PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Test 22 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to choose a storage option for the SAP HANA database. Which AWS storage service is most suitable for SAP HANA data volumes?

Accepted Answer

Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes. Option B is correct because Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes are designed for high-performance, low-latency workloads like SAP HANA. Option A is wrong because EBS gp3 is general purpose and may not meet HANA performance requirements. Option C is wrong because EFS is file storage, not block storage. Option D is wrong because S3 is object storage.

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Amazon S3

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Amazon EBS gp3 volumes

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Amazon EFS

Question 2

An SAP administrator is designing a high-availability (HA) setup for SAP HANA in a multi-AZ deployment on AWS. Which combination of AWS services and configurations is required for a fully automated HA solution?

Accepted Answer

Amazon Route 53, Application Load Balancer, and AWS CloudFormation. Option D is correct. AWS uses Route 53 for DNS failover, Application Load Balancer (ALB) for health checks and traffic distribution, and AWS CloudFormation for automated infrastructure deployment. Option A is wrong because NAT Gateway is not used for HA. Option B is wrong because EC2 Auto Scaling is not suitable for HANA scale-up. Option C is wrong because ELB Classic is not recommended and CloudTrail is for auditing.

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Classic Load Balancer, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon Inspector

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NAT Gateway, EBS snapshots, and AWS Lambda

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EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon RDS, and AWS Backup

Question 3

A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS. They plan to use the SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) connector to automate system copy and relocation. What is a prerequisite for using the AWS LaMa connector?

Accepted Answer

An IAM role with permissions for EC2, EBS, and CloudFormation actions. Option C is correct. The AWS LaMa connector requires an IAM role with specific permissions for LaMa to manage EC2 instances and storage. Option A is wrong because LaMa does not require EC2 Auto Scaling. Option B is wrong because LaMa uses AWS APIs, not SSH keys. Option D is wrong because LaMa does not use AWS Systems Manager for this purpose.

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An EC2 Auto Scaling group configured for the SAP application tier

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AWS Systems Manager managed instances for all SAP servers

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SSH keys for all SAP instances to allow LaMa to connect

Question 4

An SAP system is running on AWS with an SAP HANA database. The administrator needs to back up the HANA database to Amazon S3. Which AWS service or feature should be used to perform efficient incremental backups?

Accepted Answer

AWS Backup with the SAP HANA backup plan. Option A is correct. AWS Backup supports SAP HANA with incremental backups to S3. Option B is wrong because EBS snapshots are for volumes, not database-level backups. Option C is wrong because AWS Storage Gateway is for on-premises integration. Option D is wrong because S3 Transfer Acceleration speeds up uploads but does not manage backups.

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Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

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AWS Storage Gateway with volume gateway

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Amazon EBS snapshots of the HANA data volumes

Question 5

A company is designing an SAP S/4HANA deployment on AWS with high availability. They want to use a shared file system for the SAP transport directory. Which AWS service should they use for this shared file system?

Accepted Answer

Amazon EFS. Option C is correct. Amazon EFS provides a shared NFS file system that can be mounted across multiple EC2 instances in different Availability Zones. Option A is wrong because EBS volumes can only be attached to one instance at a time. Option B is wrong because S3 is object storage, not a file system. Option D is wrong because FSx for Windows File Server is for SMB, not typically for SAP transport.

Answer

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

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Amazon EBS with multi-attach enabled

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Amazon S3

Question 6

An SAP HANA system on AWS is experiencing performance degradation. The administrator suspects that the EBS volumes are not providing consistent IOPS. Which AWS tool can be used to monitor the performance of EBS volumes at the volume level?

Accepted Answer

Amazon CloudWatch. Option B is correct. Amazon CloudWatch provides metrics like VolumeReadBytes, VolumeWriteBytes, VolumeQueueLength for EBS volumes. Option A is wrong because AWS Trusted Advisor gives recommendations, not performance metrics. Option C is wrong because Amazon Inspector is for security assessment. Option D is wrong because AWS X-Ray is for tracing application requests.

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AWS X-Ray

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Amazon Inspector

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AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 7

An SAP administrator is planning a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy for SAP HANA on AWS. The DR site is in a different AWS Region. Which AWS service can replicate SAP HANA data to the DR region with low Recovery Point Objective (RPO)?

Accepted Answer

SAP HANA System Replication with log shipping. Option A is correct. SAP HANA System Replication with log shipping can provide a low RPO by continuously replicating data to another region. Option B is wrong because EBS snapshots are periodic and may not achieve low RPO. Option C is wrong because S3 cross-region replication is object-level, not database-level. Option D is wrong because AWS Database Migration Service is for migrations, not ongoing replication for DR.

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Amazon EBS snapshots copied to the DR region

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AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) with ongoing replication

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Amazon S3 cross-region replication

Question 8

A company runs SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application server instances are evenly distributed across two Availability Zones. Which AWS service should be used to distribute traffic?

