PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Question
An SAP Basis team is migrating an SAP Business Suite system to AWS. The system has a large number of background jobs and requires consistent performance for batch processing. Which Amazon EC2 instance type is most suitable for this workload?
⚠ Common exam trap
It's easy for candidates to confuse storage-optimized instances (i3) with compute-optimized needs, or mistakenly think burstable instances (t3) can handle sustained batch loads due to their low cost, ignoring CPU credit exhaustion and performance throttling.
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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z1d.xlarge
The z1d.xlarge instance is most suitable because it offers a high baseline clock speed of up to 4.0 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost, which is critical for SAP Business Suite batch processing workloads that are CPU-bound and sensitive to single-threaded performance. SAP background jobs often require consistent, high-frequency CPU performance to meet batch window SLAs, and the z1d family is specifically designed for such high-performance, memory-intensive SAP workloads on AWS.
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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i3.2xlarge
Why it's wrong here
i3 instances are optimized for high I/O, not CPU-intensive batch processing.
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g4dn.xlarge
Why it's wrong here
g4dn instances are GPU-optimized, not intended for SAP batch.
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z1d.xlarge
Why this is correct
z1d instances offer high CPU frequency and large memory, suitable for SAP batch workloads.
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t3.large
Why it's wrong here
t3 instances are burstable and not recommended for sustained production workloads.
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