PAS-C01 Migration Practice Question
A multinational corporation is migrating its SAP S/4HANA system to AWS. The system consists of a production database (3 TB), a development database (500 GB), and multiple application servers. The migration plan is to use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for the databases and AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) for the application servers. The company has set up a test environment in AWS and has performed a test migration. During the test, the production database migration via DMS completed successfully, but the development database migration failed with an error indicating that the source database version is not supported by DMS. The development database is SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 04, while the production database is SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 05. The target for both is Amazon RDS for SAP HANA. The DMS source endpoint was created using the same settings for both databases. Which step should the administrator take to resolve the development database migration failure?
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Why each option matters
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Upgrade the source development SAP HANA to a supported version (e.g., SPS 05).
DMS requires a supported SAP HANA version. The development database version (SPS 04) is not supported, so upgrading it to SPS 05 will allow the migration to proceed. Option A is incorrect because SAP HANA System Replication is not designed for migrating to RDS; it replicates between HANA instances. Option C is incorrect because downgrading the production database is unnecessary and risky. Option D is incorrect because AWS SMS is for server migration, not database migration.
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Use SAP HANA System Replication to replicate the development database to RDS.
Why it's wrong here
HSR cannot replicate to Amazon RDS; it requires EC2.
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Upgrade the source development SAP HANA to a supported version (e.g., SPS 05).
Why this is correct
DMS requires a supported source version.
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Downgrade the production database to match the development version.
Why it's wrong here
Unnecessary and risky.
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Use AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) for the development database.
Why it's wrong here
AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) is designed for server-level image replication, not for heterogeneous database version support; it cannot resolve the DMS source-version incompatibility because SMS does not perform logical replication or validate SAP HANA database versions. It is tempting because SMS handles server migration to AWS, and in a scenario where entire virtual machines (including non-database workloads) must be moved without database-level schema or version constraints, it would be the correct choice.
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