PAS-C01 Technology Practice Question
An SAP system administrator needs to ensure high availability for an SAP HANA database using AWS services. What is the recommended architecture?
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Deploy SAP HANA on EC2 instances in a cluster across multiple Availability Zones with synchronous replication
SAP HANA can be deployed as a multi-node cluster using EC2 instances in different Availability Zones with synchronous replication and automatic failover using cluster software like Pacemaker. RDS does not support SAP HANA. A single EC2 instance in one AZ is not highly available. Multi-AZ RDS is for other databases, not SAP HANA.
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Deploy SAP HANA on EC2 instances in a cluster across multiple Availability Zones with synchronous replication
Why this is correct
SAP HANA can be deployed as a multi-node cluster using EC2 instances in different AZs with synchronous replication and automatic failover using cluster software like Pacemaker.
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Use Amazon RDS for SAP HANA with Multi-AZ deployment
Why it's wrong here
Amazon RDS does not support SAP HANA as a database engine.
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Use Amazon RDS Multi-AZ for SAP HANA database
Why it's wrong here
Amazon RDS does not support SAP HANA.
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Deploy a single EC2 instance in one Availability Zone and take daily snapshots
Why it's wrong here
A single instance with snapshots does not provide high availability; failover would require manual intervention and data loss.
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