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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 migrating a SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP license is compliant. The current license is based on the number of users. What is the correct approach for SAP licensing on AWS?

A company wants to automate the installation of SAP software on AWS using AWS CloudFormation. Which service is most appropriate to execute the SAP installation scripts?

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.)

An SAP HANA database administrator needs to restore a database from a backup stored in Amazon S3. The backup was taken using SAP HANA Backint. Which AWS service should be used to retrieve the backup files from S3?

Which THREE factors should be considered when selecting an AWS Region for a migration to minimize latency for users in Europe? (Choose three.)

A company needs to monitor the CPU utilization of SAP EC2 instances and send an alert if it exceeds 90% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used?

An SAP system is experiencing slow performance. The SAP team suspects a memory bottleneck in the HANA database. The database runs on an r5.24xlarge instance with 768 GB RAM. CloudWatch metrics show the HANA memory usage is consistently above 90%. Which action should be taken first?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP system to AWS and wants to test the migration process with a smaller system first. Which AWS service can be used to create a pre-configured SAP environment for testing?

A company wants to migrate a 10 TB SAP HANA database to AWS with minimal downtime. The network bandwidth between the on-premises data center and AWS is 1 Gbps. Which migration method is most suitable?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of SAP NetWeaver application servers? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating its SAP HANA database to AWS. Which instance type is specifically designed for SAP HANA and certified for production workloads?

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?

An SAP HANA database on AWS is using EBS io2 volumes. The company wants to monitor the read and write latency of the database volumes. Which CloudWatch metrics should be used?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for its SAP environment on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site in us-west-2. The SAP HANA database is 3 TB and uses HANA System Replication (HSR) in async mode. The RPO requirement is 15 minutes. What is the most cost-effective way to meet the RPO?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator has created this IAM policy for a backup user. The user can list and download backups but cannot delete them. However, the user is unable to list the objects in the bucket. What is the most likely cause?

An SAP Basis administrator is configuring a high availability setup for SAP HANA on AWS using HANA System Replication (HSR) with automatic failover. The architecture includes a primary HANA node in us-east-1a and a secondary in us-east-1b. The administrator uses a Network Load Balancer (NLB) with a floating IP for the HANA virtual IP address. After a failover test, the secondary node becomes primary, but client applications cannot connect to the database. What is the most likely cause?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and uses AWS Systems Manager to automate patching of the operating system. After a recent patching cycle, the SAP HANA database failed to start. The administrator checked the logs and found that the HANA service was not starting due to a missing library dependency. What should the administrator do to prevent this issue in future patching cycles?

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. They have set up a cluster using Amazon Route 53 with health checks. During a failover test, the ASCS instance fails but the DNS record does not update immediately. What is the most likely cause?

An organization runs SAP ERP on a single EC2 instance with a separate RDS for Oracle database. The Operations team needs to patch the operating system of the EC2 instance without causing downtime for the SAP application. What is the most effective approach?

Refer to the exhibit. A migration engineer is setting up an IAM policy for an AWS DMS task that will replicate data from an on-premises SAP ASE database to Amazon RDS for SAP ASE. The engineer wants to ensure the DMS task can be created and started. What is missing from this policy?

An SAP Basis administrator is troubleshooting a slow-running SAP HANA query. The administrator wants to identify which SQL statements are consuming the most CPU time in the HANA database. Which SAP HANA view or tool should they query?

A company is migrating a web application to AWS and wants to improve security. The application uses a classic three-tier architecture. Which TWO security measures should the company implement?

An SAP system on AWS uses a shared file system for /sapmnt and /usr/sap/trans mounted from an EC2 instance running NFS. The NFS server experiences a failure causing downtime for all SAP application servers. The company wants a highly available shared file system with automatic failover. The budget is limited, and the company prefers a fully managed solution. Which AWS service should the company use?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA database to AWS. The system requires a high-performance storage solution with low latency for database files, and the storage must be scalable without downtime. Which AWS storage solution should the company use for the SAP HANA data volume?

A company is migrating an on-premises SAP HANA database to AWS. The database is 2 TB in size, and the network link has a bandwidth of 1 Gbps with an average utilization of 40% during the migration window. They need to minimize the migration time. Which approach should they use?

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?

An organization is planning to migrate its SAP landscape to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which TWO AWS services can be used to implement a high-availability architecture for ASCS?

A company is planning to migrate their SAP system to AWS. They need to ensure that the SAP application servers and database servers are in the same AWS Region but in different Availability Zones for high availability. The network latency between Availability Zones must be minimal. Which AWS service should be used to connect the instances?

Which THREE of the following are valid considerations for designing SAP workloads on AWS to achieve high availability within a single AWS Region? (Choose three.)

Which THREE factors should be considered when choosing an instance type for an SAP HANA database on AWS? (Select THREE.)

Which TWO services can be used to centrally manage and enforce backup policies for SAP systems on AWS? (Choose TWO.)

A company is migrating their SAP S/4HANA system to AWS. They plan to use SAP HANA Cockpit for migration. During the pre-migration assessment, they find that the on-premises HANA system uses a mix of row and column store tables. The target AWS HANA instance is provisioned on a memory-optimized instance. They want to ensure optimal performance post-migration. Which additional step should they take?

Which TWO configurations are mandatory for an SAP HANA system replication setup on AWS? (Choose TWO.)

Which THREE actions should be taken to ensure minimal downtime during an SAP system migration to AWS using SAP HSR (HANA System Replication)?

An operations team needs to ensure that all changes to AWS resources related to SAP systems are tracked and audited. Which AWS service should they use?

A company is migrating an SAP S/4HANA system to AWS. The migration strategy involves using SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) to replicate the source HANA database to an EC2 instance running HANA. During the final cutover, the replication link breaks and the target database becomes inconsistent. What should the migration team do to recover?

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 runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The system is deployed in a cluster across two Availability Zones using Pacemaker for high availability. The primary SAP HANA node fails, and the failover to the secondary node is successful. However, after failover, the application servers cannot connect to the database because the database IP address changed. The application servers are configured to use the IP address of the primary node. The company needs a solution that allows the application servers to connect to the active database node without reconfiguration after failover. Which solution should the company implement?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS. Which AWS service should they use to set up a highly available SAP HANA database?

A company uses AWS Lambda functions with reserved concurrency to process messages from an SQS queue. The operations team notices that the Lambda function sometimes throttles, causing messages to remain in the queue. What is the MOST likely cause and solution?

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?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS using the SAP DMO (Database Migration Option) with system move. Which TWO prerequisites must be met before starting the migration?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system requires high availability across two Availability Zones. Which AWS service should be used to manage the virtual IP address for the SAP Central Services (ASCS/ERS) cluster?

Which THREE factors are essential when planning the migration of an SAP system with near-zero downtime requirements? (Choose three.)

A company is designing an SAP S/4HANA deployment on AWS with high availability. They want to use a shared file system for the SAP transport directory. Which AWS service should they use for this shared file system?

A company needs to migrate a large amount of on-premises data to Amazon S3. The data is stored on tape backups. The migration must be completed within 2 weeks. Which AWS service should they use?

An SAP administrator needs to ensure that all EC2 instances in the SAP landscape have the correct patches and configurations. Which AWS service can be used to automate OS patch management?

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 are logged for auditing purposes. Which AWS service should be enabled?

A company is designing an SAP S/4HANA deployment on AWS. They want to ensure high availability for the central services (ASCS and ERS) across two Availability Zones. Which TWO of the following are required components for a typical SAP high availability setup on AWS? (Choose TWO.)

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?

A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a scale-out HANA configuration. The system is experiencing performance degradation during peak hours. Monitoring shows high network throughput on the HANA nodes. Which EC2 instance family is best suited to mitigate this?

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and uses SAP HANA as the database. The system administrator needs to apply an OS patch that requires a reboot. The SAP HANA database is running in a scale-out configuration across multiple EC2 instances. What is the best approach to minimize downtime?

A company is migrating a multi-tier application to AWS. The application includes a web tier, application tier, and database tier. To ensure security, the database tier must not be accessible from the internet. Which VPC configuration should be used?

A company is migrating a legacy SAP ERP system to AWS. The migration must be completed over a weekend to minimize business impact. The SAP application relies on a custom kernel that is not supported by the AWS SAP HANA Large Instances. What is the best approach?

A company is planning to migrate an SAP BusinessObjects environment to AWS. They need to ensure high availability for the Web Application Server tier. Which AWS service should they use to distribute traffic across multiple instances?

A company is running SAP on AWS and uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to SAP Web Dispatchers. The operations team notices that some requests are failing with 502 errors. Which THREE actions should be taken to troubleshoot the issue?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database is 2 TB in size and has a 24-hour maintenance window. The migration must minimize downtime and support ongoing replication during the cutover. Which AWS service should be used for the migration?

A company uses AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to patch a fleet of EC2 instances. After a recent patching operation, some instances failed with the error 'Unable to retrieve patch baseline'. The instances are in a private subnet with a VPC endpoint for SSM. What is the MOST likely cause?

An SAP Basis team is designing a high-availability architecture for SAP NetWeaver on AWS. They plan to use a shared file system for the transport directory and SAP profiles across multiple availability zones. Which AWS storage service should they use?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the health of SAP application servers? (Choose 2)

An SAP Basis administrator is troubleshooting a slow-performing SAP ERP system on AWS. The system uses Amazon EBS volumes with Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) for database storage. Which metric in Amazon CloudWatch would best indicate whether the EBS volume is experiencing a performance bottleneck?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command and receives the output shown. The SAP application server (instance i-0abcd1234) is in 'running' state, but the SAP application is not reachable. The security group allows inbound traffic on port 3200. What is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Which THREE of the following are valid disaster recovery strategies for SAP on AWS? (Choose 3)

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?

An SAP system is deployed on EC2 instances with EBS volumes. The operations team needs to implement a backup strategy that provides point-in-time recovery for the EBS volumes with minimal downtime. Which AWS service should they use?

An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues between the application server and the database server. Both servers are in the same VPC but different subnets. The security groups and network ACLs are correctly configured. Which AWS service can help diagnose the network path and identify packet loss?

A company is migrating an SAP environment to AWS and wants to automate the provisioning of infrastructure using code. Which AWS service should be used for this purpose?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS using a single EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The system experiences performance degradation during peak hours. Which approach would provide the MOST immediate improvement in disk I/O performance without downtime?

An SAP administrator is setting up monitoring for an SAP HANA database. Which TWO metrics should be monitored from the HANA database using Amazon CloudWatch?

A company is planning to run SAP HANA on AWS. Which three are best practices for configuring the EC2 instance for SAP HANA? (Choose THREE.)

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.)

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency. Which THREE metrics should be examined in Amazon CloudWatch to diagnose the issue?

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?

An operations team needs to monitor the disk space usage of SAP application servers running on EC2. Which combination of AWS services should they use?

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?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS using a heterogeneous migration. Which THREE components must be converted or migrated?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA workload to Amazon EC2. Which configuration ensures data encryption at rest and in transit without performance degradation?

A company is designing a disaster recovery solution for SAP HANA on AWS using HANA System Replication. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. Which component is required to enable replication across Regions?

An SAP administrator runs the CLI commands shown in the exhibit for a production EC2 instance. The output indicates that the instance is running but the system status is impaired. Which action should the administrator take to recover the instance?

An SAP administrator needs to migrate an on-premises SAP HANA system to AWS. The total size of the HANA data and log volumes is 5 TB. The administrator wants to minimize downtime and use the fastest possible initial data transfer method. Which approach should they use?

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 uses Amazon EFS for shared file storage for transport directories. The system is deployed across multiple Availability Zones. Which EFS performance mode is most suitable for this workload?

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?

An organization is deploying a large SAP HANA system on AWS. They need to ensure that the EBS volumes for the /hana/data and /hana/log directories are configured with optimal performance and resilience. Which configuration should they use?

An architect is designing a storage solution for an SAP Business Warehouse (BW) system on AWS. The system requires high throughput for data extraction and transformation. The existing on-premises system uses SAN storage with 10,000 IOPS. Which Amazon EBS volume type should the architect choose to meet or exceed this performance at the lowest cost?

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 is migrating its SAP system to AWS and needs to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements that mandate data encryption at rest. Which AWS service should be used to manage encryption keys for Amazon EBS volumes?

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?

A company is planning to deploy SAP S/4HANA on AWS with high availability. Which action should be taken to achieve high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS/ERS) instance?

A company runs SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) on AWS with an Oracle database. The system is deployed on a single EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The company has scheduled a maintenance window for applying Oracle patches. The database administrator (DBA) will apply the patches during the maintenance window, which requires the database to be shut down. The DBA wants to minimize downtime and ensure that if the patching fails, the system can be rolled back quickly. The current setup includes daily EBS snapshots of the data volume, but these are taken at midnight. What should the DBA do to minimize downtime and ensure a quick rollback?

A company recently migrated SAP ERP to AWS. The SAP application logs indicate repeated 'ORA-1555 snapshot too old' errors in the Oracle database. Which AWS-specific parameter could be causing this?

An SAP system administrator is troubleshooting a failed HANA database backup to Amazon S3. The backup job returns an error: 'Access Denied'. Which TWO actions should the administrator take to resolve the issue?

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

Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the deployment of SAP infrastructure using infrastructure as code? (Choose 2)

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?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS using a multi-node scale-out configuration. During a routine maintenance window, the administrator needs to apply an HANA database software update. What is the BEST practice to minimize downtime?

A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the central services (ASCS and ERS). The architecture uses two EC2 instances in different Availability Zones with a shared file system using Amazon EFS for /sapmnt. The SAP system is configured with an enqueue replication server. The operations team needs to automate the failover of the ASCS instance in case of a failure. The team is considering using AWS services for this purpose. Which approach should the team use?

An SAP HANA database on AWS experiences a failover from the primary to the secondary node. After the failover, the secondary node (now primary) is running on a different AZ. The SAP application cannot connect to the new primary. What is the MOST likely cause?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. The SAP application requires low-latency access to the database and high network throughput between application and database tiers. Which AWS architecture should the company use?

An SAP administrator wants to ensure that the SAP application server can communicate with the HANA database using the private IP address within the same VPC. What configuration is necessary?

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 runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a single-instance deployment. The database is hosted on an r5.8xlarge instance with 5000 provisioned IOPS EBS volumes. Recently, the system experienced a performance degradation during peak hours. CloudWatch metrics show that the EBS volume read latency is consistently above 10 ms, and the queue length is frequently peaking at 20. The instance is in the same Availability Zone as the EBS volumes. What should the administrator do to resolve the performance issue?

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?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure backup compliance. The SAP database is SAP HANA. Which TWO AWS services can be used to back up SAP HANA databases?

A company manages a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations. The operations team needs to ensure that all accounts have CloudTrail enabled and that logs are delivered to a centralized S3 bucket. What is the MOST efficient way to enforce this configuration?

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?

An SAP system on AWS needs to send alerts when the CPU utilization of the application server exceeds 90% for more than 5 minutes. Which AWS service should be used to set up this monitoring?

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 is migrating an SAP ECC 6.0 system to SAP S/4HANA on AWS. They plan to use SAP DMO. Which AWS service can be used to accelerate the data transfer during the migration?

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 organization has an SAP S/4HANA system running on AWS. The system uses a multi-node HANA scale-out configuration. The company wants to implement a disaster recovery solution with an RPO of less than 1 hour and an RTO of less than 2 hours. The DR site is in a different AWS Region. Which THREE components should be included in the DR plan?

Which TWO actions should be taken to improve the high availability of a single-instance SAP HANA database running on EC2? (Choose two.)

An SAP Basis administrator notices that the SAP application server logs show repeated connection timeouts to the database. The database is running on an RDS for SAP HANA instance. The application server and database are in the same VPC but different subnets. The security groups allow inbound traffic from the application server's security group on port 3xx17. Network ACLs allow both inbound and outbound traffic on ephemeral ports. Despite this, connections fail intermittently. What is the most likely cause?

