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A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to a microservices architecture on AWS. The application currently uses an Oracle database with complex stored procedures. The company wants to minimize changes to the application code during migration. Which database migration strategy should the company use?

A company is designing a microservices architecture on Amazon ECS with Fargate. The services need to communicate securely and be accessible only within the VPC. Which TWO steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)

A company has an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The database requires 10,000 IOPS consistently. The current volume type is gp3 with 3000 IOPS. Which change should be made to meet the IOPS requirement?

A company runs SAP ERP on AWS using a single EC2 instance for the database and application. The system has been in production for two years. The SAP administrator receives a notification that the EC2 instance's underlying hardware is scheduled for retirement in two weeks. The administrator needs to minimize downtime and ensure the SAP system is available during the maintenance. Which action should the administrator take?

A company migrates its SAP HANA database to an EC2 instance with 1 TB of memory. The system is used for both OLTP and OLAP workloads. The performance team notices that memory utilization is high but the CPU is underutilized. Which configuration change would best improve overall system throughput?

A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the system can handle a sudden increase in user load during month-end closing. Which architectural change would best address this requirement?

An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing high CPU utilization on the database server. The database is SAP HANA running on an r5.8xlarge instance. Which metric in Amazon CloudWatch would best indicate whether the CPU is being consumed by the HANA process or by other OS processes?

An SAP system administrator is setting up monitoring for SAP NetWeaver on AWS. They want to send custom SAP application metrics to CloudWatch for alerting. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application uses a custom TCP protocol and requires session persistence. The application runs on a fleet of EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The current configuration uses a TCP listener with 'source IP' stickiness. However, some clients are being routed to different instances mid-session, causing application errors. What is the most likely cause and solution?

An SAP administrator needs to ensure that all API calls made to AWS services by the SAP system are logged for auditing purposes. Which AWS service should be enabled?

An SAP application running on an EC2 instance is experiencing high latency during peak hours. The instance is in a private subnet with a NAT Gateway for outbound internet. Which action would most effectively reduce latency for SAP users?

Your company is running SAP Business Suite on Oracle on AWS. The database is hosted on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes configured as RAID 0 for performance. You are planning to migrate to SAP HANA on AWS. The new HANA database will be hosted on a single EC2 instance with EBS io2 volumes. You need to ensure minimal downtime during the migration. Which approach should you take?

An SAP application running on AWS is experiencing high latency for database write operations. The system uses SAP ASE on Amazon EC2 with gp2 EBS volumes. Which change is most likely to improve write performance?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP HANA database to AWS. The database is 5 TB in size and requires high IOPS for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. Which THREE AWS storage options are suitable for SAP HANA data volumes? (Choose THREE.)

Drag and drop the steps to set up an SAProuter connection between an on-premises network and AWS for SAP support access into the correct order.

An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit to describe an EBS volume attached to an EC2 instance running SAP HANA. The instance is in the us-east-1a Availability Zone. The administrator needs to create a volume in us-east-1b and copy the data from the existing volume. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery (DR) solution with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 4 hours and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 hour. The primary site is in us-east-1, and DR site will be in us-west-2. The database is running on SAP ASE. The company wants to minimize changes to the existing SAP environment and avoid complex replication setups. What is the most suitable DR approach?

An SAP system uses a custom RFC destination to an external SOAP web service. After a recent network change, the RFC call fails with a timeout error. The SAP administrator has verified that the web service is reachable from the SAP application server using ping. What is the MOST likely cause of the timeout?

An SAP system administrator is troubleshooting an issue where an application cannot connect to an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The security group for the HANA instance allows inbound traffic on port 39013 (SQL) from the application server's security group. The network ACLs for the subnet allow all traffic. What could be the cause of the connectivity issue?

A company is running an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The database experiences high write latency during peak hours. Which configuration change would most effectively reduce latency?

A company is planning a migration of their SAP ERP system to AWS. They want to use SAP HANA as the database. The current on-premises database size is 2 TB. The migration must have minimal downtime. Which combination of AWS services and methods should be used to achieve a near-zero downtime migration?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for its SAP system on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. The system uses SAP HANA as the database. Which THREE components must be configured to enable a successful DR failover?

A company runs a critical web application on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application uses Auto Scaling and a MySQL RDS Multi-AZ DB instance. Users report intermittent connection timeouts, and CloudWatch metrics show CPUUtilization spikes to 90% on the DB instance. The application queries are read-heavy with occasional writes. What is the MOST cost-effective design change to improve performance?

A company runs a critical SAP application on AWS. The SAP team needs to reduce network latency between application servers and the database. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this?

Which THREE of the following are best practices for securing an SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose 3.)

An SAP system administrator needs to ensure high availability for an SAP HANA database using AWS services. What is the recommended architecture?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the health and performance of an SAP HANA database on AWS?

An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues between the SAP application servers and the database server. Both are in the same VPC but different subnets. The security groups and network ACLs are correctly configured. The issue occurs only during peak hours. Which of the following is the most likely cause?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP HANA database to AWS. The database size is 3 TB, and they need high I/O performance with low latency. The SAP workload is critical and requires high availability. Which AWS storage solution should they choose for the HANA data volume?

An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit. The SAP HANA instance is running on an r5.4xlarge in us-east-1a. The administrator wants to change the instance type to r5.8xlarge to improve performance. What must the administrator do first?

An SAP environment on AWS uses Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for shared storage. The system is experiencing high write latency. The storage administrator suspects the volume is not optimized for SAP workloads. Which configuration change would most likely reduce write latency?

A customer runs SAP HANA on an AWS Multi-AZ deployment with a primary and secondary instance. They want to ensure automatic failover in case of instance failure. What is the recommended approach?

A company runs its SAP system on AWS and uses a Multi-AZ RDS for Oracle database for the SAP Central Services (SCS) instance. The SCS instance is currently on a single EC2 instance in one Availability Zone. The company wants to ensure high availability for the SCS service. What should they do?

An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing high latency in the application layer. The system uses a load balancer to distribute traffic across multiple EC2 instances. Which THREE actions could help diagnose the latency issue? (Choose THREE.)

A company runs an SAP HANA system on AWS. The system uses a three-node cluster with HANA System Replication (HSR) in a scale-out configuration. The cluster spans three Availability Zones. Which architecture ensures the highest availability for the SAP HANA database?

Match the AWS managed service to its SAP-related capability.

A company is designing an SAP HANA disaster recovery solution across AWS Regions. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. The database size is 5 TB. The RTO is 1 hour and RPO is 15 minutes. Which method should be used for SAP HANA replication?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of an SAP HANA database running on EC2? (Choose two.)

An SAP administrator needs to ensure that all changes to an SAP system's AWS resources are tracked and that alerts are sent when SSH access to EC2 instances is modified. Which AWS service should be used?

A company is designing a multi-tier web application on AWS. The web tier must scale based on CPU utilization, and the application tier must scale based on request count. Both tiers are deployed in a VPC with public and private subnets. Which combination of AWS services should the company use?

An SAP administrator needs to ensure that the SAP landscape on AWS is compliant with the SAP license requirements. What is the responsibility of the customer regarding SAP licensing on AWS?

An SAP administrator needs to ensure that an Amazon RDS for SAP ASE database is automatically backed up daily and the backups are retained for 30 days. The database is currently in a Multi-AZ deployment. What is the simplest way to achieve this?

The exhibit shows the block device mapping of an EC2 instance running SAP HANA. The root volume (/dev/xvda) has DeleteOnTermination set to true, and the data volume (/dev/sdf) has DeleteOnTermination set to false. If the instance is terminated, what happens to the data volume?

A company is running SAP HANA on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes for data and log. The instance is experiencing high write latency on the log volume. The administrator notices that the log volume is a gp2 EBS volume with 1,000 GB size and 3,000 IOPS baseline. The average write IOPS to the log volume is 4,000, with peaks up to 5,500. Which action should the administrator take to resolve the latency?

An SAP Basis administrator is planning to migrate an SAP NetWeaver system from on-premises to AWS. The system uses a proprietary storage backend for the transport directory. Which AWS storage options are suitable for the SAP transport directory to provide shared access across multiple EC2 instances? (Choose TWO.)

An SAP Basis administrator needs to monitor the performance of their SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The administrator wants to visualize key metrics such as CPU utilization, memory usage, and disk I/O in a single dashboard. Which AWS service should be used to create this dashboard?

An SAP Basis administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP NetWeaver application server running on Amazon EC2. The administrator notices that the CPU utilization is low but the application response times are high. The system is using an Amazon EBS gp2 volume. Which configuration change is most likely to improve performance?

A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to configure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). The solution must use AWS native services. Which TWO actions should be taken?

A company runs its SAP HANA database on a single EC2 instance with EBS storage. The database is critical and the company needs to ensure data durability and recoverability in case of a disaster. Which TWO actions should the company take?

An SAP ERP system on AWS is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues between the SAP application servers and the database server. Both are in the same VPC, but in different subnets. The security group for the database allows traffic from the application security group. Network ACLs are default (allow all). Despite this, some application servers cannot connect during peak loads. What is the most likely cause?

An SAP administrator is configuring backups for an SAP HANA database running on Amazon EC2. The backup must be stored in Amazon S3 for long-term retention. Which AWS service should be used to automate the backup process?

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to implement encryption at rest for all data. The company uses AWS KMS with Customer Managed Keys (CMKs) for the EBS volumes. The SAP application servers need to access an S3 bucket that contains sensitive data. How should the company ensure that the S3 bucket is encrypted with the same CMK?

An SAP Basis team is planning to migrate an SAP ERP system from on-premises to AWS. The system currently uses Oracle Database and runs on a physical server with 256 GB RAM. The team wants to minimize downtime and ensure the migration is supported by SAP. Which AWS service or feature should they use to perform the migration?

