager) handles SSL/TLS certificates. Option D (AWS CloudHSM) provides hardware security modules but is more complex and typically used for specific compliance needs; KMS is the standard service for managing EBS encryption keys.

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AWS Secrets Manager

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AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

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AWS CloudHSM

Question 8

A company is migrating a large SAP ERP system to AWS. The system has multiple interfaces with external systems using RFC connections. During the migration, the team needs to minimize changes to the external systems' configurations. What approach should be taken for the RFC connections?

Accepted Answer

Assign an Elastic IP address to the SAP application server. Assigning an Elastic IP address to the SAP application server ensures that the public IP address remains the same after migration, so external systems do not need to update their RFC connection configurations. Option A (changing external systems to use DNS names) would require changes to external systems, which contradicts the goal of minimizing changes. Option B (using the private IP) would not be reachable from external systems over the internet. Option C (NAT Gateway) is used for outbound traffic, not for inbound RFC connections. Option D (Elastic IP) correctly provides a static public IP address for inbound RFC traffic.

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Change the external systems to use DNS names instead of IP addresses

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Use the private IP address of the EC2 instance

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Use a NAT Gateway to route the RFC traffic

Question 9

A company is planning to migrate its SAP system to AWS and wants to test the migration process with a smaller system first. Which AWS service can be used to create a pre-configured SAP environment for testing?

Accepted Answer

AWS Launch Wizard for SAP. AWS Launch Wizard for SAP provides a guided way to deploy SAP systems on AWS, including pre-configured environments, making it ideal for testing migrations. Option A (AWS Service Catalog) is for IT governance and not SAP-specific. Option B (AWS Quick Starts) are templates but not pre-configured for SAP. Option D (AWS CloudFormation) is infrastructure as code but lacks SAP-specific pre-configuration.

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AWS Service Catalog

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AWS Quick Starts

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AWS CloudFormation

Question 10

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure backup compliance. The SAP database is SAP HANA. Which TWO AWS services can be used to back up SAP HANA databases?

Accepted Answer

Backint agent for SAP HANA. Option A, the Backint agent for SAP HANA, is correct because SAP HANA natively supports the Backint API for database backup and recovery, and AWS provides an AWS Backint agent that integrates HANA's backup tools with Amazon S3 for storing full, differential, and log backups. Option E, AWS Backup, is correct because it supports SAP HANA on Amazon EC2 through AWS Backup for SAP HANA, allowing centralized, policy-based backup scheduling, retention, and compliance reporting for HANA databases. Option B, Amazon S3 lifecycle policies, is not a backup service; it only manages object transitions and expiration of data already stored in S3. Option C, AWS Storage Gateway, provides hybrid storage integration (file, volume, or tape) but does not perform SAP HANA database backups. Option D, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), is used to migrate databases to AWS, not to back up SAP HANA databases.

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Amazon S3 lifecycle policies

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AWS Storage Gateway

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AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

Question 11

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and wants to monitor the performance of the SAP application servers. Which TWO AWS services can be used to collect and analyze SAP performance metrics?

Accepted Answer

AWS Systems Manager. Option B (AWS Systems Manager) is correct because it provides unified operational visibility into SAP instances on AWS, and its tools such as Systems Manager Inventory, Run Command, and the SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver application management capabilities allow you to collect and analyze performance and configuration data from SAP application servers. Option C (Amazon CloudWatch with SAP monitoring agent) is correct because the SAP monitoring agent (e.g., the CloudWatch agent or SAP-specific solution such as the AWS Data Provider for SAP) publishes SAP application server metrics to CloudWatch, where they can be visualized, alarmed on, and analyzed. Option A (AWS CloudTrail) is not correct because it records API activity and audit events, not SAP application performance metrics. Option D (Amazon Inspector) is not correct because it performs automated vulnerability and security assessment scans, not performance monitoring. Option E (AWS X-Ray) is not correct because it traces requests in distributed applications, which is not the intended mechanism for collecting SAP application server performance metrics.

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AWS CloudTrail

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Amazon Inspector

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AWS X-Ray

Question 12

A company is migrating a large-scale SAP HANA workload to AWS. The system requires high memory and low latency. Which EC2 instance type is most suitable for this migration?

Accepted Answer

x1e.32xlarge. The x1e.32xlarge is purpose-built for high-memory, SAP HANA workloads, offering up to 3,904 GiB of memory and high-speed NVMe SSD storage with low-latency networking. It is certified by SAP for running production HANA environments, making it the most suitable choice for this migration.

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m5.24xlarge

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c5.18xlarge

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r5.24xlarge

Question 13

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS using the SAP S/4HANA migration approach. They need to replicate the source system continuously to the target before cutover. Which AWS service should be used for this continuous replication?

Accepted Answer

AWS CloudEndure Migration. AWS CloudEndure Migration (now AWS Application Migration Service, MGN) performs continuous block-level replication of source servers to AWS, keeping a staging area in sync until cutover. For SAP migrations where the source system must stay live and be replicated continuously before a short cutover window, this agent-based continuous replication is the correct tool.

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AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT)

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AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)

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AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

Question 14

A company is migrating its SAP systems to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which AWS service can be used to implement a failover cluster for ASCS?

Accepted Answer

AWS using shared file system and DNS-based failover. SAP ASCS high availability on AWS is typically implemented using a shared file system (such as Amazon EFS or FSx for Windows) combined with a DNS-based failover mechanism (e.g., Route 53 or an overlay IP with a cluster agent) so the ASCS instance can move between nodes while clients reconnect via the same virtual hostname. This mirrors the on-premises ASCS cluster pattern where a virtual hostname and shared storage are the core building blocks.

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Amazon S3

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Application Load Balancer (ALB)

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Amazon RDS Multi-AZ

Question 15

During a migration of an SAP ERP system to AWS, the team notices that the SAP application performance is slow on the new EC2 instances. The instance type is correct for SAP certification. What is the most likely cause?

Accepted Answer

EBS volumes are not provisioned with enough IOPS. Storage performance, specifically IOPS, often impacts SAP performance. Even if the instance type is correct, if the EBS volumes are not provisioned with sufficient IOPS, performance will suffer. Option D is correct. Option A (incorrect instance type) is not the issue. Option B (placement group) could be an issue but is less likely. Option C (security group) wouldn't cause performance issues.

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Instances are in different placement groups

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Incorrect EC2 instance type

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Security group rules are blocking traffic