A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery solution using a pilot light approach. Which THREE components should be pre-provisioned in the DR region to reduce recovery time?

Which THREE factors should be considered when planning a recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) for an SAP system on AWS?

A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the database layer. Which TWO actions should the company take?

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 runs SAP NetWeaver on AWS and notices that the application server is experiencing high CPU utilization during peak hours. They need to scale out the SAP application tier. What is the best approach?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA system to AWS using SAP HANA System Replication (HSR). The migration must have a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 2 hours. Which TWO actions should the company take to meet these objectives?

A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. The database is SAP HANA. Which approach provides the lowest RPO?

An organization is migrating a large data lake (500 TB) from on-premises HDFS to Amazon S3. The migration must be completed within 3 weeks. The network bandwidth between on-premises and AWS is 1 Gbps. What is the MOST efficient migration approach?

A company runs SAP on AWS and has configured a cross-region DR strategy using Amazon EBS snapshots. The DR region is in us-west-2. After a region-wide outage, the administrator attempts to restore the snapshots but finds the latest snapshot is incomplete. What is the most likely cause?

An SAP system uses a shared file system via Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. The system administrators report that file locks are not being released properly, causing application errors. What is the most likely cause and solution?

A company is migrating their SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA to AWS. They need to transfer the data securely and efficiently. The source environment is in a different country with limited network bandwidth. The total data size is 100 TB. What is the most efficient migration approach?

An organization is migrating its SAP ECC system to AWS. The system currently uses a physical IBM Db2 database. The company wants to minimize licensing costs and management overhead after migration. The SAP system will be deployed on Amazon EC2. Which database option should the company choose?

A company is migrating its SAP system to AWS. The system uses a custom ABAP program that writes to a local file system. Which TWO AWS services can the company use to provide a shared file system accessible to multiple EC2 instances?

The exhibit shows a CloudFormation template snippet for deploying SAP ASCS and ERS instances. Both instances are launched in the same subnet. What is the main architectural issue with this deployment?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and wants to back up the database using Backint integration. Which AWS service is required to store the backups?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP NetWeaver system to AWS. Which TWO AWS services can be used to store the SAP transport directory?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator uses the CloudFormation template snippet to create an application server. After deployment, the administrator cannot connect to the instance using AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. What is the most likely missing configuration?

A company is migrating a critical SAP HANA database to AWS. They have a limited migration window and need to ensure data consistency. Which migration approach should they use?

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?

A company runs an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with a large EBS volume. The operations team receives alerts that the volume's burst balance has dropped to 10%. Which action should be taken to prevent performance degradation?

A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to ensure that all changes to the SAP system's underlying infrastructure are recorded and auditable. Which AWS service should be enabled to meet this requirement?

A company is migrating a web application to AWS and wants to use a blue/green deployment strategy to minimize downtime. Which AWS service should be used to route traffic between the blue and green environments?

A company is planning to migrate an SAP ERP system to AWS. They want to use an existing software license with no additional cost. Which AWS service allows them to bring their own SAP license?

An SAP system fails to send emails via SAPconnect using SMTP. The EC2 instance has a public IP and the security group allows outbound traffic on port 25. The SMTP server is an on-premises relay. What is the most likely reason for the failure?

An SAP system uses a Multi-AZ RDS for Oracle instance. During a recent failover, the application experienced a long outage because the SAP application server did not automatically reconnect to the new database endpoint. What is the most efficient way to resolve this issue?

A company is migrating an SAP BusinessObjects environment to AWS. They need to ensure that the business intelligence reports continue to run without interruption. Which migration strategy should they use?

A company is deploying an SAP BusinessObjects (BO) platform on AWS. To ensure high availability of the BO servers, which AWS service should be used to distribute incoming traffic across multiple BO instances in different Availability Zones?

An SAP system uses a large Amazon RDS for Oracle instance. The operations team wants to minimize downtime during a major version upgrade. Which strategy should they use?

A company is migrating an SAP NetWeaver system to AWS. The migration involves moving the application layer to EC2 instances and the database to Amazon RDS for SAP. The company wants to minimize downtime and has a limited time window. Which migration approach should the company use?

A company is running SAP NetWeaver on AWS. The SAP application server instances need to be distributed within a single Availability Zone for low-latency connectivity. Which AWS feature should be used to ensure low-latency connectivity between these instances?

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

A company runs an SAP HANA database on AWS. The operations team wants to automate the monitoring of HANA alert logs and send notifications when critical alerts occur. Which AWS service should they use to collect and analyze the logs?

An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit for an EC2 instance used as an SAP HANA database server. The server has two EBS volumes attached: a root volume (/dev/xvda) and a data volume (/dev/sdf). Based on the output, what will happen when the instance is terminated?

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS using a lift-and-shift strategy. The application has a legacy licensing model tied to specific hardware IDs. The company has already migrated the application to an Amazon EC2 instance but the license validation fails because the hardware ID changed. What is the MOST cost-effective and least disruptive solution?

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

A SAP administrator wants to monitor the CPU utilization of an SAP application server running on an EC2 instance. Which AWS service should be used to set up an alarm when CPU utilization exceeds 90% for 5 minutes?

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?

During a SAP migration to AWS, the team needs to ensure that the SAP license is compliant. Which of the following is a requirement for running SAP production systems on AWS?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS. The system is experiencing high CPU utilization during peak hours. Which TWO actions should the administrator take to address this? (Choose two.)

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a production system in us-east-1 and a disaster recovery (DR) system in us-west-2. The DR system is a standby HANA system using HANA System Replication (HSR) with asynchronous replication. The primary system has a memory of 2 TB and uses x1e.16xlarge instances. The DR system uses identical instance types. Recently, the network latency between the primary and DR sites increased from 50 ms to 150 ms due to a change in the network path. The SAP Basis team notices that the replication lag has increased significantly, and the DR system is now behind by several minutes. The RPO requirement is 30 seconds. The team must resolve the issue without changing the DR site location or the bandwidth. Which action should the team take to meet the RPO?

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to automate OS-level patching for their SAP application servers. Which AWS service should they use to schedule and apply patches?

A company runs SAP ERP on AWS with a Microsoft SQL Server database. The system is experiencing slow batch job processing. The database server is an r5.8xlarge instance with EBS gp2 volumes. Monitoring shows high disk queue length on the data and log volumes. What change will most likely improve batch job performance?

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 operations team receives an alert that an SAP application server EC2 instance is unreachable. The team checks the AWS Management Console and sees that the instance status check shows "Instance reachability check failed". What is the most likely cause?

Drag and drop the steps to troubleshoot an SAP HANA database connection failure from an SAP application in AWS into the correct order.

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?

Match the AWS service to its function in SAP disaster recovery.

A company is planning to migrate its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system currently uses an Oracle database. The company wants to switch to a supported database on AWS. Which THREE database options are supported by SAP on AWS?

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for their SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. They plan to use a multi-AZ deployment with a floating IP. Which AWS service should they use to manage the floating IP and failover?

A company runs SAP on AWS with an SAP HANA database on an r5.8xlarge instance. The company notices high network latency between the SAP application servers and the HANA database. The application servers are in the same VPC but different subnets. Which design change would MOST effectively reduce latency?

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?

Which TWO configurations are required for a high-availability SAP HANA deployment on AWS using Pacemaker? (Choose two.)

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 runs SAP on AWS and needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which TWO actions should they take?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and wants to use AWS Backup to back up the SAP HANA database. What is a prerequisite for using AWS Backup with SAP HANA?

Refer to the exhibit. A migration team is using AWS DMS to replicate data from an on-premises SAP ASE database to Amazon RDS for SAP ASE. The DMS task fails with the error shown. The source database is reachable from the DMS replication instance. What is the most likely cause?

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 system running on AWS experiences periodic performance degradation. Analysis shows that the issue occurs when an on-premises monitoring system polls the SAP application server. Which AWS service can help mitigate this by caching or throttling requests?

An SAP HANA database on AWS is running on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes striped using LVM. The database administrator needs to increase the total storage capacity without downtime. Which approach should be taken? (Select TWO.)

Which THREE of the following are best practices for securing SAP systems on AWS?

Which THREE factors should be considered when sizing an EC2 instance for SAP HANA? (Choose THREE.)

An organization is migrating a multi-tier application to AWS. The web tier runs on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The database tier uses a self-managed MySQL instance on EC2. To achieve high availability, they plan to use Multi-AZ deployment. Which migration step should they prioritize to ensure minimal downtime?

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 administrator needs to automate the daily backup of an SAP HANA database running on EC2. Which AWS service should be used to schedule and manage the backup process?

A company has a large SAP HANA database running on an r5.8xlarge instance. They are planning to migrate to a new instance type that supports more memory for future growth. Which migration approach minimizes downtime and requires no data reload?

An organization is migrating a critical SAP workload to AWS. They need to ensure compliance with SAP's 'Bring Your Own License' (BYOL) model. Which THREE steps should they take?

An SAP administrator needs to set up a fault-tolerant architecture for SAP NetWeaver on AWS. The architecture must survive an entire Availability Zone failure. Which configuration is the most appropriate?

A company has an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance with 1.9 TB of memory. The database requires persistent storage. The solutions architect must choose a storage configuration that provides the highest IOPS and throughput while maintaining data durability. Which storage option should the architect choose?

A company wants to migrate its on-premises VMware virtual machines to AWS. They need to retain the current operating system and applications. Which AWS service should they use?

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 is running an SAP application on an SAP HANA database in a multi-AZ deployment on AWS. The operations team notices that the system is experiencing high latency during peak hours. Upon investigation, they find that the EBS volumes attached to the HANA instances are frequently exceeding the provisioned IOPS limit. Which of the following is the MOST effective action to resolve this issue?

A company is preparing to migrate its SAP ECC 6.0 system to SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The current on-premises system includes a single application server and a database server running Oracle. The total database size is 1.5 TB. The company plans to use a homogeneous migration approach by exporting the existing Oracle database and importing it into a new SAP HANA database running on AWS. The migration must be completed within a tight weekend window. The company has established a 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection to AWS. Which migration strategy should the company use to minimize downtime?

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?

The operations team uses the IAM policy above for a group of administrators. An administrator tries to terminate an EC2 instance that is tagged with Environment=Production. What will happen?

A company is performing a large-scale migration of multiple SAP systems to AWS. They need to automate the replication of servers from on-premises to AWS while minimizing downtime. Which AWS service should they use to replicate entire servers (OS, applications, and data) in real-time?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a multi-Node HA cluster using Pacemaker and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The SAP application and database are on separate EC2 instances. After a planned failover test, the secondary node fails to take over the database role. What is the most likely cause?

An SAP environment on AWS includes multiple EC2 instances running SAP application servers. The operations team needs to capture and analyze all API calls made to AWS services by these instances. Which THREE services should be used together?

A company is migrating a 50 TB Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle using AWS DMS. The source database is running on-premises and the network link has a bandwidth of 100 Mbps. The migration must complete within 5 days. What is the MOST effective approach to meet the deadline?

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?

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to send alerts when the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance exceeds 90% for 5 minutes. Which AWS service should be used to create this alarm?

A company is migrating an SAP BusinessObjects environment to AWS. They need to ensure high availability for the web tier and have a requirement to use a single DNS name for end users. Which AWS service should they use to distribute traffic across multiple web servers?

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?

A company is running an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance. The operations team notices that the SAP application is responding slowly during peak hours. CloudWatch metrics show high CPU utilization and increased swap usage. Which combination of actions should the team take to resolve the performance issue?

An SAP system on AWS experiences intermittent performance degradation during peak hours. CloudWatch metrics show high CPU utilization on the application server but normal on the database server. The application server is an m5.2xlarge instance. Which action should the operations team take FIRST to diagnose the issue?

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 administrator needs to back up the SAP HANA database daily. The backups must be stored securely and retained for 30 days. Which storage option is the most cost-effective?

A company has an SAP system running on AWS that uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to multiple EC2 instances. The operations team notices that the ALB is returning 503 errors intermittently. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Which TWO metrics should be monitored to ensure the health of an SAP HANA database running on AWS? (Select two.)

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?

An SAP architect is designing a new SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. The system must be PCI DSS compliant. The architect plans to use AWS KMS for encryption at rest and AWS CloudTrail for audit logging. The database will be SAP HANA on an r5.24xlarge instance with EBS gp3 volumes. What additional step is required to meet PCI DSS encryption requirements?

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

An SAP administrator created the IAM policy shown in the exhibit to allow an EC2 instance to back up to an S3 bucket. However, the backup fails with an access denied error. What is the most likely issue?

An SAP administrator configures Route 53 failover routing as shown. The health check associated with the primary record is failing. What will happen to client requests for sap.example.com?

Which TWO considerations are critical when migrating an SAP HANA database to AWS using backup and restore? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating an SAP system from on-premises to AWS. The migration involves rehosting SAP HANA on EC2. Which of the following is the best practice for sizing the EC2 instance?

A company is migrating a critical SAP HANA database from on-premises to AWS. The database is 6 TB, and the migration must be completed within a 4-hour downtime window. The network bandwidth between on-premises and AWS is 1 Gbps. Which approach should the company take to meet the downtime requirement?

A company is migrating its SAP HANA database to AWS. The system requires high network throughput and low latency between the application and database tiers. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP HANA system is running on an EC2 instance with the attached volumes shown. The HANA system requires high IOPS for its data volume. Which volume should be used for the HANA data directory?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and needs to perform an in-place upgrade from HANA 1.0 to 2.0. The database size is 2 TB and the team wants to minimize downtime. Which approach is most appropriate?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS using the SAP Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM) tool. The migration must comply with SAP's 'bring your own license' (BYOL) model. Which THREE steps should the company take to ensure compliance?

A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to automate the patching of SAP application servers. The servers are in an Auto Scaling group. Which THREE steps should be included in the automation?

An SAP administrator needs to rotate the SSL/TLS certificate for the SAP Web Dispatcher running on an EC2 instance. The new certificate is stored in AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). How should the administrator deploy the certificate to the Web Dispatcher?

A company runs its SAP ERP system on AWS with an Oracle database on an EC2 instance. The system is used by thousands of users globally. Recently, the database has been experiencing slow query performance, especially during end-of-month processing. The administrator notices that the database instance is an r5.8xlarge with 32 vCPUs and 256 GB of memory, running on a single EBS io1 volume with 20,000 IOPS for the data files. The administrator has already optimized the SQL queries and increased the SGA size. However, performance remains poor. The Amazon CloudWatch metrics show that the EBS volume's Average Queue Length is consistently above 10 and the read latency spikes to over 100 ms during peak times. The CPU utilization is around 70%. Which action should the administrator take to resolve the I/O bottleneck?

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

Refer to the exhibit. A CloudFormation template is used to migrate a web server to AWS. The template launches an EC2 instance but does not install the web server. What is the best way to automate the installation?

An SAP system uses a secondary IP address for the SAP application. After an instance reboot, the secondary IP address is no longer attached. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA database from on-premises to AWS. The database is 5 TB and the network link is 500 Mbps. The company has a tight window of 24 hours for the migration. Which TWO methods can be used to transfer the initial data load within the time constraint?

A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery solution with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 4 hours and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. Which strategy meets these requirements for SAP HANA database?

Drag and drop the steps to set up an SAP HANA system replication in AWS using the SAP HANA Cockpit into the correct order.

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 is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the database and application servers are in the same placement group to minimize latency. However, the instance types required for the HANA database are not available in the same placement group due to insufficient capacity. What should the company do to maintain low latency?

A company uses SAP NetWeaver with an Oracle database on EC2. The operations team wants to automate the patching of the operating system while ensuring minimal downtime. Which AWS Systems Manager capability should be used?

Which THREE factors should be considered when selecting an EC2 instance type for an SAP HANA production system during migration? (Choose 3.)

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 company runs its SAP landscape on AWS and uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to multiple web dispatchers. The operations team notices that some requests are failing with 503 errors. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to minimize network latency between the SAP application servers and the database. Which architecture is recommended?