An SAP workload on AWS uses a Multi-AZ RDS for Oracle instance for its database. The application team reports that a recent batch job caused a spike in database connections and CPU utilization, leading to performance degradation. The database administrator wants to be notified when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. Which combination of AWS services should be used to set up this monitoring and notification?

A company runs a production web application on AWS using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) with a target group of EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The application uses a custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that includes the web server and application code. The Auto Scaling group has a launch template that references the AMI. The company updates the application code weekly and creates a new AMI version. The operations team manually updates the launch template to reference the new AMI and then initiates an instance refresh. Recently, a misconfiguration caused the launch template to point to an old AMI after an instance refresh, resulting in a rollback of the application code. The company wants to automate the deployment process to ensure that new AMIs are deployed consistently and safely. Which solution meets these requirements?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor SAP system performance and send alerts? (Choose two.)

Which TWO of the following are best practices for securing an SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose two.)

An SAP environment on AWS consists of several EC2 instances running SAP NetWeaver and a separate HANA database instance. The system is using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to the web dispatchers. Recently, the ALB health checks are failing for one of the web dispatchers, causing it to be taken out of service. You investigate and find that the web dispatcher is running and can be reached directly via its private IP. The health check is configured to check the /sap/public/health endpoint. What is the most likely reason for the health check failure?

A company runs a critical SAP application on an SAP HANA database in a single Availability Zone on AWS. The database is 2 TB in size. The company needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The DR region must be in a different AWS Region. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A company wants to migrate an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database is 2 TB in size and has a 10 Gbps network connection to AWS. The migration must have minimal downtime. Which AWS service should be used for the initial data load?

A company is migrating its SAP landscape to AWS and wants to ensure that all SAP systems can communicate with each other using private IP addresses only. The systems are deployed in multiple VPCs. Which AWS solution should be used to enable private connectivity between these VPCs?

A security engineer is troubleshooting an issue where a cross-account IAM role (arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/CrossAccountRole) is unable to upload objects to an S3 bucket (my-bucket) owned by another account. The bucket policy is shown above. What is the MOST likely reason for the failure?

An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing high CPU usage on the application server during peak hours. The system is already using the largest instance type available in the current generation. What is the most cost-effective solution to handle the peak load?

An SAP administrator needs to migrate an on-premises SAP ERP system to AWS. The current system runs on a single Windows Server with SQL Server and uses 2 TB of storage. The migration must minimize downtime and use native AWS tools. Which service should be used to replicate the on-premises server to AWS?

A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to choose the storage for the HANA data volume. Which EBS volume type provides the highest consistent IOPS for this workload?

A company is running SAP BusinessObjects on AWS. The application is deployed on EC2 instances with an Application Load Balancer. Users are reporting that the application is sometimes unreachable. What is the most likely cause?

A company wants to ensure that their SAP HANA database backups are stored securely and can be retained for 7 years for compliance. Which AWS service should they use to archive the backups?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database performance has degraded significantly during peak hours. The HANA instance is running on an r5.8xlarge EC2 instance with EBS gp2 volumes. Monitoring shows high I/O wait times on the data volume. Which change is MOST likely to improve performance?

An SAP system needs to store audit logs for 7 years to meet compliance requirements. The logs are accessed rarely. Which storage class is MOST cost-effective?

Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to an IAM user. Which EC2 instance can the user terminate?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing performance issues during peak hours. The system includes SAP application servers and a HANA database. The CloudWatch metrics show high CPU utilization on the application servers and high disk read latency on the database EBS volumes. Which THREE actions should be taken to improve performance?

An SAP administrator creates this IAM policy for an EC2 instance role used by SAP HANA Backint to back up to S3. The backups are failing with access denied errors for S3 operations. What is the most likely cause?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The system is critical and requires high availability. The database is SAP HANA running on two EC2 instances in a cluster. The company wants to ensure that the secondary instance can take over quickly in case of primary failure. Which AWS service should be used to implement a floating IP address that can be moved between the instances?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP application server is unable to establish an RFC connection to the SAP HANA database. The database is running on an EC2 instance in the same VPC. Security groups and NACLs allow all traffic. What is the most likely cause?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a production database on an r5.24xlarge instance and 15 application servers on r5.4xlarge instances. The system has been stable for months. Recently, the database instance started experiencing high CPU utilization during peak hours, causing performance degradation. The company has reserved capacity for the database instance. The SAP team has already optimized the SQL queries and reduced the CPU usage by 20%, but the CPU still spikes to 95% during peak hours. The team is considering upgrading the database instance to a larger type. However, the next larger instance type (r5.32xlarge) is not available in the current Availability Zone. The company needs a solution that minimizes downtime and cost. What should be done?

A company runs its SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance (r5.8xlarge) with 8 EBS gp2 volumes (1 TB each) in a RAID 0 stripe. The database is critical and requires high availability. The current architecture uses a single EC2 instance in one Availability Zone. The company wants to implement a disaster recovery solution with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 4 hours. The DR site must be in a different AWS Region. The SAP HANA database size is 4 TB. The company has a 1 Gbps Direct Connect connection between the primary and DR Regions. The database workload is write-intensive with an average write throughput of 200 MB/s. Which solution meets the RPO and RTO requirements?

An SAP administrator created the IAM policy shown in the exhibit. When trying to terminate an EC2 instance with ID i-abc123 in us-west-2, the action fails. What is the reason?

An SAP system on AWS sends large amounts of batch data via RFC calls between two EC2 instances in the same VPC. The application team reports high network latency. Which configuration change would most effectively reduce latency?

An SAP administrator is trying to set up an AWS CLI script that queries EC2 instance metadata. The script runs on an EC2 instance with an IAM role attached. The IAM role has the following policy: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "ec2:DescribeInstances", "Resource": "*" } ] } What is the most likely cause of the error?

A company is setting up SAP HANA database backups to Amazon S3. Which TWO actions are required to ensure secure and efficient backup operations? (Choose TWO.)

A company needs to automate the start and stop of SAP applications in non-production environments to reduce costs. The SAP systems run on multiple EC2 instances. Which AWS service can be used to schedule start and stop actions?

A company is running a web application on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are in an Auto Scaling group with a dynamic scaling policy based on average CPU utilization. During a flash sale, the application experiences a sudden spike in traffic, but the Auto Scaling group does not scale out quickly enough, causing some requests to fail. Which solution would improve the scaling responsiveness?

An SAP system is running on an EC2 instance with a single Amazon EBS volume for data and log files. The database administrator wants to increase the IOPS performance without changing the instance type. Which action should be taken?

A company is designing a highly available SAP NetWeaver system on AWS. The architecture includes two EC2 instances running the ABAP application server in an Auto Scaling group. Which THREE components are required to maintain session persistence and distribute traffic? (Choose THREE.)

An SAP on AWS deployment uses an Auto Scaling group for the SAP application tier. The application is stateless and can scale out and in based on CPU utilization. Which scaling policy should be used to add new instances during peak load and remove them when the load decreases?

An SAP system is running on AWS and needs to be migrated from a current generation instance (r3) to a newer generation (r5). What is the recommended process to minimize downtime?

An SAP administrator needs to ensure that Amazon EBS snapshots of SAP HANA data volumes are crash-consistent. The HANA database is on a single EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes. What is the correct approach?

A company is running SAP HANA in a multi-node scale-out configuration on AWS. The cluster uses AWS Placement Groups with the 'cluster' placement strategy. The system is experiencing network latency between nodes. Which change should the company make to reduce latency?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA database to AWS. Which TWO configurations are required to ensure high availability for the SAP HANA database in a multi-AZ setup?

An SAP customer has a mission-critical system running on AWS. They need to ensure that the SAP application can survive an Availability Zone failure without manual intervention. The SAP application is stateless. The database is SAP HANA with System Replication. What is the most comprehensive architecture to achieve automatic failover?

An SAP administrator executed the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit. The EC2 instance i-0abcd1234efgh5678 is a SAP HANA database server. Which statement about the storage configuration is correct?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for its SAP HANA database on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. Which TWO actions are required to enable HANA System Replication (HSR) across AWS Regions? (Choose 2)

An SAP administrator needs to ensure that all API calls made to AWS services by the SAP application are logged for auditing purposes. The administrator wants to store these logs in Amazon S3 for long-term retention. Which AWS service should be used to capture the API calls?

A company runs its SAP ERP system on AWS. The SAP application servers are in an Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones. The SAP HANA database runs on a single EC2 instance in us-east-1a. The database instance has an Elastic IP and uses EBS io1 volumes with 5000 provisioned IOPS. During a recent deployment, the company experienced a complete outage when the Availability Zone us-east-1a became unavailable due to a power failure. The database was unavailable for 6 hours until the zone recovered. The company wants to implement a highly available architecture that can automatically recover from an AZ failure with minimal data loss. The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is 15 minutes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is 30 minutes. What should the company do?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS with a single Availability Zone (AZ). They want to improve high availability (HA) by deploying across multiple AZs. Which THREE components must be configured to support a multi-AZ SAP HANA HA setup? (Select THREE.)

An SAP system administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP application server running on an EC2 instance. The /usr/sap directory is on an EBS volume. The administrator notices high I/O wait times. Which action should be taken to improve I/O performance?

A company runs its SAP application on EC2 instances in a private subnet. The SAP application needs to access an on-premises database through a VPN connection. The company wants to improve network performance and reduce latency between the SAP application and the on-premises database. Which action should the company take?

