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Question 1easymultiple choice
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A company runs a production EC2 instance that experiences intermittent connectivity issues. The instance is part of an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer. Which step should be taken FIRST to diagnose the issue?

Question 2mediummultiple choice
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A company uses AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to patch a fleet of EC2 instances. After a recent patching operation, some instances failed with the error 'Unable to retrieve patch baseline'. The instances are in a private subnet with a VPC endpoint for SSM. What is the MOST likely cause?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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A company runs a critical application on an EC2 instance that uses a large EBS volume for database storage. The volume is not encrypted at rest. To meet compliance requirements, the company must enable encryption on the volume with minimal downtime. Which solution meets these requirements?

Question 4easymultiple choice
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A DevOps engineer needs to automatically restart a specific service on an EC2 instance whenever the service crashes. The instance is running Amazon Linux 2. Which approach is the MOST operationally efficient?

Question 5mediummultiple choice
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A company has a CloudFormation stack that creates an EC2 instance with a custom AMI. The stack fails with the error 'Resource creation cancelled' during creation. The engineer checks the stack events and sees that the EC2 instance creation succeeded, but the subsequent creation of an EBS volume failed. What is the MOST likely reason for the failure?

Question 6mediummulti select
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A company is designing a disaster recovery strategy for a critical application that runs on EC2 instances with data stored on EBS volumes. The application requires RPO of 15 minutes and RTO of 1 hour. Which TWO approaches meet these requirements?

Question 7hardmulti select
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A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application requires a static IP address that does not change during instance stop/start. The application also needs to be highly available across two Availability Zones. Which THREE actions should the company take to meet these requirements?

Question 8mediummultiple choice
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A company manages a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations. The operations team needs to ensure that all accounts have CloudTrail enabled and that logs are delivered to a centralized S3 bucket. What is the MOST efficient way to enforce this configuration?

Question 9hardmultiple choice
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A company uses AWS Config to record resource changes and evaluate rules. Recently, the compliance status of an S3 bucket rule changed from COMPLIANT to NON_COMPLIANT. The operations team investigates and finds that the bucket policy was modified. What is the MOST efficient way to identify who made the change and the exact time?

Question 10easymultiple choice
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Solutions Architect needs to automate the patching of Amazon EC2 instances running Amazon Linux 2. The instances are in an Auto Scaling group and must be patched without downtime. Which approach is BEST?

Question 11mediummultiple choice
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A company wants to centralize monitoring of EC2 instance metrics across multiple AWS accounts. Which solution is MOST scalable and cost-effective?

Question 12hardmultiple choice
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A company uses AWS Lambda functions with reserved concurrency to process messages from an SQS queue. The operations team notices that the Lambda function sometimes throttles, causing messages to remain in the queue. What is the MOST likely cause and solution?

Question 13mediummulti select
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A company is designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical application running on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application uses an RDS Multi-AZ database. Which TWO actions should the operations team take to minimize recovery time and data loss?

Question 14hardmulti select
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A company runs a production web application on EC2 instances behind an ALB. The operations team receives an alert that the application is returning HTTP 503 errors. Which THREE steps should be taken to diagnose the issue?

Question 15mediummultiple choice
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A company runs a production application on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances are in an Auto Scaling group across three Availability Zones. The operations team notices that during a recent deployment, a small percentage of instances failed health checks and were replaced, causing a brief increase in error rates. What is the MOST effective way to reduce deployment-related errors?

Question 16hardmultiple choice
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A company uses AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. During an update, a stack fails to roll back and is left in UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED state. The stack contains a DynamoDB table and a Lambda function. The operations team needs to fix the stack with minimal disruption. What should they do?

Question 17easymultiple choice
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A DevOps engineer is troubleshooting an AWS CodePipeline that fails at the Deploy stage. The pipeline deploys a static website to an S3 bucket configured for website hosting. The error message indicates 'Access Denied' when the pipeline tries to upload files. Which IAM policy should be attached to the CodePipeline service role to resolve this?

Question 18mediummultiple choice
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A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team wants to ensure that all newly created S3 buckets in any account are automatically tagged with a 'CostCenter' tag. Which solution requires the least operational overhead?

Question 19hardmultiple choice
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A company runs a critical workload on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with Multi-AZ. The operations team notices that during a recent failover test, the DNS record updated in about 60 seconds. However, the application experienced a 2-minute downtime because some connections were not re-established quickly. What should the team do to reduce downtime during failover?

Question 20mediummulti select
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A company uses AWS CloudTrail to log API calls. The security team wants to detect unauthorized attempts to modify security group rules and send real-time alerts. Which TWO AWS services should be used together to achieve this?

Question 21hardmulti select
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A company runs a web application on Amazon ECS with Fargate launch type. The application's memory utilization spikes periodically, causing tasks to be killed. The operations team wants to automatically scale the service based on memory usage. Which THREE steps are necessary to implement this?

Question 22hardmultiple choice
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A company runs a multi-tier application on AWS. The application consists of an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that distributes traffic to a fleet of EC2 instances running a web server. The web servers write logs to an Amazon EFS file system mounted across all instances. The operations team reports that the web application is experiencing intermittent high latency and timeouts. Monitoring shows that the ALB's target response time is normal, but the application's internal processing time is high. Further investigation reveals that the EFS performance metrics show high 'BurstCreditBalance' and 'PercentIOLimit' during the latency spikes. The EFS file system is configured with 'Bursting' throughput mode. The team needs to resolve the latency issue with minimal cost. What should they do?

Question 23hardmultiple choice
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A company runs a critical web application on a fleet of EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in an Auto Scaling group. The application stores session state in an ElastiCache Redis cluster (Cluster Mode disabled). The operations team receives alerts that the application is experiencing intermittent timeouts and high error rates. Upon investigation, they find that the Redis cluster's CPU utilization is consistently above 90%, and there are frequent 'MAXMEMORY' evictions. The application team confirms that they recently increased the number of concurrent users and added more session data per user. The current Redis cluster is a single cache.r5.large node with 13.37 GB of memory. Which of the following should the operations team do FIRST to address the performance issues?

Question 24easymultiple choice
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A company has a production AWS account that contains an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The database is critical and must have automated backups enabled with a retention period of 30 days. The company also requires point-in-time recovery to any second within the retention period. The operations team has configured automated backups with a retention period of 30 days, but they notice that the automated backups are not being taken consistently. The DB instance is in a Multi-AZ deployment and has a storage size of 500 GB. The team checks the backup window and finds that it is set to 02:00-03:00 UTC. The backup window is non-overlapping with the maintenance window. The DB instance is actively used during the backup window with heavy write traffic. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the inconsistent automated backups?

Question 25mediummultiple choice
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A company is running a critical web application on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. During a recent deployment, a new version of the application was released, and within minutes, the error rate spiked. The operations team rolled back the deployment, but the error rate remained high. The team suspects that the ALB is still routing traffic to unhealthy instances. Which step should the team take to immediately stop routing traffic to the problematic instances?

Question 26hardmulti select
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A company is using AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to patch a fleet of EC2 instances. The instances are in a patch group and have the SSM Agent installed. After a patching operation, the operations team notices that some instances did not apply the patches. The instances show a status of 'Failed' in the Patch Manager console. Which TWO steps should the team take to troubleshoot and resolve the issue? (Choose TWO.)

Question 27easymultiple choice
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An IAM policy is attached to a user. The user attempts to upload a file to s3://my-bucket/restricted/data.txt. What is the outcome?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:Describe*",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "s3:GetObject",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "Action": "s3:PutObject",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket/restricted/*"
    }
  ]
}
Question 28hardmultiple choice
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A financial services company runs a multi-tier application on AWS. The application consists of an Application Load Balancer (ALB), a fleet of EC2 instances for the web tier, and an Amazon RDS for MySQL database for the backend. The operations team uses AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. During a recent deployment, a change to the database security group caused an outage because the web tier lost connectivity to the database. The team wants to prevent similar incidents in the future. They need a solution that allows them to review and approve changes to critical resources before deployment, while still enabling rapid deployment for non-critical changes. The team uses AWS CodePipeline for CI/CD. Which approach should the team implement?

Question 29mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to troubleshoot an SAP HANA database connection failure from an SAP application in AWS into the correct order.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

Steps
Order
1Step 1
2Step 2
3Step 3
4Step 4
5Step 5
Question 30mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to configure an SAP Fiori front-end server on AWS behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) into the correct order.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

Steps
Order
1Step 1
2Step 2
3Step 3
4Step 4
5Step 5
Question 31mediummatching
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Match the AWS storage service to its characteristic relevant to SAP.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Up to 256K IOPS per volume

Object storage for backups and archives

Offline data migration for large SAP datasets

POSIX-compliant file storage for SAP

Question 32mediummatching
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Match the AWS service to its function in SAP disaster recovery.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Replicates servers to another AWS Region

Replicates backups to secondary Region

Traffic routing to standby region

Point-in-time backups for HANA data volumes

Question 33mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS. During a maintenance window, the SAP application team needs to apply a kernel update that requires a reboot of the SAP application servers. The environment uses an Auto Scaling group for the application tier. What is the BEST approach to minimize downtime?

Question 34hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS is experiencing performance degradation. Amazon CloudWatch metrics show high CPU utilization on the application server, but the database server (RDS) metrics are normal. The application team suspects a memory leak. Which action should the operations team take FIRST to confirm the issue?

Question 35easymultiple choice
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS. The operations team needs to automate the creation of AMI backups for the HANA database server. Which AWS service should they use to schedule and manage these backups?

Question 36mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS uses a Multi-AZ RDS for SQL Server as the database. During a failover test, the application experienced a 2-minute outage. The application team wants to reduce this downtime. What should the operations team recommend?

Question 37hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues between the application servers and the HANA database. The network team has confirmed that the VPC and subnets are configured correctly. What should the operations team check NEXT?

Question 38easymultiple choice
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An operations team needs to monitor the disk space usage of SAP application servers running on EC2. Which combination of AWS services should they use?

Question 39mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to web dispatchers. The operations team notices that some requests are failing with 503 errors. What is the MOST likely cause?

Question 40hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS uses a custom AMI for its application servers. The operations team needs to update the AMI to include a new security patch. What is the MOST efficient way to update all existing instances without downtime?

Question 41mediummulti select
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Which TWO actions should an operations team take to ensure high availability for SAP HANA in a single AWS Region?

Question 42hardmulti select
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Which THREE metrics should an operations team monitor to detect performance issues in an SAP HANA database running on EC2?

Question 43easymulti select
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Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the patching of SAP application servers?

Question 44mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An SAP HANA instance is running on an EC2 instance. The volume `/dev/sdf` is used for HANA data. The operations team needs to increase the disk size for HANA data without downtime. Which action should they take?

Exhibit

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Output from `aws ec2 describe-instances`:
```
{
    "Reservations": [
        {
            "Instances": [
                {
                    "InstanceId": "i-0abcd1234efgh5678",
                    "InstanceType": "r5.2xlarge",
                    "State": {
                        "Name": "running"
                    },
                    "BlockDeviceMappings": [
                        {
                            "DeviceName": "/dev/xvda",
                            "Ebs": {
                                "VolumeId": "vol-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890",
                                "Status": "attached"
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "DeviceName": "/dev/sdf",
                            "Ebs": {
                                "VolumeId": "vol-0a1b2c3d4e5f67891",
                                "Status": "attached"
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
```
Question 45hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An operations team uses an EC2 instance with this IAM policy to manage EBS snapshots for SAP HANA backups. The backup script calls the DeleteSnapshot API for snapshot snap-0abcdef1234567890. What will happen?

Exhibit

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IAM policy attached to an EC2 instance role:
```json
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "ec2:CreateSnapshot",
                "ec2:CreateTags",
                "ec2:DeleteSnapshot"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Deny",
            "Action": "ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:snapshot/snap-0abcdef1234567890"
        }
    ]
}
```
Question 46easymultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An operations team sees this log entry in CloudWatch Logs for an SAP system. What is the MOST likely cause?

Exhibit

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CloudWatch Logs log entry:
```
2023-10-01T12:00:00Z [ABAP] System: PRD, Program: Z_MONITOR, Error: RFC communication failure with destination SAPDBHOST (HANA)
```
Question 47mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An operations team uses this CloudFormation template to launch SAP application servers. After deployment, the application server fails to join the SAP system. The team verified that the security group allows outbound traffic to the SAP system. What is the MOST likely cause?

Exhibit

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AWS CloudFormation template snippet:
```yaml
Resources:
  SAPAppServer:
    Type: AWS::EC2::Instance
    Properties:
      InstanceType: !Ref InstanceType
      ImageId: !Ref LatestAmiId
      SecurityGroupIds:
        - !Ref SecurityGroup
      UserData:
        Fn::Base64: !Sub |
          #!/bin/bash
          /opt/sap/install.sh
```
Question 48mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a multi-AZ deployment for SAP HANA. The operations team notices that the secondary HANA node in the standby replica is not automatically taking over during a planned failover test. What is the most likely cause?

Question 49hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to perform an OS-level patching of the underlying EC2 instances hosting an SAP HANA database in a production environment. The HANA database is configured with system replication across two Availability Zones. What is the best practice to minimize downtime?

Question 50easymultiple choice
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Your SAP on AWS environment uses a central S3 bucket to store SAP transport files. The operations team reports that transport import fails intermittently. Which AWS service can be used to monitor and alert on S3 API call failures?

Question 51mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP ERP on AWS with a DR strategy using cross-region replication for SAP HANA. During a DR drill, the team discovers that the HANA database is not starting on the DR instance. Which configuration is most likely missing?

Question 52hardmultiple choice
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An SAP Basis team is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP HANA database running on AWS. The HANA index server is consuming high CPU. The team suspects that the underlying EC2 instance is throttled. Which CloudWatch metric should be checked to confirm CPU throttling?

Question 53easymultiple choice
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Your SAP system on AWS uses a shared file system with Amazon EFS. The operations team notices that the SAP application is experiencing latency when reading files from EFS. Which action can improve read performance?

