PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Question
An SAP Basis administrator is setting up an SAP HANA database in a Multi-AZ deployment on AWS. They need to ensure that the database remains available during an Availability Zone failure. Which AWS services should be used together to achieve this?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many exam-takers confuse Amazon RDS Multi-AZ (which is a managed service for traditional databases like MySQL or Oracle) with SAP HANA, but SAP HANA on AWS requires self-managed replication via HSR and DNS-based routing, not RDS.
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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SAP HANA System Replication and Amazon Route 53
SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) provides synchronous or asynchronous replication of HANA databases across Availability Zones, ensuring data consistency and failover capability. Amazon Route 53 with health checks and DNS failover routing automatically redirects client traffic to the standby HANA instance in the secondary AZ when the primary fails, together achieving Multi-AZ high availability for SAP HANA.
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 CloudWatch alarms and AWS Lambda
Why it's wrong here
CloudWatch and Lambda can automate responses but not primary failover mechanism.
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Auto Scaling groups and Elastic Load Balancer
Why it's wrong here
Not applicable for database failover.
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SAP HANA System Replication and Amazon Route 53
Why this is correct
HANA System Replication provides data replication, and Route 53 provides DNS failover.
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Amazon RDS Multi-AZ and Route 53
Why it's wrong here
RDS Multi-AZ is for RDS, not for SAP HANA on EC2.
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