PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
An SAP administrator needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for SAP HANA with an RTO of 2 hours and RPO of 15 minutes. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. The system uses SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) for data replication. Which AWS service should be used to automate failover and minimize downtime?
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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 Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS).
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) can replicate EC2 instances and automate failover, meeting the RTO and RPO requirements. Option B is wrong because AWS Backup is for backup, not real-time replication. Option C is wrong because CloudEndure is now AWS DRS. Option D is wrong because RDS is not used for SAP HANA; it is a managed database service.
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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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS).
Why this is correct
AWS DRS provides continuous replication and automated failover capabilities, meeting the RTO/RPO requirements.
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AWS Backup with cross-region backup copies.
Why it's wrong here
AWS Backup is a backup service, not a real-time replication solution; it cannot achieve an RPO of 15 minutes.
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AWS CloudEndure Disaster Recovery.
Why it's wrong here
CloudEndure is now part of AWS DRS; while it could work, the current service name is AWS DRS.
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Amazon RDS for SAP HANA.
Why it's wrong here
Amazon RDS for SAP HANA is incorrect because the scenario describes an existing SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) setup between customer-managed instances across regions, requiring an external service to automate failover. RDS for SAP HANA is a fully managed service where AWS handles database operations, including its own high availability and disaster recovery mechanisms, and does not integrate with customer-managed HSR for failover automation. It is tempting as it provides built-in DR for SAP HANA, and would be the correct choice if the requirement was for a managed database service to simplify operations and inherently provide DR.
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