Question 54mediummultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to ensure that all EC2 instances in the SAP landscape have the correct patches and configurations. Which AWS service can be used to automate OS patch management?

Question 55hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a three-tier architecture. The operations team receives alerts that the application server's CPU utilization is consistently above 90%. The team wants to add an additional application server to distribute the load. Which AWS service should be used to register the new instance with the SAP system's load balancer?

Question 56easymultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS uses Amazon RDS for its database. The operations team needs to perform a point-in-time recovery (PITR) to restore the database to a specific timestamp. Which AWS feature enables PITR for RDS?

Question 57mediummulti select
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Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of SAP HANA on AWS and set alarms? (Select TWO.)

Question 58hardmulti select
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Which THREE factors should be considered when designing an SAP HANA backup strategy on AWS? (Select THREE.)

Question 59easymulti select
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Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the start and stop of SAP EC2 instances based on a schedule? (Select TWO.)

Question 60mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a Multi-AZ architecture. The SAP application servers are in an Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones, and the database is an RDS for SAP HANA Multi-AZ DB instance. During a recent failover test, the database failover completed within 2 minutes, but the application servers took 10 minutes to reconnect to the database. Which action would minimize the application reconnection time?

Question 61hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system administrator notices that nightly SAP HANA backups to Amazon S3 are failing intermittently with 'Access Denied' errors. The backups are initiated by an AWS Lambda function that uses an IAM role. The role has a policy that grants s3:PutObject on the backup bucket. Which additional IAM action is most likely required to resolve the issue?

Question 62easymultiple choice
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An SAP Basis administrator needs to monitor the memory usage of an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. Which AWS service should be used to collect and visualize custom memory metrics from the OS?

Question 63mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS using a single EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The system experiences performance degradation during peak hours. Which approach would provide the MOST immediate improvement in disk I/O performance without downtime?

Question 64hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a failed backup of SAP HANA to Amazon S3. The backup is initiated by an SAP HANA BACKUP command using the S3 backint agent. The error log shows 'HTTP 403 Forbidden' when the agent tries to upload to the S3 bucket. The bucket policy allows s3:PutObject from the VPC endpoint. What is the most likely cause?

Question 65easymultiple choice
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An SAP system administrator wants to automate the patching of SAP HANA database instances running on EC2. Which AWS service can schedule and execute patching workflows with approval gates?

Question 66mediummultiple choice
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A company runs its SAP environment on AWS and needs to ensure that all changes to the SAP landscape are tracked for auditing. The environment includes EC2 instances, RDS databases, and Lambda functions. Which combination of AWS services provides the most comprehensive audit trail?

Question 67hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator is restoring an SAP HANA database from a backup stored in Amazon S3. The restore fails with an error indicating that the backup file is corrupt. The backup was created using the SAP HANA BACKUP command with the S3 backint agent. What could cause the backup file to be corrupt?

Question 68easymultiple choice
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An SAP system administrator needs to restart a critical SAP application server EC2 instance that is part of a cluster. Which approach minimizes downtime?

Question 69mediummulti select
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and needs to back up the database to Amazon S3. Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the backup process?

Question 70hardmulti select
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An SAP system administrator is troubleshooting an issue where SAP users cannot log in to the SAP system. The administrator checks the SAP application server logs and finds that the connection to the SAP HANA database is failing with 'connection refused'. Which THREE AWS resources should be investigated to resolve the issue?

Question 71easymulti select
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A company uses AWS Systems Manager to automate patching of SAP application servers. Which TWO resources are required to use Systems Manager Patch Manager?

Question 72mediummultiple choice
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A company is running a critical SAP application on AWS. The operations team receives a notification that the SAP HANA database is running low on memory. Which AWS service should be used to automatically increase memory capacity without downtime?

Question 73easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to back up the SAP HANA database daily with a retention period of 30 days. The backups must be stored in a cost-effective manner and be instantly accessible for recovery. Which AWS service should be used?

Question 74hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to monitor operating system metrics such as memory usage, disk space, and process status using Amazon CloudWatch. Which agent configuration is required on the SAP application and database servers to send these metrics to CloudWatch?

Question 75mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system running on AWS experiences high latency when accessing data in Amazon S3. The operations team suspects network bandwidth limitations. Which AWS service can be used to monitor the network throughput between the EC2 instances and S3?

Question 76easymultiple choice
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A company uses an SAP HANA database on AWS. The database administrator wants to back up the database using Backint integration with AWS. Which AWS service is the recommended target for Backint backups?

Question 77hardmultiple choice
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An SAP on AWS environment includes multiple instances across Availability Zones. The operations team needs to automatically replace an unhealthy EC2 instance that is part of an SAP application cluster. Which AWS service can automatically detect and replace the instance based on health checks?

Question 78mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to patch the operating system of multiple EC2 instances on a schedule. The instances are part of an Auto Scaling group. Which AWS service can be used to apply patches without disrupting the Auto Scaling group's desired capacity?

Question 79easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to receive alerts when the CPU utilization of an SAP application server exceeds 90% for 5 minutes. Which AWS service should be used to set up the alert?

Question 80hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery solution with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 4 hours and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. Which strategy meets these requirements for SAP HANA database?

Question 81mediummulti select
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Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the startup and shutdown of SAP application servers based on a schedule to reduce costs? (Select TWO.)

Question 82hardmulti select
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Which THREE steps should be taken when troubleshooting a slow-running SAP HANA database on AWS? (Select THREE.)

Question 83easymulti select
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Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the health of SAP systems and send notifications? (Select TWO.)

Question 84mediummultiple choice
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A company is running an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with a single EBS volume for /hana/data. The performance team reports high write latency during peak hours. Which change would most effectively reduce write latency without compromising data durability?

Question 85hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator notices that the SAP application server is failing health checks in the Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) target group. The application server runs on an EC2 instance behind an Application Load Balancer. The health check path is /sap/public/ping. What is the most likely cause of the failure?

Question 86easymultiple choice
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A company runs SAP ERP on AWS using a Multi-AZ RDS for SAP HANA database. The operations team needs to automate the rotation of the database master password. Which AWS service should be used to securely store and rotate the password?

Question 87mediummultiple choice
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An SAP Basis administrator is monitoring the health of an SAP HANA database on AWS. The administrator wants to receive alerts when the CPU utilization of the HANA instance exceeds 90% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which combination of AWS services should be used?

Question 88hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS is experiencing slow performance. The operations team suspects a memory bottleneck on the SAP HANA database. Which CloudWatch metric should be monitored to confirm memory pressure?

Question 89easymultiple choice
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A company needs to back up its SAP HANA database running on Amazon RDS. The database is 500 GB. What is the recommended approach for backups?

Question 90mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system is deployed across multiple Availability Zones using an Application Load Balancer. The operations team wants to perform a blue/green deployment of a new SAP application version with zero downtime. Which AWS service should be used?

Question 91hardmultiple choice
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An SAP HANA database on EC2 is experiencing high I/O latency. The database uses a single EBS volume for /hana/log. The volume is a gp2 volume with 1000 GB size. The administrator notices that the volume's burst balance is depleted. Which action should be taken to improve latency?

Question 92easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to ensure that all API calls made to create, modify, or delete AWS resources are logged for auditing. Which AWS service should be enabled?

Question 93mediummulti select
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An SAP system on AWS uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to multiple EC2 instances. The operations team wants to enable sticky sessions (session affinity) for the ALB. Which TWO steps are required? (Choose TWO.)

Question 94hardmulti select
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A company runs SAP HANA on EC2 with a Multi-AZ deployment. The database uses EBS volumes for /hana/data and /hana/log. The operations team needs to implement a disaster recovery strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which THREE actions should be taken? (Choose THREE.)

Question 95easymulti select
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An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP application server. The administrator wants to collect detailed metrics about the EC2 instance's memory usage. Which TWO AWS services can be used to collect memory metrics? (Choose TWO.)

Question 96mediummultiple choice
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A company runs an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with a large EBS volume. The operations team receives alerts that the volume's burst balance has dropped to 10%. Which action should be taken to prevent performance degradation?

Question 97easymultiple choice
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A company is using SAP HANA on AWS and needs to restore a backup to a new HANA instance. Which AWS service should be used to automate the backup and restore process?

Question 98hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator notices that the SAP application server is experiencing high memory utilization. The system uses a cluster of EC2 instances. What is the most cost-effective solution to automatically add an additional application server when memory exceeds 80%?

Question 99mediummultiple choice
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A company is migrating an SAP HANA database to AWS and needs to ensure high availability with automatic failover. Which solution meets this requirement with the least administrative overhead?

Question 100easymultiple choice
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and wants to monitor the system for potential performance issues. Which metrics should be monitored to detect memory pressure?

Question 101hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to patch the operating system of SAP application servers that are part of an Auto Scaling group. What is the best practice to ensure that instances are updated without downtime?

Question 102mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and wants to back up the database using Backint integration. Which AWS service is required to store the backups?

Question 103mediummultiple choice
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An operations team needs to ensure that all changes to AWS resources related to SAP systems are tracked and audited. Which AWS service should they use?

Question 104easymultiple choice
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A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the database can be recovered to a specific point in time within the last 24 hours. Which backup strategy should be used?

Question 105mediummulti select
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Which TWO actions should be taken to improve the performance of an SAP HANA database running on AWS? (Choose TWO.)

Question 106hardmulti select
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Which THREE components are required to set up SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) on AWS for high availability? (Choose THREE.)

Question 107easymulti select
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Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor SAP HANA database performance metrics? (Choose TWO.)

Question 108hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator is troubleshooting an issue where an AWS Lambda function is unable to start an EC2 instance. The Lambda execution role has the IAM policy shown in the exhibit. What is the likely cause of the failure?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "s3:GetObject",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::sap-backups/*"
    }
  ]
}
```
Question 109mediummultiple choice
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An SAP HANA database is running on an EC2 instance with an attached gp2 volume of 500 GiB. The exhibit shows the volume attributes. The database performance is degrading during peak hours. What is the most likely cause?

Network Topology
$ aws ec2 describe-volumesvolume-ids vol-0abcd1234efgh5678Refer to the exhibit.```"Volumes": ["AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1a","VolumeType": "gp2","VolumeId": "vol-0abcd1234efgh5678","State": "in-use","Size": 500,"Iops": 1500,"Attachments": ["InstanceId": "i-0a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8","Device": "/dev/xvdf"
Question 110hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator is reviewing a CloudFormation template that defines an Auto Scaling group for SAP application servers. The exhibit shows the relevant section. The group currently has 2 instances running. The administrator wants to ensure that during a rolling update, at least one instance remains available. Which property should be added?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Resources": {
    "SAPApplicationServer": {
      "Type": "AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup",
      "Properties": {
        "LaunchConfigurationName": "my-launch-config",
        "MinSize": "1",
        "MaxSize": "5",
        "DesiredCapacity": "2",
        "VPCZoneIdentifier": ["subnet-1a", "subnet-1b"]
      }
    }
  }
}
```
Question 111mediummultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for their SAP HANA database. They have set up a multi-AZ deployment with replication. During a planned failover test, the secondary node fails to take over. Which AWS service should be used to monitor and automatically remediate the replication status?

Question 112easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator notices that the SAP application performance has degraded over the past week. The system is running on Amazon EC2 with EBS volumes. Which AWS service should be used to analyze the performance impact of the EBS volumes?

Question 113hardmultiple choice
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A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and needs to perform an in-place upgrade from HANA 1.0 to 2.0. The database size is 2 TB and the team wants to minimize downtime. Which approach is most appropriate?

Question 114mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system running on AWS has a recurring issue where the SAP application server becomes unresponsive every evening at 8 PM. The administrator suspects a batch job causing high CPU usage. Which set of AWS services can best help identify the root cause?

Question 115easymultiple choice
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A company is migrating its SAP environment to AWS and wants to automate the installation of SAP software on EC2 instances. Which AWS service is best suited for this purpose?

Question 116hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site in us-west-2. The SAP HANA database is 5 TB. Which approach meets these requirements cost-effectively?

Question 117mediummultiple choice
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An administrator needs to apply a critical OS security patch to multiple SAP application servers in an Auto Scaling group without disrupting ongoing operations. Which strategy should be used?

Question 118easymultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to ensure that all changes to the SAP infrastructure are logged for audit purposes. Which AWS service should be enabled to record API calls?

Question 119hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator receives an alert that the SAP HANA database is using 95% of its allocated memory. The system is running on an EC2 instance with 1 TB of RAM. The administrator needs to add more memory without significant downtime. Which action should be taken?

Question 120mediummulti select
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A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to monitor the health of their SAP application servers. Which TWO AWS services can be used together to achieve this?

Question 121easymulti select
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Which THREE actions should be taken to secure an SAP environment running on AWS?

Question 122hardmulti select
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An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency. Which THREE metrics should be examined in Amazon CloudWatch to diagnose the issue?

Question 123mediummultiple choice
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A company runs an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with a large EBS volume. The volume is approaching its maximum capacity. The operations team needs to increase the storage size without downtime. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

Question 124easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator notices that the application logs show repeated authentication failures from a specific IP address. The SAP application is hosted on an EC2 instance behind an Application Load Balancer. What AWS service can be used to block traffic from that IP at the network level?

Question 125hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a Multi-AZ RDS for Oracle as the database. They observe that the database failover took longer than expected during a recent test. What is the most likely cause of the increased failover time?

Question 126mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system is deployed on EC2 instances with EBS volumes. The operations team needs to implement a backup strategy that provides point-in-time recovery for the EBS volumes with minimal downtime. Which AWS service should they use?

Question 127hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a distributed deployment with multiple application servers in an Auto Scaling group. They want to ensure that when a new instance is launched, it is automatically registered with the SAP Central Services instance. Which approach should they use?

Question 128easymultiple choice
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An administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The monitoring data must be stored for 15 months. Which AWS service should be used to meet this requirement?

Question 129mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system running on EC2 is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues between application servers and the database server. The network team suspects that the security group rules are too restrictive. What is the best approach to identify which traffic is being blocked?

