PAS-C01 Technology Practice Question
A company running SAP on AWS needs to back up their SAP HANA database daily with point-in-time recovery. Which service should they use to achieve this with minimal operational overhead?
⚠ Common exam trap
Candidates often confuse Amazon RDS automated backups or EBS snapshots as viable for SAP HANA, not realizing that SAP HANA requires database-aware backup mechanisms (like Backint) to ensure transaction log consistency and point-in-time recovery, which only AWS Backup with the SAP HANA plan provides natively.
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 Backup with the SAP HANA backup plan.
AWS Backup with the SAP HANA backup plan is the correct choice because it provides a fully managed, policy-driven backup service that integrates directly with SAP HANA to perform database-consistent, log-based backups for point-in-time recovery. This eliminates the need for custom scripts or manual orchestration, minimizing operational overhead while ensuring compliance with SAP's backup requirements.
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 RDS automated backups.
Why it's wrong here
RDS does not support SAP HANA.
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Amazon EBS snapshots via a script.
Why it's wrong here
Snapshots are not point-in-time recovery at the database level.
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AWS Backup with the SAP HANA backup plan.
Why this is correct
AWS Backup provides automated, policy-based backups for SAP HANA.
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Amazon S3 with lifecycle policies.
Why it's wrong here
S3 is not a database backup service.
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