PAS-C01 Technology Practice Question
A company is planning to run SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure that the system is highly available. Which TWO AWS services should be combined to achieve HA for the SAP central services (ASCS/SCS) and the database? (Choose TWO.)
⚠ Common exam trap
It's easy for candidates to confuse DNS-level failover (Route 53) with instance-level recovery (Auto Recovery), or they think CloudFront or S3 can provide HA for SAP services, when in fact only Auto Recovery directly addresses the recovery of a single impaired instance hosting ASCS/SCS.
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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Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) to distribute traffic across multiple application server instances.
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is correct because it distributes incoming traffic across multiple SAP application server (AS) instances, ensuring that if one AS fails, the ELB redirects traffic to healthy instances. This provides high availability for the SAP application tier, which is essential for the overall system's resilience.
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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Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) to distribute traffic across multiple application server instances.
Why this is correct
ELB provides load balancing and failover for application servers.
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Amazon CloudFront to cache static content.
Why it's wrong here
CloudFront is a CDN, not for HA.
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Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery to automatically recover the instance hosting ASCS/SCS if it becomes impaired.
Why this is correct
Auto Recovery restarts the instance on healthy hardware.
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Amazon S3 to store the SAP system configuration files.
Why it's wrong here
S3 does not provide HA for services.
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Amazon Route 53 health checks with failover routing.
Why it's wrong here
Route 53 can route traffic away from unhealthy endpoints, but does not provide HA for services directly.
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