Question 130hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a custom AMI for their EC2 instances. They want to ensure that all instances launched from this AMI automatically have the SAP host agent installed and configured. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

Question 131easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to apply a security patch to the operating system of an EC2 instance running SAP. The instance is part of an Auto Scaling group. What is the best practice to apply the patch while minimizing downtime?

Question 132mediummulti select
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An SAP system is deployed on EC2 with a Multi-AZ RDS for SAP ASE database. The operations team needs to ensure that database backups are stored in a separate AWS account for compliance. Which TWO actions should they take?

Question 133hardmulti select
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An SAP HANA database is running on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes for data, log, and shared storage. The administrator needs to ensure that the volumes are backed up consistently to avoid data corruption. Which THREE measures should be taken? (Select THREE.)

Question 134easymulti select
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses CloudWatch for monitoring. They want to set up an alarm that notifies the operations team when the CPU utilization of their SAP application server exceeds 90% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which THREE components are required to achieve this? (Select THREE.)

Question 135mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown. The instance is running Windows. Which of the following is true based on the output?

Network Topology
$ aws ec2 describe-instancesinstance-ids i-1234567890abcdef0query 'Reservations[0].Instances[0].[InstanceIdRefer to the exhibit.```"i-1234567890abcdef0","running","windows"
Question 136hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to a user who manages SAP EC2 instances. Which of the following actions can the user perform?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:Describe*",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:StartInstances",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:instance/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/Environment": "production"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:StopInstances",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:instance/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/Environment": "production"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```
Question 137easymultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. A CloudTrail log entry shows that the user 'sapadmin' stopped an instance. Which of the following is true based on the log?

Exhibit

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```
{
  "Records": [
    {
      "eventVersion": "1.05",
      "userIdentity": {
        "type": "IAMUser",
        "arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/sapadmin"
      },
      "eventTime": "2023-05-01T10:00:00Z",
      "eventSource": "ec2.amazonaws.com",
      "eventName": "StopInstances",
      "awsRegion": "us-east-1",
      "requestParameters": {
        "instancesSet": {
          "items": [
            {
              "instanceId": "i-0abcdef1234567890"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "responseElements": null
    }
  ]
}
```
Question 138mediummultiple choice
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A company is running an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The operations team notices that the /hana/data filesystem is growing faster than expected and the available space is critically low. Which action should be taken to monitor the disk space usage proactively?

Question 139hardmultiple choice
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A company runs its SAP system on AWS and uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to SAP Web Dispatchers. The operations team reports that some users experience intermittent connectivity issues. The ALB health checks are configured to check the /sap/public/bc/icf/logon endpoint. Which configuration change would best improve the reliability of health checks?

Question 140easymultiple choice
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A company wants to automate the patching of SAP application servers running on EC2 instances. Which AWS service should be used to schedule and apply OS patches?

Question 141mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and has configured automated snapshots of EBS volumes for backup. The operations team discovers that the snapshots are not being deleted after the retention period. Which action should be taken to ensure snapshots are automatically deleted?

Question 142hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a Multi-AZ RDS for SAP HANA database. The database fails over unexpectedly, causing application downtime. The operations team wants to analyze the cause of the failover. Which set of logs should be examined?

Question 143easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to grant an external auditor read-only access to view SAP system logs stored in CloudWatch Logs. Which AWS identity-based policy should be used?

Question 144mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to reduce costs by stopping non-production instances during off-hours. Which AWS service can automatically start and stop EC2 instances on a schedule?

Question 145hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high CPU utilization on the database server. The operations team suspects a specific query is causing the issue. Which combination of AWS services should be used to identify the query?

Question 146easymultiple choice
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A company wants to ensure that its SAP system backups are stored in a different AWS Region to comply with disaster recovery requirements. Which AWS service should be used to copy EBS snapshots to another Region?

Question 147mediummulti select
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An SAP system on AWS uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic across multiple EC2 instances. The operations team notices that some instances are marked as unhealthy even though the application is running correctly. Which TWO actions could resolve this issue?

Question 148hardmulti select
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A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to ensure that all API calls made to AWS services are logged for auditing purposes. Which TWO services should be used together to achieve this?

Question 149easymulti select
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A company wants to automatically recover an SAP HANA database EC2 instance if it becomes impaired due to underlying hardware issues. Which THREE components are required for this automatic recovery?

Question 150hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator is troubleshooting why a user cannot stop a production EC2 instance. The IAM policy attached to the user is shown in the exhibit. Which action is likely causing the failure?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:Describe*",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:StartInstances",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:instance/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/Environment": "production"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:StopInstances",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:instance/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/Environment": "production"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```
Question 151mediummultiple choice
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An SAP administrator runs the CLI commands shown in the exhibit for a production EC2 instance. The output indicates that the instance is running but the system status is impaired. Which action should the administrator take to recover the instance?

Network Topology
$ aws ec2 describe-instancesinstance-ids i-0abcdef1234567890query 'Reservations[0].Instances[0].State'$ aws ec2 describe-instance-statusquery 'InstanceStatuses[0].SystemStatus'Refer to the exhibit.```"Code": 16,"Name": "running""Status": "impaired","Details": ["Reachability": "impaired","Description": "AWS is investigating..."
Question 152easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator is troubleshooting connectivity between an SAP application server (security group sg-12345) and an SAP HANA database server. The inbound rule on the database security group is shown in the exhibit. Which additional configuration is required for the application server to communicate with the database?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
{
  "Rules": [
    {
      "SourceSecurityGroupId": "sg-12345",
      "SourceSecurityGroupOwnerId": "123456789012",
      "IpProtocol": "tcp",
      "FromPort": 3300,
      "ToPort": 3300
    }
  ]
}
```
Question 153mediummultiple choice
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A company runs an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The operations team notices increased latency and I/O errors. Which AWS service should they use to analyze performance and identify bottlenecks?

Question 154hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system is running on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The SAP application logs indicate intermittent timeouts. The operations team has enabled detailed CloudWatch metrics for the ALB. Which metric should they analyze to determine if the ALB is the cause of the timeouts?

Question 155easymultiple choice
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A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which AWS service is best suited for this?

Question 156mediummultiple choice
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An SAP on AWS environment uses a shared file system with Amazon EFS. The operations team reports slow performance during peak hours. Which configuration change would most likely improve throughput?

Question 157hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system is running on EC2 instances in a VPC. The security team requires that all traffic between the SAP application and database tiers be encrypted in transit. Which solution meets this requirement with minimal latency?

Question 158easymultiple choice
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An SAP system administrator needs to automate the patching of SAP applications on EC2 instances. Which AWS service should they use?

Question 159mediummultiple choice
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An SAP HANA database is experiencing high memory utilization. The operations team needs to determine if the database is using more memory than allocated. Which CloudWatch metric should they monitor?

Question 160hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system uses a large Amazon RDS for Oracle instance. The operations team wants to minimize downtime during a major version upgrade. Which strategy should they use?

Question 161easymultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to send alerts when the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance exceeds 90% for 5 minutes. Which AWS service should be used to create this alarm?

Question 162mediummulti select
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An SAP system administrator needs to perform a backup of an SAP HANA database running on EC2. Which TWO AWS services can be used together to create consistent backups? (Choose TWO.)

Question 163hardmulti select
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An SAP system on AWS is experiencing performance degradation. The operations team suspects a network bottleneck. Which THREE metrics should they analyze in CloudWatch to diagnose the issue? (Choose THREE.)

Question 164mediummulti select
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Which TWO actions should be taken to ensure high availability for an SAP NetWeaver system on AWS? (Choose TWO.)

Question 165easymultiple choice
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A company runs an SAP HANA database on AWS. The operations team wants to automate the monitoring of HANA alert logs and send notifications when critical alerts occur. Which AWS service should they use to collect and analyze the logs?

Question 166mediummultiple choice
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An SAP Basis administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP application server running on an Amazon EC2 instance. The administrator notices high CPU utilization. Which AWS tool can provide detailed insights into the CPU usage at the process level without installing additional agents?

Question 167hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS is configured with a multi-AZ deployment for high availability. During a failover test, the secondary instance does not take over as expected. The administrator checks the AWS Management Console and sees that the Elastic IP address is still attached to the primary instance. What is the most likely cause?

Question 168easymultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to ensure that all changes to the SAP system's underlying infrastructure are recorded and auditable. Which AWS service should be enabled to meet this requirement?

Question 169mediummultiple choice
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An SAP administrator notices that an Amazon RDS for SAP HANA instance is running low on storage. The administrator needs to increase the storage with minimal downtime. What is the most efficient approach?

Question 170hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS is experiencing intermittent network connectivity issues between the application servers and the database server. Both are in the same VPC but different subnets. The security groups allow all traffic between them. What should the administrator check next?

Question 171easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to apply an OS-level security patch to all EC2 instances in an SAP landscape. The administrator wants to automate this process and track compliance. Which AWS service should be used?

Question 172mediummultiple choice
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An SAP HANA database on AWS is configured with automatic backups to Amazon S3. The backup process is failing with the error 'Access Denied'. The administrator has confirmed the S3 bucket exists and the IAM role attached to the EC2 instance has the correct permissions. What could be the issue?

Question 173hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system running on AWS uses a shared file system via Amazon EFS. Recently, the file system has become slow. The administrator suspects that the burst credits are exhausted. What metric should the administrator check in Amazon CloudWatch to confirm this?

Question 174mediummulti select
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Which TWO actions are required to set up automated failover for an SAP HANA database using AWS services? (Choose TWO.)

Question 175hardmulti select
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Which THREE steps should an administrator take to troubleshoot an issue where an SAP application server cannot connect to the database server after a security group change? (Choose THREE.)

Question 176easymulti select
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Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance? (Choose TWO.)

Question 177mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator has attached the IAM policy above to an IAM role used by an EC2 instance for S3 backup operations. The backup process fails with 'Access Denied' when trying to upload a backup file. What is the most likely cause?

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Refer to the exhibit.

"{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "s3:GetObject",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::sap-backup-bucket/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "s3:PutObject",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::sap-backup-bucket/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "kms:Decrypt",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}"
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Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator receives reports that an application server is slow. The administrator checks the CloudWatch alarm for high CPU but it shows 'OK' state. The get-metric-statistics output shows CPU utilization around 90-95%. What is the most likely reason the alarm is not triggering?

Network Topology
"$ aws cloudwatch describe-alarmsalarm-names 'SAP-HANA-CPU-High'query 'MetricAlarms[0].StateValue'$ aws cloudwatch get-metric-statisticsnamespace 'AWS/EC2'metric-name 'CPUUtilization'dimensions Name=InstanceIdstart-time 2023-01-01T00:00:00Zend-time 2023-01-01T01:00:00Zperiod 300statistics 'Average'Refer to the exhibit."OK""Datapoints": ["Timestamp": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","Average": 95.0,"Unit": "Percent"},"Timestamp": "2023-01-01T00:05:00Z","Average": 90.0,}"
Question 179mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator uses the CloudFormation template snippet to create an application server. After deployment, the administrator cannot connect to the instance using AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. What is the most likely missing configuration?

Exhibit

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"Resources:
  SAPApplicationServer:
    Type: AWS::EC2::Instance
    Properties:
      InstanceType: !Ref InstanceType
      SecurityGroupIds:
        - !Ref AppSecurityGroup
      UserData:
        Fn::Base64: !Sub |
          #!/bin/bash
          yum install -y https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
      Tags:
        - Key: Name
          Value: SAP-APP-Server
  AppSecurityGroup:
    Type: AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
    Properties:
      GroupDescription: Security group for SAP application servers
      SecurityGroupIngress:
        - IpProtocol: tcp
          FromPort: 443
          ToPort: 443
          CidrIp: 0.0.0.0/0"
Question 180mediummultiple choice
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A company is using AWS Systems Manager to automate patching of EC2 instances. The patch baseline includes both security and non-security updates. The Operations team notices that some instances are not patching within the scheduled maintenance window. What is the most likely cause?

Question 181easymultiple choice
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A SAP administrator wants to monitor the CPU utilization of an SAP application server running on an EC2 instance. Which AWS service should be used to set up an alarm when CPU utilization exceeds 90% for 5 minutes?

Question 182hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP HANA on an m5.24xlarge EC2 instance. The instance has an EBS-optimized attachment and a high-performance EBS volume for data. The database team reports that write latency to the data volume is consistently above 5 ms during peak hours. Which action would most effectively reduce write latency?

Question 183mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system is deployed across multiple Availability Zones using an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The Operations team notices that during a failover test, the ALB is sending traffic to unhealthy instances. Which configuration change would ensure the ALB stops sending traffic to unhealthy targets?

Question 184easymultiple choice
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A company wants to automate the backup of SAP HANA databases running on EC2 instances. The backups must be stored in Amazon S3 for long-term retention. Which AWS service can be used to schedule and manage these backups?

Question 185hardmultiple choice
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An organization runs SAP ERP on a single EC2 instance with a separate RDS for Oracle database. The Operations team needs to patch the operating system of the EC2 instance without causing downtime for the SAP application. What is the most effective approach?

Question 186mediummultiple choice
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A company uses Amazon CloudWatch Logs to store SAP application logs. The Security team requires that logs be encrypted at rest using a customer-managed KMS key (CMK). How can this be achieved?

Question 187easymultiple choice
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A SAP administrator needs to grant an IAM user permission to start and stop EC2 instances that are part of an SAP environment. The administrator wants to follow the principle of least privilege. Which IAM policy action should be included?

Question 188mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to distribute traffic to multiple EC2 instances. The Operations team needs to ensure that the NLB only sends traffic to instances that are healthy. Which health check configuration is appropriate for TCP traffic?

Question 189hardmulti select
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Which TWO actions should be taken to securely manage database credentials for an SAP system running on Amazon RDS for Oracle? (Choose 2)

Question 190mediummulti select
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Which THREE AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of an SAP HANA database running on EC2? (Choose 3)

Question 191easymulti select
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Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the deployment of SAP infrastructure using infrastructure as code? (Choose 2)

Question 192mediummultiple choice
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An SAP workload running on AWS is experiencing intermittent performance issues. The operations team suspects that a recent change to a security group is causing traffic to be dropped. Which AWS service should the team use to analyze network traffic patterns and identify the source of the issue?

