PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Question
A company is designing an SAP environment on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for SAP HANA. Which TWO AWS services or features are commonly used to achieve this? (Choose TWO.)
⚠ Common exam trap
Many candidates confuse high availability with disaster recovery, leading them to select cross-region replication (option B) or Global Accelerator (option E) instead of recognizing that within a single region, SAP HANA system replication and Route 53 failover routing are the standard AWS services for high availability.
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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Amazon Route 53 with failover routing
Amazon Route 53 with failover routing is correct because it allows DNS-based routing to redirect traffic to a secondary SAP HANA instance in another Availability Zone if the primary fails. This is a common pattern for achieving high availability for SAP HANA on AWS, as it works in conjunction with SAP HANA system replication to provide automatic failover at the DNS level.
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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Amazon EFS with Multi-AZ mount targets
Why it's wrong here
EFS is not used for HANA HA.
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Amazon S3 cross-region replication
Why it's wrong here
S3 replication is for disaster recovery, not real-time HA.
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Amazon Route 53 with failover routing
Why this is correct
Route 53 can redirect traffic to the secondary HANA instance upon failure.
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SAP HANA system replication across Availability Zones
Why this is correct
This provides database-level replication for HA.
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AWS Global Accelerator with endpoint weights
Why it's wrong here
Global Accelerator is for global traffic, not HANA HA.
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Variation 1. A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the database. Which AWS service should be used to automatically recover the HANA primary instance in case of an instance failure?
easy- A.Amazon CloudWatch alarms
- B.AWS CloudFormation custom resources
- C.AWS Lambda functions
- ✓ D.Amazon Route 53 health checks and failover routing
Why D: Amazon Route 53 health checks and failover routing can automatically detect an instance failure and route traffic to a standby HANA primary instance. By configuring a Route 53 DNS failover record with health checks against the primary instance, DNS resolution is updated to point to the secondary instance when the primary becomes unhealthy, enabling automated recovery without manual intervention.
Variation 2. A company is planning to run SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the database layer. Which AWS service can be used to achieve automatic failover of an SAP HANA database?
easy- A.AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- B.Application Load Balancer (ALB)
- C.Amazon RDS Multi-AZ
- ✓ D.SAP HANA System Replication (HSR)
Why D: SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) is the native SAP mechanism for replicating data from a primary HANA database to one or more secondary systems, enabling automatic failover in the event of a primary failure. This is the correct approach for achieving high availability for SAP HANA on AWS, as it integrates with AWS services like Elastic IPs or Route53 for IP re-mapping during failover, and is fully supported by SAP for production workloads.
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