A company is migrating a large SAP Business Warehouse (BW) system to AWS. The system uses SAP HANA as the database. The migration plan involves using SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) for near-zero downtime. During the initial synchronization, the network bandwidth is limited to 1 Gbps. The source database is 5 TB. How long will the initial synchronization approximately take, assuming no other bottlenecks?

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?

The above IAM policy is attached to an IAM role used by an AWS DMS replication instance. The DMS task is migrating data from an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon S3. The DMS task fails with an access error. What is missing from the policy?

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?

A company is migrating an on-premises SAP HANA database to AWS. The database is 2 TB in size. The migration window is limited to 3 days. Which AWS service should be used to perform the initial data transfer?

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 migrating an SAP ERP system running on an on-premises IBM AIX server to AWS. The server hosts both the SAP application and the DB2 database. The company has a tight deadline and wants to minimize the migration effort. The current system uses a storage area network (SAN) with 2 TB of data. The company wants to use AWS native services and avoid re-architecting. What is the BEST migration strategy?

A company is migrating its SAP environment to AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP license compliance is maintained. What should the company do to verify that the EC2 instances used for SAP are properly licensed?

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 migrating its SAP landscape to AWS and plans to use SAP S/4HANA. The migration includes a heterogeneous system conversion from an existing SAP ECC system. Which AWS service or tool supports the generation of the migration cockpit and migration object modeler content required for the conversion?

A company runs SAP ERP on AWS with an Oracle database. The architect wants to implement a backup strategy that provides point-in-time recovery (PITR) with an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 2 hours. Which TWO solutions should the architect consider? (Choose TWO.)

Which AWS service should be used to capture and analyze operating system-level metrics from an EC2 instance running SAP, such as memory utilization and disk I/O, and to set alarms based on thresholds?

A company runs an SAP system on AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that provides a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. Which approach meets these requirements?

An SAP system administrator notices that nightly SAP HANA backups to Amazon S3 are failing intermittently with 'Access Denied' errors. The backups are initiated by an AWS Lambda function that uses an IAM role. The role has a policy that grants s3:PutObject on the backup bucket. Which additional IAM action is most likely required to resolve the issue?

A manufacturing company is migrating its SAP ECC system to AWS. The system includes an SAP HANA database (1 TB) and an SAP NetWeaver application server. They plan to use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for the database and AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) for the application server. The network connection is AWS Direct Connect with 1 Gbps bandwidth. During a test migration, the DMS task for the database fails with a connection error. The source database is on an on-premises server that is behind a firewall. The administrator has already opened the necessary ports in the firewall. The DMS replication instance is in a VPC with a public subnet. Which step should the administrator take to resolve the connection issue?

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 runs SAP Business Suite on AWS with Oracle Database. The system is experiencing high read latency on the database server. The current storage configuration uses EBS gp2 volumes. Which change would most effectively reduce read latency?

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to monitor the available memory on their SAP application servers. Which AWS service can be used to collect and visualize memory utilization metrics?

Which THREE AWS services are typically used in the migration of an SAP environment to AWS? (Choose 3.)

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS with a multi-AZ deployment using HANA System Replication (HSR). The primary site is in us-east-1a and the secondary in us-east-1b. Each site has an ASCS and PAS. The HANA database uses a virtual IP address managed by a Route 53 health check with a failover routing policy. During a recent AZ failure in us-east-1a, the automatic failover to the secondary site took over 15 minutes. The recovery time objective (RTO) is 5 minutes. Analysis shows that the Route 53 health check failed but the failover did not trigger quickly because the DNS TTL was set to 300 seconds. What changes should be made to meet the RTO?

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to ensure that its SAP HANA database is backed up daily with minimal impact on performance. The database is 2 TB in size and runs on an r5.8xlarge instance. Which backup strategy meets these requirements?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to web dispatchers. The operations team notices that some requests are failing with 503 errors. What is the MOST likely cause?

An operations team needs to automate the patching of EC2 instances running SAP applications. The instances are part of an Auto Scaling group. The team wants to apply patches without causing downtime to the SAP system. Which approach should they use?

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?

A company is migrating SAP workloads to AWS and needs to choose storage for SAP HANA. Which two storage options are supported for SAP HANA data volumes? (Select TWO.)

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the database can survive a single Availability Zone failure without manual intervention. The SAP HANA system is currently deployed on a single EC2 instance. Which solution meets this requirement?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses AWS Backup to back up the SAP HANA database. The backup job fails with an error indicating insufficient IAM permissions. What is the most likely missing permission?

An SAP system on AWS uses a Multi-AZ deployment for the database layer with synchronous replication. The application servers are in the same region but different Availability Zones. During a recent failure of the primary database instance, the automatic failover to the standby instance took longer than expected, exceeding the RTO of 5 minutes. Upon investigation, the team finds that the standby instance was not fully synchronized at the time of failure. What could be the cause?

An architect is designing a highly available SAP NetWeaver architecture on AWS. The system uses an SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which THREE components are required to achieve high availability for the SAP environment? (Choose THREE.)

A company is migrating a critical SAP system to AWS using the SAP Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM) and AWS Launch Wizard. What is the primary benefit of using AWS Launch Wizard for SAP deployment?

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?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The primary region is us-east-1 and the DR region is us-west-2. The RPO is 15 minutes and RTO is 1 hour. Which approach should be used to replicate SAP HANA data?

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?

A company runs a production web application on EC2 instances behind an ALB. The operations team receives an alert that the application is returning HTTP 503 errors. Which THREE steps should be taken to diagnose the issue?

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?

Which TWO of the following are recommended best practices for deploying SAP HANA on AWS? (Choose two.)

A company is implementing SAP S/4HANA on AWS and wants to ensure that the system is backed up properly. They need to back up the HANA database and the application layer. Which approach is recommended for backing up the HANA database?

Which THREE are valid strategies for backing up an SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose three.)

An operations team needs to monitor the performance of an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. Which THREE CloudWatch metrics should the team monitor to ensure the database is not resource-constrained? (Choose THREE.)

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?

An SAP system uses an Amazon RDS for SAP ASE database. The database is experiencing high connection timeouts. The SAP team notices that the RDS instance's maximum connections parameter is set to 500. What should be done to resolve the issue?

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 is migrating an SAP NetWeaver system to AWS. The system uses an on-premises shared file system (NFS). Which TWO AWS services can provide a scalable, highly available NFS share for SAP transport directories?

An SAP Basis administrator needs to automate the start and stop of SAP application servers on AWS to reduce costs during non-business hours. The instance must be stopped (not terminated) to preserve the data. Which AWS service can be used to schedule the start and stop?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing performance degradation. The operations team suspects a network bottleneck. Which THREE metrics should they analyze in CloudWatch to diagnose the issue? (Choose THREE.)

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?

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS. They want to implement automated backups for the SAP HANA database using AWS Backup. Which AWS service should they use to orchestrate the HANA backup?

An SAP administrator notices that the /usr/sap directory on an EC2 instance is filling up. The instance is part of an SAP application server cluster. Which AWS service can be used to add additional storage without downtime?

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?

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to use a custom AMI for SAP application servers. They need to ensure that the AMI is encrypted using AWS KMS. Which step is required to launch encrypted instances from this AMI?

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?

A media company is migrating its on-premises video processing infrastructure to AWS. The current infrastructure uses a custom application that splits video files into segments, transcodes them using FFmpeg, and assembles the final output. The application runs on a single server with 64 vCPUs and 256 GB RAM. The migration plan is to use AWS Batch with EC2 instances for the transcoding jobs. The video files are stored on an on-premises NAS and will be migrated to Amazon S3. The company needs to minimize latency for file access during migration and reduce the time to transfer initial data. The company has a 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection. The total data volume is 500 TB. The migration window is 30 days. Which approach should the team use to transfer the initial data to S3 with the lowest latency and within the migration window?

An SAP system on AWS is configured with a multi-AZ deployment for high availability. During a failover test, the secondary instance does not take over as expected. The administrator checks the AWS Management Console and sees that the Elastic IP address is still attached to the primary instance. What is the most likely cause?

An administrator uses AWS Launch Wizard to deploy an SAP S/4HANA system with high availability. After deployment, they notice that only one database instance is created. What is the most likely reason?

Which TWO steps are required to set up automated backups for an SAP HANA database running on EC2?

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 runs SAP HANA on AWS and needs to perform a system copy from production to a test environment. The test environment is in a different AWS account. Which AWS service can be used to securely share the HANA backup files stored in Amazon S3 across accounts?

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 is migrating SAP applications to AWS and needs to ensure that the migration complies with regulatory requirements for data encryption. Which TWO AWS services can be used to encrypt data at rest? (Choose TWO.)

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and needs to back up the database to Amazon S3. Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the backup process?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS. They plan to use AWS Launch Wizard to deploy the SAP landscape. After running Launch Wizard, the deployment fails with an error indicating that the instance type is not available in the selected Availability Zone. What should the company do to resolve this issue?

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP application server. The administrator wants to collect detailed metrics about the EC2 instance's memory usage. Which TWO AWS services can be used to collect memory metrics? (Choose TWO.)

An SAP system on AWS uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to multiple EC2 instances. The operations team wants to enable sticky sessions (session affinity) for the ALB. Which TWO steps are required? (Choose TWO.)

A company runs a critical SAP HANA database on an Amazon EC2 instance. The operations team receives an alert that the instance's EBS-optimized throughput is consistently exceeding the baseline performance of the gp2 volume. Which action should the team take to resolve the performance issue without downtime?

A retail company runs its SAP ERP system on AWS. The system includes an SAP HANA database on an r5.8xlarge instance with 4TB of storage using a single EBS io1 volume with 16000 provisioned IOPS. The application experiences periodic slowdowns during end-of-month financial closing, which typically lasts for 2 hours. The CloudWatch metrics show that during the slowdown, the EBS volume's Average Queue Length peaks at 20, and the instance's EBS Bandwidth is at 3500 Mbps (the maximum for r5.8xlarge is 4750 Mbps). The database team confirms that HANA is not CPU-bound during these periods. The SAP team wants a cost-effective solution to eliminate the performance bottleneck. Which solution should be recommended?

A company is migrating a large SAP ERP system to AWS. Which TWO AWS services are essential for high availability and disaster recovery? (Choose two.)

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and wants to encrypt the EBS volumes at rest. They also need to manage the encryption keys themselves. Which solution should they use?

A company is migrating its SAP environment to AWS using AWS Launch Wizard for SAP. Which TWO pieces of information does Launch Wizard require to deploy an SAP system? (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 runs SAP ERP 6.0 on an Oracle database on EC2. The system is experiencing high CPU usage on the database server during peak hours. Analysis shows that the CPU is consumed by log writes. Which configuration change can reduce CPU usage?

An SAP Basis administrator needs to restart the SAP application server on an EC2 instance after applying kernel patches. What is the recommended way to perform the restart to minimize downtime?

An SAP environment on AWS is using a single Availability Zone. The company wants to achieve high availability for SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). Which architecture should they implement?

Which TWO of the following are valid methods for migrating SAP systems to AWS? (Select TWO.)

An administrator created the IAM policy shown in the exhibit for the operations team. The team needs to create snapshots of EBS volumes that have the tag 'Name' with a value starting with 'SAP-HANA-'. However, the policy is not working as expected. What is the most likely reason?

A company is migrating a large SAP HANA database to AWS. They plan to use AWS DMS for ongoing replication. The source database is Oracle. During the full load phase, DMS reports an error: 'Failed to add supplemental logging for table'. What is the MOST likely cause?

A company runs an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with a large EBS volume. The volume is approaching its maximum capacity. The operations team needs to increase the storage size without downtime. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS. Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the migration progress and performance?

A company is migrating a large-scale SAP environment to AWS. Which THREE AWS services can be used to optimize storage costs for SAP workloads? (Choose three.)

An SAP Basis administrator needs to apply an OS-level security patch to a fleet of SAP EC2 instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The instances are part of an Auto Scaling group. Which approach is the MOST efficient and minimizes downtime?

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?

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to AWS. The application uses a proprietary database that is not supported by AWS Database Migration Service (DMS). The company needs to minimize downtime and automate the migration as much as possible. Which approach should be used?

A company is designing a highly available SAP NetWeaver system on AWS. They plan to use a two-node ASCS/ERS cluster with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Which AWS service is required to manage the virtual IP address for the cluster?

A company has deployed SAP S/4HANA on AWS using a single EC2 instance for the HANA database and multiple EC2 instances for the application servers. The system is in production and the company wants to implement high availability for the HANA database to minimize downtime during patching and failures. The HANA database is critical and must have an RTO of less than 5 minutes and an RPO of zero. The current setup uses a single EBS volume for /hana/data and another for /hana/log. The company has two Availability Zones available. Which solution meets the requirements?

An SAP system on AWS is running on an r5.16xlarge instance. The system is experiencing network throughput bottlenecks. Which step should be taken to improve network performance?

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?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS using an m5.24xlarge instance. The storage is configured with multiple EBS io1 volumes striped with LVM. Recently, the database performance has degraded. CloudWatch shows that the EBS write latency averages 5 ms, and the queue depth is consistently below 1. What is the most likely cause of the performance degradation?

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 deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). Which AWS services can be used to implement a failover cluster for ASCS and ERS? (Select THREE.)

An SAP system on AWS has an SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance running on an EC2 instance. The solution must ensure high availability for the ASCS in case of an EC2 failure. The ASCS uses a shared file system for the /sapmnt and /usr/sap/trans directories. Which architecture meets the high availability requirement with the least administrative overhead?

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

A customer wants to migrate their SAP HANA database to AWS and needs to ensure that the EBS volumes for /hana/data and /hana/log are configured for maximum throughput and low latency. Which EBS volume type should be used for /hana/data?

A retail company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system includes an SAP HANA database (1 TB) and an SAP NetWeaver application server. The migration strategy is to use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for the database and then manually install the application server on an EC2 instance. The network connection is AWS Direct Connect with 1 Gbps bandwidth. During the migration, the DMS task for the database completes successfully, but the application server installation fails because the SAP installation media is not accessible. The installation media is stored on an on-premises file server. The EC2 instance for the application server is in a private subnet with no direct internet access. The administrator has created a VPC endpoint for S3 to access the media, but the media is not in S3. Which step should the administrator take to make the installation media available?

A company is migrating its SAP BusinessObjects to AWS. The current on-premises deployment uses a Windows-based environment. Which AWS service should the company use to migrate the Windows servers?

An operations team is planning a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for an SAP system on AWS. The system includes SAP HANA database and application servers. The DR site must have a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. Which THREE components are essential for this DR strategy? (Choose THREE.)

A company is planning to migrate its SAP HANA database to AWS. They require high availability with automatic failover in less than 30 seconds. Which AWS service should be used to meet this requirement?

Which TWO statements are correct regarding SAP HANA backup strategies on AWS? (Choose two.)

An SAP administrator applies the IAM policy shown in the exhibit to an IAM user. The administrator reports that the user can start and stop EC2 instances but cannot tag them. Why is the user unable to tag instances?

A company is migrating a large SAP Business Suite system to AWS. The system has a 10 TB SAP HANA database. The migration window is limited to 48 hours. The company has a 1 Gbps direct connect link to AWS. Which TWO actions should the company take to minimize the migration time while ensuring data consistency?

A company is migrating an SAP Business Suite system to AWS. The system has a large database and requires high network throughput between the application and database tiers. Which Amazon EC2 placement group strategy should be used?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of SAP applications? (Select two.)

A company is migrating a critical Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. They need to minimize downtime and ensure data consistency. Which AWS service should they use to perform an online migration with minimal impact?

An SAP administrator notices that the application logs show repeated authentication failures from a specific IP address. The SAP application is hosted on an EC2 instance behind an Application Load Balancer. What AWS service can be used to block traffic from that IP at the network level?

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?

An SAP on AWS environment uses a shared file system via Amazon EFS for SAP transport files. The EFS file system is mounted on multiple EC2 instances. Users report that file operations are slow during peak hours. Which action should be taken to improve performance?