Question 193hardmultiple choice
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A company runs its SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes striped using LVM. The operations team notices increased latency and wants to ensure consistent I/O performance. What is the MOST effective way to monitor the average queue length of the EBS volumes?

Question 194easymultiple choice
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An SAP system administrator needs to automate the patching of Amazon RDS for SAP ASE databases. Which AWS service can be used to schedule and apply database patches automatically?

Question 195mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system is running on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The operations team needs to ensure that when a new instance is launched, it is automatically registered with the SAP Application Server's load balancer. Which approach should be used?

Question 196hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and uses AWS Backup to back up the HANA database volumes. The backup job fails with an error indicating that the volume is in use. What is the most likely cause of this failure?

Question 197easymultiple choice
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An SAP Basis administrator needs to restart the SAP application server on an EC2 instance after applying kernel patches. What is the recommended way to perform the restart to minimize downtime?

Question 198mediummultiple choice
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A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and wants to set up a disaster recovery (DR) strategy using AWS Regions. The DR site must have a copy of the SAP application and database data. Which solution provides the fastest recovery time objective (RTO) with the lowest data loss?

Question 199hardmultiple choice
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An operations team is troubleshooting a performance issue in an SAP environment where the database server's memory usage is consistently high. The team suspects that the SAP buffer cache is not sized optimally. Which CloudWatch metric should be monitored to confirm this?

Question 200easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to grant an external auditor read-only access to view the configuration of all AWS resources in the account. Which IAM policy should be used?

Question 201mediummulti select
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and wants to implement a backup strategy that ensures point-in-time recovery (PITR) with minimal data loss. Which TWO AWS services should be used?

Question 202hardmulti select
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An SAP environment on AWS includes multiple EC2 instances running SAP application servers. The operations team needs to capture and analyze all API calls made to AWS services by these instances. Which THREE services should be used together?

Question 203easymulti select
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An SAP system administrator needs to monitor the health of Amazon RDS for SAP ASE database instances. Which TWO CloudWatch metrics should be used to detect if the database is under memory pressure?

Question 204hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to a role used by an EC2 instance running SAP. The instance is unable to start or stop other EC2 instances. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

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```
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances",
        "ec2:RebootInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:PutObject"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::sap-backup-bucket/*"
    }
  ]
}
```
Question 205mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command to retrieve the DatabaseConnections metric for an RDS for SAP ASE instance. The output shows a Sum statistic over 5-minute periods. What is the average number of connections per minute during this hour?

Network Topology
$ aws cloudwatch get-metric-statisticsnamespace AWS/RDSmetric-name DatabaseConnectionsdimensions Name=DBInstanceIdentifierstart-time 2024-01-01T00:00:00Zend-time 2024-01-01T01:00:00Zperiod 300statistics SumRefer to the exhibit.```Output:"Label": "DatabaseConnections","Datapoints": ["Timestamp": "2024-01-01T00:05:00Z","Sum": 45.0,"Unit": "Count"},"Timestamp": "2024-01-01T00:10:00Z","Sum": 48.0,"Timestamp": "2024-01-01T00:15:00Z","Sum": 52.0,"Timestamp": "2024-01-01T00:20:00Z","Sum": 50.0,"Timestamp": "2024-01-01T00:25:00Z","Sum": 47.0,"Timestamp": "2024-01-01T00:30:00Z","Sum": 49.0,"Timestamp": "2024-01-01T00:35:00Z","Sum": 51.0,"Timestamp": "2024-01-01T00:40:00Z","Sum": 53.0,"Timestamp": "2024-01-01T00:45:00Z","Timestamp": "2024-01-01T00:50:00Z","Timestamp": "2024-01-01T00:55:00Z",
Question 206hardmultiple choice
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A company runs its SAP S/4HANA system on AWS using a cluster of EC2 instances for the application tier and a single large EC2 instance for the HANA database. The database instance uses EBS volumes striped with LVM for data and log. Recently, the operations team noticed that the database performance has degraded significantly during peak hours. CloudWatch metrics show that the average ReadIOPS for the data volume is consistently at 80% of the provisioned IOPS limit, and the average queue length is above 10. The CPU utilization of the database instance is around 60%, and memory usage is 70%. The team has already verified that there are no network bottlenecks and that the SAP application is not misconfigured. Which of the following is the MOST effective action to improve database performance?

Question 207mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS experiences intermittent performance degradation during peak hours. CloudWatch metrics show high CPU utilization on the application server but normal on the database server. The application server is an m5.2xlarge instance. Which action should the operations team take FIRST to diagnose the issue?

Question 208hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator runs the above CloudWatch Logs Insights query on an application log group. The query returns no results even though the administrator knows there are ERROR messages in the logs. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

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CloudWatch Logs Insights query:
fields @timestamp, @message
| filter @message like /ERROR/
| stats count() by @logStream
| sort count() desc
| limit 10
Question 209easymultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to automate the patching of SAP application servers. The servers are behind an Auto Scaling group. Which AWS service is BEST suited to apply OS patches without downtime?

Question 210mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system fails to send emails via SAPconnect using SMTP. The EC2 instance has a public IP and the security group allows outbound traffic on port 25. The SMTP server is an on-premises relay. What is the most likely reason for the failure?

Question 211hardmultiple choice
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An IAM policy is attached to an IAM role used by an SAP system to perform backups. The policy is shown above. The SAP system can successfully list EC2 instances but fails to start or stop them. What is the most likely cause?

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{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "VisualEditor1",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:PutObject"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::my-sap-backup/*"
    }
  ]
}
Question 212easymultiple choice
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A company wants to monitor the disk space utilization of their SAP application servers. Which AWS service can provide a centralized view of disk space metrics without installing additional agents?

Question 213mediummultiple choice
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An SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes experiences high write latency. The instance type is r5.4xlarge. The EBS volumes are gp2. Which change is MOST likely to reduce write latency?

Question 214hardmultiple choice
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An SAP application server repeatedly logs the error above. The database is an Oracle RDS instance. What is the most likely cause of this error?

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Error log from SAP application server:
[ERROR] DBMS: SQL error: 1003 - 'ORA-01003: no statement parsed'
[ERROR] DBMS: SQL error: 1003 - 'ORA-01003: no statement parsed'
[ERROR] DBMS: SQL error: 1003 - 'ORA-01003: no statement parsed'
Question 215easymultiple choice
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An administrator needs to restore an SAP HANA database from a backup stored in Amazon S3. The backup was created using AWS Backup. Which AWS service should be used to perform the restore?

Question 216mediummulti select
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Which TWO actions should be taken to improve the high availability of a single-instance SAP HANA database running on EC2? (Choose two.)

Question 217hardmulti select
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An administrator deploys the CloudFormation stack above. The EC2 instance launches but the s3fs mount fails. Which TWO actions are needed to fix the issue? (Choose two.)

Exhibit

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CloudFormation template snippet:
Resources:
  SAPApplicationServer:
    Type: AWS::EC2::Instance
    Properties:
      InstanceType: m5.large
      ImageId: ami-0abcdef1234567890
      SecurityGroupIds:
        - !Ref SecurityGroup
      UserData:
        Fn::Base64: !Sub |
          #!/bin/bash
          yum install -y s3fs-fuse
          mkdir /mnt/sap
          s3fs my-sap-bucket /mnt/sap
      Tags:
        - Key: Name
          Value: SAP-APP
Question 218easymulti select
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Which THREE metrics should be monitored to ensure the health of an SAP NetWeaver application server? (Choose three.)

Question 219hardmultiple choice
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A company runs a critical SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. The system uses an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with EBS storage. The operations team receives an alert that the database is running out of disk space on the /hana/data volume. The current configuration uses a single 2 TB gp2 EBS volume for /hana/data, which is 85% full. The team needs to resolve the immediate space issue and also plan for future growth. The database is in production and cannot tolerate downtime. The team has enabled Multi-Attach on the volume. Which course of action should the team take?

Question 220mediummultiple choice
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An SAP Basis administrator notices that the SAP system's response time is increasing during peak hours. The system uses an SAP NetWeaver application server on EC2 and an SAP HANA database on a separate EC2 instance. CloudWatch metrics show that the application server's CPU utilization is at 80% and the database server's CPU is at 30%. The application server is an m5.2xlarge, and the database is an r5.2xlarge. The administrator checks the SAP work process overview and sees that all dialog work processes are busy. What should the administrator do to resolve the performance issue?

Question 221hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS with a distributed system: an SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance, a primary application server (PAS), and additional dialog instances (DI). All instances are in a single Availability Zone. The company wants to implement high availability for the ASCS instance using a shared filesystem for the /sapmnt directory. The ASCS instance uses a single EBS volume for /sapmnt. The operations team plans to use a Network File System (NFS) solution to share /sapmnt between instances. Which approach should the team use to achieve a highly available shared filesystem?

Question 222mediummultiple choice
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A company is running a production SAP HANA database on an AWS EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes. The operations team notices that the database performance degrades during peak hours. Which AWS service can be used to analyze the disk I/O performance and identify bottlenecks?

Question 223hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator receives an alert that the SAP application server is not responding. The administrator checks the EC2 console and sees that the instance state is 'running' but the status checks have failed. Which step should be taken first to restore the SAP application?

Question 224easymultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application logs are centrally collected and analyzed for security incidents. Which AWS service should be used to collect and store the logs from EC2 instances?

Question 225mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system is running on an EC2 instance with an attached EBS volume for /usr/sap. The operations team notices that the volume is almost full. Which action should be taken to increase the available space without downtime?

Question 226hardmultiple choice
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A company is using SAP HANA in a multi-node scale-out configuration on AWS. The operations team needs to automate the patching of the operating system on all nodes with minimal downtime. Which approach is most suitable?

Question 227mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system is experiencing high CPU utilization on the application server. The administrator wants to automatically scale the EC2 instance based on CPU usage. Which AWS service should be used?

Question 228easymultiple choice
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A company wants to automate the backup of SAP HANA databases running on AWS. Which combination of AWS services is suitable for this task?

Question 229hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues between the application server and the database server. Both servers are in the same VPC but different subnets. The security groups and network ACLs are correctly configured. Which AWS service can help diagnose the network path and identify packet loss?

Question 230mediummultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to ensure that the system meets the SLA for availability. The operations team needs to monitor the health of the SAP application stack (ASCS, PAS, DB). Which AWS service can provide a centralized dashboard to visualize the health and performance metrics?

Question 231mediummulti select
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Which TWO actions are recommended to ensure high availability for SAP NetWeaver on AWS? (Choose 2).

Question 232hardmulti select
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Which THREE steps should be taken to monitor the performance of an SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose 3).

Question 233mediummulti select
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Which THREE AWS services can be used to automate the patching of SAP application servers on EC2? (Choose 3).

Question 234hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator created the IAM policy shown for a backup script. The script fails when trying to upload a backup to S3. What is the likely cause?

Exhibit

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```
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "s3:*",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::sap-backup-bucket/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:Describe*",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "kms:Decrypt",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789012:key/abcd1234-a123-456a-a12b-a123b4cd56ef"
    }
  ]
}
```
Question 235hardmultiple choice
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A company runs a critical SAP ERP system on AWS. The system consists of a single EC2 instance running SAP NetWeaver with an Oracle database on the same instance. The instance type is r5.4xlarge with 500 GB gp2 EBS volume for the database. The operations team receives a CloudWatch alarm that the EBS volume's 'BurstBalance' metric has dropped to 0%. Consequently, the database performance degrades significantly. The team needs to resolve the issue and prevent recurrence. The SAP system cannot tolerate more than 10 minutes of downtime. The budget is limited. Which action should the team take?

Question 236hardmultiple choice
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A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the central services (ASCS and ERS). The architecture uses two EC2 instances in different Availability Zones with a shared file system using Amazon EFS for /sapmnt. The SAP system is configured with an enqueue replication server. The operations team needs to automate the failover of the ASCS instance in case of a failure. The team is considering using AWS services for this purpose. Which approach should the team use?

Question 237mediummultiple choice
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A company runs a production SAP HANA database on AWS using an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The database is experiencing high latency during peak hours. The operations team needs to identify the root cause. Which steps should the team take to diagnose the issue?

Question 238easymultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS is configured with a Multi-AZ deployment for high availability. During a failover test, the operations team notices that the secondary instance does not take over correctly. What is the most likely cause?

Question 239hardmultiple choice
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A company has an SAP S/4HANA system running on AWS with a custom backup solution that uses AWS Backup. The backup policy includes daily backups with a retention of 30 days. The operations team notices that backup jobs for the SAP application server are failing intermittently. What should the team do to troubleshoot the issue?

Question 240mediummultiple choice
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An operations team is responsible for patching the operating system of SAP EC2 instances. They want to automate the patching process while minimizing downtime. Which approach should they use?

Question 241easymultiple choice
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A company runs its SAP landscape on AWS and uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to multiple web dispatchers. The operations team notices that some requests are failing with 503 errors. What is the most likely cause?

Question 242mediummulti select
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An SAP system administrator needs to monitor the CPU and memory utilization of SAP EC2 instances. Which TWO AWS services can be used to collect and visualize these metrics? (Choose TWO.)

Question 243hardmulti select
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An operations team is planning a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for an SAP system on AWS. The system includes SAP HANA database and application servers. The DR site must have a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. Which THREE components are essential for this DR strategy? (Choose THREE.)

Question 244easymulti select
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An SAP Basis administrator needs to apply security patches to the operating system of SAP EC2 instances. The administrator wants to use AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager. Which THREE steps are required to set up patching? (Choose THREE.)

Question 245mediummulti select
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A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to implement a centralized logging solution for all SAP components. The solution must be scalable and cost-effective. Which TWO services should the company use? (Choose TWO.)

Question 246mediummultiple choice
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An operations team uses this IAM policy for a role assumed by SAP administrators. An administrator tries to stop a production SAP HANA instance in the us-west-2 region but receives an access denied error. What is the cause?