Accepted Answer

Application Load Balancer. Option D is correct. An Application Load Balancer (ALB) can distribute traffic across multiple EC2 instances in different Availability Zones. Option A is wrong because Route 53 is for DNS, not for load balancing traffic. Option B is wrong because AWS Global Accelerator provides static IPs and traffic management, but not application-level load balancing. Option C is wrong because Amazon CloudFront is a CDN.

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AWS Global Accelerator

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Amazon CloudFront

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Amazon Route 53 weighted routing

Question 9

An SAP HANA database on AWS is using EBS io2 volumes. The administrator wants to increase the IOPS limit to meet peak workload demands without changing the volume size. What is the maximum IOPS that can be provisioned for an io2 volume per GB?

Accepted Answer

1,000 IOPS per GB. Option C is correct. io2 volumes have a maximum ratio of 1,000 IOPS per GB (up to 256,000 IOPS per volume). Option A is wrong because 500 IOPS/GB is for io1. Option B is wrong because 100 IOPS/GB is too low. Option D is wrong because 2,000 IOPS/GB exceeds the io2 limit.

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2,000 IOPS per GB

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500 IOPS per GB

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100 IOPS per GB

Question 10

A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the database layer. Which TWO actions should the company take?

Accepted Answer

Configure SAP HANA System Replication across two Availability Zones. Options A and C are correct. HANA System Replication across AZs (A) and using EBS io2 volumes (C) are key for HA. Option B is wrong because EFS is not used for database data. Option D is wrong because Auto Scaling is not for HANA. Option E is wrong because S3 Standard-IA is for backups, not primary storage.

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Store HANA backups in Amazon S3 Standard-IA

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Use Amazon EFS as the data volume for HANA

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Enable EC2 Auto Scaling for the HANA instance

Question 11

An SAP administrator is designing a backup strategy for SAP HANA on AWS. Which THREE practices should be implemented to ensure reliable backups?

Accepted Answer

Take consistent EBS snapshots of HANA volumes after quiescing the database. Options A, B, and D are correct. Using AWS Backup for automation (A), EBS snapshots for consistency (B), and storing backups in S3 with versioning (D) are best practices. Option C is wrong because S3 One Zone-IA lacks durability. Option E is wrong because encryption should be enabled, not disabled.

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Store backups in Amazon S3 One Zone-IA

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Disable encryption on backup targets to reduce latency

Question 12

A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery solution using a pilot light approach. Which THREE components should be pre-provisioned in the DR region to reduce recovery time?

Accepted Answer

Pre-allocated Elastic IP addresses. Options A, B, and D are correct. Pre-provisioning EBS volumes (A), AMIs (B), and Elastic IPs (D) helps reduce RTO. Option C is wrong because EC2 instances should not be running to avoid costs. Option E is wrong because Amazon RDS for SAP HANA is not used; HANA runs on EC2.

Answer

An Amazon RDS for SAP HANA instance

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Running EC2 instances for all SAP components

Question 13

An SAP administrator is creating an IAM policy for the AWS SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) connector. The policy includes the actions shown. Which additional action is missing for LaMa to perform its typical automation tasks?

Accepted Answer

cloudformation:CreateStack and cloudformation:DeleteStack. Option D is correct. LaMa often uses CloudFormation to create and manage stacks. The policy lacks CloudFormation actions. Option A is wrong because S3 actions are not typically required. Option B is wrong because RDS is not used for SAP HANA. Option C is wrong because Lambda is not essential for LaMa automation.

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lambda:InvokeFunction

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rds:CreateDBInstance and rds:DeleteDBInstance

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s3:PutObject and s3:GetObject

Question 14

An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown. The output shows /dev/sdf. Which SAP HANA volume is typically mounted at this device?

Accepted Answer

/hana/data. Option A is correct. The /dev/sdf device is commonly used for the /hana/data volume in SAP HANA on AWS. Option B is wrong because /hana/log is often /dev/sdg. Option C is wrong because /usr/sap is typically /dev/sdh. Option D is wrong because /hana/shared is usually on EFS or another device.

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/hana/log

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/usr/sap

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/hana/shared

Question 15

An SAP administrator configures Route 53 failover routing as shown. The health check associated with the primary record is failing. What will happen to client requests for sap.example.com?

Accepted Answer

Route 53 will return the secondary CNAME record. Option B is correct. With failover routing, when the primary health check fails, Route 53 returns the secondary record. Option A is wrong because Route 53 does not failover to a different record type. Option C is wrong because the secondary record exists. Option D is wrong because Route 53 uses the secondary record, not return an error.

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Route 53 will return the ALIAS record for the primary load balancer

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Route 53 will return an error

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Route 53 will return both records