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?

A company is running SAP Business Suite on AWS and needs to back up the SAP HANA database daily. Which AWS service can be used to automate HANA backups to Amazon S3?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database is running on an EC2 instance with a single EBS volume for /hana/data and /hana/log. The system is experiencing high latency during write operations. What is the most cost-effective design change to improve performance?

A company is running SAP Business Suite on AWS. The SAP application servers are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Users are experiencing session timeouts because the ALB is distributing requests to different application servers. What should the company configure on the ALB to maintain session stickiness?

An SAP system on AWS is using an Oracle database. The company wants to implement automated backups to Amazon S3. Which AWS service should be used to orchestrate the backup process?

An organization is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application requires a static IP address for client whitelisting. After migrating the application to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) with an Auto Scaling group, clients report connection failures. What should be done to resolve this issue?

A company is running a mission-critical SAP S/4HANA system on AWS in the us-east-1 region. The system uses a two-tier architecture with the SAP application server and HANA database on the same EC2 instance. The instance type is an r5.24xlarge with 12 x 2 TB gp3 EBS volumes striped using LVM. The HANA data volume is 10 TB. The company has a disaster recovery (DR) requirement with an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 4 hours. The DR site must be in us-west-2. The company currently takes daily EBS snapshots of the data volume and copies them to us-west-2. However, they are not meeting the RPO. The operations team is considering implementing SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) asynchronously to the DR region. However, network latency between us-east-1 and us-west-2 averages 60 ms. The SAP HANA database has a heavy write workload, with average log writes of 500 MB/sec. The team is concerned that the replication may fall behind and cause data loss. What should the team do to meet the DR requirements while minimizing data loss?

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to back up their SAP HANA database daily. The backup must be stored cost-effectively and retained for 7 years for compliance. Which AWS service should be used for long-term backup storage?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high CPU utilization on the application server during peak hours. The SAP administrator wants to add a new application server instance to distribute the load. Which AWS service should be used to automatically register the new instance with the existing SAP system's load balancer?

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?

A company is designing a disaster recovery strategy for SAP S/4HANA. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. The RPO must be less than 30 minutes and RTO less than 2 hours. Which approach meets these requirements?

An SAP Basis administrator needs to monitor the performance of SAP HANA database using Amazon CloudWatch. Which of the following metrics should be monitored to detect potential CPU bottlenecks?

A company is migrating its SAP HANA database to AWS. The database requires high I/O and low latency. Which storage option should be used for the /hana/data volume?

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 runs SAP Business Suite on AWS. They notice that their SAP application servers are not evenly distributing load across multiple instances. They have configured an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in front of the SAP Web Dispatchers. What is the MOST likely cause of uneven load distribution?

A company is migrating a web application to AWS and wants to minimize latency for global users. Which AWS service should be used to cache static content at edge locations?

A company runs a critical SAP ERP system on AWS. The architecture includes an SAP HANA database on an r5.24xlarge instance (with 768 GB RAM) in us-east-1a, and multiple SAP application servers in an Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones (us-east-1a and us-east-1b). The database uses EBS volumes: two 1 TB gp3 volumes for data, one 500 GB gp3 for log, and one 100 GB gp3 for backup. The system has been running without issues for months. At 3:00 PM, the operations team receives alerts from Amazon CloudWatch that the HANA database instance's CPU utilization is at 100%, memory usage is at 95%, and the disk queue length for the log volume is consistently above 10. The SAP application is experiencing intermittent timeouts. The team checks the HANA studio and sees that there are many long-running queries and that the log volume is almost full (95% used). The database backups are scheduled to run at 2:00 AM and completed successfully. There have been no changes to the system or workload recently. The team suspects a performance degradation. What is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

A company is migrating a SAP BusinessObjects environment to AWS. Which AWS service can be used to automate the deployment of the SAP BusinessObjects components?

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)

A company runs an SAP HANA database on an r5.8xlarge EC2 instance. The operations team notices that the instance's CPU utilization spikes to 100% every night at 2 AM, causing SAP application timeouts. CloudWatch metrics show the spike corresponds to a backup process. Which action should be taken to resolve the issue?

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?

An SAP administrator needs to ensure high availability for SAP NetWeaver ABAP stack on AWS. Which three components should be configured in a multi-AZ active/passive cluster? (Select THREE.)

A company is setting up a disaster recovery (DR) site for SAP on AWS. They need to replicate the SAP HANA database to another region. Which AWS service is BEST suited for this?

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?

An SAP Basis team is migrating an SAP Business Suite system to AWS. The system has a large number of background jobs and requires consistent performance for batch processing. Which Amazon EC2 instance type is most suitable for this workload?

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.)

Which THREE considerations are important when planning the migration of an SAP HANA database to AWS using HANA System Replication (HSR)?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP application server is experiencing high memory utilization. The system uses a cluster of EC2 instances. What is the most cost-effective solution to automatically add an additional application server when memory exceeds 80%?

A company is running SAP on AWS and uses CloudWatch to monitor the SAP HANA database. The database administrator wants to create a dashboard that shows the current memory utilization of all HANA instances. Which CloudWatch feature should they use?

A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS. The SAP application servers are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The operations team notices that occasionally, some requests fail with HTTP 503 errors. The team checks the ALB and finds that the target group has healthy instances. The SAP application logs show no errors. What is the most likely cause of the 503 errors?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA in a multi-AZ deployment with a primary and standby database. During a planned failover test, the database fails over but the SAP system becomes unresponsive. Investigation reveals that the SAP application servers cannot connect to the new primary database because the database VIP is not updated. What is the most likely cause?

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?

An SAP system is deployed across multiple Availability Zones using an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The Operations team notices that during a failover test, the ALB is sending traffic to unhealthy instances. Which configuration change would ensure the ALB stops sending traffic to unhealthy targets?

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 is designing a new SAP environment on AWS. The SAP application servers communicate with the database over the network. The architect wants to minimize latency and maximize throughput. Which placement strategy should the architect use?

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?

An SAP system is running on EC2 instances in a VPC. The security team requires that all traffic between the SAP application and database tiers be encrypted in transit. Which solution meets this requirement with minimal latency?

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 wants to migrate its SAP HANA database to AWS using SAP HANA Database Backup and Recovery. The backup files are stored on an NFS share on-premises. The company wants to restore these backups directly to an Amazon EC2 instance running SAP HANA. Which AWS storage service should they use to make the NFS backup files accessible to the EC2 instance?

An SAP administrator needs to grant an external auditor read-only access to view SAP system logs stored in CloudWatch Logs. Which AWS identity-based policy should be used?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a custom AMI for their EC2 instances. They want to ensure that all instances launched from this AMI automatically have the SAP host agent installed and configured. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

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 a large SAP S/4HANA production system on AWS. The system consists of a single HANA database instance running on an r5.24xlarge EC2 instance (with 768 GB of RAM), and multiple application server instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The database uses six EBS io1 volumes for data and log files, each with 20,000 provisioned IOPS. The application servers are in an Auto Scaling group. Recently, the company experienced a prolonged database outage when the primary EC2 instance failed. The recovery took over 4 hours because a new instance had to be launched and snapshots restored. The company wants to improve the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) to less than 30 minutes for the HANA database. They also want to minimize data loss with an RPO of less than 5 minutes. The company has a second AWS region (us-west-2) available for disaster recovery but prefers to keep costs low for the DR site. Which solution should the company implement?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS). The company plans to use a shared file system for the SAP transport directory. Which TWO AWS services can be used to provide a highly available shared file system for this purpose?

An SAP HANA database on AWS is using EBS gp3 volumes with 3000 IOPS. The database team observes that the write latency is high during peak hours. The EBS volume is not exceeding its bandwidth limit. What is the most likely cause?

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 company is planning to migrate its SAP workloads to AWS. Which THREE AWS services are commonly used to set up a secure network connectivity between on-premises and AWS? (Choose THREE.)

A company is migrating a large SAP HANA system to AWS. The SAP system has strict latency requirements for storage and requires high IOPS. Which storage solution should be used for the SAP HANA data volume?

Which TWO of the following are best practices for running SAP HANA on AWS?

A company runs SAP ECC on AWS with a multi-ASCS architecture for high availability. During a failover test, the secondary ASCS instance does not take over. The cluster logs indicate that the 'aws-cluster' resource agent failed to release the Elastic IP. What is the MOST likely cause?

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?

A company is planning to run SAP NetWeaver on AWS and wants to use Auto Scaling for the application server tier. Which consideration is critical when implementing Auto Scaling for SAP application servers?

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

Your SAP system on AWS uses a shared file system with Amazon EFS. The operations team notices that the SAP application is experiencing latency when reading files from EFS. Which action can improve read performance?

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?

A company is migrating its SAP HANA database to AWS and needs to choose the most appropriate EC2 instance type. The workload requires high memory bandwidth and is CPU-intensive. Which instance family would best meet these requirements?

A company is using SAP HANA on AWS and needs to restore a backup to a new HANA instance. Which AWS service should be used to automate the backup and restore process?

A company is deploying SAP on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP application servers. Which TWO strategies can be used to achieve this? (Choose TWO.)

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS that requires a static IP address for client whitelisting. The application will run on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company wants to ensure the IP address does not change over time. What should the company do?

A company is designing a highly available SAP HANA system on AWS. They need to replicate data synchronously to a secondary site in a different Availability Zone. Which AWS service should they use?

Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to a user who manages SAP EC2 instances. Which of the following actions can the user perform?

An SAP administrator created the IAM policy shown in the exhibit to allow a monitoring tool to start and stop SAP application servers tagged with Environment=Production. When testing the policy, the tool fails to start an instance. What is the most likely cause?

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 running SAP HANA on an r5.8xlarge instance. They want to scale up to meet increased memory requirements. Which instance family would be the MOST suitable for a scale-up scenario?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database is 2 TB in size and has a 4-hour maintenance window. Which AWS service should be used to minimize downtime during the migration?

An SAP workload on AWS uses a single Availability Zone deployment. The company wants to improve high availability without changing the existing architecture significantly. Which action should be taken?

Which THREE factors should be considered when choosing a migration strategy for a legacy application to AWS? (Choose three.)

Which THREE actions should be taken to ensure a secure and compliant SAP environment on AWS? (Choose 3)

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?

Which TWO of the following are valid strategies for reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for SAP workloads on AWS?

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to reduce the cost of their development and test systems. The systems are only needed during business hours on weekdays. Which AWS service can be used to automatically stop and start the EC2 instances on a schedule?

A company has an SAP S/4HANA system running on AWS with a custom backup solution that uses AWS Backup. The backup policy includes daily backups with a retention of 30 days. The operations team notices that backup jobs for the SAP application server are failing intermittently. What should the team do to troubleshoot the issue?

An SAP system administrator needs to restart a critical SAP application server EC2 instance that is part of a cluster. Which approach minimizes downtime?

An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing high latency to its S3-backed backup destination. Which architectural change would most effectively reduce backup latency?

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?

An SAP system on AWS uses a shared file system with Amazon EFS. The operations team notices that file operations have high latency during peak hours. The EFS file system is configured with Bursting Throughput mode. The team monitors the CloudWatch metric PercentIOLimit and sees it consistently at 100%. What should the team do to improve performance?

An SAP administrator runs the above CLI command to find the public IP of an m5.2xlarge instance. The output is null. Which of the following is the most likely reason?

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting connectivity between an SAP application server (security group sg-12345) and an SAP HANA database server. The inbound rule on the database security group is shown in the exhibit. Which additional configuration is required for the application server to communicate with the database?

An SAP Basis administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on a SAP HANA database running on an r5.4xlarge instance with dedicated tenancy. The instance is part of a placement group named 'sap-cluster'. The administrator suspects network throughput is suboptimal. Based on the exhibit, what is the MOST likely reason?

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

An SAP administrator notices that the sapstartsrv process on an EC2 instance is failing to start after a system reboot. The instance is running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for SAP Applications. Which of the following log files should be examined FIRST to diagnose the issue?

A company is designing a high-availability architecture for SAP NetWeaver on AWS. The architecture includes two application server instances in different Availability Zones, a shared file system using Amazon EFS, and a database using SAP HANA with HANA System Replication (HSR). During a failover test, the application servers cannot connect to the database after the HANA secondary becomes the primary. What is the most likely cause?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency between the application server and the database server. Both servers are in the same VPC but in different Availability Zones. Which action should the administrator take to reduce latency?

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?

A company wants to centralize monitoring of EC2 instance metrics across multiple AWS accounts. Which solution is MOST scalable and cost-effective?

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?

A company is deploying a new SAP BusinessObjects system on AWS. The system will consist of multiple servers: a CMS database server, an audit database server, and several processing servers. The administrator needs to ensure that all servers can communicate with each other and with corporate on-premises systems via a VPN connection. The AWS environment is in a single VPC with public and private subnets. Which network architecture should be used to meet these requirements?

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

A company is migrating its SAP landscape to AWS and wants to use SAP HSR (System Replication) for high availability. Which AWS feature is required to support SAP HSR?

A company is running an SAP HANA database on an AWS EC2 instance. The system administrator needs to ensure that the database logs are automatically backed up to Amazon S3 and retained for 30 days. Which combination of AWS services can achieve this with minimal operational overhead?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to a fleet of EC2 instances running SAP Web Dispatcher. The ALB has a target group with health checks configured on port 8080. Recently, the operations team noticed that some instances are being deregistered due to health check failures. The instances are healthy and the Web Dispatcher is running. The health check response time is consistently below 2 seconds. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS. The SAP system uses a central instance (CI) and dialog instances. The migration must minimize downtime. Which AWS service should be used to replicate the application servers in near real-time?

A company is planning to run SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the instance is optimally placed for low latency between the application and database tiers. Which AWS feature should be used?

A company runs SAP ERP on AWS. The system includes a primary application server and a secondary application server for high availability. The secondary server is not receiving updates from the primary. Which THREE steps should the administrator take to investigate?

An SAP administrator created the above IAM policy for an EC2 instance that performs automated SAP HANA backups. The backup script runs successfully but fails to upload the backup files to the S3 bucket. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS. They need to ensure that the migration complies with regulatory requirements for data residency. Which of the following is the most important consideration?

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for their SAP HANA database. They have set up a multi-AZ deployment with replication. During a planned failover test, the secondary node fails to take over. Which AWS service should be used to monitor and automatically remediate the replication status?

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a failed backup of an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The backup is configured to use AWS Backup with a backup vault. The error log shows: 'AccessDenied: User: arn:aws:sts::123456789012:assumed-role/AWSBackupRole/backup-job is not authorized to perform: kms:Decrypt on resource: arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789012:key/abcd1234-...' Which IAM policy modification is required to resolve this issue?

An SAP landscape on AWS includes several instances in a VPC. The administrator needs to ensure that SAProuter can connect to the SAP system from the internet securely. Which networking component should be used?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system (with Oracle database) to AWS using the SAP-certified approach. The current on-premises environment uses Oracle RAC for high availability. The company wants to reduce licensing costs and simplify the architecture on AWS. Which of the following is the MOST efficient migration strategy?

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 migrating a monolithic application to AWS. The application has a relational database with complex queries and requires low-latency read replicas. Which database migration strategy minimizes downtime and supports heterogeneous migrations?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy. The DR site must have a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 30 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. Which two AWS services should be used together to achieve these objectives? (Choose TWO.)

Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to a role used by AWS DMS to write data to an S3 bucket. The migration fails with an access denied error. What is the most likely cause?

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?

An SAP Basis administrator needs to monitor the memory usage of an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. Which AWS service should be used to collect and visualize custom memory metrics from the OS?

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 is planning to run SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the system can automatically recover from an Availability Zone failure. They want to use SAP HANA System Replication with automatic failover. Which AWS configuration is required?

An SAP administrator is designing a new SAP NetWeaver system on AWS. They need to choose an EC2 instance type that is certified for SAP. Which source should they consult?

An administrator needs to back up SAP HANA database to S3 with encryption. The backup must be encrypted at rest in S3. Which combination of actions should be taken?