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{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:instance/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/Environment": "production"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "Action": "*",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringNotEquals": {
          "aws:RequestedRegion": "us-east-1"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
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An SAP HANA database administrator reviews the above CLI output for a data volume. The database team reports high write latency. What is the most likely performance bottleneck?

Network Topology
$ aws ec2 describe-volumesvolume-ids vol-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890Refer to the exhibit."Volumes": ["Attachments": ["AttachTime": "2023-01-15T10:00:00.000Z","Device": "/dev/xvdf","InstanceId": "i-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890","State": "attached","VolumeId": "vol-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890","DeleteOnTermination": true],"AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1a","CreateTime": "2023-01-15T09:00:00.000Z","Encrypted": false,"Size": 500,"SnapshotId": "snap-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890","State": "in-use","VolumeType": "io1","Iops": 10000
Question 248easymultiple choice
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An operations team receives an alert that an SAP application server EC2 instance is unreachable. The team checks the AWS Management Console and sees that the instance status check shows "Instance reachability check failed". What is the most likely cause?

Question 249hardmultiple choice
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A company runs its SAP S/4HANA system on AWS with a production environment consisting of a primary SAP HANA database on an r5.8xlarge instance and a secondary HANA instance for high availability in a different Availability Zone. The application tier includes multiple EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The operations team uses AWS Backup to create nightly snapshots of the HANA data volumes and stores them in a separate backup vault. Recently, a storage administrator accidentally deleted a critical SAP transport file from the HANA primary instance. The team needs to restore the file as quickly as possible with minimal data loss. The last backup completed 6 hours ago, and the file was deleted 2 hours ago. The team has enabled HANA backup logging to S3 every 30 minutes. Which option provides the fastest recovery with minimal data loss?

Question 250mediummultiple choice
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An operations team manages an SAP ERP system on AWS that uses a single EC2 instance for the SAP central services (SCS) and multiple instances for application servers. The system is running in a VPC with both public and private subnets. The team notices that the SCS instance is unreachable from the application servers after a maintenance window where network ACLs were updated. The application servers are in private subnets, and the SCS instance is in a public subnet. The team has verified that the security groups allow the required traffic. Which step should the team take to resolve the connectivity issue?

Question 251easymultiple choice
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A company has an SAP system running on AWS with a production database on an RDS for SAP ASE instance. The operations team needs to perform a minor version upgrade of the database engine. The upgrade must be applied with minimal downtime. The team has a maintenance window scheduled for the upcoming weekend. Which action should the team take to apply the upgrade?

Question 252mediummultiple choice
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A company runs its SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance in a single Availability Zone. The system is critical and requires high availability. The current setup uses an EBS volume for data storage. During a recent failure simulation, the database took 45 minutes to recover because the EBS volume had to be reattached and the database had to replay logs. The operations team wants to reduce recovery time to less than 15 minutes. Which solution should they implement?

Question 253hardmultiple choice
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An SAP Basis administrator notices that the SAP application server logs show repeated connection timeouts to the database. The database is running on an RDS for SAP HANA instance. The application server and database are in the same VPC but different subnets. The security groups allow inbound traffic from the application server's security group on port 3xx17. Network ACLs allow both inbound and outbound traffic on ephemeral ports. Despite this, connections fail intermittently. What is the most likely cause?

Question 254easymultiple choice
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A company is running SAP ERP on AWS using an SAP-certified AMI. The system uses a single EC2 instance for both the application and database. The operations team needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) solution with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 hour. The DR site must be in a different AWS Region. Currently, the system uses EBS snapshots for backup. What should the team do to meet the RTO and RPO requirements?

Question 255mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system running on AWS uses a Multi-AZ deployment with an Application Load Balancer (ALB) distributing traffic across two application servers in different Availability Zones. The ALB health checks are configured to check the /sap/public/health endpoint on each instance. Recently, the operations team noticed that one of the instances is being marked as unhealthy intermittently, causing a slight increase in response times. The instance's CPU utilization is under 40%, memory is sufficient, and the health endpoint returns a 200 OK status when tested manually. What is the most likely cause?

Question 256hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP BusinessObjects on AWS. The system includes a web application server and a CMS database on separate EC2 instances. The operations team receives alerts that the CMS database server's EBS volume is approaching its maximum capacity. The volume is a gp3 EBS volume with 3000 IOPS and 125 MB/s throughput. Upon investigation, the team finds that the volume is 90% full and write performance has degraded. The application is experiencing slow response times. What should the team do to resolve the issue without downtime?

Question 257mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS uses an Auto Scaling group for the application tier. The scaling policy is based on the average CPU utilization of the EC2 instances. During peak hours, the system scales out, but the new instances take a long time to become available because they need to install SAP software and configure them. This delay causes performance degradation. The operations team wants to reduce the time to scale out. Which solution should they implement?

Question 258easymultiple choice
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A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS with an RDS for SAP HANA database. The operations team needs to perform a minor version upgrade of the database. They want to minimize downtime and ensure that the upgrade can be rolled back if needed. What should they do?

Question 259hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS uses a shared file system for the SAP transport directory. The file system is hosted on an Amazon EFS file system. Recently, the operations team noticed that SAP transports are failing with errors indicating file locking issues. The EFS file system is mounted using the NFS client with default options. What is the most likely cause of the file locking issues?

Question 260mediummultiple choice
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A company has an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes striped using LVM. The database is experiencing high latency during peak hours. Monitoring shows that the EBS volumes have a high Average Queue Length (avgqueue) and are frequently hitting the IOPS limit. The volumes are gp2 with 3000 IOPS each. The operations team wants to improve performance without increasing storage size. What should they do?

Question 261easymultiple choice
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An SAP system administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance running SAP NetWeaver. The administrator wants to receive an alert when the CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used to create this alarm?

Question 262hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP ERP on AWS with a two-tier architecture: application and database on the same EC2 instance. The instance is part of an Auto Scaling group with a minimum of 1 and maximum of 1, so it's effectively a single instance. The operations team wants to implement a patching strategy for the operating system that minimizes downtime. They need to apply security patches quarterly. Which approach should they take?

Question 263mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system uses a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to distribute traffic to SAP application servers. The application servers are in private subnets. The operations team notices that the health checks are failing for one of the application servers. The health check is configured to use TCP on port 3200. The application server's security group allows inbound traffic on port 3200 from the NLB's subnet CIDR. The network ACL allows inbound and outbound traffic on ephemeral ports. What is the most likely cause of the health check failure?

Question 264easymultiple choice
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A company has an SAP HANA database running on an RDS for SAP HANA instance. The operations team wants to automate the backup process and retain backups for 90 days. Which AWS service should they use?

Question 265hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS uses a Multi-AZ deployment for the database layer with synchronous replication. The application servers are in the same region but different Availability Zones. During a recent failure of the primary database instance, the automatic failover to the standby instance took longer than expected, exceeding the RTO of 5 minutes. Upon investigation, the team finds that the standby instance was not fully synchronized at the time of failure. What could be the cause?

Question 266mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to a fleet of EC2 instances running SAP Web Dispatcher. The ALB has a target group with health checks configured on port 8080. Recently, the operations team noticed that some instances are being deregistered due to health check failures. The instances are healthy and the Web Dispatcher is running. The health check response time is consistently below 2 seconds. What is the most likely cause?

Question 267mediummultiple choice
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A company runs a critical SAP application on an SAP HANA database on AWS. The database is backed up daily to Amazon S3. The company needs to ensure that the database can be restored to a point in time within the last 24 hours with minimal data loss. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this requirement?

Question 268hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system administrator notices that an SAP HANA database on AWS is experiencing high memory usage and slow query performance. The administrator wants to identify the root cause. Which Amazon CloudWatch metric should be analyzed first?

Question 269easymultiple choice
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A company is migrating its SAP landscape to AWS and wants to automate the deployment of SAP applications using infrastructure as code. Which AWS service should the company use to define and provision the AWS infrastructure?

Question 270mediummultiple choice
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An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a high CPU utilization issue on an SAP application server running on an Amazon EC2 instance. The administrator suspects a specific ABAP program is consuming excessive resources. Which AWS service can be used to capture detailed performance metrics and identify the process?

Question 271hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP S/4HANA in a multi-AZ deployment with a standby database in a different Availability Zone. The primary database fails. What is the expected behavior of the SAP HANA system replication?

Question 272easymultiple choice
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An SAP system administrator needs to apply an operating system patch to an Amazon EC2 instance running SAP NetWeaver. The instance is part of an Auto Scaling group. What is the BEST approach to minimize downtime?

Question 273mediummultiple choice
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A company uses AWS Systems Manager to automate patching of SAP EC2 instances. The patching fails for some instances with the error 'SSM Agent not running'. What should the administrator do to resolve this?

Question 274hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator notices that the /hana/data filesystem on an SAP HANA database is approaching 95% utilization. The HANA instance uses EBS gp3 volumes. What is the MOST efficient way to increase storage without downtime?

Question 275easymultiple choice
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A company wants to ensure that its SAP systems on AWS are compliant with internal security policies. Which AWS service can be used to continuously monitor and evaluate resource configurations?

Question 276mediummulti select
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Which TWO actions can be taken to improve the resilience of an SAP HANA database running on AWS? (Choose two.)

Question 277hardmulti select
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Which THREE metrics should be monitored in Amazon CloudWatch to proactively identify performance issues in an SAP NetWeaver application server? (Choose three.)

Question 278mediummulti select
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Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the patching of SAP EC2 instances? (Choose two.)

Question 279easymultiple choice
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A company runs a critical SAP application on AWS. The operations team needs to monitor the system for performance issues and receive alerts when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used to set up this monitoring and alerting?

Question 280mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system is running on AWS with a Multi-AZ RDS for SAP HANA database. The operations team notices that the database failover test takes longer than expected. What is the most likely cause of the prolonged failover time?

Question 281hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to a fleet of EC2 instances running SAP Web Dispatcher. The operations team notices that some instances are failing health checks intermittently. The ALB health check is configured with a 5-second interval, 2 healthy threshold, and 5 unhealthy threshold. The instances are all in the same Auto Scaling group. What is the most likely cause of the intermittent health check failures?

Question 282easymultiple choice
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An operations team needs to automate the patching of EC2 instances running SAP applications. The instances are part of an Auto Scaling group. The team wants to apply patches without causing downtime to the SAP system. Which approach should they use?

Question 283mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS using EC2 instances with HANA data replication between two Availability Zones. The operations team needs to test a disaster recovery failover. What is the correct procedure to promote the secondary HANA system to primary?

Question 284hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS is experiencing increased latency in database queries. The operations team suspects that the RDS for Oracle instance is hitting its maximum connections limit. Which CloudWatch metric should be monitored to confirm this?

Question 285easymultiple choice
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An operations team needs to back up the SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The database is 1 TB in size and the team wants to minimize backup time and cost. Which backup strategy should they use?

Question 286mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses AWS Direct Connect for on-premises connectivity. The operations team notices that the SAP system is experiencing high latency when accessing an on-premises database. The network team confirms that the Direct Connect link is not saturated. What is the most likely cause of the high latency?

Question 287hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS uses a shared file system with Amazon EFS. The operations team notices that file operations have high latency during peak hours. The EFS file system is configured with Bursting Throughput mode. The team monitors the CloudWatch metric PercentIOLimit and sees it consistently at 100%. What should the team do to improve performance?

Question 288mediummulti select
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An operations team is troubleshooting an issue where an SAP application is unable to connect to an RDS for SQL Server database. The database is in a private subnet, and the application is in a public subnet. Which TWO actions should the team take to resolve the connectivity issue? (Choose TWO.)

Question 289hardmulti select
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to a fleet of EC2 instances running SAP Web Dispatcher. The operations team needs to implement a health check that verifies the Web Dispatcher is ready to accept traffic. Which THREE configuration options should the team set for the health check? (Choose THREE.)

Question 290easymulti select
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An operations team needs to monitor the performance of an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. Which THREE CloudWatch metrics should the team monitor to ensure the database is not resource-constrained? (Choose THREE.)

Question 291mediummultiple choice
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The operations team uses the IAM policy above for a group of administrators. An administrator tries to terminate an EC2 instance that is tagged with Environment=Production. What will happen?

Exhibit

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{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "Action": "ec2:TerminateInstances",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringNotEquals": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/Environment": "Production"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
Question 292hardmultiple choice
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An operations engineer runs the AWS CLI command above to check the state of an EC2 instance. The output shows the instance is running. However, the SAP application cannot connect to the instance. The security group allows inbound traffic on port 443 from the application's IP. What is the most likely cause of the connectivity issue?

Network Topology
$ aws ec2 describe-instancesinstance-ids i-1234567890abcdef0query 'Reservations[0].Instances[0].State'Refer to the exhibit."Code": 16,"Name": "running"
Question 293easymultiple choice
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The operations team deploys the CloudFormation template above. After the stack creation completes, the EC2 instance is launched but the SAP application is not running. What is the most likely reason?

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{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Resources": {
    "SAPApplicationServer": {
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::Instance",
      "Properties": {
        "ImageId": "ami-0abcdef1234567890",
        "InstanceType": "r5.2xlarge",
        "SecurityGroupIds": ["sg-0123456789abcdef0"],
        "UserData": {
          "Fn::Base64": "#!/bin/bash\n yum install -y httpd"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
Question 294mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and notices that the SAP application performance degrades during peak hours. The system uses a db.r5.4xlarge RDS for SAP HANA database. Which AWS service should be used to analyze the database performance metrics and identify bottlenecks?

Question 295hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to ensure that a critical SAP system on AWS is highly available with automatic failover across Availability Zones. The system uses an SAP HANA database with replication. Which configuration meets these requirements with minimal operational overhead?

Question 296easymultiple choice
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A company wants to automate the backup of their SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The backup should be stored in Amazon S3 and retained for 30 days. Which AWS service can be used to schedule and manage these backups?

Question 297mediummultiple choice
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An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance is running out of memory frequently. The instance type is r5.4xlarge with 128 GiB of memory. Which action should the administrator take to resolve this issue?

