PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
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?
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Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Incremental backups every 15 minutes and log backups every 5 minutes.
Incremental backups (every 15 minutes) combined with log backups (every 5 minutes) allow for a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and can meet the 2-hour recovery time objective (RTO) if the database is appropriately sized and restore procedures are optimized. Option A is incorrect because log backups every 30 minutes result in a potential data loss of up to 30 minutes, exceeding the required 15-minute RPO. Option B is incorrect because weekly full and daily differential backups provide an RPO of up to 24 hours. Option D is incorrect because hourly EBS snapshots do not provide the granularity needed for a 15-minute RPO and restoring from snapshots can be slower than from SAP HANA-native backups.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Daily full backups to Amazon S3 and log backups every 30 minutes.
Why it's wrong here
Daily backups exceed the 15-minute RPO.
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Weekly full backups and daily differential backups.
Why it's wrong here
Differential backups are not sufficient for 15-minute RPO.
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Incremental backups every 15 minutes and log backups every 5 minutes.
Why this is correct
Frequent incremental and log backups can achieve 15-minute RPO and 2-hour RTO.
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Hourly EBS snapshots and continuous log shipping to S3.
Why it's wrong here
Hourly snapshots may not achieve 15-minute RPO.
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