A company runs SAP ERP on AWS with a Sybase ASE database. The database is on an EC2 instance with a single 500 GB gp2 EBS volume. The volume shows 100% credit balance consumption frequently, causing I/O throttling. What should the company do to resolve the throttling?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application can communicate with the corporate LDAP server for authentication. The LDAP server is on-premises. Which AWS service should be used to establish a secure connection?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to set up a disaster recovery (DR) site in another AWS Region. The RPO is 15 minutes and RTO is 4 hours. The database is SAP HANA. Which approach meets these requirements?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system uses Oracle Database as its backend. The company wants to minimize licensing costs and administrative overhead. Which AWS database service is most suitable for this migration?

A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a high-availability setup using SAP HANA System Replication and a Pacemaker cluster. The cluster consists of two EC2 instances in different Availability Zones, each with an EBS volume for HANA data. The cluster uses a virtual IP address (VIP) managed by the AWS Route 53 health check and failover mechanism. During a recent failover test, the secondary node took over as primary, but the application was unable to connect to the database for several minutes. The investigation reveals that the VIP did not update correctly. The company wants to ensure fast and reliable VIP failover. What should the team do to improve the failover time?

An SAP system on AWS is using a shared /usr/sap/trans directory mounted on an NFS file server. The file server is an EC2 instance with a standard gp2 EBS volume. During SAP transports, users experience slow response times and occasional timeouts. The system administrator suspects the file server is the bottleneck. Which solution would provide a fully managed, highly available, and performant file share for SAP transport files?

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP HANA database running on AWS. The HANA data volume is an EBS io1 volume with 10,000 provisioned IOPS. The administrator notices that the average queue length is consistently above 10, and the average latency is 20 ms. Which TWO actions will most likely improve performance?

A small business runs its SAP Business One on a single EC2 instance in AWS. The database is SAP HANA, and the application is also on the same instance. The company wants to ensure that in the event of an instance failure, they can quickly restore the system from backups. They take daily EBS snapshots of the root volume and the data volume. One day, the instance fails and becomes unreachable. The IT administrator attempts to launch a new instance from the most recent AMI, but the new instance does not have the same private IP address, causing connectivity issues for the company's on-premises systems that use VPN to connect to the SAP server. The company uses a Site-to-Site VPN connection to the VPC. What should the administrator do to ensure that the private IP address is preserved after recovery?

An administrator receives this error when trying to register an SAP system in AWS Systems Manager. What is the likely cause?

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown and receives the output. The instance is running, but the SAP application on the instance is not accessible. Which additional AWS CLI command should the administrator run to troubleshoot the network connectivity?

Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is created for an automated script that starts and stops EC2 instances. The script is failing to stop an instance with the tag 'Environment: non-production'. What is the most likely cause?

An SAP administrator attaches the above IAM policy to a user. What actions can the user perform?

A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to configure the SAP application server instances for high availability. Which AWS feature is used to distribute traffic across multiple application server instances in different Availability Zones?

A company is migrating its SAP ECC system to SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The current database is running on Oracle. They want to minimize downtime during the migration. Which TWO services or features should they consider to achieve a near-zero downtime migration? (Select TWO.)

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to encrypt all data at rest for the SAP HANA database. Which AWS service should be used to manage the encryption keys?

Which THREE factors should be considered when selecting an EC2 instance type for an SAP HANA production system? (Choose three.)

An SAP administrator uses an IAM role attached to an EC2 instance to perform backups. The backup script fails when trying to write to an S3 bucket and create EBS snapshots. What is the most likely cause?

An SAP system is experiencing high CPU utilization on the application server. CloudWatch metrics show that the CPU credit balance for the T3 instance is frequently depleted. What is the most cost-effective solution to resolve this issue while maintaining performance?

Which AWS service can be used to monitor the performance of SAP HANA databases running on EC2 instances?

An SAP system on AWS needs to be highly available across two Availability Zones. The application tier runs on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The database tier uses an RDS Multi-AZ deployment. What additional step is REQUIRED to ensure complete high availability for the application tier?

An SAP HANA system is deployed on AWS with a cluster of EC2 instances. The system requires high network throughput between the nodes for HANA scale-out. Which EC2 networking feature should be used?

A company is deploying an SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ) platform on AWS. The platform consists of multiple web application servers, a CMS database, and an audit database. The company wants to ensure high availability for the CMS database using native SAP tools. Which AWS service should be used to host the CMS database to facilitate the use of SAP's native replication?

An SAP system is running on EC2 with a single Availability Zone. The company needs to increase availability for the SAP application layer. Which is the most cost-effective and reliable approach?

A company is running an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. The system uses an SAP HANA database with a current size of 1.5 TB. The company wants to implement a backup strategy that allows point-in-time recovery (PITR) with an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 4 hours. The backup must be stored in Amazon S3. Which combination of steps should the company take? (Choose TWO.)

A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team wants to enforce that all S3 buckets in the organization are encrypted with SSE-KMS using a specific KMS key. What is the MOST effective way to enforce this policy?

An SAP administrator needs to back up SAP HANA database to Amazon S3. Which AWS service or feature should be used to automate this backup?

A company is planning to run SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure that the system is highly available. Which TWO AWS services should be combined to achieve HA for the SAP central services (ASCS/SCS) and the database? (Choose TWO.)

An SAP administrator runs the command `aws ec2 describe-volumes --volume-id vol-0abc1234` and sees the following output: ``` { "Volumes": [ { "VolumeId": "vol-0abc1234", "Size": 100, "VolumeType": "io2", "Iops": 10000, "State": "available", "MultiAttachEnabled": false, "Attachments": [] } ] } ``` The EC2 instance i-0a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8 is stopped. What will happen if the administrator attempts to start the instance?

An SAP Basis administrator needs to migrate an on-premises SAP ERP system running on Oracle to AWS. The system has a 2 TB database and requires minimal downtime (less than 1 hour). The current on-premises network bandwidth to AWS is 1 Gbps. Which migration strategy is MOST appropriate?

A company is running an SAP NetWeaver system on AWS. The system includes a primary application server (PAS) and a dialog instance. The administrator wants to monitor the SAP system health using Amazon CloudWatch. Which THREE metrics should be monitored to proactively detect performance issues? (Choose THREE.)

Which THREE factors should be considered when choosing an EC2 instance type for an SAP HANA production system? (Choose three.)

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and wants to reduce costs by right-sizing the EC2 instances. The administrator has identified that the current instances are over-provisioned for CPU and memory. Which AWS service can provide recommendations for instance type changes based on historical usage?

A company is running SAP HANA on an EC2 instance. The administrator needs to ensure that the instance is resilient to an Availability Zone failure. Which actions should the administrator take? (Choose TWO.)

Refer to the exhibit. A CloudFormation template is used to launch an EC2 instance for SAP. The instance launches but the root volume is only 50 GB. The SAP installation requires at least 100 GB for the root volume. How should the template be modified?

A company uses SAP BusinessObjects (BO) on AWS. The BO servers run on EC2 instances in a private subnet. Users access the BI Launch Pad through an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in a public subnet. The company recently received a security audit finding that the ALB is accessible from the internet on port 443, but the security group allows inbound traffic from 0.0.0.0/0. The audit requires that only the company's corporate IP range (203.0.113.0/24) should be allowed. Additionally, the company wants to reduce the attack surface by blocking traffic from other IPs. What should the company do to meet the security requirement?

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to back up the SAP HANA database daily. The database is 1 TB in size and the backup must be completed within 2 hours. The backup will be stored in Amazon S3. Which approach provides the fastest backup time while minimizing cost?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a shared file system for SAP transport files. The system must support concurrent access from multiple SAP application servers and provide strong consistency. The transport files are typically small (less than 1 MB) and are frequently read and written. Which file storage solution should be used?

A solutions architect is designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical application that runs on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The application requires a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 5 seconds and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 1 minute. Which RDS deployment option meets these requirements?

A company runs SAP on AWS and is experiencing high latency for database queries after moving the SAP HANA database to a larger instance type. CloudWatch metrics show that the EBS volume queue length is consistently high. What is the most likely cause of the latency?

An SAP administrator runs the commands above to inspect the volumes attached to an EC2 instance that hosts an SAP HANA database. The database log files are stored on /dev/sdf. What is a potential issue with this configuration?

A company is running a business-critical SAP HANA database on an m5.24xlarge EC2 instance. The database stores 3 TB of data on EBS gp3 volumes. The system experiences high latency during peak hours. Which configuration change would most effectively reduce latency without increasing costs significantly?

A company is running SAP BusinessObjects on AWS. The application server is on an EC2 instance, and the database is on Amazon RDS for SQL Server. Users report that reports are taking longer to generate than expected. Which AWS service can be used to analyze the performance bottleneck?

A company is running an SAP HANA database on an r5.8xlarge EC2 instance. The database experiences high memory pressure, and they want to add more memory without downtime. What should they do?

Which TWO of the following are best practices for securing an SAP system on AWS? (Choose two.)

A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and wants to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). They plan to use a cluster manager (Pacemaker) with a shared filesystem. The cluster will span two Availability Zones. The storage for the shared filesystem must be highly available and provide consistent performance. What storage solution should be used?

A company runs its SAP ERP system on AWS with an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance. The database is configured with multiple EBS io1 volumes striped in a RAID 0. Recently, the company implemented a new backup process using AWS Backup with the Backint agent. However, during the backup window, the database performance degrades significantly, causing application timeouts. The database administrator checks CloudWatch metrics and sees that the EBS write latency spikes to over 50 ms during backups. The backup target is an S3 bucket in the same region. The EC2 instance type is r5.4xlarge with EBS-optimized enabled. What is the MOST likely cause of the performance degradation?

An SAP administrator needs to provide temporary, time-limited access to an S3 bucket containing SAP backup files for an external auditor. The auditor should be able to download files from the bucket. Which method provides the most secure way to grant access?

