PAS-C01 Technology Practice Question
An SAP administrator needs to set up disaster recovery for an SAP system on AWS. Which TWO AWS services can be used to replicate data across regions?
⚠ Common exam trap
It's easy for candidates to confuse Amazon RDS read replicas with cross-region disaster recovery replication, but read replicas are designed for read scaling and do not support write operations or failover for SAP systems.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Amazon EBS snapshots copied to another region
Amazon EBS snapshots can be copied to another AWS region, providing a reliable mechanism for disaster recovery of SAP systems by creating point-in-time backups of critical volumes. This allows the SAP administrator to restore the system in a different region if the primary region fails, ensuring data durability and recoverability.
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 CloudFront
Why it's wrong here
CloudFront is a content delivery network, not for data replication.
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Amazon EFS replication
Why it's wrong here
EFS does not have built-in cross-region replication.
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Amazon EBS snapshots copied to another region
Why this is correct
Snapshots can be copied cross-region for volume replication.
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Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication
Why this is correct
S3 CRR automatically replicates objects to a destination bucket.
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Amazon RDS read replicas in another region
Why it's wrong here
RDS read replicas are for read scaling, not full DR replication.
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