PAS-C01 Migration Practice Question
A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application servers are highly available. Which TWO actions should the company take? (Choose 2.)
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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Deploy application servers across multiple Availability Zones
For SAP application server high availability, deploy application servers across multiple Availability Zones (Option C) to protect against AZ failures. Use an Elastic Load Balancer (Option D) to distribute traffic across the healthy application servers, enabling automatic failover. Option A (single AZ) does not provide fault tolerance. Option B (single large EC2 instance) is a single point of failure. Option E (Amazon EFS) is for shared filesystems like /sapmnt, but application servers are typically stateless and do not require EFS for HA; EFS supports HA but is not the primary action for application server HA itself.
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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Place all application servers in a single Availability Zone
Why it's wrong here
Single AZ does not protect against AZ failure.
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Use a single large EC2 instance for all application servers
Why it's wrong here
Single instance is a single point of failure.
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Deploy application servers across multiple Availability Zones
Why this is correct
Multi-AZ deployment provides HA.
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Use an Elastic Load Balancer to distribute traffic across application servers
Why this is correct
ELB distributes traffic and handles failover.
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Use Amazon EFS as the shared /sapmnt filesystem
Why it's wrong here
EFS is for shared files, not for HA of stateless app servers.
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