An organization uses AWS Systems Manager to run automation documents on their SAP EC2 instances. Recently, some automation runbooks have failed because the EC2 instances did not have the required SSM Agent version. The operations team wants to ensure all existing and future instances automatically have the latest SSM Agent. Which solution meets this requirement?

A company runs its SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The database requires consistent high IOPS and low latency. The system is currently using EBS gp2 volumes, but performance is inconsistent during peak loads. Which TWO steps should the administrator take to improve storage performance? (Choose 2)

A company runs its SAP Business Suite on AWS with an Oracle database on an EC2 instance. The database is stored on multiple EBS volumes configured as a RAID 0 array. The company wants to migrate the database to SAP HANA on a new EC2 instance. The SAP HANA instance will use EBS volumes for data and log storage. The current Oracle database size is 500 GB. The company needs to minimize downtime during the migration. Which migration strategy should they use?

A company is migrating a legacy three-tier web application to AWS. The application uses a MySQL database and stores session data in the database. The company wants to minimize database load and improve scalability. Which TWO actions should the company take to achieve these goals?

An SAP application on AWS needs to be migrated to a new virtual private cloud (VPC). The SAP system uses SAProuter to connect to SAP support. Which THREE components must be updated or re-configured during the migration to ensure uninterrupted connectivity?

Which TWO of the following are valid strategies to improve the availability of an SAP HANA database on AWS?

An SAP HANA database on AWS requires a backup strategy that includes incremental backups to minimize storage costs. The database is large (2 TB) and the backup window is short. Which AWS service or feature is most suitable for performing incremental backups of SAP HANA?

A company wants to monitor the performance of its SAP HANA database on AWS. Which THREE Amazon CloudWatch metrics should be monitored to ensure optimal database performance?

A company is running SAP HANA on an EC2 instance with an EBS volume for data storage. The company wants to take daily snapshots of the EBS volume for backup. However, they are concerned about data consistency because the database is running. What should they do to ensure consistent snapshots?

A company wants to automate the creation of an SAP application server in AWS. Which AWS service is best suited for this task?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and wants to encrypt the EBS volumes at rest. The company requires key rotation and audit logging of key usage. Which solution should be used?

An SAP system on AWS uses a shared file system (e.g., /sapmnt) that must be accessible from multiple EC2 instances. Which storage solution provides the highest availability and scalability?

A company runs an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with a 2 TB EBS gp3 volume. The instance type is r5.8xlarge. To improve disk performance for high-throughput write operations, the SAP administrator wants to increase IOPS. Which TWO actions should the administrator take to achieve the required IOPS? (Choose two.)

A company wants to migrate its SAP ERP system from on-premises to AWS using the SAP Application Performance Standard (SAPS) sizing approach. The current on-premises system has a SAPS rating of 15,000. The company needs to select an EC2 instance type that can provide sufficient compute capacity. Which EC2 instance family is most suitable for SAP HANA workloads?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP HANA administrator runs the command to check the attached volume. The volume is attached to an instance but the database is reporting low IOPS. What should the administrator check next?

A company runs SAP HANA in a multi-node scale-out configuration on AWS. The system is experiencing network bottlenecks that impact performance. Which AWS services or features can be used to monitor and analyze network performance between the HANA nodes? (Choose THREE.)

An SAP system administrator is troubleshooting an issue where the SAP HANA database is using more memory than expected on an Amazon EC2 instance. The instance type is an x1e.32xlarge with 3,904 GB of RAM. The HANA global.ini file includes the parameter 'memorymanager = global'. The administrator suspects that the HANA memory limit is not set correctly. What should the administrator check to confirm the memory limit?

A company is running an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with Amazon EBS volumes. The database is experiencing high write latency. The storage is configured as two gp2 volumes in a RAID 0 stripe. Which change is most likely to improve write performance?

A company is migrating its SAP landscape to AWS. They have a mix of production and non-production systems. The SAP systems use a shared storage architecture for transport directories. Which AWS storage solution should be used for the SAP transport directory to provide low-latency access across multiple EC2 instances in the same region?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to connect on-premises users to the SAP application securely. The SAP application is deployed in a VPC private subnet. Which service should be used to provide secure access for remote users?

A company is running a critical SAP HANA database on AWS. The database administrator wants to ensure that the SAP HANA backup files are stored in a secure, durable, and cost-effective manner. They need to retain backups for 7 years to meet compliance requirements. Which AWS service should be used for long-term backup storage?

A company is running a critical SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with a single EBS volume for /hana/data. They need to ensure high durability and recoverability of the data. Which storage configuration meets SAP best practices?

An SAP system administrator needs to automate the creation of an SAP HANA database backup and copy it to another AWS Region for disaster recovery. The backup is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. Which AWS service should be used to replicate the backup to another Region?

An SAP system running on AWS experienced a database failure. The recovery plan uses cross-Region Amazon RDS snapshots. The RPO is 15 minutes and the RTO is 2 hours. Which AWS service should be used to automate snapshot replication across Regions?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator is reviewing the block device mappings of an EC2 instance. What is the impact of the DeleteOnTermination setting on /dev/sdf?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery strategy using a standby system in another AWS Region. Which THREE components are essential for this setup?

An SAP system running on AWS is configured with a Multi-AZ RDS for SAP HANA database. The primary database fails, but the automatic failover does not occur. What is the most likely reason?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to create a private, low-latency network connection between an on-premises data center and an SAP environment on AWS? (Choose two.)

An SAP system on AWS is configured with an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for health checks. The ALB marks all targets as unhealthy. The health check path is /sap/public/health.html, and the SAP Web Dispatcher is configured to serve this file. What is the most likely cause of the health check failure?

An SAP system uses AWS Direct Connect to connect to on-premises networks. The SAP application servers are in a private subnet with a NAT gateway for outbound internet. The SAProuter instance is behind an Internet-facing Network Load Balancer (NLB). Connections from SAP support to the SAProuter timeout. What is the likely cause?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS using a scale-up configuration. The system is experiencing high CPU utilization on the HANA server during peak load. The SAP administrator wants to add more CPU resources without disruption. Which action should be taken?

A company needs to set up a disaster recovery solution for SAP on AWS with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which strategy is most appropriate?

A company runs SAP on EC2 instances in a private subnet. The instances need to download patches from the internet but must not be directly accessible from the internet. Which configuration meets these requirements?

An SAP system is deployed on EC2 instances in a VPC. The security team requires that all traffic between the SAP application and database tiers must be encrypted in transit. Which action should be taken to meet this requirement?

A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to choose a storage solution for the HANA data volume that provides high IOPS and low latency. Which TWO storage options are suitable? (Choose TWO.)

An SAP system administrator is troubleshooting a high CPU usage issue on an SAP application server (AS) running on an EC2 instance. The administrator suspects that a specific ABAP report is consuming excessive resources. Which AWS service can provide detailed CPU utilization metrics at the process level to confirm the suspicion?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP environment to AWS. The SAP landscape includes development, test, and production systems. The company wants to ensure data security and compliance. Which THREE AWS services should the company use to achieve this?

A company is implementing SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the storage configuration meets the required IOPS and throughput. The SAP HANA system uses a scale-out architecture with multiple worker nodes. Which type of Amazon EBS volume is recommended for the /hana/data and /hana/log volumes in a production environment?

An SAP administrator created the IAM policy shown in the exhibit for a team managing SAP HANA instances. What is the effective permission for the team regarding an EC2 instance with the tag 'Environment=Production'?

An SAP administrator needs to set up disaster recovery for an SAP system on AWS. Which TWO AWS services can be used to replicate data across regions?

An SAP system administrator needs to grant an external auditor read-only access to view EC2 instance configurations and CloudWatch logs. Which IAM policy should they use?

An administrator is setting up an SAP system on AWS and needs to assign a static private IP address to the SAP application server. Which AWS resource should be used to ensure the private IP address remains the same even after an instance stop/start?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses AWS KMS for encryption of EBS volumes. The security team requires that the EBS volumes used for SAP HANA data and log files be encrypted with a customer-managed key. They also want to ensure that the key cannot be deleted. What should the security team do to protect the KMS key?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). The solution must use a shared file system for the SAP transport directory. Which combination of AWS services should be used?

Which TWO AWS services are commonly used to monitor the performance of SAP applications and infrastructure?

A company is planning to migrate a large SAP HANA database to AWS using AWS Snowball Edge devices. The database size is 50 TB and the migration must be completed within a week. Which TWO actions should the company take to ensure a successful migration?

A company has deployed SAP BusinessObjects (BO) on AWS using a multi-tier architecture with a Windows-based application server and a SQL Server database hosted on Amazon RDS. The application server is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that handles HTTPS traffic. Users report that sometimes they receive a '502 Bad Gateway' error when accessing the BO web interface. The error occurs intermittently and is not reproducible on demand. The operations team checks the ALB logs and sees that the target response time occasionally exceeds 120 seconds. The BO application has a default timeout of 60 seconds. The team also notices that the ALB idle timeout is set to 60 seconds. What is the most likely cause of the 502 errors?

An organization wants to ensure that its SAP HANA database backups are stored in a separate AWS Region for disaster recovery. The backups are currently stored in Amazon S3 in the primary Region. Which AWS service should be used to replicate the backups to another Region automatically?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the system can automatically recover from an Availability Zone failure. The solution must use synchronous replication for zero data loss. Which AWS architecture meets these requirements?