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?

An SAP system on AWS uses a custom AMI for its application servers. The operations team needs to update the AMI to include a new security patch. What is the MOST efficient way to update all existing instances without downtime?

Which TWO considerations are critical when planning a migration of an SAP system to AWS? (Choose 2.)

An SAP HANA database is experiencing high memory utilization. The operations team needs to determine if the database is using more memory than allocated. Which CloudWatch metric should they monitor?

An SAP Basis administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP application server running on an Amazon EC2 instance. The administrator notices high CPU utilization. Which AWS tool can provide detailed insights into the CPU usage at the process level without installing additional agents?

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS with an Oracle database. The application servers are deployed in an Auto Scaling group across three Availability Zones. The database is hosted on a single EC2 instance in us-east-1a. The company wants to improve availability with minimal changes to the application. The database must be highly available with automatic failover and no data loss. The database size is 1 TB. The current RTO is 2 hours and RPO is 1 hour. The company is considering using Oracle Data Guard for replication. Which solution should the company implement to meet the HA requirements?

An SAP administrator needs to apply a security patch to the operating system of an EC2 instance running SAP. The instance is part of an Auto Scaling group. What is the best practice to apply the patch while minimizing downtime?

A company is migrating a large-scale SAP HANA workload to AWS. The system requires high memory and low latency. Which EC2 instance type is most suitable for this migration?

A company is migrating an SAP BusinessObjects system to AWS. The system includes a Central Management Server (CMS) and several processing servers. The CMS uses a SQL Server database. The company wants to use a managed database service on AWS to reduce operational overhead. The database size is 100 GB and is expected to grow 10% annually. The company requires automatic failover to a secondary Availability Zone with minimal downtime. Which AWS database service should the company use for the CMS database?

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.)

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and wants to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this?

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 system on AWS uses an Auto Scaling group for the application tier. The scaling policy is based on the average CPU utilization of the EC2 instances. During peak hours, the system scales out, but the new instances take a long time to become available because they need to install SAP software and configure them. This delay causes performance degradation. The operations team wants to reduce the time to scale out. Which solution should they implement?

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting connectivity between SAP application servers and the SAP HANA database. The database security group has an inbound rule as shown in the exhibit. The application servers are in security group sg-12345. However, the application servers cannot connect to the database. What is the most likely reason?

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.)

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses AWS CloudTrail to monitor API activity. The security team wants to receive real-time notifications when specific SAP-related API calls are made. Which AWS service should they use to filter and forward these events?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system requires high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which AWS architecture should be used to meet this requirement?

A company is designing a backup strategy for SAP HANA on AWS. The HANA database is 2 TB in size. The company requires daily full backups and hourly incremental backups. Which AWS service should be used to store the backups cost-effectively with high durability?

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

A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to automate the patching of SAP application servers. The solution should apply patches during a defined maintenance window and ensure high availability. What is the most efficient approach?

A company is migrating its on-premises web application to AWS. The application consists of a stateless web tier and a stateful database tier running on a single server. The web tier uses session data stored in the local file system. The database tier runs on MySQL. The company wants to minimize changes to the application code during migration. They plan to use Amazon EC2 for the web server and Amazon RDS for MySQL for the database. After migrating the web server to an EC2 instance and the database to RDS, users report that they are being logged out of the application frequently. What is the most likely cause of this issue?

Which THREE steps should be taken when troubleshooting a slow-running SAP HANA database on AWS? (Select THREE.)

A company has an SAP HANA database running on a r5.8xlarge EC2 instance with 3.5 TB of data. They want to back up the database to Amazon S3 using Backint. What is the most cost-effective and performant backup strategy?

A company is migrating an SAP application server to AWS using CloudFormation. The template snippet is shown in the exhibit. The SAP application requires at least 300 GB of disk space for /usr/sap. Which change should be made to the template?

A company is designing a multi-zone SAP system on AWS. They want to minimize network latency between SAP application servers and the SAP HANA database. What is the best practice for deploying these components?

A company runs SAP ERP on AWS. The system needs to be highly available with automatic failover in case of an Availability Zone failure. Which architecture should be used?

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 is migrating a large Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. They want to minimize downtime during the migration. Which AWS service should they use to replicate data in real time?

An administrator is reviewing a CloudFormation template to deploy an SAP ASCS instance. The template snippet is shown in the exhibit. What is a potential issue with this configuration for a production deployment?

An SAP administrator receives an alert that the SAP HANA database is using 95% of its allocated memory. The system is running on an EC2 instance with 1 TB of RAM. The administrator needs to add more memory without significant downtime. Which action should be taken?

An SAP administrator is planning a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy for SAP HANA on AWS. The DR site is in a different AWS Region. Which AWS service can replicate SAP HANA data to the DR region with low Recovery Point Objective (RPO)?

An SAP system on AWS uses an Oracle database. The administrator wants to automate the creation of daily backups and retain them for 30 days. Which THREE AWS services can be used together to achieve this? (Choose three.)

An SAP administrator is reviewing a CloudFormation template that defines an Auto Scaling group for SAP application servers. The exhibit shows the relevant section. The group currently has 2 instances running. The administrator wants to ensure that during a rolling update, at least one instance remains available. Which property should be added?

A company wants to automate the installation of SAP software on AWS. Which AWS service is most appropriate for orchestrating the deployment of SAP systems?

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 uses AWS Config to record resource changes and evaluate rules. Recently, the compliance status of an S3 bucket rule changed from COMPLIANT to NON_COMPLIANT. The operations team investigates and finds that the bucket policy was modified. What is the MOST efficient way to identify who made the change and the exact time?

The exhibit shows the output of the describe-replication-tasks command. The task status is 'failed'. Which action should be taken to troubleshoot the failure?

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 is running SAP ERP on AWS and needs to encrypt data at rest for all SAP-related storage. Which combination of AWS services can be used to achieve this? (Select TWO.)

An SAP system administrator receives an alert that an EBS volume attached to an SAP application server is at 95% capacity. The volume is 100 GB gp2 and stores log files. What is the MOST efficient way to resolve the space issue?

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?

An SAP HANA database on AWS is configured with automatic backups to Amazon S3. The backup process is failing with the error 'Access Denied'. The administrator has confirmed the S3 bucket exists and the IAM role attached to the EC2 instance has the correct permissions. What could be the issue?

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 is migrating a large SAP ERP system to AWS. The source system runs on IBM Db2. The target is SAP HANA on AWS. Which tool should be used for schema conversion?

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?

Which THREE components are required to set up a highly available SAP HANA database using AWS services? (Choose 3)

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a network connectivity issue between an SAP application server and an SAP HANA database, both running on EC2 in the same VPC. The security groups allow traffic on port 3xx15 and 3xx17. Which TWO steps should the administrator take to diagnose the problem?

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?

Which THREE of the following are valid options for high availability of SAP HANA on AWS? (Choose THREE.)

A company is migrating its SAP HANA database from on-premises to AWS. The current system uses 6 TB of memory and the company wants to minimize downtime. The company has established a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection. Which migration method is MOST suitable?

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?

An SAP system on AWS is using Amazon EBS volumes for the database. The company wants to take crash-consistent snapshots of the entire database volume set. Which approach is recommended?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the database. Which AWS service should be used to automatically recover the HANA primary instance in case of an instance failure?

A company is migrating a production SAP HANA database to AWS. The database size is 2 TB. The migration window is 4 hours. The network bandwidth is 10 Gbps. Which migration method should be used to achieve the shortest downtime?

An SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes experiences high write latency. The instance type is r5.4xlarge. The EBS volumes are gp2. Which change is MOST likely to reduce write latency?

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?

Which TWO are required considerations when sizing an SAP HANA instance on AWS for a production environment? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating an SAP HANA database using SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) to AWS. The target EC2 instance is in a different AWS Region than the source. The network latency between regions is high. What should the migration team configure to ensure successful replication?

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to design a disaster recovery (DR) solution with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 4 hours. The primary region is us-east-1 and the DR region is us-west-2. The SAP application uses an SAP HANA database with a size of 2 TB. Which combination of AWS services should be used to meet the DR requirements most cost-effectively?

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?

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application currently uses Oracle Database and the company wants to migrate to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with minimal downtime. Which TWO steps should be taken to achieve this? (Choose TWO)

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

An SAP administrator is creating an IAM policy for an EC2 instance that performs SAP database backups to S3 and creates EBS snapshots. The policy as shown fails to allow the EC2 instance to perform backup operations. What is the most likely reason?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP NetWeaver system from on-premises to AWS. The system uses an SAP HANA database. The company wants to use the SAP System Migration (sum) tool. Which THREE prerequisites must be met before starting the migration?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure that the target EC2 instances have the correct SAP kernel parameters. Which AWS service can be used to automate the configuration of these parameters?

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?

An IAM policy is attached to an IAM role used by an SAP system to perform backups. The policy is shown above. The SAP system can successfully list EC2 instances but fails to start or stop them. What is the most likely cause?

An operations engineer runs the AWS CLI command above to check the state of an EC2 instance. The output shows the instance is running. However, the SAP application cannot connect to the instance. The security group allows inbound traffic on port 443 from the application's IP. What is the most likely cause of the connectivity issue?

Which AWS service is used to automate the installation and configuration of SAP applications on AWS according to best practices?

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

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database is running out of disk space on the /hana/data volume. The volume is an EBS gp3 volume with 2000 GB size. The administrator wants to increase the size without downtime. Which action should be taken?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a shared file system via Amazon EFS for transport files. Recently, the SAP system experienced slowness when importing transports. The CloudWatch metrics show high BurstCreditBalance for the EFS file system. What action should be taken to improve performance?

During the migration of an SAP NetWeaver system, the team notices that the application server performance is degraded after migrating to AWS. The system uses AWS EBS volumes for storage. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the performance degradation?

A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to implement a high-availability (HA) solution for SAP Central Services (ASCS/ERS) using Amazon EC2 instances. Which AWS service is essential for managing the virtual IP address (VIP) required for the HA cluster?

A company is experiencing performance issues with their SAP ERP system on AWS. The system is running on an r5.4xlarge EC2 instance with gp2 EBS volumes. The database is SAP HANA. CloudWatch metrics show high write latency on the data volume. Which change would most likely improve performance?

A company is migrating an SAP Business Suite system to AWS. The current on-premises system uses Oracle Database with Automatic Storage Management (ASM). The target database on AWS will be SAP HANA. Which migration strategy minimizes data conversion efforts?

An SAP administrator is creating an IAM policy to allow SAP basis users to manage their own SAP EC2 instances. The policy above is intended to allow users to start, stop, and reboot instances tagged with their username. However, users report that they cannot start instances. What is the MOST likely reason?

A company is migrating an SAP NetWeaver system to AWS. The system uses NFS for shared file systems. They want to minimize latency and maximize throughput for SAP profiles and transport directories. Which AWS storage service should they use?

A technology company is migrating its SAP Business Warehouse (BW) system to AWS. The system includes an SAP HANA database (2 TB) and multiple application servers. The migration plan is to use SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) for the database and AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) for the application servers. The network connection is AWS Direct Connect with 1 Gbps bandwidth. During a test migration, the HSR replication is working, but the MGN replication for one of the application servers is failing with an error: "The agent cannot communicate with the MGN service endpoint." The source server is a Windows Server 2016 machine. The administrator has verified that the source server has internet connectivity. Which action is most likely to resolve the issue?

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)

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP application server is experiencing high latency when reading from the shared /sapmnt directory mounted from an Amazon EFS file system. The EFS file system is in General Purpose performance mode and uses Bursting throughput mode. The administrator checks CloudWatch metrics and sees that BurstCreditBalance is near zero. What is the most cost-effective solution to address the latency?

A company is migrating a critical Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database is 2 TB in size and has a high transaction rate. The migration must have minimal downtime. Which TWO AWS services or features should be used to achieve this? (Choose two.)

The exhibit shows a CloudFormation template snippet. During migration, the SAP application server fails to start because the root volume is too small. What is the most efficient fix?

A company is migrating its SAP HANA database to AWS. The database is 3 TB and runs on a dedicated physical server. The company wants to use a HANA-certified EC2 instance. Which instance type should the company choose?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing increased latency in database queries. The operations team suspects that the RDS for Oracle instance is hitting its maximum connections limit. Which CloudWatch metric should be monitored to confirm this?

An SAP administrator needs to grant an external auditor read-only access to view the configuration of all AWS resources in the account. Which IAM policy should be used?

A company is migrating a multi-tier application to AWS. The application includes a load balancer, web servers, and an Oracle database. The migration plan includes using AWS DMS for the database. During the initial full load, the DMS task fails with an error indicating insufficient memory. The source database is on an EC2 instance with 4 GB RAM. What should the migration team do to resolve this issue?

A company is migrating a multi-tier web application to AWS. The web tier uses sticky sessions. The application tier uses a shared session store. Which architecture ensures high availability and scalability?

An SAP administrator needs to configure high availability for SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP. They plan to use AWS services. Which combination of services is required?

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 runs SAP ERP on AWS with a multi-AZ deployment. The SAP application tier uses Auto Scaling groups with a custom AMI. After a recent patching of the AMI, the new instances fail to start the SAP application services. What should the administrator do to ensure that the new AMI correctly starts SAP services?

An SAP administrator wants to monitor the CPU utilization of SAP application servers using Amazon CloudWatch. What is the minimum configuration required?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and wants to implement a backup strategy that ensures point-in-time recovery (PITR) with minimal data loss. Which TWO AWS services should be used?

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?

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to ensure that the system meets the SLA for availability. The operations team needs to monitor the health of the SAP application stack (ASCS, PAS, DB). Which AWS service can provide a centralized dashboard to visualize the health and performance metrics?

An SAP system on AWS is using an SAP HANA database. The database administrator wants to monitor memory usage and receive alerts when memory consumption exceeds 90%. Which THREE services can be used together to achieve this?

An SAP administrator needs to back up the SAP HANA database daily with a retention period of 30 days. The backups must be stored in a cost-effective manner and be instantly accessible for recovery. Which AWS service should be used?

Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to a role used by an EC2 instance running SAP. The instance is unable to start or stop other EC2 instances. What is the most likely cause?

A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to monitor operating system metrics such as memory usage, disk space, and process status using Amazon CloudWatch. Which agent configuration is required on the SAP application and database servers to send these metrics to CloudWatch?

A company is running SAP NetWeaver on AWS. The system uses an SAP HANA database. The operations team needs to monitor the database performance and receive alerts when specific metrics exceed thresholds. Which AWS service should be used to collect and analyze SAP HANA metrics?

An SAP workload on AWS uses an Auto Scaling group for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS) instances. The instances are launched with a custom AMI that includes the SAP software. During a recent failover test, the ASCS instance failed to start after being terminated and re-launched by the Auto Scaling group. The error log indicates that the ASCS instance cannot find the quorum device. What is the most likely cause of this issue?

A company wants to automate the start and stop of SAP EC2 instances during non-business hours to reduce costs. Which AWS service is best suited for this task?

An SAP system administrator needs to monitor the CPU and memory utilization of SAP EC2 instances. Which TWO AWS services can be used to collect and visualize these metrics? (Choose TWO.)

A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS. They need to choose the appropriate storage for the database volume to meet high IOPS and low latency requirements. Which AWS storage service should they use?

A company is migrating a legacy SAP ERP system with a large ABAP codebase to AWS. They want to use the same SAP version without re-implementation. Which migration strategy should they adopt?

A company is migrating an SAP S/4HANA system to AWS. The system requires high availability across two Availability Zones. Which AWS service should be used to attach a block-level storage volume that can be concurrently accessed by two EC2 instances in active/passive mode?

Match the SAP HANA deployment option to its description.

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?

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS with a multi-AZ deployment using Amazon EFS for shared transport directories. The system administrator notices that the SAP transport directory mounted via EFS is experiencing high latency during peak hours. The EFS file system is using the Standard storage class. Which combination of steps should the administrator take to reduce latency? (Choose TWO.)

