PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a custom AMI for their EC2 instances. They want to ensure that all instances launched from this AMI automatically have the SAP host agent installed and configured. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?
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Correct answer & explanation
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Create a new AMI that includes the SAP host agent pre-installed and configured.
Baking the SAP host agent into the AMI ensures that every instance launched from that AMI automatically has the agent installed and configured with no additional steps. This is the most efficient approach as it avoids post-launch configuration, reduces potential failure points, and ensures consistency.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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Use AWS Systems Manager Run Command to install the agent after launch.
Why it's wrong here
Run Command requires manual or scheduled execution, not automated at launch.
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Create a new AMI that includes the SAP host agent pre-installed and configured.
Why this is correct
A custom AMI ensures consistency and eliminates post-launch steps.
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Use a user data script that installs and configures the SAP host agent at instance launch.
Why it's wrong here
User data works but adds a delay and depends on network access to repositories.
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Use AWS CodeDeploy to automatically deploy the agent to new instances.
Why it's wrong here
CodeDeploy automates software deployment to running instances, but it cannot embed the SAP host agent into the AMI itself; the agent would only be installed post-launch, introducing a dependency on the CodeDeploy agent and network connectivity. This is tempting because CodeDeploy is designed for ongoing, revision-based deployments to fleets of existing instances, and would be correct if the goal were to update the agent across a running SAP landscape rather than bake it into a golden AMI.
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