Refer to the exhibit. An Application Load Balancer is configured to route traffic to an Auto Scaling group of web servers. The health check for the target group is failing. The web servers are healthy and running, but the health check endpoint is returning a 503 status code because the application cannot connect to the database. The database is an Amazon RDS instance in the same VPC. Which action should the solutions architect take to resolve the health check failure?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP system administrator checks disk usage on an SAP HANA instance. The /hana/log volume is at 80% usage. What is the recommended course of action to prevent issues?

An administrator needs to retrieve the private IP address of an ASCS instance that was deployed via AWS CloudFormation. What is the most efficient way to get this IP address?

An SAP administrator created the IAM policy shown above to control access to an S3 bucket used for SAP HANA backups. The policy is attached to an IAM role used by an EC2 instance. The instance fails to upload backups. What is the cause?

An SAP customer has deployed SAP HANA on AWS using an r5.12xlarge instance with 16 EBS io1 volumes for data and log. The system is running in production. The operations team receives an alert that one of the EBS volumes has failed (status check failed). The volume is part of the RAID 0 stripe for the data volume. What should they do to recover the system with minimal data loss?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to minimize downtime during the cutover. The database is SAP ASE. Which migration strategy is most appropriate?

A company has deployed SAP S/4HANA on AWS using a single EC2 instance for the HANA database. The database volume is an EBS io1 volume with 5,000 provisioned IOPS. The company wants to implement a high availability (HA) solution for the database using SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) with automatic failover. They plan to use a second EC2 instance in a different Availability Zone. The database administrator is concerned about data consistency during replication. Which additional AWS service should be used to ensure data consistency and minimize data loss during failover?

During an SAP system migration to AWS, the team needs to ensure that the SAP application can automatically restart if the EC2 instance fails. Which combination of AWS services should they use?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator is creating an IAM policy for launching EC2 instances. Which instance type will the policy allow?

An SAP administrator is reviewing a CloudFormation template snippet shown in the exhibit. The template creates an EC2 instance for SAP. What is missing from the template to ensure the instance is placed in a specific subnet?

An SAP HANA database is running on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The operations team needs to take nightly backups of the database. Which AWS service provides the most cost-effective backup solution for long-term retention?

A company is designing a disaster recovery plan for SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The plan must have a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which solutions can meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)

A company is using SAP HANA on AWS and needs to back up the database to Amazon S3. The backup must be encrypted at rest in S3. The company already uses AWS KMS for encryption. What is the MOST secure way to configure the backup?

A company runs SAP BusinessObjects on AWS using multiple EC2 instances. The system uses a shared file system (EFS) for the repository and output files. Recently, users have reported that generating large reports takes much longer than usual. The SAP administrator checks the EFS metrics in CloudWatch and sees that the BurstCreditBalance is consistently near zero. The EFS file system is in General Purpose mode with default throughput settings. The current size of the file system is 500 GB. What should the administrator do to improve performance?

A company runs SAP BusinessObjects on AWS and needs to scale the application tier based on CPU utilization. Which AWS service should be used to automatically add or remove EC2 instances?

A company runs its SAP S/4HANA system on AWS using a multi-node HANA scale-out configuration. After a recent OS update, the application layer cannot connect to the HANA database. The HANA database processes are running, but the SAP application servers report 'communication failure' errors. Initial checks show that the security group rules allow traffic on the required ports. What is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and needs to perform a backup to S3 using the SAP HANA BACKUP command. The backup fails with an error indicating that the S3 bucket cannot be accessed. The EC2 instance has an IAM role assigned with the necessary S3 permissions. What is the most likely cause of the failure?

An SAP administrator has created the IAM policy shown in the exhibit and attached it to an IAM role used by an EC2 instance running SAP HANA. The instance needs to download backup files from the S3 bucket 'sap-backup-bucket' and then stop itself after the backup is complete. However, the backup script fails with an access denied error when trying to list the bucket. What is the most likely cause? (Note: This question is reused from above but with correct exhibit now. I need to change the exhibit to have a mistake. Let me fix: remove the bucket ARN from the Resource list for S3 actions, so only the object ARN is present. That will cause the list operation to fail.)

An administrator needs to back up an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The backup must be stored in a durable, cost-effective storage solution. Which AWS service is best suited for storing the backup files?

A company is using AWS Systems Manager to manage their SAP environment. They want to ensure that only specific users can run automation documents on production SAP instances. Which IAM policy action should be used to control access to executing automation documents?

A company is running an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with a large amount of memory. The system is experiencing performance issues during peak loads. Which AWS service should be used to capture detailed performance metrics for analysis?

A company is running SAP Business Suite on AWS. The system includes a central services (ASCS) instance, a primary application server (PAS), and a database server running SAP HANA. The company recently experienced an outage when the EC2 instance hosting the ASCS instance failed due to a hardware issue. The system was down for 4 hours while the IT team manually recovered the ASCS instance from an AMI. The company wants to implement a highly available ASCS instance with automatic failover and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 15 minutes. The system is currently running in a single Availability Zone. What should the company do to meet these requirements?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to store SAP backup data? (Choose two.)

An SAP application on EC2 is experiencing high CPU utilization. The instance is part of an Auto Scaling group. The CPU metric shows spikes every hour. Which scaling policy should be used to preemptively scale out before the spike?

Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to an EC2 instance role used by SAP HANA backup scripts. The backup script attempts to upload a file to the S3 bucket without specifying server-side encryption. What will happen?

A company is deploying a serverless application using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon DynamoDB. The application must meet high availability and low latency requirements. The company expects traffic to spike unpredictably. Which THREE strategies should the company implement to ensure the application can handle the load? (Choose THREE.)

A company runs a critical web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database. The operations team reports that the application becomes unresponsive for about 30 seconds every hour at the same time. The team checks the ALB access logs and notices that during the outage, the ALB returns HTTP 504 errors. The RDS monitoring shows a spike in CPU usage and active connections during the same period. The application team confirms there are no scheduled jobs during that time. What should the team do to diagnose the root cause?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system running on Oracle to SAP HANA on AWS. The system has a database size of 2 TB. During migration planning, the team needs to minimize downtime. Which strategy should be used?

An SAP system is running on AWS with a Multi-AZ deployment. The system uses an Amazon RDS for SAP HANA database. Which TWO actions should be taken to ensure high availability?

A company is running SAP HANA on an EC2 instance. The storage is configured with multiple EBS volumes striped using LVM. The SAP administrator notices that disk I/O latency spikes during peak hours. Which change would MOST effectively reduce latency without incurring additional cost?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which architecture should be used to meet this requirement?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for a critical application that runs on EC2 instances in a single AWS Region. The application uses an Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance. The company wants to achieve a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 minute and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 15 minutes for both compute and database tiers. Which TWO options should the company implement? (Choose TWO.)

A company is troubleshooting an issue where SAP users cannot log in to the SAP GUI. The SAP application server is running on an EC2 instance behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB is configured to use the HTTPS listener on port 443. Which configuration is most likely causing the issue?

An SAP system is running on AWS with a production HANA database. The database administrator wants to ensure that backups are consistent and can be restored. Which TWO approaches should be used together for a robust backup strategy?

An SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance is configured with multiple EBS volumes using RAID 0 for increased throughput. During a backup operation, the instance experiences a significant drop in I/O performance. Which solution would best address this without affecting ongoing backups?

An SAP HANA database is running on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes for /hana/data, /hana/log, and /hana/shared. Which TWO AWS features should be used to ensure that the EBS volumes are backed up consistently?

A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to choose instance types that are certified by SAP. Which TWO instance families are SAP-certified for production SAP HANA workloads?

An SAP system on AWS needs to store sensitive configuration files securely and automatically rotate the encryption keys. Which AWS service should be used?

Which TWO are best practices for securing SAP on AWS?

An SAP system running on AWS uses a shared file system via Amazon EFS for transport directories. The system administrator notices that file operations are slow across multiple application servers. The EFS file system is configured with Bursting Throughput mode. What is the most effective way to improve performance?

A company is planning to run SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ) on AWS. The application servers require consistent low-latency access to a shared file system for storing reports and configuration files. Which AWS storage solution is BEST suited for this requirement?

A company is designing a disaster recovery solution for SAP HANA. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. The RPO is 5 minutes and the RTO is 30 minutes. Which replication method meets these requirements?

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to migrate a large on-premises SAP HANA database to AWS with minimal downtime. Which approach is most suitable?

A company is running SAP HANA on a bare metal EC2 instance. The system experiences a hardware failure that causes an instance stop. The company needs to recover the instance quickly. What should the company do to minimize recovery time?

Refer to the exhibit. A CloudFormation template is used to launch an SAP application server. The stack creation succeeds, but the application server fails to start correctly. What is the most likely reason?

A company runs its SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The database requires consistent low-latency I/O with a high number of IOPS. The current configuration uses EBS gp2 volumes. During peak loads, the application experiences performance degradation. Which change will provide the most consistent performance for SAP HANA?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency for database transactions. The system uses a single EBS volume for the SAP HANA data volume. The operations team needs to improve I/O performance without changing the instance type. Which action should be taken?

A company operates an SAP system on AWS with a shared SAP HANA database across multiple SAP applications. The database size is 5 TB. The operations team wants to implement a disaster recovery strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which solution meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?

A company wants to automate the backup of its SAP HANA database to Amazon S3. The database is running on an EC2 instance with a 500 GB gp3 volume. The backup should be encrypted at rest in S3. What is the most efficient way to achieve this with minimal operational overhead?

An SAP Basis administrator needs to apply an SAP kernel patch to the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance running on an EC2 instance in a Multi-AZ deployment. The ASCS instance is configured with a floating IP address using Elastic IP. The administrator wants to minimize downtime during the patching process. Which approach should the administrator take?

A company is using AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. The development team wants to deploy a new version of a stack that updates an existing RDS DB instance's DB engine version. The update requires a replacement of the database. Which CloudFormation stack policy setting allows the update to proceed while preventing other resources from being replaced or updated?