An organization is migrating an SAP HANA database to AWS. They plan to use AWS DMS for ongoing replication from an on-premises Oracle database to an Amazon RDS for Oracle instance. Which THREE configurations are necessary for DMS to perform ongoing replication? (Choose THREE.)

Which THREE steps should be taken to monitor the performance of an SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose 3).

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?

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator has run a query to check the backup status of an SAP HANA database. The output shows that the backup on January 17 failed. What is the most appropriate next step?

A company is migrating its SAP application from on-premises to AWS. The migration plan includes rehosting the SAP application servers and re-platforming the database to Amazon RDS for SAP. Which AWS service should the company use to automate the deployment of SAP application servers?

A company is migrating a legacy mainframe application to AWS. The application uses COBOL and VSAM files. Which AWS service can best replicate the VSAM file system?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application servers are highly available. Which TWO actions should the company take? (Choose 2.)

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and wants to ensure that their SAP system is backed up according to SAP best practices. Which backup method should they use for the SAP HANA database?

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 runs SAP on AWS and needs 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 in us-west-2. The SAP HANA database is 5 TB. Which approach meets these requirements cost-effectively?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP application server is failing health checks in the Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) target group. The application server runs on an EC2 instance behind an Application Load Balancer. The health check path is /sap/public/ping. What is the most likely cause of the failure?

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?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command to retrieve the DatabaseConnections metric for an RDS for SAP ASE instance. The output shows a Sum statistic over 5-minute periods. What is the average number of connections per minute during this hour?

A company is migrating a legacy SAP ECC 6.0 system running on IBM AIX with DB2 to SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The current DB2 database is 4 TB and has extensive use of stored procedures and triggers. The migration window is 48 hours. Which migration strategy is MOST appropriate?

A company is designing an SAP HANA disaster recovery (DR) solution on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. The RPO is 15 minutes, and the RTO is 2 hours. Which AWS service should be used for replicating the SAP HANA database to the DR site?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS using the SAP Landscape Reorganization (LaMa) tool. Which TWO actions can LaMa perform during the migration?

An SAP system is deployed across multiple Availability Zones using an Application Load Balancer. The operations team wants to perform a blue/green deployment of a new SAP application version with zero downtime. Which AWS service should be used?

A company is designing an SAP S/4HANA workload on AWS. The system must be highly available within a single AWS Region. Which architecture ensures automatic failover for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance?

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?

A company is migrating an SAP Business Warehouse (BW) system running on an on-premises HANA database to AWS. The migration must be completed with less than 1 hour of downtime. The source database is 3 TB. The company has established a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection. The SAP system uses a custom ABAP program that must be migrated as well. The company wants to minimize manual intervention. Which approach should be taken?

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator is trying to restore an SAP HANA backup from an S3 bucket but receives an AccessDenied error. The administrator has full EC2 and S3 permissions via an IAM role attached to the EC2 instance. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating an SAP Business Suite system to AWS. They are using AWS DMS to replicate data from the on-premises SAP ASE database to Amazon RDS for SAP ASE. After the initial load, the ongoing replication shows a latency of several hours. The source database is heavily used. Which action should the migration team take to reduce replication latency?

An SAP administrator is setting up monitoring for SAP HANA using Amazon CloudWatch. Which TWO metrics are available from the SAP HANA CloudWatch integration?

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?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database is experiencing high I/O latency. The database is running on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. What is the MOST effective initial step to diagnose the I/O bottleneck?

A company runs SAP NetWeaver on AWS and uses a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to distribute traffic to multiple application servers. The operations team notices that the NLB is not properly routing traffic to healthy targets. Which three steps should the team take to diagnose the issue? (Choose THREE.)

A company is running SAP Business Suite on AWS using an Oracle database. They need to migrate the Oracle database to SAP HANA as part of an SAP S/4HANA conversion. The current Oracle database size is 5 TB and runs on an r5.8xlarge instance. The target HANA database will run on an r5.24xlarge instance. The company wants to minimize downtime. What is the best approach to migrate the data?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database is running out of memory frequently. The system is deployed on an EC2 instance with 512 GB of RAM. The HANA memory usage is peaking at 480 GB. What should the administrator do to resolve this issue?

A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to automate the monitoring of SAP system health. Which TWO AWS services can be used together to achieve this? (Choose TWO.)

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?

The operations team deploys the CloudFormation template above. After the stack creation completes, the EC2 instance is launched but the SAP application is not running. What is the most likely reason?

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?

An SAP Basis administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of all EC2 instances running SAP applications. The team wants to receive alerts when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used to set up this monitoring and alerting?

A company runs SAP on AWS and has configured automated snapshots of EBS volumes for backup. The operations team discovers that the snapshots are not being deleted after the retention period. Which action should be taken to ensure snapshots are automatically deleted?

An SAP Basis administrator is migrating an SAP NetWeaver system from on-premises to AWS. They want to minimize downtime during the migration of the database. Which AWS service is best suited for this?

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

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The system uses an SAP HANA database with a single EC2 instance. The operations team needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 hour. The DR site is in a different AWS Region. The team currently takes daily EBS snapshots and sends them to the DR region using AWS Backup cross-region copy. However, the RPO is not met because snapshots are only taken daily. Which combination of actions should the team take to meet the RPO and RTO?

An SAP administrator needs to apply an OS-level security patch to all EC2 instances in an SAP landscape. The administrator wants to automate this process and track compliance. Which AWS service should be used?

An SAP HANA administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an EC2 instance (r5.8xlarge) running SAP HANA. The instance has two EBS volumes attached. Based on the exhibit, which additional information is needed to determine if the instance is optimized for SAP HANA?

A company is planning to migrate their SAP ECC system to AWS. They want to minimize downtime and use an automated approach. Which AWS service should be used for the migration?

An SAP system is running on AWS with a Multi-AZ RDS for SAP HANA database. The operations team notices that the database failover test takes longer than expected. What is the most likely cause of the prolonged failover time?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS. They need to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS/ERS). Which THREE components are required for a highly available SAP ASCS/ERS setup on AWS? (Choose THREE.)

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.)

A company runs SAP on AWS and notices that the SAP application performance degrades during peak hours. The system uses a db.r5.4xlarge RDS for SAP HANA database. Which AWS service should be used to analyze the database performance metrics and identify bottlenecks?

A company is deploying SAP Business Suite on AWS. They need to ensure that the SAP system can handle a sudden increase in user load without manual intervention. Which AWS service should be used to automatically scale the SAP application servers?

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 migrating its SAP environment to AWS and wants to test the migration process before the final cutover. The company has a limited budget for the test environment. Which approach is MOST cost-effective?

A company wants to automate the backup of SAP HANA databases running on AWS. Which combination of AWS services is suitable for this task?

Which TWO Amazon CloudWatch metrics are most useful for monitoring SAP HANA database performance on EC2?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for its SAP landscape on AWS. The DR site must be in a different AWS Region. Which TWO options can be used to replicate the SAP HANA database to the DR Region? (Choose TWO.)

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and wants to monitor the performance of the SAP application servers. Which TWO AWS services can be used to collect and analyze SAP performance metrics?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA system to AWS using a homogeneous copy. The source database is SAP HANA 2.0 on SUSE Linux, and the target is also SAP HANA 2.0 on AWS. Which AWS service can be used to transfer the HANA backup files to Amazon S3 efficiently?

An SAP application server repeatedly logs the error: "SQL statement not parsed before execution." The database is an Oracle RDS instance. What is the most likely cause of this error?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS using a distributed architecture with separate instances for the database (DB) and application (ASCS, PAS, AAS). The application servers are in an Auto Scaling group. After a recent scaling event, users report that they cannot log in to the system. The SAP dispatcher logs show that the application servers cannot connect to the message server. What is the most likely cause?

A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to implement a disaster recovery strategy for their SAP NetWeaver system. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. They want to minimize data loss and recovery time. Which approach meets these requirements?

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 running SAP on AWS and wants to implement a centralized logging solution for all SAP components. The solution must be scalable and cost-effective. Which TWO services should the company use? (Choose TWO.)

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 runs SAP HANA on AWS and wants to monitor the system for potential performance issues. Which metrics should be monitored to detect memory pressure?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system running on Oracle Database to SAP HANA on AWS. The current on-premises environment has a 5 TB Oracle database with high transaction volume. The migration must be completed within a 4-hour downtime window. The target environment on AWS uses an SAP-certified instance with 1 TB of RAM. The company has a 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection. The migration team is considering using SAP DMO with SUM. However, during a test run, the database export took 6 hours, exceeding the downtime window. What should the migration team do to meet the 4-hour downtime window?

An SAP system running on AWS uses a shared file system via Amazon EFS. Recently, the file system has become slow. The administrator suspects that the burst credits are exhausted. What metric should the administrator check in Amazon CloudWatch to confirm this?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high CPU utilization on the database server. The operations team suspects a specific query is causing the issue. Which combination of AWS services should be used to identify the query?

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 migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system has strict high availability requirements with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The SAP application and database (SAP HANA) must be in the same AWS Region but can be in different Availability Zones. Which architecture should the company use to meet these requirements?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to back up the SAP HANA database to Amazon S3. They want to automate backups and ensure they are encrypted at rest. Which solution should they use?

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 runs SAP HANA on AWS. The operations team needs to automate the creation of AMI backups for the HANA database server. Which AWS service should they use to schedule and manage these backups?

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?

A company runs SAP on AWS using an SAP HANA multi-node cluster. The operations team needs to apply an OS-level security patch that requires a reboot. How can they minimize downtime?

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 runs SAP on AWS and wants to ensure that all API calls to create, modify, or delete EC2 instances are logged for auditing. Which TWO AWS services can be used together to achieve this? (Choose two.)

A company runs SAP BusinessObjects on AWS. The system includes a web application server and a CMS database on separate EC2 instances. The operations team receives alerts that the CMS database server's EBS volume is approaching its maximum capacity. The volume is a gp3 EBS volume with 3000 IOPS and 125 MB/s throughput. Upon investigation, the team finds that the volume is 90% full and write performance has degraded. The application is experiencing slow response times. What should the team do to resolve the issue without downtime?

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?

A company wants to automate the deployment of SAP environments on AWS. Which AWS service should the company use to define the infrastructure as code?

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.)

A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS. They are experiencing high read latency on their EBS volumes used for /usr/sap. Which of the following is the MOST effective way to improve read performance?

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?

An organization is migrating a large SAP ERP system using SAP Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM) for system copy and refresh. During the migration, they encounter an error in LVM indicating that the target host is not reachable. What is the most likely cause?

An organization runs SAP on AWS and needs to ensure that their SAP HANA database backups are encrypted at rest. Which AWS service should they use to manage the encryption keys?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS using a heterogeneous migration where the source database is Oracle and the target is SAP HANA. Which AWS service is essential for converting the Oracle schema to SAP HANA schema?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP ERP system to AWS. The database is SAP HANA with a size of 3 TB. The company wants to minimize downtime during the migration. Which migration strategy should the company use?

A company is migrating an SAP application running on Windows Server to AWS. They plan to use Amazon EC2 with a Windows license included. The current application uses SQL Server Standard edition. Which migration strategy minimizes licensing costs?

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?

An SAP administrator is designing a backup strategy for an SAP HANA database on AWS. They want to use the Backint interface with Amazon S3. Which THREE components are required? (Choose three.)

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?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database backups to Amazon S3 are failing intermittently with timeout errors. The backup script uses the AWS CLI to copy files to an S3 bucket. What is the most likely cause and solution?

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 Basis administrator notices that the SAP HANA database performance has degraded significantly after migrating to AWS. The database is running on an r5.8xlarge instance with 3.6 TB of Amazon EBS gp3 storage. The administrator checks Amazon CloudWatch metrics and finds that the Read/Write latency is consistently above 10 ms and the queue depth is averaging 32. What is the MOST likely cause of the performance degradation?

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?

An SAP administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance running SAP NetWeaver. The administrator wants to receive an alert when CPU utilization exceeds 90% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used?

A company is migrating an SAP system and wants to use a storage solution that provides persistent, high-performance block storage for the SAP HANA database. Which AWS storage option should they choose?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and wants to use AWS Launch Wizard for deployment. They have an existing VPC and subnets. Launch Wizard requires the selection of a subnet for each component. What is the best practice for selecting subnets for high availability?

Which THREE steps should be taken when recovering an SAP system from an EBS snapshot? (Choose 3.)

A company is migrating an SAP HANA database from on-premises to AWS. The current system uses 8 TB of data. The migration must be completed within a 4-hour downtime window. The network link has 1 Gbps throughput. What is the MOST efficient migration strategy?

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and notices performance degradation during peak hours. The application servers are in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer. Which configuration change would best handle the increased load?

A company is migrating its SAP system to AWS and needs to assess the current on-premises environment for compatibility. Which AWS tool should be used to collect system configuration and usage data for SAP systems?

A company is migrating a large SAP HANA database to AWS. The database is 4 TB in size. They need to transfer the initial data with the least possible network usage and minimal impact on production. The data is stored on a network-attached storage (NAS) device. Which approach should they use?

A company is running SAP NetWeaver on AWS with a multi-ABAP application server setup. They want to implement a load balancing solution for HTTP traffic to the SAP Web Dispatcher. The solution must be highly available and support SSL termination. Which AWS service should be used?

A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application servers can communicate with the SAP HANA database using the hostname. The environment uses a Windows Domain Controller for Active Directory. Which DNS resolution strategy should be used?

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 migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database is 2 TB in size and has a high transaction rate. The migration must have minimal downtime. Which AWS service should be used for the migration?

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?

A company wants to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for its SAP landscape on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. They need to replicate SAP HANA database asynchronously with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. Which AWS service should they use?

Which ONE of the following is required to enable SAP HANA System Replication across two AWS Availability Zones?

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'?

The exhibit shows the output of the describe-replication-tasks command for an ongoing migration from SAP HANA to Amazon RDS for MySQL. The task status is 'running' but no data has been transferred after 2 hours. What is the most likely cause?

A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to ensure that all API calls made to AWS services are logged for auditing purposes. Which TWO services should be used together to achieve this?

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?

A company is running SAP Business Suite on AWS with a Microsoft SQL Server database. The operations team needs to implement automated database backups with point-in-time recovery. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this?

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?

Which TWO actions should be taken to securely manage database credentials for an SAP system running on Amazon RDS for Oracle? (Choose 2)

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 is running a critical SAP application on AWS. The operations team receives a notification that the SAP HANA database is running low on memory. Which AWS service should be used to automatically increase memory capacity without downtime?

An SAP system administrator needs to apply an operating system patch to an Amazon EC2 instance running SAP NetWeaver. The instance is part of an Auto Scaling group. What is the BEST approach to minimize downtime?

Which THREE AWS services can be used to monitor and log SAP system activities for security and compliance? (Choose three.)

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?

Refer to the exhibit. A company is migrating an SAP application server running on Windows to AWS. They launched an EC2 instance with Windows Server. After launching, they run the command and get the output shown. They need to install SAP software. What additional step is required before installing SAP?

A large enterprise is migrating its SAP S/4HANA system to AWS. The system includes a production SAP HANA database (4 TB) and a development SAP HANA database (1 TB). The migration strategy is to use SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) for both databases to EC2 instances in the same AWS region. The company has a compliance requirement that the production database must be in a different AWS account than the development database. The network between on-premises and AWS uses AWS Direct Connect with 10 Gbps bandwidth. During the test migration, the HSR replication for the development database works, but the production database fails to establish replication. The error log shows: "HSR connection timed out." The security groups and network ACLs for the production target EC2 instance allow inbound traffic on port 30101 from the on-premises source IP. What is the most likely cause of the failure?

A company is migrating an on-premises SAP HANA database to AWS. The database is 10 TB and requires high IOPS. Which EC2 instance type and storage configuration is most appropriate?

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 is migrating an SAP HANA database from on-premises to AWS using SAP HANA System Replication (HSR). They have set up the replication but the target database is not in sync. Which THREE configuration items should the migration team verify? (Choose THREE.)