Question 298hardmultiple choice
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A company runs an SAP system on AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that provides a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. Which approach meets these requirements?

Question 299easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance running SAP NetWeaver. The administrator wants to receive an alert when CPU utilization exceeds 90% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used?

Question 300mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to reduce costs for non-production environments that are used only during business hours (8 AM to 6 PM). Which action should the administrator take to minimize costs without losing data?

Question 301hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency between the application server and the database server. Both servers are in the same VPC but in different Availability Zones. Which action should the administrator take to reduce latency?

Question 302easymultiple choice
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A company needs to ensure that only authorized users can access the SAP S/4HANA system running on AWS. Which AWS service can be used to manage user identities and permissions?

Question 303mediummulti select
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Which TWO actions should an SAP administrator take to ensure high availability for an SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose two.)

Question 304hardmulti select
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Which THREE AWS services can be used to monitor and log SAP system activities for security and compliance? (Choose three.)

Question 305easymulti select
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Which TWO Amazon EBS volume types are recommended for SAP HANA database workloads? (Choose two.)

Question 306mediummultiple choice
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A company is running an SAP application on an SAP HANA database in a multi-AZ deployment on AWS. The operations team notices that the system is experiencing high latency during peak hours. Upon investigation, they find that the EBS volumes attached to the HANA instances are frequently exceeding the provisioned IOPS limit. Which of the following is the MOST effective action to resolve this issue?

Question 307hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a failed backup of an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The backup is configured to use AWS Backup with a backup vault. The error log shows: 'AccessDenied: User: arn:aws:sts::123456789012:assumed-role/AWSBackupRole/backup-job is not authorized to perform: kms:Decrypt on resource: arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789012:key/abcd1234-...' Which IAM policy modification is required to resolve this issue?

Question 308easymultiple choice
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A company has an SAP system running on AWS that uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to multiple EC2 instances. The operations team notices that the ALB is returning 503 errors intermittently. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question 309mediummultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for SAP HANA with an RTO of 2 hours and RPO of 15 minutes. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. The system uses SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) for data replication. Which AWS service should be used to automate failover and minimize downtime?

Question 310hardmultiple choice
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A company is running SAP ERP on a single EC2 instance with an SAP HANA database. The operations team receives an alert that the /hana/data filesystem is 85% full. The filesystem is mounted from an EBS volume. Which of the following actions should be taken to resolve the issue with MINIMAL downtime?

Question 311easymultiple choice
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An SAP Basis administrator needs to monitor the performance of SAP HANA database using Amazon CloudWatch. Which of the following metrics should be monitored to detect potential CPU bottlenecks?

Question 312mediummultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to implement a patching strategy for the operating system of EC2 instances with minimal downtime. The instances are part of an Auto Scaling group. Which of the following approaches is the MOST appropriate?

Question 313hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator notices that the sapstartsrv process on an EC2 instance is failing to start after a system reboot. The instance is running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for SAP Applications. Which of the following log files should be examined FIRST to diagnose the issue?

Question 314easymultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to automate the creation of consistent snapshots of EBS volumes attached to SAP HANA instances. Which AWS service is BEST suited for this task?

Question 315mediummulti select
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An SAP administrator is setting up monitoring for SAP HANA using Amazon CloudWatch. Which TWO metrics are available from the SAP HANA CloudWatch integration?

Question 316hardmulti select
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A company is running SAP on AWS and uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to SAP Web Dispatchers. The operations team notices that some requests are failing with 502 errors. Which THREE actions should be taken to troubleshoot the issue?

Question 317easymulti select
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Which TWO of the following are best practices for operating SAP HANA on AWS?

Question 318mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator is creating an IAM policy for an automated backup script that creates EBS snapshots of SAP HANA volumes. The script also needs to tag the snapshots. However, when the script runs, it fails with an authorization error. What is the missing permission?

Exhibit

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:CreateSnapshot",
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "kms:Decrypt",
        "kms:GenerateDataKey"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789012:key/abcd1234-..."
    }
  ]
}
Question 319hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An SAP HANA database backup fails with the error shown. The backup target is an EFS file system mounted at /backup. The EC2 instance has the appropriate IAM role to access EFS. What is the MOST likely cause of this error?

Exhibit

HANA_LOG: 2023-10-05 14:30:00.123456+00:00 - ERROR - Backup (sys) failed: [447] backup could not be completed: [11078] backup could not be completed because of internal error: [100] Cannot access /backup/hana/COMPLETE_DATA_BACKUP_0.dat: Permission denied
Question 320easymultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator is configuring Route 53 to point a custom domain name to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that fronts SAP Web Dispatchers. The record set is configured as shown. However, when users access sap.example.com, they receive a 503 error. What is the MOST likely cause?

Exhibit

ResourceRecordSet: {
  Name: "sap.example.com.",
  Type: "A",
  AliasTarget: {
    HostedZoneId: "Z2FDTNDATAQYW2",
    DNSName: "dualstack.my-alb-1234567890.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com.",
    EvaluateTargetHealth: true
  }
}
Question 321mediummultiple choice
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A company is running a production SAP HANA database on an r5.4xlarge EC2 instance with EBS-backed storage. The operations team notices that the database checkpoint writes are frequently slow, causing application performance degradation. The team has already increased the EBS IOPS and throughput. What should the team do next to improve checkpoint write performance?

Question 322easymultiple choice
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An SAP NetWeaver administrator needs to patch the operating system of an SAP application server running in an Auto Scaling group. The instances are behind an Application Load Balancer. What is the correct procedure to minimize downtime?

Question 323hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP S/4HANA in a multi-AZ deployment with a primary and standby database. During a planned failover test, the database fails over but the SAP system becomes unresponsive. Investigation reveals that the SAP application servers cannot connect to the new primary database because the database VIP is not updated. What is the most likely cause?

Question 324easymultiple choice
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An SAP Basis administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of all EC2 instances running SAP applications. The team wants to receive alerts when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used to set up this monitoring and alerting?

Question 325mediummultiple choice
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A company has an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The operations team needs to ensure that database backups are stored in Amazon S3 and are automatically deleted after 90 days. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

Question 326hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS using a multi-AZ deployment. The database is an SAP HANA system replicated across two Availability Zones. During a recent failure, the standby HANA instance did not take over automatically. The operations team finds that the HANA replication status was 'ERROR' before the failure. What is the most likely reason for the failed takeover?

Question 327easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to restore an SAP HANA database from a backup stored in Amazon S3. The backup was created using AWS Backup. What is the required IAM permission for the restore operation?

Question 328mediummultiple choice
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A company is running SAP Business Suite on AWS with a Microsoft SQL Server database. The operations team needs to implement automated database backups with point-in-time recovery. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this?

Question 329hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing high memory utilization on the application server. The team suspects a memory leak in the SAP ABAP application. Which tool or process should be used to identify the root cause?

Question 330mediummulti select
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Which TWO of the following are valid methods to monitor the health of an SAP HANA database running on AWS?

Question 331hardmulti select
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Which THREE of the following are best practices for operating an SAP HANA database on AWS in a production environment?

Question 332easymulti select
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Which TWO of the following AWS services can be used to create and manage SAP system backups in an automated manner?

Question 333mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator has created this IAM policy for a backup user. The user can list and download backups but cannot delete them. However, the user is unable to list the objects in the bucket. What is the most likely cause?

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{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "s3:ListBucket",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::sap-backup-bucket"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "s3:GetObject",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::sap-backup-bucket/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "Action": "s3:DeleteObject",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::sap-backup-bucket/*"
    }
  ]
}
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Refer to the exhibit. An administrator has run a query to check the backup status of an SAP HANA database. The output shows that the backup on January 17 failed. What is the most appropriate next step?

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# hdbsql -U backupuser -d SYSTEMDB -j "SELECT * FROM M_BACKUP_CATALOG WHERE ENTRY_TYPE_NAME = 'complete data backup' ORDER BY UTC_END_TIME DESC"

BACKUP_ID | UTC_END_TIME          | STATE_NAME
123       | 2023-01-15 03:00:00   | successful
124       | 2023-01-16 03:00:00   | successful
125       | 2023-01-17 03:00:00   | failed
126       | 2023-01-18 03:00:00   | successful
Question 335easymultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator has created this CloudFormation snippet to create a Route 53 record for an SAP system. The record is intended to point to an Application Load Balancer. What is a potential issue with this configuration?

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ResourceRecordSet:
  Type: AWS::Route53::RecordSet
  Properties:
    HostedZoneId: Z3AADJGX6KTTL2
    Name: sap.example.com.
    Type: CNAME
    TTL: 60
    ResourceRecords:
      - sap-alb-1234567890.elb.amazonaws.com
Question 336mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS using an SAP HANA database on an R5.8xlarge EC2 instance. The SAP application generates alerts about high disk I/O latency. Which AWS service should the administrator use to identify the root cause?

Question 337easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to apply an OS security patch to all SAP application servers running on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The patch requires a reboot. What is the most efficient way to apply the patch with minimal downtime?

Question 338hardmultiple choice
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A company uses SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a multi-AZ deployment. The primary database is in us-east-1a and the secondary in us-east-1b. During a failover test, the secondary database becomes active but performance degrades significantly. Which configuration is most likely causing the performance issue?

Question 339mediummultiple choice
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An SAP administrator notices that the /usr/sap directory on an EC2 instance is filling up. The instance is part of an SAP application server cluster. Which AWS service can be used to add additional storage without downtime?

Question 340easymultiple choice
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A company wants to automate the backup of SAP HANA database on AWS. Which AWS service is best suited for creating consistent snapshots of HANA data volumes?

Question 341mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and has configured a cross-region DR strategy using Amazon EBS snapshots. The DR region is in us-west-2. After a region-wide outage, the administrator attempts to restore the snapshots but finds the latest snapshot is incomplete. What is the most likely cause?

Question 342hardmultiple choice
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An SAP on AWS environment uses a shared file system via Amazon EFS for SAP transport files. The EFS file system is mounted on multiple EC2 instances. Users report that file operations are slow during peak hours. Which action should be taken to improve performance?

Question 343mediummultiple choice
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An SAP administrator receives an alert that the HANA database has switched to read-only mode. The administrator checks the disk space and finds that the /hana/data volume is 100% full. What is the most efficient way to resolve this issue?

Question 344hardmultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. They have set up a cluster using Amazon Route 53 with health checks. During a failover test, the ASCS instance fails but the DNS record does not update immediately. What is the most likely cause?

Question 345mediummulti select
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Which TWO of the following are best practices for monitoring SAP on AWS? (Choose 2)

Question 346hardmulti select
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Which THREE actions should be taken to ensure a secure and compliant SAP environment on AWS? (Choose 3)

Question 347easymulti select
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Which TWO options are valid methods to back up an SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose 2)

Question 348mediummultiple choice
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A company is running an SAP HANA database on a single EC2 instance. The operations team notices that the instance is running low on memory, which is causing performance degradation. The team needs to increase memory without downtime. Which solution should they use?

Question 349hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS using an SAP HANA multi-node cluster. The operations team needs to apply an OS-level security patch that requires a reboot. How can they minimize downtime?

Question 350easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an SAP application server EC2 instance and send an alert if it exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used?

Question 351mediummultiple choice
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A company is migrating its SAP environment to AWS. The operations team needs to ensure that all changes to the SAP infrastructure are tracked and that unauthorized changes are detected. Which AWS service should they use?

Question 352hardmultiple choice
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An SAP HANA database on AWS is experiencing high latency. The operations team suspects a network bottleneck. The SAP application and HANA are on different subnets within the same VPC. Which AWS feature can help reduce latency?

Question 353easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to back up the SAP HANA database daily. The backups must be stored securely and retained for 30 days. Which storage option is the most cost-effective?

Question 354mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a central syslog server to collect logs from all SAP instances. The operations team wants to use a managed AWS service to centralize log storage and enable real-time analysis. Which service should they use?

Question 355hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS is experiencing performance issues during peak hours. The operations team notices that the EBS volumes are consistently showing high queue depth. What should they do to improve performance?

Question 356easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to ensure that all API calls made to AWS services are logged for auditing purposes. Which AWS service should be enabled?

Question 357mediummulti select
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A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which TWO actions should they take?

Question 358hardmulti select
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An SAP system on AWS is running on a single Availability Zone. The operations team wants to improve high availability. Which THREE actions should they take?

Question 359easymulti select
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An SAP administrator wants to automate the patching of SAP application servers. Which TWO AWS services can be used together to achieve this?

Question 360mediummultiple choice
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A company is running SAP HANA on AWS. The system administrator notices that the SAP HANA database is frequently running out of memory, causing performance degradation. Which AWS service should the administrator use to set up memory usage alarms and automate scaling of the SAP HANA instance?

Question 361easymultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for their SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. They plan to use a multi-AZ deployment with a floating IP. Which AWS service should they use to manage the floating IP and failover?

Question 362hardmultiple choice
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A company is running an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. During a planned maintenance window, the operations team needs to apply an SAP kernel patch that requires stopping all SAP instances. Which AWS service can be used to orchestrate the stop/start sequence of multiple EC2 instances and ensure proper dependencies are maintained?

Question 363mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and wants to implement a backup strategy using AWS Backint agent for SAP HANA. Which storage service is best suited for storing the backup files when using Backint?

Question 364hardmultiple choice
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An SAP Basis administrator is troubleshooting a slow-running SAP HANA query. The administrator wants to identify which SQL statements are consuming the most CPU time in the HANA database. Which SAP HANA view or tool should they query?

Question 365easymultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to automatically recover an unhealthy EC2 instance that hosts their SAP application. Which AWS feature should they configure to automatically restart the instance in the same Availability Zone if it fails?

Question 366mediummultiple choice
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An AWS administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance running SAP NetWeaver. The instance type is r5.2xlarge. Which CloudWatch metric should the administrator use to track the CPU usage of the instance?

Question 367hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and needs to perform a system copy from production to a test environment. The test environment is in a different AWS account. Which AWS service can be used to securely share the HANA backup files stored in Amazon S3 across accounts?