A company is running an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. The SAP application is deployed on EC2 instances in a Multi-AZ setup with a shared /sapmnt directory using Amazon EFS. The database is running on Amazon RDS for SAP ASE. Performance monitoring reveals that the /sapmnt volume is experiencing high read latency during peak hours. Which action would most effectively reduce latency?

A company wants to automate the installation of SAP HANA on AWS using CloudFormation. Which AWS resource should be used to run a script that downloads and installs SAP HANA software on an EC2 instance after the instance is launched?

An SAP system on AWS is using a Multi-AZ deployment for high availability. The SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS) are running on separate EC2 instances. During a failover test, the ASCS instance fails, but the ERS does not take over. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating its on-premises SAP landscape to AWS. The SAP system uses Oracle Database. The migration must minimize downtime. Which AWS service should be used for the database migration?

A company is running a production SAP HANA database on an AWS EC2 instance with a single EBS gp3 volume. The database frequently experiences high write latency during peak hours. Which design change would MOST effectively reduce write latency?

An SAP HANA administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit. The volume is attached to an SAP HANA server. The HANA database is experiencing low write throughput. Which action would most likely improve performance?

An SAP system administrator needs to ensure that an EC2 instance running SAP can access an S3 bucket containing installation media. The instance is in a private subnet without internet access. What is the recommended way to provide access to S3?

An SAP administrator created an IAM policy to allow an EC2 instance to upload backups to an S3 bucket. The policy is shown in the exhibit. However, the backup job fails with an access denied error. What is the most likely cause?

A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which TWO AWS features should be used together to achieve this?

A company has a mission-critical SAP S/4HANA system running on AWS with a multi-node HANA database. The system must be highly available with an RPO of 0 and an RTO of less than 30 minutes. The database uses SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) with synchronous replication. Which THREE components are essential for this high-availability architecture?

A company running SAP on AWS needs to back up their SAP HANA database daily with point-in-time recovery. Which service should they use to achieve this with minimal operational overhead?

A company is running a critical SAP HANA database on a single EC2 instance with a large gp2 EBS volume. They need to ensure high availability with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 15 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 5 minutes. Which solution meets these requirements?

An SAP system uses Amazon EFS for shared file storage. The SAP application writes many small files concurrently, causing high metadata operations. Which EFS performance mode should be selected to optimize for this workload?

A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the ASCS instance. They plan to use a shared file system for the transport directory. Which AWS storage service is most appropriate for this shared file system?

Which THREE AWS services are commonly used to implement high availability for SAP HANA databases on AWS? (Choose three.)

A company is running a stateful application on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The instances store session state locally. The group uses a simple scaling policy based on network traffic. The company notices that when instances are terminated during scale-in, active sessions are lost. What is the MOST effective way to preserve session state during scaling events?

An SAP environment uses Amazon CloudWatch to monitor EC2 instances. The operations team wants to receive a notification when the CPU utilization exceeds 90% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should they use?

An SAP Basis team is implementing SAP HANA system replication across two AWS Availability Zones. The HANA primary instance uses Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) EBS volumes. The secondary instance must be kept in sync with minimal data loss. Which networking configuration is required to ensure low-latency, high-throughput replication traffic between the instances?

Match the AWS service to its role in SAP high availability.

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator has the IAM policy shown. The administrator needs to attach an EBS volume to an EC2 instance that is tagged with SAPSystem=DEV. Will the administrator be able to perform the attach operation?

A company runs production workloads on AWS. The Security Team requires that all Amazon S3 buckets with server access logging enabled must have logs delivered to a centralized S3 bucket in a separate account. Which solution meets this requirement?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for its SAP environment on AWS. The primary region is us-east-1 and the DR region is us-west-2. The SAP application and database must be recoverable within 4 hours (RTO) and with a maximum data loss of 15 minutes (RPO). The database is SAP HANA. Which combination of services meets these requirements?

An organization runs SAP on AWS and wants to encrypt all data at rest for the SAP HANA database. The encryption keys must be managed by the customer and rotated annually. Which THREE AWS services can be used together to meet these requirements? (Choose THREE.)

A company is designing a network architecture for SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The architecture must support high availability by distributing application servers across two Availability Zones. Which AWS service can provide automatic failover for the SAP central services (ASCS) instance?

Which TWO of the following are valid considerations when sizing an SAP HANA instance on AWS for a production environment? (Choose 2.)

A company is running an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. The system experiences high memory usage. The administrator wants to monitor the SAP HANA memory consumption and set alarms for when memory usage exceeds 85% of available memory. Which steps should the administrator take to achieve this? (Choose THREE.)

A company is running SAP NetWeaver on AWS with an Oracle database on an EC2 instance. The database uses Oracle Data Guard for disaster recovery across Regions. The primary database is in us-east-1, and the standby is in us-west-2. The database size is 500 GB and the network link between Regions has about 100 Mbps throughput. During a recent disaster recovery drill, the failover to the standby took over 2 hours because the Data Guard redo logs were not fully applied. The team wants to reduce the recovery time objective (RTO). They are considering using Amazon S3 to store archived redo logs, increasing the bandwidth, or using a different replication method. What is the MOST effective action to reduce the RTO?

An SAP system uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to web servers. The ALB is configured with a health check that fails, causing the web servers to be marked as unhealthy. What is a possible reason for the health check failure?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses AWS Transit Gateway to connect multiple VPCs. They notice that inter-VPC traffic is being dropped. What is a likely cause?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP ERP system to SAP HANA on AWS. Which TWO AWS services can be used to assess the current on-premises environment and plan the migration?

A company is migrating its SAP system to AWS and wants to use AWS Backup to manage backups of SAP HANA databases running on EC2 instances. What is the prerequisite for this integration?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS. The system requires low-latency access to a shared file system for SAP transport directories. The file system must be accessible from multiple EC2 instances in different Availability Zones. Which storage solution meets these requirements?

An SAP application must be highly available across two Availability Zones in a single Region. The SAP Central Services (ASCS) and ERS are to be deployed on EC2 instances. Which AWS service should be used to manage the floating IP address for the ASCS instance?

A company is running an SAP HANA database on an Amazon EC2 instance. The instance type is r5.4xlarge with 16 vCPUs and 128 GiB of memory. The storage is configured with a single 400 GB gp2 EBS volume for /hana/data and a separate 100 GB gp2 volume for /hana/log. The database experiences high latency during peak loads. Which change will most likely improve performance?

A company is migrating its SAP landscape to AWS. The SAP systems consist of multiple instances (development, quality, production) running on different EC2 instances. The company wants to automate the provisioning of these instances using infrastructure as code. Which AWS service should be used to define and provision the SAP infrastructure in a repeatable manner?

A company is running SAP NetWeaver on AWS and wants to implement high availability for the ASCS instance. Which AWS service can be used to monitor and automatically restart the ASCS instance if it fails?

A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the system can survive a single Availability Zone failure. The SAP HANA database is 1.5 TB in size. What is the most cost-effective high availability solution that meets SAP's support requirements?

An SAP system administrator is configuring an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes. The administrator wants to ensure that the data volumes are mirrored to protect against volume failure. Which RAID configuration should the administrator use for the HANA data volumes?

You are an SAP Basis consultant for a company running SAP ECC on Oracle on AWS. The system is hosted on a single EC2 instance (r5.8xlarge) with a separate EC2 instance for the database (Oracle on RDS). Recently, users have reported that the system becomes unresponsive for a few minutes every day at 10:00 AM. You check CloudWatch metrics and see a spike in CPU utilization on the application server at that time, but the database metrics are normal. The application server is running SAP instance and also a custom batch job that runs daily at 10:00 AM. The batch job is using a significant amount of CPU. You need to resolve the issue without losing the functionality of the batch job. Which action should you take?

A company is running SAP HANA on an EC2 instance. The storage is provided by multiple EBS volumes. Which THREE considerations are important when configuring EBS volumes for SAP HANA? (Choose THREE.)

An SAP system running on AWS experiences a significant performance degradation after a patching activity. The SAP application (PAS) and database (HANA) run on separate EC2 instances. The network throughput between the two instances has dropped. What is the MOST likely cause?

A company is designing an SAP HANA disaster recovery solution on AWS. The primary system is in us-east-1, and the DR system must be in us-west-2. The RPO is 15 minutes, and RTO is 1 hour. Which TWO approaches meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency between the application server and the database server. Both are in the same VPC but different subnets. What is the most effective way to reduce latency?

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. They have two EC2 instances in different Availability Zones within a single AWS Region. Which AWS service should be used to automatically fail over the ASCS instance if the primary instance fails?

During an SAP migration to AWS, the migration team faces a challenge with the Transport Management System (TMS). The SAP system landscape includes development, quality assurance, and production systems running on separate EC2 instances. The TMS is configured with transport routes between these systems. After migration, transports fail with errors related to missing files on the transport directory. What should the team do to ensure the TMS works correctly?

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and using a shared file system for the SAP transport directory. The file system must be accessible from multiple EC2 instances in different Availability Zones. Which AWS storage solution should be used?

A company is deploying a multi-tier web application on AWS. The application consists of an Application Load Balancer (ALB), a fleet of EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group, and an Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance. The security team requires that all traffic between the ALB and EC2 instances is encrypted, and that the EC2 instances can only be accessed by the ALB. Which TWO steps should be taken to meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)

A company is deploying a new SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. The system will be used by 500 concurrent users. The SAP application server and the HANA database will run on separate EC2 instances. The company needs to ensure that the database instance has enough memory for the HANA database, which requires 512 GB of RAM. The application server requires 32 vCPUs and 128 GB of RAM. The company wants to minimize costs while meeting these requirements. Which combination of EC2 instance types should the company choose?