Which TWO of the following are best practices for running SAP HANA on AWS? (Select TWO.)

A company wants to automate the deployment of SAP systems on AWS. Which AWS service is most appropriate for infrastructure as code (IaC) for SAP?

An SAP administrator receives an alert that the HANA database has switched to read-only mode. The administrator checks the disk space and finds that the /hana/data volume is 100% full. What is the most efficient way to resolve this issue?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance is experiencing high I/O latency. The instance is using EBS gp2 volumes. Which change would most effectively reduce I/O latency for the SAP HANA data volume?

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?

A company is migrating an SAP Business Suite system to AWS. They want to reduce storage costs by using Amazon S3 for archiving. Which TWO AWS services can be used to integrate SAP with Amazon S3 for archiving?

A company is planning to run SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The architect needs to ensure that the EC2 instances are SAP certified for the specific SAP HANA version. Where should the architect verify the instance certification?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and needs to back up the database to Amazon S3. Which approach provides the most efficient and cost-effective backup strategy?

A company is running SAP BusinessObjects on AWS and needs to back up the CMS database (an SAP HANA database) daily. The backup must be stored in Amazon S3 for long-term retention and must be recoverable within 4 hours. Which backup strategy meets these requirements?

During an SAP migration, the migration team needs to ensure that all SAP system IDs (SIDs) are unique across the AWS environment. Which AWS service can be used to centrally manage and enforce this uniqueness?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a multi-AZ deployment for SAP HANA. The operations team notices that the secondary HANA node in the standby replica is not automatically taking over during a planned failover test. What is the most likely cause?

A company runs SAP HANA on an m5.24xlarge EC2 instance. The instance has an EBS-optimized attachment and a high-performance EBS volume for data. The database team reports that write latency to the data volume is consistently above 5 ms during peak hours. Which action would most effectively reduce write latency?

Your company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS. The system has a three-tier architecture with a web dispatcher, application servers, and a HANA database. The operations team has been receiving alerts about high CPU usage on the application servers during peak hours. The application servers are currently running on m5.large instances. You need to ensure consistent performance without over-provisioning. What is the most cost-effective solution?

A company runs its SAP ERP system on AWS. The database is SAP HANA on an EC2 instance. The system is critical and requires a recovery point objective (RPO) of less than 5 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 2 hours. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

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 in us-west-2. The RTO is 4 hours and RPO is 1 hour. Which AWS service should be used for cross-region replication of the SAP HANA database backups stored in Amazon S3?

A company uses AWS Systems Manager to automate patching of SAP application servers. Which TWO resources are required to use Systems Manager Patch Manager?

A company is migrating an on-premises SAP HANA database to AWS. They want to use AWS DMS for ongoing replication. Which TWO prerequisites must be met before starting the replication? (Choose TWO.)

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing performance degradation. The CloudWatch metrics show that the EBS volumes used for the HANA data files have an average queue length of 10 and average latency of 50 ms. What is the most likely cause?

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 wants to use AWS Systems Manager to automate patching of SAP application servers. What is a prerequisite for Systems Manager to manage these EC2 instances?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the patching of SAP EC2 instances? (Choose two.)

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?

An SAP Basis administrator notices that the SAP application server on an EC2 instance is experiencing intermittent high latency when writing to the SAP HANA database. The HANA database is on a separate EC2 instance in the same VPC and Availability Zone. Which configuration change is most likely to resolve the issue?

An SAP administrator runs the above CloudWatch Logs Insights query on an application log group. The query returns no results even though the administrator knows there are ERROR messages in the logs. What is the most likely cause?

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown. The instance is running Windows. Which of the following is true based on the output?

A company runs its SAP ERP system on AWS using a multi-tier architecture. The SAP application servers are in an Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones, and the SAP HANA database runs on a single large EC2 instance (r5.24xlarge) with 768 GB of memory and EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) volumes. The operations team recently noticed that the database performance degrades intermittently during peak business hours. CloudWatch metrics show that the database instance's CPU utilization remains below 40%, but the ReadLatency and WriteLatency for the EBS volumes spike above 10 ms during these periods, and the VolumeQueueLength metric increases significantly. The database instance uses a single EBS volume for /hana/data and another for /hana/log. The team has already verified that there are no network bottlenecks and that the SAP application servers are not overwhelming the database with queries. What is the MOST likely cause of the latency spikes, and what action should be taken?

A company is migrating an SAP NetWeaver system from on-premises to AWS. They plan to use the same SAP SID and keep the same hostname. The migration will be performed using SAP Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM) with the option 'System Rename' set to 'No'. What must be configured in the AWS environment to ensure the system functions correctly?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS/ERS) instance. Which TWO actions should be taken to achieve this? (Choose two.)

Which TWO AWS services can be used to migrate on-premises virtual machines to AWS without requiring agent installation? (Choose two.)

A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to back up its SAP HANA database to Amazon S3. The database is 2 TB in size. The backup must be encrypted at rest in S3 and must be cost-effective. Which approach should the company use?

An SAP system administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance running SAP NetWeaver. The administrator wants to receive an alert when the CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used to create this alarm?

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 organization is migrating a legacy SAP ERP system to AWS. The current system runs on IBM AIX with Oracle Database. They plan to use SAP HANA on AWS. Which AWS service should they use to assess the source system's readiness and generate a migration plan?

An SAP on AWS environment includes multiple instances across Availability Zones. The operations team needs to automatically replace an unhealthy EC2 instance that is part of an SAP application cluster. Which AWS service can automatically detect and replace the instance based on health checks?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator has attached the IAM policy above to an IAM role used by an EC2 instance for S3 backup operations. The backup process fails with 'Access Denied' when trying to upload a backup file. What is the most likely cause?

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 is troubleshooting a failed backup of SAP HANA to Amazon S3. The backup is initiated by an SAP HANA BACKUP command using the S3 backint agent. The error log shows 'HTTP 403 Forbidden' when the agent tries to upload to the S3 bucket. The bucket policy allows s3:PutObject from the VPC endpoint. What is the most likely cause?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS using a clustered environment with two EC2 instances in an active/passive configuration. The cluster uses a shared EFS file system for the SAP HANA shared volume. The operations team recently migrated the EFS file system from the previous generation to Elastic Throughput mode to improve performance. After the migration, the HANA database becomes unresponsive intermittently. The team notices that the EFS mount target is in a different Availability Zone than the active HANA instance. What is the most likely cause of the unresponsiveness?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a multi-tier landscape (DEV, QAS, PRD). The PRD system uses a clustered setup with two application servers behind an Application Load Balancer. The database is a single-node HANA on an r5.24xlarge instance. The administrator receives an alert that the PRD application is slow. CloudWatch metrics show high CPU utilization on the two application servers (average 95%) and high DB connection count. The ALB shows increased request latency. The database CPU is at 60%. The administrator suspects a SQL query performance issue. What should be the first step to identify the root cause?

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?

An SAP system administrator wants to monitor the CPU and memory usage of SAP HANA database instances. Which AWS service should be used to collect and visualize these metrics?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses CloudWatch for monitoring. They want to set up an alarm that notifies the operations team when the CPU utilization of their SAP application server exceeds 90% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which THREE components are required to achieve this? (Select THREE.)

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application requires a static IP address that must not change after migration. Which networking component should be used to ensure the application's public IP remains consistent?

A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to reduce costs by stopping non-production instances during off-hours. Which AWS service can automatically start and stop EC2 instances on a schedule?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. They need to minimize downtime and ensure data consistency. Which AWS service should be used for the initial data load?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses AWS Direct Connect for on-premises connectivity. The operations team notices that the SAP system is experiencing high latency when accessing an on-premises database. The network team confirms that the Direct Connect link is not saturated. What is the most likely cause of the high latency?

A company is migrating its SAP Business Suite system from on-premises to AWS. The system uses a Sybase ASE database. The migration team has limited Sybase expertise. They want to minimize the operational overhead after migration. Which database migration approach should they choose?

A company is migrating a SAP database to Amazon RDS. The IAM policy shown in the exhibit is attached to a user. Which action is allowed by this policy?

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 is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS. The SAP application runs on a Windows Server with an MSSQL database. The migration must be completed within a strict 4-hour downtime window. The current database is 500 GB. Which migration strategy should be used to meet the downtime requirement?

An SAP administrator created the IAM policy above for an EC2 instance role used by SAP HANA Backint agent. The backup to S3 fails with access denied. What is the likely cause?

An SAP system is running on AWS and needs to be accessible over the internet securely. Which AWS service should be used to provide secure remote access for administrators?

An SAP Basis administrator notices that the SAP system's response time is increasing during peak hours. The system uses an SAP NetWeaver application server on EC2 and an SAP HANA database on a separate EC2 instance. CloudWatch metrics show that the application server's CPU utilization is at 80% and the database server's CPU is at 30%. The application server is an m5.2xlarge, and the database is an r5.2xlarge. The administrator checks the SAP work process overview and sees that all dialog work processes are busy. What should the administrator do to resolve the performance issue?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system requires high availability for the SAP central services (ASCS) and must support automatic failover. Which AWS architecture should the company use to meet these requirements?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA database to AWS. Which TWO of the following are valid options for running SAP HANA on AWS? (Choose 2)

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?

An organization runs SAP ERP on AWS with an SAP HANA database. The database is deployed on an EC2 instance with EBS storage. The company is planning to upgrade the HANA database from version 2.0 to 2.0 SPS 05. The upgrade process requires a system copy to a new instance. The company wants to minimize the downtime during the upgrade and ensure that the existing system remains available until the new system is ready. The current HANA instance has 1 TB of data. The company has a test environment that can be used for the upgrade. Which approach should the company take to minimize downtime?

A company is planning to migrate a critical application to AWS using the 7 Rs migration strategy. The application is currently running on a large VMware VM. Which THREE strategies are appropriate for this migration? (Choose three.)

A company is designing an SAP HANA disaster recovery (DR) solution on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. The RPO must be less than 15 minutes, and the RTO must be less than 2 hours. Which replication strategy meets these requirements?

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?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing performance issues. The system uses a shared file system (SAP transport directory) mounted from an NFS server. During migration, the team wants to improve performance and reduce complexity. Which AWS service should replace the NFS server?

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 administrator is setting up an S3 bucket to store SAP HANA backup files. The backups must be encrypted at rest using an AWS KMS customer managed key. Which bucket policy condition key should be used to enforce that only requests using KMS encryption with that specific key are allowed?

A company is using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to migrate an SAP HANA database from on-premises to Amazon RDS for SAP HANA. The migration task fails with the error shown. Which step should the administrator take to resolve this?

An SAP administrator wants to attach the EBS volume shown above to two EC2 instances running SAP HANA in a scale-out configuration. What is the issue?

A company has a CloudFormation stack that creates an EC2 instance with a custom AMI. The stack fails with the error 'Resource creation cancelled' during creation. The engineer checks the stack events and sees that the EC2 instance creation succeeded, but the subsequent creation of an EBS volume failed. What is the MOST likely reason for the failure?

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 migrating a large SAP landscape to AWS. The migration plan includes using AWS CloudEndure Migration for the application servers. However, the SAP database requires a different approach. Which database migration method is recommended for an SAP HANA database?

An SAP administrator needs to monitor the disk I/O performance of EBS volumes attached to an SAP HANA instance. Which AWS service should be used to capture the average read latency and queue depth metrics?

An organization is migrating their SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to set up a disaster recovery (DR) site in another AWS region. They want to use AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) for SAP HANA. The source HANA system is running on-premises on a physical server. They have installed the DRS agent on the source server. During the initial replication, they notice that the data transfer is very slow. What should they do to improve replication speed?

A company wants to automate the backup of their SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The backup should be stored in Amazon S3 and retained for 30 days. Which AWS service can be used to schedule and manage these backups?

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application requires a static IP address that does not change during instance stop/start. The application also needs to be highly available across two Availability Zones. Which THREE actions should the company take to meet these requirements?

A company has an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance with a single 500 GB gp2 volume. The database is experiencing I/O bottlenecks. The operations team wants to increase IOPS without changing the volume size. Which action should they take?

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?

During the migration of an SAP ERP system to AWS, the SAP application team reports that after migrating the database to Amazon RDS for SAP HANA, batch jobs that previously ran in 2 hours now take 5 hours. The system uses AWS Direct Connect with adequate bandwidth. Which action is most likely to resolve this performance issue?

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 is designing an SAP HANA multi-node scale-out deployment on AWS. The system requires high bandwidth and low latency between nodes. Which AWS networking feature should be used to meet these requirements?

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?

An organization runs SAP BusinessObjects on AWS and wants to improve the performance of report generation. The current environment uses EBS gp2 volumes. Which TWO changes could potentially reduce report generation time?

A company is deploying SAP on AWS and wants to ensure that the SAP system can automatically recover from an EC2 instance failure. Which AWS feature should be used?

During an SAP migration, the team needs to transfer a large number of small files (SAP transport requests) from on-premises to AWS. Which AWS service is most cost-effective for this transfer?

An SAP administrator is setting up an SAP HANA system replication across two AWS Availability Zones (AZs). The primary and secondary instances use EBS volumes for data and log storage. What is the best practice for ensuring data consistency and minimizing data loss during a failover?

A company is migrating its SAP Business Warehouse (BW) system from on-premises to AWS. The system uses IBM DB2 as the database and is 2 TB in size. The company wants to use the SAP BW/4HANA version on AWS. The migration must be completed within a 72-hour window. The company has a 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection. The migration team decides to use the SAP Software Update Manager (SUM) with the Database Migration Option (DMO) to migrate and upgrade to BW/4HANA. During the migration, they encounter an error that the source DB2 database has a tablespace that uses automatic storage and is larger than 2 TB. The SUM DMO tool stops with an error indicating insufficient space in the target SAP HANA database. The target SAP HANA system is provisioned with 1 TB of memory and 2 TB of disk storage. The team needs to proceed with the migration. Which action should the team take to resolve this issue?

Which TWO actions are recommended to ensure high availability for SAP NetWeaver on AWS? (Choose 2).

A company plans to migrate its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system currently runs on IBM Db2 and uses a large amount of memory. The architect needs to choose an EC2 instance type that is SAP certified and provides high memory. Which instance family should the architect select?

A company runs SAP on AWS and wants to reduce costs for non-production environments that are used only during business hours (8 AM to 6 PM). Which action should the administrator take to minimize costs without losing data?

A company runs a production application on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances are in an Auto Scaling group across three Availability Zones. The operations team notices that during a recent deployment, a small percentage of instances failed health checks and were replaced, causing a brief increase in error rates. What is the MOST effective way to reduce deployment-related errors?

An SAP administrator is creating an IAM policy for an automation script that needs to start and stop a specific SAP HANA EC2 instance. The policy is shown in the exhibit. However, the script fails with an authorization error when trying to start the instance. What is the most likely cause?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS using an r5.8xlarge instance with 3.8 TB of EBS gp3 storage. The HANA data volume is 2 TB. The system is experiencing performance issues, and the database administrator suspects that the storage I/O is the bottleneck. Which TWO actions should be taken to improve I/O performance?

A DevOps engineer is troubleshooting an AWS CodePipeline that fails at the Deploy stage. The pipeline deploys a static website to an S3 bucket configured for website hosting. The error message indicates 'Access Denied' when the pipeline tries to upload files. Which IAM policy should be attached to the CodePipeline service role to resolve this?

An administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The monitoring data must be stored for 15 months. Which AWS service should be used to meet this requirement?

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 is troubleshooting a high CPU utilization issue on an SAP application server running on an Amazon EC2 instance. The administrator suspects a specific ABAP program is consuming excessive resources. Which AWS service can be used to capture detailed performance metrics and identify the process?

Which TWO tasks require the use of AWS Systems Manager Session Manager? (Choose TWO.)

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.)

