PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Question
A company is designing a disaster recovery solution for SAP S/4HANA. They need to meet an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 2 hours. Which THREE components should be included in the DR plan? (Choose 3.)
⚠ Common exam trap
Watch out — candidates often assume storage-level snapshots (EBS) are sufficient for SAP HANA DR, but they fail to account for the database consistency requirements and the long restore times that make them unsuitable for a 2-hour RTO.
Answer choices
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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SAP HANA System Replication in async mode
SAP HANA System Replication in async mode is correct because it can achieve an RPO of 15 minutes by asynchronously replicating log buffers from the primary to the DR HANA instance, and combined with a pre-configured DR system, it supports an RTO of 2 hours. This native SAP replication mechanism is optimized for HANA databases and avoids the overhead of storage-level snapshots or third-party tools.
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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EBS snapshots taken every 15 minutes
Why it's wrong here
Snapshots are not frequent enough and recovery is slow.
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SAP HANA System Replication in async mode
Why this is correct
Async replication can achieve RPO of minutes.
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AWS CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
Why it's wrong here
CloudEndure is not optimized for SAP HANA.
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Amazon Route 53 DNS failover
Why this is correct
DNS failover automates traffic shift.
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Pre-built AMIs for SAP application servers
Why this is correct
AMIs speed up recovery.
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