PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
An SAP system on AWS is running on a single Availability Zone. The operations team wants to improve high availability. Which THREE actions should they take?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Use an Application Load Balancer to distribute traffic across AZs.
A: Use an Application Load Balancer to distribute traffic across AZs. This helps distribute traffic across multiple AZs, improving availability. D: Deploy SAP application servers in an Auto Scaling group across multiple AZs. This ensures that if one AZ fails, the application servers in other AZs continue to serve traffic. E: Configure the SAP database for Multi-AZ deployment. This provides a standby database in another AZ for automatic failover. B is incorrect because EBS volumes are AZ-specific and cannot be attached across AZs. C is incorrect because Elastic IP addresses are static public IPs and do not provide high availability across AZs on their own; they are typically used for failover within a single AZ.
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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Use an Application Load Balancer to distribute traffic across AZs.
Why this is correct
ALB can route traffic to healthy targets in multiple AZs.
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Use EBS Multi-Attach to share volumes across AZs.
Why it's wrong here
EBS Multi-Attach only works within a single AZ.
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Assign Elastic IP addresses to instances for failover.
Why it's wrong here
Elastic IPs can be remapped, but not automatic failover.
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Deploy SAP application servers in an Auto Scaling group across multiple AZs.
Why this is correct
Auto Scaling across AZs provides resilience.
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Configure the SAP database for Multi-AZ deployment.
Why this is correct
Multi-AZ provides failover to a standby in another AZ.
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