PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for their SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. They plan to use a multi-AZ deployment with a floating IP. Which AWS service should they use to manage the floating IP and failover?
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
Amazon Route 53 can be used to associate a DNS name with a health check and failover to a secondary IP in another AZ. Option A is wrong because Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) is for distributing traffic, not for floating IPs. Option C is wrong because AWS Global Accelerator improves performance, not floating IP failover. Option D is wrong because Amazon CloudFront is a CDN.
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 Balancer
Why it's wrong here
ELB does not provide a floating IP; it's a load balancer.
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Amazon Route 53
Why this is correct
Route 53 can provide DNS failover with health checks, acting as a floating IP.
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AWS Global Accelerator
Why it's wrong here
Global Accelerator is for traffic optimization, not floating IP failover.
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Amazon CloudFront
Why it's wrong here
CloudFront is a CDN, unsuitable for floating IP management.
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