PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Question
An SAP administrator needs to set up a fault-tolerant architecture for SAP NetWeaver on AWS. The architecture must survive an entire Availability Zone failure. Which configuration is the most appropriate?
⚠ Common exam trap
Watch out — candidates often think deploying across multiple AZs alone (Option B) is sufficient for fault tolerance, but without a load balancer to automate traffic distribution and health checks, the architecture cannot survive an AZ failure without manual intervention.
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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Use an Auto Scaling group to launch SAP application servers across multiple AZs behind an Application Load Balancer.
Deploying SAP application servers across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) provides fault tolerance at the AZ level. The ALB distributes traffic to healthy instances in different AZs, ensuring that if one AZ fails, the remaining AZs continue to serve requests without interruption. This architecture aligns with SAP's recommended high-availability pattern for the ABAP stateless application tier.
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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Deploy all SAP application servers in one Availability Zone and use Amazon EBS snapshots for backup.
Why it's wrong here
Single point of failure.
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Deploy SAP application servers across multiple AZs but without a load balancer.
Why it's wrong here
No load distribution or health checks.
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Use a single large EC2 instance for all SAP components.
Why it's wrong here
No redundancy.
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Use an Auto Scaling group to launch SAP application servers across multiple AZs behind an Application Load Balancer.
Why this is correct
Provides fault tolerance and load distribution.
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