Drag and drop the steps to migrate an on-premises SAP system to AWS using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) into the correct order.

A company is migrating an SAP NetWeaver system to AWS. The system uses a shared file system for central transport directories and logs. Which AWS storage service should be used to provide a scalable, highly available, and shared file system that can be mounted by multiple EC2 instances across different Availability Zones?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses SAP HANA as its database. The system is experiencing high latency during peak hours. The SAP HANA administrator wants to identify performance bottlenecks at the CPU, memory, and disk I/O levels. Which TWO AWS services can be used together to monitor and correlate these metrics?

A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and wants to use Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as the shared file system for the SAP transport directory (/usr/sap/trans). The company needs to ensure that the transport directory is highly available and can be accessed from multiple SAP application servers across different Availability Zones. Which configuration should the SAP administrator use?

A company is designing an SAP HANA disaster recovery solution using SAP HANA System Replication. Which TWO AWS services are required to enable automatic failover across AWS Regions?

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. Which TWO AWS features should be combined to achieve this? (Choose TWO.)

An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing performance degradation. The system uses a shared file system for /sapmnt and /usr/sap/trans. The file system is hosted on an Amazon EFS file system. Which configuration change is most likely to improve throughput for these file systems?

Which THREE factors should be considered when selecting an EC2 instance type for an SAP HANA production system?

A company has deployed its SAP S/4HANA system on AWS in a single Availability Zone. The system consists of a primary application server (PAS), additional application servers (AAS), and a HANA database server, all running on EC2 instances. The company is experiencing occasional performance degradation during peak hours. The CloudWatch metrics show that the database server's CPU utilization spikes to 90% during these periods, while the application servers' CPU remains below 50%. The storage is configured with two EBS io1 volumes (each 1 TB, 10,000 IOPS) for HANA data and one io1 volume (500 GB, 5,000 IOPS) for log. The network throughput is not saturated. The company wants to resolve the performance issue without increasing costs significantly. Which course of action should the company take?

An SAP system needs to send email notifications from the SAP application server running on EC2. Which AWS service should be used?

An SAP system administrator notices that an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS is experiencing high network latency between the application server and the database server. Both servers are in the same VPC but in different Availability Zones. What is the most effective way to reduce latency?

A company is running a critical SAP application on SAP HANA in an AWS Single-AZ deployment. The application has experienced downtime twice in the last month due to underlying hardware failures. What is the MOST cost-effective solution to minimize future downtime without compromising performance?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the backup of SAP HANA databases? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and wants to use SAP HANA as the database. Which AWS service can be used to automate the installation and configuration of SAP HANA?

A company runs its SAP ERP system on AWS using SAP HANA as the database. The HANA database is deployed on an EC2 instance with 488 GiB of memory. The system has been running for months, but recently the application team reported that some queries are taking significantly longer than usual. The operations team checks the CloudWatch metrics and sees that the database instance's CPU utilization is consistently above 90% during peak hours. They also notice that the EBS volume used for HANA data files has a read latency of over 20 ms. The volume is a gp3 volume with 16,000 IOPS. The instance type is an x1e.8xlarge. The team suspects that the instance is not optimized for the workload. What should they do to resolve the performance issue?

You are an AWS administrator for a company running SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The system uses a three-tier architecture: web dispatchers, application servers, and a HANA database. All components are in a single VPC. Security requirements demand that the web dispatchers are in a public subnet, application servers in private subnets, and the database in a private subnet. The web dispatchers need to communicate with the application servers on port 443, and application servers communicate with the database on port 31341. You have configured security groups accordingly. However, the web dispatchers cannot connect to the application servers. The network ACL for the public subnet allows inbound HTTPS from the internet and outbound all traffic. The private subnet NACL allows inbound HTTPS from the public subnet and outbound all traffic. The security group for the web dispatchers allows outbound HTTPS to the application security group. The application security group allows inbound HTTPS from the web security group. What is the issue?

A company is running SAP BusinessObjects on AWS. The application servers are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB is configured to use a single target group. The company wants to deploy a new version of the application with zero downtime. Which deployment strategy should be used?

Which TWO options are valid methods for encrypting data at rest in an SAP HANA database running on Amazon EBS? (Choose two.)

A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to automate the failover of their SAP HANA database across Availability Zones using a multi-AZ setup. They are using Pacemaker and STONITH fencing. Which AWS resource is commonly used as a fencing device for SAP HANA multi-AZ clusters?

An SAP Basis administrator is deploying a new SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. The architecture uses a multi-AZ deployment for high availability: primary database in us-east-1a, standby in us-east-1b. The ASCS instance is in us-east-1a with a replicated enqueue server (ERS) in us-east-1b. For the application servers, two instances are in us-east-1a and two in us-east-1b. The administrator needs to ensure that the SAP system remains available if an entire Availability Zone fails. What is the MOST important configuration step to achieve this?

A company wants to migrate its SAP HANA database to AWS and needs to minimize downtime. Which AWS service should be used for a near-zero downtime migration?

A company is designing a disaster recovery solution for a critical SAP HANA database running on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the recovery site must be in us-west-2. The database must have a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 2 hours. Which approach meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to provide shared storage for SAP systems running on multiple EC2 instances?

A company runs an SAP HANA database on an AWS EC2 instance. The database experiences high latency during peak hours. The operations team suspects network bottlenecks. Which AWS service should be used to analyze network traffic patterns and identify the source of latency?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing performance issues. The operations team wants to set up monitoring to identify bottlenecks. Which AWS service should they use to collect and analyze SAP performance metrics?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database on an r5.8xlarge instance is experiencing high swap usage. The instance has 256 GB of RAM. The SAP HANA memory usage is 200 GB. What is the most likely cause?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues between the application server and the HANA database. The application team confirms the database is healthy. Which AWS service should be used to analyze network traffic between the two instances?

An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing performance issues. The operations team suspects that the Amazon EBS volumes attached to the SAP application server are not providing sufficient IOPS. Which AWS service should be used to monitor the IOPS performance of the EBS volumes?

An SAP administrator attaches this IAM policy to a user. Which action will the user be allowed to perform on an EC2 instance with the tag 'Environment: Production'?

A company runs a stateful web application on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group with a dynamic scaling policy based on CPU utilization. The application maintains session state in memory on each instance. Users report that they are frequently logged out and lose their session data during scaling events. What should the company do to resolve this issue?

Which TWO options are valid strategies for backing up an SAP HANA database running on Amazon EC2? (Choose two.)

An SAP system administrator is planning to migrate an on-premises SAP ERP system to AWS. The system uses Oracle Database. Which THREE AWS services can be used to migrate the Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle with minimal downtime? (Choose 3)

A company is migrating its SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS/ERS) instance. The solution must support automatic failover in case of an instance failure. Which AWS service should be used to manage the floating IP address required for the SAP high availability setup?

An SAP system is running on EC2 and uses a Classic Load Balancer to distribute traffic to web dispatchers. The operations team notices that the load balancer is not distributing traffic evenly. What is the most likely cause?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP application load balancer (ALB) is configured with the CloudFormation snippet. The ALB is not distributing traffic to the EC2 instances. What is the most likely cause?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing slow performance for batch jobs. The jobs are I/O intensive and write large amounts of data to EBS volumes. CloudWatch metrics show that the EBS volumes are reaching their throughput limits. Which action will MOST effectively improve performance?

An SAP system is deployed on AWS using an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances for the SAP application server layer. The application servers are stateless. The company wants to ensure that when a new instance is launched, it automatically registers with the SAP Web Dispatcher. The Web Dispatcher is configured with an Application Load Balancer (ALB). What is the best way to achieve automatic registration?

Which THREE considerations are important when designing an SAP HANA multi-node (scale-out) deployment on AWS? (Choose three.)

Which THREE services can be used together to implement a disaster recovery solution for SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 1 hour and a recovery point objective (RPO) of less than 15 minutes?

Refer to the exhibit. A CloudFormation stack creation failed with the message 'WaitCondition received failed signal'. What is the most likely cause?

Match the AWS service to its primary use in an SAP environment.

An SAP HANA database is running on an EC2 instance with 16 EBS volumes in a striped RAID 0 configuration. The system administrator notices that one of the volumes is degraded in the RAID array. How can the administrator recover the array with minimal downtime?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator checks the configuration of an EBS volume. The volume is attached to an SAP HANA instance. What is the potential performance bottleneck?

A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the system can be recovered within 4 hours in case of a disaster in the primary region. The secondary region is in a different AWS region. Which approach should be used to meet the recovery time objective (RTO)?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the backup of SAP HANA databases? (Choose two.)

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator is reviewing the EBS volume configuration for a SAP HANA /hana/data volume. The volume is 500 GB gp2 with DeleteOnTermination set to false. The instance is in us-east-1a. Which action should the administrator take to improve performance for SAP HANA?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor SAP system availability and send notifications when a system goes down? (Choose two.)

An SAP customer is using AWS Direct Connect to connect their on-premises network to AWS. They have multiple SAP systems in different VPCs. The network team wants to centralize connectivity and simplify routing. Which AWS service should they use to connect all VPCs to the on-premises network?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS. The migration must be completed within a limited time window. Which THREE services can be used to accelerate the migration? (Choose three.)

Which TWO of the following are valid methods for monitoring SAP system performance on AWS? (Choose two.)

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS using a multi-ABAP application server setup with a central services instance (ASCS) and enqueue replication. After a recent OS patching, the secondary application server fails to start, with errors indicating it cannot connect to the enqueue replication server (ERS). The ERS process is running on the ASCS instance. The network team confirms that security groups and NACLs are properly configured. Which THREE steps should be taken to resolve this issue? (Choose three.)

