PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
An SAP system is deployed on EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones. Which AWS service should be used to automatically distribute incoming traffic across the SAP application servers?
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Why each option matters
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Application Load Balancer
An Application Load Balancer distributes HTTP/HTTPS traffic across multiple targets in different Availability Zones. Route 53 (Option B) is a DNS service, not a load balancer. Network Load Balancer (Option C) is for TCP/UDP traffic. CloudFront (Option D) is a CDN.
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Application Load Balancer
Why this is correct
ALB distributes HTTP/HTTPS traffic for web-based SAP.
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Amazon Route 53
Why it's wrong here
DNS service, not load balancing.
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Network Load Balancer
Why it's wrong here
For TCP/UDP traffic, not SAP application layer.
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Amazon CloudFront
Why it's wrong here
CDN, not for traffic distribution within a region.
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