Question 368easymultiple choice
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An organization runs SAP on AWS and needs to ensure that their SAP HANA database backups are encrypted at rest. Which AWS service should they use to manage the encryption keys?

Question 369mediummultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to reduce the cost of their development and test systems. The systems are only needed during business hours on weekdays. Which AWS service can be used to automatically stop and start the EC2 instances on a schedule?

Question 370mediummulti select
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy. The DR site must have a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 30 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. Which two AWS services should be used together to achieve these objectives? (Choose TWO.)

Question 371hardmulti select
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An SAP administrator is troubleshooting an issue where the SAP system is not responding. The administrator checks the AWS Management Console and finds that the EC2 instance status checks are failing. Which three actions should the administrator take to recover the instance? (Choose THREE.)

Question 372easymulti select
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A company is planning to run SAP HANA on AWS. Which three are best practices for configuring the EC2 instance for SAP HANA? (Choose THREE.)

Question 373hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator attaches this IAM policy to a user. The user is unable to start an EC2 instance with ID i-0abcdef1234567890. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

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{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances",
        "ec2:RebootInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:instance/i-0abcdef1234567890"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}
Question 374mediummultiple choice
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A company runs an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The operations team needs to ensure that snapshots of the database volumes are consistent. Which step should be taken before initiating the EBS snapshot?

Question 375hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system uses a shared file system mounted via EFS from multiple EC2 instances. The operations team notices that the file system is not performing well during peak loads. What is the most effective way to improve throughput without changing the application?

Question 376easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance running SAP HANA. Which AWS service should be used to set an alarm when CPU utilization exceeds 90% for 5 minutes?

Question 377mediummultiple choice
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A company has an SAP landscape with multiple instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The operations team needs to ensure that the ALB targets are deregistered before an instance is terminated during a patching activity. Which AWS service can automate this?

Question 378hardmultiple choice
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During an SAP system refresh, the operations team needs to restore an SAP HANA database from an S3 backup to a new EC2 instance. The backup was created using SAP HANA Backint. Which AWS service is required to read the backup from S3?

Question 379easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to review API calls made by a user who accidentally deleted an S3 bucket used for SAP backups. Which AWS service provides a record of these API calls?

Question 380mediummultiple choice
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A company uses SAP NetWeaver with an Oracle database on EC2. The operations team wants to automate the patching of the operating system while ensuring minimal downtime. Which AWS Systems Manager capability should be used?

Question 381hardmultiple choice
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An SAP HANA database on EC2 is experiencing high swap usage. The system administrator suspects that the memory configuration is insufficient. Which CloudWatch metric should be monitored to confirm this?

Question 382easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to ensure that an EC2 instance hosting SAP HANA is rebooted automatically after a hardware failure. Which AWS feature provides this capability?

Question 383mediummulti select
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Which TWO tasks require the use of AWS Systems Manager Session Manager? (Choose TWO.)

Question 384hardmulti select
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Which THREE are valid steps when performing a cross-Region disaster recovery failover for SAP HANA using AWS? (Choose THREE.)

Question 385easymulti select
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Which TWO services can be used to centrally manage and enforce backup policies for SAP systems on AWS? (Choose TWO.)

Question 386mediummultiple choice
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A company runs an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance. During a maintenance window, an administrator needs to stop the instance but ensure that the data in the attached EBS volumes is preserved and the instance can be started later without data loss. Which action should the administrator take?

Question 387hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS experiences performance degradation during peak hours. Monitoring shows high CPU utilization on the application server EC2 instances. The instances are in an Auto Scaling group with a step scaling policy based on CPU utilization. Despite scaling, performance does not improve. What is the most likely cause?

Question 388easymultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to automate the patching of SAP application servers. The solution should apply patches during a defined maintenance window and ensure high availability. What is the most efficient approach?

Question 389mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system experiences an unplanned failover of the HANA database. The database administrator needs to investigate the root cause. Which AWS service should be used to analyze the timeline of events leading to the failover?

Question 390hardmultiple choice
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A company uses SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a multi-AZ deployment. During a quarterly maintenance, the administrator needs to update the kernel of the primary application server without downtime. The application servers are behind an Application Load Balancer. What is the best strategy?

Question 391easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to monitor the disk I/O performance of an Aurora PostgreSQL database used by SAP. Which Amazon CloudWatch metric should be used to track read and write operations per second?

Question 392mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses AWS Backup to back up the SAP HANA database. The backup job fails with an error indicating insufficient IAM permissions. What is the most likely missing permission?

Question 393hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS uses a shared file system via Amazon EFS mounted on multiple EC2 instances. Users report that file operations are slow. Which metric in Amazon CloudWatch should be analyzed to determine if the EFS file system's throughput is being throttled?

Question 394easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to rotate the SSL/TLS certificate for the SAP Web Dispatcher running on an EC2 instance. The new certificate is stored in AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). How should the administrator deploy the certificate to the Web Dispatcher?

Question 395mediummulti select
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A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that meets a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The DR region must have the SAP application stack ready but the database can be replayed from backups. Which TWO actions should be taken to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Question 396hardmulti select
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An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The instance type is r5.4xlarge with EBS-optimized enabled. CloudWatch metrics show high WriteIOPS but low throughput. Which THREE factors could be causing this behavior? (Choose three.)

Question 397easymulti select
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A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to ensure that all API calls to create, modify, or delete EC2 instances are logged for auditing. Which TWO AWS services can be used together to achieve this? (Choose two.)

Question 398mediummultiple choice
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A company runs a critical SAP HANA database on an Amazon EC2 instance. The operations team receives an alert that the instance's EBS-optimized throughput is consistently exceeding the baseline performance of the gp2 volume. Which action should the team take to resolve the performance issue without downtime?

Question 399hardmulti select
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A company is running SAP ERP on AWS with a multi-AZ deployment using Amazon EFS for shared transport directories. The system administrator notices that the SAP transport directory mounted via EFS is experiencing high latency during peak hours. The EFS file system is using the Standard storage class. Which combination of steps should the administrator take to reduce latency? (Choose TWO.)

Question 400easymultiple choice
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A company has an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance with a single 500 GB gp2 volume. The database is experiencing I/O bottlenecks. The operations team wants to increase IOPS without changing the volume size. Which action should they take?

Question 401hardmultiple choice
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A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). They plan to use two EC2 instances in different Availability Zones with a shared file system. Which AWS service should they use to manage the failover of the virtual IP address?

Question 402easymultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses AWS CloudTrail to monitor API activity. The security team wants to receive real-time notifications when specific SAP-related API calls are made. Which AWS service should they use to filter and forward these events?

Question 403mediummultiple choice
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A company is running SAP HANA on a memory-optimized EC2 instance with an EBS volume for /hana/data and /hana/log. The database administrator notices that the /hana/log volume is experiencing high write latency. The current volume is a gp2 volume with 1000 GB size. Which change would most effectively reduce write latency?

Question 404hardmultiple choice
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A company is running SAP BusinessObjects on AWS and needs to back up the CMS database (an SAP HANA database) daily. The backup must be stored in Amazon S3 for long-term retention and must be recoverable within 4 hours. Which backup strategy meets these requirements?

Question 405mediummultiple choice
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A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and uses SAP HANA as the database. The system administrator needs to apply an OS patch that requires a reboot. The SAP HANA database is running in a scale-out configuration across multiple EC2 instances. What is the best approach to minimize downtime?

Question 406easymultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to automate the deployment of new SAP application servers. The company uses AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. Which AWS service should they use to run custom scripts during the CloudFormation stack creation to configure the SAP application?

Question 407mediummulti select
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A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. Which two actions should the company take to meet these objectives? (Choose TWO.)

Question 408hardmulti select
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A company runs SAP NetWeaver on AWS and uses a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to distribute traffic to multiple application servers. The operations team notices that the NLB is not properly routing traffic to healthy targets. Which three steps should the team take to diagnose the issue? (Choose THREE.)

Question 409mediummulti select
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A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and uses multiple EBS volumes for data and log storage. The company wants to encrypt all data at rest. Which three steps are required to ensure encryption of all EBS volumes? (Choose THREE.)

Question 410easymultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and uses CloudWatch to monitor the SAP HANA database. The database administrator wants to create a dashboard that shows the current memory utilization of all HANA instances. Which CloudWatch feature should they use?

Question 411mediummultiple choice
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An administrator created the IAM policy shown in the exhibit for the operations team. The team needs to create snapshots of EBS volumes that have the tag 'Name' with a value starting with 'SAP-HANA-'. However, the policy is not working as expected. What is the most likely reason?

Exhibit

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{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateSnapshot",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:volume/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/Name": "SAP-HANA-*"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
Question 412hardmultiple choice
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An administrator runs the command shown in the exhibit to check the status of an EBS volume attached to an SAP HANA instance. The volume is 200 GB gp3 and is attached to instance i-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890. The administrator wants to increase the I/O performance. The volume is currently set to 3000 IOPS (baseline for gp3). Which action will increase IOPS without downtime?

Network Topology
$ aws ec2 describe-volumesregion us-east-1volume-ids vol-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890Refer to the exhibit."Volumes": ["Attachments": ["AttachTime": "2023-01-15T10:00:00Z","Device": "/dev/xvdf","InstanceId": "i-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890","State": "attached","VolumeId": "vol-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890","DeleteOnTermination": false],"AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1a","CreateTime": "2023-01-15T09:00:00Z","Encrypted": true,"Size": 200,"SnapshotId": "snap-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890","State": "in-use","VolumeType": "gp3"
Question 413mediummultiple choice
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A company is running an SAP HANA database on an AWS EC2 instance. The system administrator needs to ensure that the database logs are automatically backed up to Amazon S3 and retained for 30 days. Which combination of AWS services can achieve this with minimal operational overhead?

Question 414hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system running on AWS experiences periodic performance degradation. Analysis shows that the issue occurs when an on-premises monitoring system polls the SAP application server. Which AWS service can help mitigate this by caching or throttling requests?

Question 415easymultiple choice
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A company wants to automate the start and stop of SAP EC2 instances during non-business hours to reduce costs. Which AWS service is best suited for this task?

Question 416mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system uses a Multi-AZ RDS for Oracle instance. During a recent failover, the application experienced a long outage because the SAP application server did not automatically reconnect to the new database endpoint. What is the most efficient way to resolve this issue?

Question 417easymultiple choice
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A company needs to monitor the CPU utilization of SAP EC2 instances and send an alert if it exceeds 90% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used?

Question 418hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system is deployed on AWS using a shared account structure. The security team requires that all changes to SAP security groups be logged and alerted. Which combination of AWS services should be used?

Question 419mediummultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on EC2 instances with EBS volumes. They need to take daily snapshots of the EBS volumes and retain them for 90 days. Which approach is most cost-effective?

Question 420hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency between the application and database tiers. Both tiers are in the same VPC but in different Availability Zones. What is the most effective way to reduce latency?

Question 421easymultiple choice
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A company needs to track API calls made to create, modify, or delete SAP-related resources in AWS. Which service should be used?

Question 422mediummulti select
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Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the patching of SAP EC2 instances? (Choose 2)

Question 423hardmulti select
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Which THREE components are required to set up a highly available SAP HANA database using AWS services? (Choose 3)

Question 424easymulti select
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Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the health of SAP application servers? (Choose 2)

Question 425mediummultiple choice
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A company runs an SAP HANA database on an r5.8xlarge EC2 instance. The operations team notices that the instance's CPU utilization spikes to 100% every night at 2 AM, causing SAP application timeouts. CloudWatch metrics show the spike corresponds to a backup process. Which action should be taken to resolve the issue?

Question 426easymultiple choice
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An SAP system administrator receives an alert that an EBS volume attached to an SAP application server is at 95% capacity. The volume is 100 GB gp2 and stores log files. What is the MOST efficient way to resolve the space issue?

Question 427hardmultiple choice
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An SAP HANA database on AWS experiences a failover from the primary to the secondary node. After the failover, the secondary node (now primary) is running on a different AZ. The SAP application cannot connect to the new primary. What is the MOST likely cause?

Question 428mediummultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to patch the operating system of multiple SAP application servers. The servers are in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer. What strategy minimizes downtime?

Question 429easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to monitor the free space of EBS volumes across multiple EC2 instances running SAP. Which AWS service should be used to collect and visualize this data?

Question 430hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system is experiencing slow performance. The SAP team suspects a memory bottleneck in the HANA database. The database runs on an r5.24xlarge instance with 768 GB RAM. CloudWatch metrics show the HANA memory usage is consistently above 90%. Which action should be taken first?

Question 431mediummultiple choice
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A company has an SAP environment with a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. Which backup strategy meets these requirements?

Question 432easymultiple choice
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An SAP system administrator needs to ensure that all API calls made to AWS services by the SAP system are logged for security auditing. Which AWS service should be enabled?

Question 433mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. The database is SAP HANA. Which approach provides the lowest RPO?

Question 434mediummulti select
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An SAP system administrator is troubleshooting a failed HANA database backup to Amazon S3. The backup job returns an error: 'Access Denied'. Which TWO actions should the administrator take to resolve the issue?

Question 435hardmulti select
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A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to automate the patching of SAP application servers. The servers are in an Auto Scaling group. Which THREE steps should be included in the automation?

Question 436easymulti select
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An SAP administrator is setting up monitoring for an SAP HANA database. Which TWO metrics should be monitored from the HANA database using Amazon CloudWatch?

Question 437hardmultiple choice
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A company runs a critical SAP ERP system on AWS. The architecture includes an SAP HANA database on an r5.24xlarge instance (with 768 GB RAM) in us-east-1a, and multiple SAP application servers in an Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones (us-east-1a and us-east-1b). The database uses EBS volumes: two 1 TB gp3 volumes for data, one 500 GB gp3 for log, and one 100 GB gp3 for backup. The system has been running without issues for months. At 3:00 PM, the operations team receives alerts from Amazon CloudWatch that the HANA database instance's CPU utilization is at 100%, memory usage is at 95%, and the disk queue length for the log volume is consistently above 10. The SAP application is experiencing intermittent timeouts. The team checks the HANA studio and sees that there are many long-running queries and that the log volume is almost full (95% used). The database backups are scheduled to run at 2:00 AM and completed successfully. There have been no changes to the system or workload recently. The team suspects a performance degradation. What is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Question 438mediummultiple choice
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A company runs an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance in a single Availability Zone. The database experiences performance degradation during peak hours. Which action should be taken to improve performance without changing the instance type?