A company is planning to run SAP Business Suite on AWS. They need to ensure that the SAP systems are backed up according to best practices. Which backup strategy is recommended for SAP HANA databases on AWS?

Which TWO of the following are benefits of using SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) on AWS? (Choose 2.)

Which THREE of the following are requirements for running SAP HANA in an AWS multi-zone HA cluster? (Choose three.)

A company runs a critical SAP HANA database on an m5.24xlarge EC2 instance. The database has high transaction volume and requires low latency storage. The current setup uses EBS gp2 volumes with 10,000 IOPS. During peak hours, the database performance degrades due to IOPS burst balance depletion. Which storage solution should the company use to maintain consistent performance?

An SAP administrator is configuring high availability for SAP HANA on AWS. Which TWO components are essential for a Pacemaker-based cluster?

A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to set up high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). The company uses a shared file system for the transport directory. Which components are essential for the HA setup? (Choose TWO.)

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system from on-premises to AWS. The migration involves a heterogeneous database migration from Oracle to SAP HANA. Which AWS service should be used to perform the database migration with minimal downtime?

An SAP customer is planning to use AWS for their SAP HANA environment. They need to ensure that the chosen EC2 instance types are certified by SAP for HANA. Which THREE sources can they use to verify SAP HANA certification for AWS instance types? (Select THREE.)

An SAP system uses AWS Direct Connect to connect to on-premises systems. The SAP application servers are in a private subnet, and the HANA database is in a separate private subnet. Both subnets are in the same VPC. The application servers can connect to the HANA database, but the application servers cannot connect to an on-premises file server via the Direct Connect. The on-premises network team confirms that the file server is reachable from other on-premises resources. The VPC route tables have a route for the on-premises CIDR pointing to the Direct Connect virtual gateway. The security groups allow all outbound traffic. What is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS with an Oracle database. The database is hosted on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes. The company wants to encrypt the database at rest using AWS KMS. What is the correct procedure to enable encryption for the existing Oracle database without downtime?

A company is deploying a new SAP S/4HANA system on AWS and needs to ensure that the application servers can communicate with the database servers securely and with low latency. The application servers and database servers are in different VPCs. Which AWS service should be used to connect these VPCs?

An SAP system on AWS uses a Multi-AZ DB instance for its database. The operations team notices that during a recent Availability Zone outage, the database failover did not occur automatically. What is the MOST likely cause?

An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing intermittent network connectivity issues between the application server and the database server. Both servers are in the same VPC but in different Availability Zones. The network ACLs and security groups are properly configured. What is the most likely cause and solution?

Which THREE of the following are valid methods to automate the installation of SAP HANA on AWS? (Choose three.)

A company runs its SAP ERP system on AWS using an SAP HANA database on a single EC2 instance. The system experiences intermittent performance degradation during peak hours. The operations team suspects CPU contention, as the instance type is an r5.4xlarge (16 vCPUs). When they check Amazon CloudWatch metrics, they notice that the CPU utilization averages 60%, but occasionally spikes to 100% for a few seconds. The team wants to improve performance without changing the instance type. They are considering using AWS Compute Optimizer or enabling T2/T3 unlimited. What is the MOST effective action to address the CPU spikes?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and needs to backup the database. Which TWO services can be used together to create a backup strategy that meets the requirement of point-in-time recovery? (Choose two.)

An SAP HANA administrator sees the error log entry shown in the exhibit. The error occurs when a scheduled job tries to insert data into the BKPF table. What is the MOST likely cause?

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to automate the installation of SAP applications using infrastructure as code. Which AWS service should be used to define the infrastructure?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing slow performance. The SAP team suspects that the Amazon EBS volumes used for the database are not providing sufficient IOPS. Which step should be taken to identify the bottleneck?

Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to an IAM role used by an SAP automation script. The script is failing to start an EC2 instance. What is the most likely cause?

An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing high latency for database writes. The database is running on an RDS instance with General Purpose (gp2) storage. What change will PROVIDE the most immediate performance improvement?

A company is planning to run SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP system is backed up according to best practices. Which backup strategy is recommended?

A company is using SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) to automate the provisioning and decommissioning of SAP application servers in an AWS environment. The SAP systems are deployed on EC2 instances using Amazon EBS volumes. The operations team has observed that when LaMa triggers a scale-in operation to remove an application server, the instance is terminated, but the associated EBS volumes (including the root volume) are not deleted, resulting in orphaned volumes and increasing storage costs. The team wants to ensure that EBS volumes are automatically deleted when an instance is terminated, especially during LaMa-driven operations. Which solution should the team implement?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP ERP system from an on-premises data center to AWS. The system uses SAP HANA as the database. The current on-premises HANA database size is 1 TB. The company wants to minimize downtime during the migration. The network connection between on-premises and AWS has a bandwidth of 1 Gbps. The company has already set up a Direct Connect connection. They plan to use SAP HANA system replication to replicate the database to an EC2 instance in AWS. However, the initial data transfer will take too long due to the large dataset. What should they do to reduce the initial replication time?

An SAP system is deployed across multiple Availability Zones using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for the SAP Web Dispatcher. Users report that sessions are frequently dropped during peak hours. Which configuration change should resolve this?

The exhibit shows an IAM policy for an SAP backup process that uploads backups to S3. An administrator wants to ensure that all uploads are encrypted using SSE-S3. What does this policy enforce?

A company is running an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with an EBS gp3 volume. The workload is write-intensive and latency-sensitive. Which configuration change would provide the most consistent I/O performance?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP landscape to AWS. The SAP systems include a production system, a QA system, and a development system. All systems use the same SAP S/4HANA version. Which strategy is MOST cost-effective for the DR (disaster recovery) setup?

A company is running SAP HANA on EC2 instances with EBS volumes. They need to ensure data durability and backup. Which THREE actions should be taken?

A company runs a critical web application on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application experiences intermittent high latency, and the operations team suspects that the load balancer is not distributing traffic evenly. Which configuration should the team check to confirm or rule out uneven traffic distribution?

A company is running an SAP HANA database on an Amazon EC2 instance. The storage is configured with multiple EBS volumes striped using LVM. The company wants to ensure the database performance is consistent and can detect potential bottlenecks. Which AWS service should be used to monitor the EBS volume metrics such as Average Queue Length and Throughput?

You are managing an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. The system uses a multi-AZ deployment with two application servers (one in us-east-1a, one in us-east-1b) and a HANA database in us-east-1a with a standby in us-east-1b using HSR. The /sapmnt and /usr/sap/trans are on an EFS file system. Recently, you noticed that during a failover test of the HANA database, the application servers lost connectivity to the database for several minutes, causing errors. You also observed that after the failover, the application servers could not reconnect until the EFS mount was remounted. What is the most likely cause and solution?

An IAM policy is attached to a user who manages SAP HANA volumes. The policy is shown in the exhibit. What is the effect of this policy?

An SAP system uses an NFS share from an EFS file system for transport files. Recently, the transport directory performance has degraded. Which change would most likely improve performance?

An SAP system administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance running SAP NetWeaver and set an alarm when it exceeds 90% for 5 minutes. Which AWS service should they use?

An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit to check the status of a production HANA instance. The output shows the instance is running in us-east-1a. However, the SAP application team reports that the HANA database is not responding. What should the administrator check next to diagnose the issue?

An SAP Basis administrator is migrating an SAP ERP system from an on-premises environment to AWS. The system uses an SAP HANA database. The migration must have minimal downtime. The administrator plans to use SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) to synchronize data to an AWS HANA instance. However, the network latency between on-premises and AWS is consistently around 50 ms. What should the administrator do to ensure that HSR can maintain synchronization without impacting source system performance?

A company is migrating its SAP environment to AWS and wants to use SAP HANA as a Service on AWS (HANA database on AWS). The SAP application tier will run on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The company requires high availability for the database with automatic failover in case of an AZ failure. Which architecture should the company implement?

Which TWO of the following are required components for an SAP HANA scale-out deployment on AWS that uses shared storage for /hana/shared? (Choose two.)

Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to an IAM role used by an EC2 instance. The EC2 instance has an Elastic IP address of 203.0.113.5 and is running in a VPC with CIDR 10.0.0.0/16. When the application on the instance tries to upload an object to the S3 bucket 'my-bucket', it receives an Access Denied error. What is the MOST likely cause?

A company wants to migrate its on-premises SAP system to AWS. The system consists of an SAP NetWeaver application server and an SAP HANA database. The database requires ultra-low latency storage. Which AWS storage solution is most suitable for the SAP HANA data volume?

An SAP application is experiencing high latency when writing to an Amazon EBS volume. The volume is a gp2 type attached to an m5.4xlarge instance. Which change would improve write performance?

An SAP administrator is configuring high availability for SAP HANA using HANA system replication (HSR) across multiple Availability Zones. The administrator must ensure that the replication traffic is encrypted and uses the most efficient network path. Which TWO configurations meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)

The following IAM trust policy is attached to a role named CrossAccountBackupRole in account 123456789012: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": { "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::111111111111:role/SAPAdminRole" }, "Action": "sts:AssumeRole", "Condition": {} } ] } What does this policy enable?

An SAP ERP system on AWS is experiencing performance degradation. A review shows that the Amazon EBS volumes used for SAP transport directories are gp2 with high throughput but high latency. The SAP team needs improved I/O performance without changing the total storage capacity. Which action should be taken?

A company is running SAP Business Suite on AWS and wants to improve the disaster recovery posture by replicating data to another AWS Region. The solution must have a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 15 minutes and a recovery point objective (RPO) of less than 5 minutes. Which approach should they take?