PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
A company is migrating its SAP landscape to AWS and wants to automate the deployment of SAP applications using infrastructure as code. Which AWS service should the company use to define and provision the AWS infrastructure?
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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AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation allows defining and provisioning AWS infrastructure as code. Option A (Elastic Beanstalk) is wrong because it is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for deploying web applications, not for defining infrastructure. Option C (CodeDeploy) is wrong because it automates code deployments to running instances, not infrastructure provisioning. Option D (OpsWorks) is wrong because it is a configuration management service using Chef/Puppet, not a general-purpose IaC tool.
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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AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Why it's wrong here
Elastic Beanstalk is for web applications, not SAP.
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AWS CloudFormation
Why this is correct
CloudFormation enables infrastructure as code.
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AWS CodeDeploy
Why it's wrong here
CodeDeploy is for application deployment.
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AWS OpsWorks
Why it's wrong here
OpsWorks is for configuration management, not infrastructure definition.
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