Question 439easymultiple choice
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An SAP administrator needs to automate the daily backup of an SAP HANA database running on EC2. Which AWS service should be used to schedule and manage the backup process?

Question 440hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS using an ASCS and PAS cluster with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The cluster fails over unexpectedly several times a day. What is the most likely cause and solution?

Question 441mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system administrator notices that the SAP HANA database backup job to Amazon S3 is failing intermittently. The backup script uses the AWS CLI. Which step should be taken to diagnose the issue?

Question 442easymultiple choice
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An SAP system is deployed on EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones. Which AWS service should be used to automatically distribute incoming traffic across the SAP application servers?

Question 443hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS. The SAP system frequently crashes with a 'JAVA out of memory' error. The application server is an EC2 instance with 32 GB RAM. Which solution should be implemented to prevent this issue?

Question 444mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system administrator wants to monitor the CPU and memory usage of SAP HANA database instances. Which AWS service should be used to collect and visualize these metrics?

Question 445easymultiple choice
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An SAP system is running on EC2 instances with EBS volumes. The administrator wants to automate the creation of point-in-time snapshots of the EBS volumes for disaster recovery. Which AWS service is best suited for this?

Question 446hardmultiple choice
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A company recently migrated SAP ERP to AWS. The SAP application logs indicate repeated 'ORA-1555 snapshot too old' errors in the Oracle database. Which AWS-specific parameter could be causing this?

Question 447easymulti select
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Which TWO AWS services can be used to perform automated backups of an SAP HANA database running on EC2? (Choose 2.)

Question 448mediummulti select
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Which THREE steps should be taken when recovering an SAP system from an EBS snapshot? (Choose 3.)

Question 449hardmulti select
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Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the restart of an SAP application server when it becomes unresponsive? (Choose 2.)

Question 450mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a High Availability (HA) cluster spanning two Availability Zones (us-east-1a and us-east-1b). The cluster uses an Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file system for the global transport directory. Recently, the cluster experienced a split-brain situation, leading to data corruption. The administrator wants to prevent this from recurring. The current setup uses a single FSx file system mounted on both cluster nodes. What should the administrator do to prevent split-brain?

Question 451hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) system running on AWS. The system uses an Oracle database on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. Users report that some transactions are slow, especially during month-end closing. The administrator checks CloudWatch metrics and notices that the EBS volume read latency is high (average 20 ms) and the queue depth is consistently 0. The volume type is gp2 with 3000 IOPS. The administrator suspects the volume is not meeting the IOPS demand. What should the administrator do to resolve this issue?

Question 452mediummultiple choice
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A company runs a critical SAP HANA database on an m5.24xlarge EC2 instance. The operations team notices that the database performance degrades during peak hours. Which AWS service should be used to identify whether the instance is experiencing CPU throttling due to CPU credit exhaustion?

Question 453hardmultiple choice
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An SAP administrator is troubleshooting an issue where SAP application servers are unable to connect to the SAP HANA database. The database is running on an EC2 instance in a private subnet. The application servers are in a different VPC connected via VPC peering. The security group for the database instance allows TCP port 3$15$13 from the application server security group. Which additional configuration is MOST likely required?

Question 454easymultiple choice
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A company is using AWS Systems Manager to automate patching of SAP EC2 instances. The patching fails for some instances with the error 'Unable to retrieve SSM Agent registration'. What is the MOST likely cause?

Question 455mediummultiple choice
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An SAP system running on AWS uses a Multi-AZ RDS for SAP ASE database. The operations team notices that the database failover took longer than expected during a recent outage. What should the team investigate to reduce failover time?

Question 456hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a shared file system via Amazon EFS for transport files. Recently, the SAP system experienced slowness when importing transports. The CloudWatch metrics show high BurstCreditBalance for the EFS file system. What action should be taken to improve performance?

Question 457easymultiple choice
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An SAP Basis administrator needs to apply an OS-level security patch to a fleet of SAP EC2 instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The instances are part of an Auto Scaling group. Which approach is the MOST efficient and minimizes downtime?

Question 458mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and needs to perform a backup of the HANA database to Amazon S3. Which AWS service should be used to orchestrate the backup and ensure consistency?

Question 459hardmultiple choice
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During a disaster recovery test, an SAP administrator finds that the SAP application cannot connect to the replicated HANA database in the DR region. The replication is done using SAP HANA System Replication. What is the MOST likely cause?

Question 460easymultiple choice
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An SAP system is experiencing high disk I/O latency. The operations team checks the Amazon CloudWatch metrics and finds that the Average Queue Length for the EBS volumes is consistently above the recommended threshold. Which action should be taken to address this issue?

Question 461mediummulti select
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A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to automate the monitoring of SAP system health. Which TWO AWS services can be used together to achieve this? (Choose TWO.)

Question 462hardmulti select
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An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue where the SAP application is slow. The administrator suspects that the EBS volumes are not meeting performance requirements. Which THREE metrics should be examined in Amazon CloudWatch to confirm this? (Choose THREE.)

Question 463easymulti select
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A company is planning to migrate its SAP workloads to AWS. Which THREE AWS services are commonly used to set up a secure network connectivity between on-premises and AWS? (Choose THREE.)

Question 464hardmultiple choice
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A company runs its SAP ERP system on AWS using a multi-tier architecture. The SAP application servers are in an Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones, and the SAP HANA database runs on a single large EC2 instance (r5.24xlarge) with 768 GB of memory and EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) volumes. The operations team recently noticed that the database performance degrades intermittently during peak business hours. CloudWatch metrics show that the database instance's CPU utilization remains below 40%, but the ReadLatency and WriteLatency for the EBS volumes spike above 10 ms during these periods, and the VolumeQueueLength metric increases significantly. The database instance uses a single EBS volume for /hana/data and another for /hana/log. The team has already verified that there are no network bottlenecks and that the SAP application servers are not overwhelming the database with queries. What is the MOST likely cause of the latency spikes, and what action should be taken?

Question 465mediummultiple choice
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A company has deployed SAP on AWS with a shared file system using Amazon EFS for the /sapmnt directory. The EFS file system is mounted on all SAP application servers. Recently, users reported that the SAP system is slow when accessing reports that are stored as PDF files in the /sapmnt directory. The operations team checks the CloudWatch metrics and finds that the EFS file system's PercentIOLimit metric is consistently at 100% during peak hours. The file system is using the General Purpose performance mode. The team also notices that the BurstCreditBalance is decreasing over time. What action should be taken to resolve this performance issue?

Question 466easymultiple choice
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A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a Multi-AZ RDS for SAP ASE database. The operations team receives an alert that the database instance failed over automatically. After the failover, the SAP application servers are unable to connect to the database. The team checks the RDS console and sees that the DB instance status is 'available' and the endpoint is the same as before. The security groups and network ACLs have not changed. What is the MOST likely reason for the connectivity issue?

Question 467mediummultiple choice
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A company is running an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance. The operations team notices that the SAP application is responding slowly during peak hours. CloudWatch metrics show high CPU utilization and increased swap usage. Which combination of actions should the team take to resolve the performance issue?

Question 468hardmultiple choice
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An SAP system administrator notices that the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance on an EC2 instance has failed. The instance is still running, but the ASCS service is unresponsive. What is the MOST efficient way to restore the ASCS service without affecting the SAP application?

Question 469easymultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to automate OS-level patching for their SAP application servers. Which AWS service should they use to schedule and apply patches?

Question 470mediummultiple choice
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An SAP Basis administrator needs to monitor the health of SAP application servers running on EC2. The administrator wants to receive alerts when a server becomes unreachable or when critical SAP processes stop. Which AWS service should be used to create a custom dashboard and set up alarms?

Question 471hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS using a multi-node scale-out configuration. During a routine maintenance window, the administrator needs to apply an HANA database software update. What is the BEST practice to minimize downtime?

Question 472mediummulti select
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An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a network connectivity issue between an SAP application server and an SAP HANA database, both running on EC2 in the same VPC. The security groups allow traffic on port 3xx15 and 3xx17. Which TWO steps should the administrator take to diagnose the problem?

Question 473hardmulti select
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A company runs SAP ERP on AWS. The system includes a primary application server and a secondary application server for high availability. The secondary server is not receiving updates from the primary. Which THREE steps should the administrator take to investigate?

Question 474easymulti select
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An SAP administrator is setting up backup for an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The database is 1 TB in size. Which TWO AWS services can be used to create a cost-effective backup strategy?

Question 475mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The environment includes an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes for data, log, and backup. The backup strategy uses AWS Backup to create daily snapshots of all EBS volumes. During a disaster recovery test, the team discovers that the snapshots are not crash-consistent and the database cannot be restored to a consistent state. The backup window is set to 2 AM daily. What should the team do to ensure crash-consistent backups?

Question 476hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP ERP on AWS using a single Availability Zone. The system includes an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with 2 TB of memory. The operations team plans to perform a major version upgrade of the SAP HANA database, which requires approximately 4 hours of downtime. The company's SLA allows a maximum of 2 hours of downtime. The team decides to use a blue/green deployment strategy by creating a new HANA instance in a different Availability Zone and replicating data using HANA System Replication (HSR). After setting up replication, they perform a failover to the new instance. However, the failover takes 3 hours due to the large amount of data that needs to be synchronized. What should the team do to meet the 2-hour downtime requirement?

Question 477easymultiple choice
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A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS. The SAP application servers are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The operations team notices that occasionally, some requests fail with HTTP 503 errors. The team checks the ALB and finds that the target group has healthy instances. The SAP application logs show no errors. What is the most likely cause of the 503 errors?

Question 478mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The system uses an SAP HANA database with a single EC2 instance. The operations team needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 hour. The DR site is in a different AWS Region. The team currently takes daily EBS snapshots and sends them to the DR region using AWS Backup cross-region copy. However, the RPO is not met because snapshots are only taken daily. Which combination of actions should the team take to meet the RPO and RTO?

Question 479hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS using a clustered environment with two EC2 instances in an active/passive configuration. The cluster uses a shared EFS file system for the SAP HANA shared volume. The operations team recently migrated the EFS file system from the previous generation to Elastic Throughput mode to improve performance. After the migration, the HANA database becomes unresponsive intermittently. The team notices that the EFS mount target is in a different Availability Zone than the active HANA instance. What is the most likely cause of the unresponsiveness?

Question 480easymultiple choice
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A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to monitor the available memory on their SAP application servers. Which AWS service can be used to collect and visualize memory utilization metrics?

Question 481mediummultiple choice
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An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database is experiencing high I/O latency. The database is running on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. What is the MOST effective initial step to diagnose the I/O bottleneck?

Question 482hardmultiple choice
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A company runs SAP ERP on AWS with a multi-AZ deployment. The SAP application tier uses Auto Scaling groups with a custom AMI. After a recent patching of the AMI, the new instances fail to start the SAP application services. What should the administrator do to ensure that the new AMI correctly starts SAP services?

Question 483easymulti select
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Which TWO steps are required to set up automated backups for an SAP HANA database running on EC2?

Question 484mediummulti select
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Which THREE factors should be considered when planning a recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) for an SAP system on AWS?

Question 485hardmulti select
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A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS. They want to ensure high availability for the central services (ASCS) and enqueue replication. Which TWO components should be deployed to meet this requirement?

Question 486easymultiple choice
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Your company runs an SAP ERP system on AWS. The SAP application servers are in an Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones. The SAP HANA database runs on a single EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes. Recently, the database instance experienced a failure due to an underlying hardware issue, and you had to recover from an EBS snapshot. The recovery took longer than expected, and management wants to reduce the recovery time objective (RTO). What should you do to achieve a lower RTO for the HANA database?

Question 487mediummultiple choice
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Your organization runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The system is critical and must have high availability. The architecture includes two SAP application servers behind an Application Load Balancer, and the HANA database uses replication to a standby in another Availability Zone. During a recent test of a failure scenario, you noticed that when the standby HANA instance takes over, the application servers cannot connect because the database hostname changes. What is the best solution to ensure application servers can connect to the database without manual intervention after a failover?

Question 488hardmultiple choice
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A multinational company runs SAP on AWS with a complex landscape including development, quality assurance, and production environments. The production SAP HANA database is running on an r5.8xlarge instance with 3.5 TB of data on EBS gp3 volumes. The operations team has been asked to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that can recover the system in another AWS Region within 4 hours. The maximum acceptable data loss is 30 minutes. The current backup strategy uses daily EBS snapshots stored in the same Region. Which approach should the team take to meet the DR requirements?

Question 489easymultiple choice
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Your company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS. The system has a three-tier architecture with a web dispatcher, application servers, and a HANA database. The operations team has been receiving alerts about high CPU usage on the application servers during peak hours. The application servers are currently running on m5.large instances. You need to ensure consistent performance without over-provisioning. What is the most cost-effective solution?

Question 490mediummultiple choice
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A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and uses AWS Systems Manager to automate patching of the operating system. After a recent patching cycle, the SAP HANA database failed to start. The administrator checked the logs and found that the HANA service was not starting due to a missing library dependency. What should the administrator do to prevent this issue in future patching cycles?

Question 491hardmultiple choice
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Your company runs SAP ERP on AWS with a multi-AZ deployment. The SAP HANA database is replicated across two Availability Zones using HANA System Replication. The application servers are behind an Application Load Balancer. During a recent Availability Zone failure, the primary HANA instance failed, and the standby took over. However, the application servers continued to try to connect to the primary instance for several minutes, causing downtime. The DNS record for the database endpoint was manually updated after the failover. What is the most effective solution to automate the failover and minimize downtime?

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