A company plans to migrate its SAP ERP system from an on-premises environment to AWS. The system uses an Oracle database. Which AWS service provides the most cost-effective and high-performance storage for the Oracle data files?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and wants to minimize downtime during the migration. Which THREE strategies should be considered? (Choose three.)

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?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high read latency from the SAP HANA database. The system uses Provisioned IOPS EBS volumes. Which action would most likely improve read latency?

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 migrating an SAP environment and wants to automate the provisioning of infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Which AWS service should they use to define and deploy AWS resources?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system has a custom ABAP code that uses RFC calls to an external system. The company wants to test the migrated system in a sandbox environment before the final cutover. What is the best practice for handling the RFC connections during testing?

An AWS administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance running SAP NetWeaver. The instance type is r5.2xlarge. Which CloudWatch metric should the administrator use to track the CPU usage of the instance?

A company is migrating an SAP Business Suite system to AWS. The system runs on AIX on IBM Power Systems. The company wants to rehost the system on AWS using a lift-and-shift approach. Which AWS service can replicate the AIX operating system to run on AWS?

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 runs SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the database can be restored to any point in time within the last 48 hours with minimal data loss. Which backup strategy should be used?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a shared Amazon EFS file system for /sapmnt and /usr/sap/trans. The administrator wants to control access to specific directories based on the source IP address of the SAP application servers. Which method should be used to achieve this?

An SAP system on AWS uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to multiple SAP application servers. The ALB is configured with a TCP listener. Users report that some sessions are terminated unexpectedly. What is the MOST likely cause?

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?

An SAP application server on an EC2 instance is unable to connect to the SAP HANA database on another EC2 instance. Both instances are in the same VPC and security groups allow traffic. What is the most likely cause?

An SAP system is experiencing performance issues during peak hours. The SAP application servers are running on EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The NLB is configured to use cross-zone load balancing. The issue is that one application server receives significantly more traffic than others. What is the most likely cause?

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

An IAM policy for a migration team is shown in the exhibit. The team is unable to start a DMS replication task. What is the most likely missing permission?

A company runs SAP HANA on EC2 with EBS io1 volumes. The administrator notices that the disk queue depth is consistently high during peak hours, causing increased latency. The volume is 2 TB with 5000 provisioned IOPS. The instance is an r5.4xlarge with EBS bandwidth of 4750 Mbps. The database workload is write-intensive. The administrator wants to reduce latency without increasing costs significantly. Which action should the administrator take?

An SAP on AWS environment is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues between the SAP application servers and the SAP HANA database. Both are in the same VPC but in different Availability Zones. The network team has confirmed that the security groups allow traffic on the required ports. What is a likely cause of the issue?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues between the application servers and the HANA database. The network team has confirmed that the VPC and subnets are configured correctly. What should the operations team check NEXT?

A company is using AWS DMS to migrate an SAP database. The full load is complete, but the CDC latency is high. Which step should the company take to reduce latency?

An SAP system on AWS uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to multiple SAP Web Dispatchers. The system is experiencing intermittent session drops. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating its SAP landscape to AWS and wants to automate the deployment of SAP applications using infrastructure as code. Which AWS service should the company use to define and provision the AWS infrastructure?

An operations team manages an SAP ERP system on AWS that uses a single EC2 instance for the SAP central services (SCS) and multiple instances for application servers. The system is running in a VPC with both public and private subnets. The team notices that the SCS instance is unreachable from the application servers after a maintenance window where network ACLs were updated. The application servers are in private subnets, and the SCS instance is in a public subnet. The team has verified that the security groups allow the required traffic. Which step should the team take to resolve the connectivity issue?

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?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP application server on AWS is experiencing high latency when connecting to the SAP HANA database. The database is on a separate EC2 instance in the same VPC. What is the MOST likely cause?

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 migrating a SAP HANA database to AWS. Which storage configuration is recommended for SAP HANA to meet performance requirements?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system from an on-premises environment to AWS. The database is SAP HANA. The migration must minimize downtime. Which TWO approaches should the company consider?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the startup and shutdown of SAP application servers based on a schedule to reduce costs? (Select TWO.)

A company is planning to run SAP S/4HANA on AWS. They need to ensure that the SAP system can be accessed from the corporate network via a secure VPN connection. Which AWS service should be used to establish this connectivity?

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

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 is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS. The SAP application servers use a shared /sapmnt filesystem. Which AWS storage solution is most suitable for this shared filesystem with high availability?

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 has deployed SAP on AWS with a shared file system using Amazon EFS for the /sapmnt directory. The EFS file system is mounted on all SAP application servers. Recently, users reported that the SAP system is slow when accessing reports that are stored as PDF files in the /sapmnt directory. The operations team checks the CloudWatch metrics and finds that the EFS file system's PercentIOLimit metric is consistently at 100% during peak hours. The file system is using the General Purpose performance mode. The team also notices that the BurstCreditBalance is decreasing over time. What action should be taken to resolve this performance issue?

A company is migrating its SAP environment to AWS. The operations team needs to ensure that all changes to the SAP infrastructure are tracked and that unauthorized changes are detected. Which AWS service should they use?

Refer to the exhibit. An operations team uses this CloudFormation template to launch SAP application servers. After deployment, the application server fails to join the SAP system. The team verified that the security group allows outbound traffic to the SAP system. What is the MOST likely cause?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS using an SAP-certified backup/restore method. After restoring the database to Amazon RDS for SAP ASE, the SAP application fails to start with an error 'database connection refused'. The security group allows inbound traffic from the application server. What is the most likely 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?

A company is deploying a new SAP HANA database on AWS and needs to ensure the EBS volumes are optimized for throughput. Which EBS volume type should be used for the HANA data and log volumes?

Which TWO of the following are required for SAP HANA high availability on AWS using HANA System Replication (HSR) with automatic failover? (Select TWO.)

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to ensure high availability for SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). Which architecture meets this requirement?

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 wants to migrate its SAP BusinessObjects system to AWS. The system includes a CMS database that runs on Microsoft SQL Server. The company wants to use AWS DMS to migrate the database with minimal downtime. Which migration method should they use?

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 running SAP HANA on a memory-optimized EC2 instance with an EBS volume for /hana/data and /hana/log. The database administrator notices that the /hana/log volume is experiencing high write latency. The current volume is a gp2 volume with 1000 GB size. Which change would most effectively reduce write latency?

An SAP system uses a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to distribute traffic to SAP application servers. The application servers are in private subnets. The operations team notices that the health checks are failing for one of the application servers. The health check is configured to use TCP on port 3200. The application server's security group allows inbound traffic on port 3200 from the NLB's subnet CIDR. The network ACL allows inbound and outbound traffic on ephemeral ports. What is the most likely cause of the health check failure?

A company is migrating an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server. The database is 5 TB and the migration must be completed within a 2-hour downtime window. Which AWS service should be used to perform the initial full load and then replicate ongoing changes?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS using a scale-out architecture with multiple worker nodes. The system is used for real-time analytics. Recently, query performance has degraded. The HANA administrator notices that the data is not evenly distributed across nodes. What is the best course of action?

An SAP Basis team is designing a high-availability (HA) setup for SAP NetWeaver on AWS. They plan to use a shared file system for transport directories. Which storage solution provides the most cost-effective NFS share with support for automatic failover across Availability Zones?

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 migrating a SAP system to AWS and wants to use AWS Systems Manager for patching. Which TWO prerequisites are required to use AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager?

An SAP system on AWS is configured with a Multi-AZ deployment for high availability. During a failover test, the operations team notices that the secondary instance does not take over correctly. What is the most likely cause?

A company has an SAP HANA database running on an RDS for SAP HANA instance. The operations team wants to automate the backup process and retain backups for 90 days. Which AWS service should they use?

A company is migrating its SAP application from on-premises to AWS. The SAP application uses a shared file system (NFS) for transport directories. Which AWS service should the company use to replace the on-premises NFS?

A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS with an RDS for SAP HANA database. The operations team needs to perform a minor version upgrade of the database. They want to minimize downtime and ensure that the upgrade can be rolled back if needed. What should they do?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS using the SAP S/4HANA migration approach. They need to replicate the source system continuously to the target before cutover. Which AWS service should be used for this continuous replication?

An SAP system administrator needs to ensure that all SAP application logs are centrally collected and monitored for errors. Which AWS service should they use to aggregate logs from multiple EC2 instances?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA database to AWS. The database must be backed up automatically. Which TWO AWS services can be used for this purpose? (Choose 2.)

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 wants to implement a backup strategy for SAP HANA on AWS. The backup must be stored securely and be accessible for restore to a different AWS Region. Which combination of AWS services should be used?

A global company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system runs SAP ECC on IBM AIX with Oracle Database. The company plans to move to SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The source system is 5 TB in size. The network bandwidth between the on-premises data center and AWS is 100 Mbps. The migration must be completed within a 2-week window with minimal downtime. The company has a SAP license that allows running S/4HANA on certified hardware. They have already used AWS SCT to convert the database schema to SAP HANA-compatible format. They now need to execute the data migration. The team is considering the following options: Option A: Use AWS DMS with ongoing replication from Oracle to HANA, then perform a final cutover. Option B: Use AWS Snowball Edge to transfer the Oracle backup files to AWS, then restore to HANA. Option C: Use AWS DataSync to copy the Oracle data files to Amazon EFS, then import into HANA. Option D: Use SAP HANA system replication from the source Oracle database to the target HANA database. Which option is the most feasible and efficient for this migration?

An SAP administrator runs the df command on an SAP HANA server and sees the output above. The /hana/data filesystem is 96% full. Which action should be taken to prevent the database from running out of space?

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 administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit. The SAP application is experiencing performance issues. The administrator notices that one instance is stopped. What is the most likely impact of this on the SAP landscape?

An SAP system running on AWS uses a Multi-AZ RDS for SAP ASE database. The operations team notices that the database failover took longer than expected during a recent outage. What should the team investigate to reduce failover time?

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

A company is migrating an SAP system from an Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle using AWS DMS. The DMS task fails with the error shown in the exhibit. What is the most likely cause?

Which TWO actions should an SAP administrator take to ensure high availability for an SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose two.)

A company runs a critical SAP application on AWS. The operations team needs to monitor the system for performance issues and receive alerts when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used to set up this monitoring and alerting?

A company is running SAP NetWeaver on AWS and wants to implement a high-availability solution for the SAP Central Services (ASCS). Which AWS service can be used to manage the virtual IP address for failover?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing intermittent network connectivity issues between the application servers and the database server. Both are in the same VPC but different subnets. The security groups allow all traffic between them. What should the administrator check next?

A company is migrating an SAP NetWeaver system to AWS using the AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN). The source server runs SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 SP5. After the cutover, the SAP application fails to start with an error indicating that the hostname resolution fails. The target EC2 instance has the same hostname as the source. What is the most likely cause?

Which TWO are best practices for securing SAP on AWS?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS. The system administrator notices that the SAP HANA database is frequently running out of memory, causing performance degradation. Which AWS service should the administrator use to set up memory usage alarms and automate scaling of the SAP HANA instance?

Which TWO actions should an operations team take to ensure high availability for SAP HANA in a single AWS Region?

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator is creating an IAM policy for a user who will manage SAP application servers during migration. The policy currently allows starting and stopping EC2 instances. What additional permission is required to allow the user to terminate instances?

A company runs SAP on AWS using a multi-AZ deployment. The database is an SAP HANA system replicated across two Availability Zones. During a recent failure, the standby HANA instance did not take over automatically. The operations team finds that the HANA replication status was 'ERROR' before the failure. What is the most likely reason for the failed takeover?

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to AWS. The application uses a MySQL database with a complex stored procedure that runs every hour and takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. The company wants to minimize downtime during migration. Which TWO approaches should the company use to migrate the database?

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 migrating an SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which AWS service is best suited for this?

An SAP environment on AWS uses a shared /sapmnt file system via Amazon EFS. The company wants to encrypt data at rest for the entire stack. Which services require separate encryption configurations?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP HANA workload to AWS. The system requires high network throughput and low latency between application and database servers. Which AWS networking feature should be used to meet these requirements?

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?

An SAP administrator needs to integrate SAP S/4HANA with Amazon S3 for archival purposes. Which AWS service should be used to enable secure and efficient data transfer from SAP to S3?

Which THREE of the following are valid considerations when designing a SAP landscape on AWS?

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting an issue where SAP application servers are unable to connect to the SAP HANA database. The database is running on an EC2 instance in a private subnet. The application servers are in a different VPC connected via VPC peering. The security group for the database instance allows TCP port 3$15$13 from the application server security group. Which additional configuration is MOST likely required?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA system from on-premises to AWS. The database size is 3 TB, and the network bandwidth to AWS is 1 Gbps. The migration window is limited to 48 hours. What is the most efficient migration strategy?

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?

During a migration of an SAP ERP system to AWS, the team notices that the SAP application performance is slow on the new EC2 instances. The instance type is correct for SAP certification. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating its SAP system to AWS and wants to ensure that the migration does not violate any SAP licensing requirements. Which of the following is a correct licensing consideration?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor SAP HANA database performance in real time? (Select TWO.)

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to ensure that all changes to the SAP infrastructure are logged for audit purposes. Which AWS service should be enabled to record API calls?

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?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1. They want a secondary site in us-west-2 with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

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?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator is creating an IAM policy for a migration user who will use AWS DMS to migrate an SAP database to Amazon RDS. The migration also requires reading from an S3 bucket containing source database export files and writing the DMS logs to another S3 bucket. The policy above is attached. Which required permission is MISSING from this policy?

A company has deployed an SAP HANA database on AWS using a single EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The database is used for a critical SAP system. The company needs to ensure that the database can be restored to a point in time within the last 24 hours with minimal data loss. The administrator currently takes nightly EBS snapshots of the data and log volumes. However, recent tests show that recovery to a specific point in time (e.g., one hour ago) is not possible because the log volume is not backed up frequently enough. The administrator must implement a solution that allows point-in-time recovery with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. Which solution should the administrator implement?

Which TWO of the following are best practices for running SAP HANA on AWS? (Choose 2)

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to AWS. The application requires static IP addresses for its clients to whitelist. The migration strategy includes using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic across multiple EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The clients require a fixed set of IP addresses to whitelist. Which solution meets the requirement?

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 is migrating an SAP system to AWS and wants to use an existing AWS Direct Connect connection for the migration. The on-premises network team reports that the Direct Connect link is consistently at 80% utilization during business hours. What should the company do to ensure a successful migration without impacting production traffic?

Which THREE considerations are important when designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for SAP on AWS?

A company runs SAP ERP on AWS using a Multi-AZ RDS for SAP HANA database. The operations team needs to automate the rotation of the database master password. Which AWS service should be used to securely store and rotate the password?

An SAP system is running on AWS with an SAP HANA database. The administrator needs to back up the HANA database to Amazon S3. Which AWS service or feature should be used to perform efficient incremental backups?

A company runs a critical SAP HANA database on an m5.24xlarge EC2 instance. The operations team notices that the database performance degrades during peak hours. Which AWS service should be used to identify whether the instance is experiencing CPU throttling due to CPU credit exhaustion?

Which THREE of the following are valid methods to secure network traffic between SAP application servers and the SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose three.)

A company is migrating a large SAP HANA database (5 TB) from on-premises to AWS. The migration must have minimal downtime and use AWS DMS for ongoing replication. Which TWO actions should be taken to ensure the migration completes successfully? (Choose 2.)

An SAP system is experiencing high disk I/O latency. The operations team checks the Amazon CloudWatch metrics and finds that the Average Queue Length for the EBS volumes is consistently above the recommended threshold. Which action should be taken to address this issue?

A company is migrating its SAP system from on-premises to AWS. The system uses a shared filesystem (NFS) for transport directories and logs. The company wants to use AWS storage services to provide a similar shared filesystem. Which storage solution is MOST appropriate for this migration?

A company is migrating a SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure that the database migration from SAP ASE to Amazon Aurora is successful with minimal downtime. Which AWS service should be used?

A company is designing an SAP HANA disaster recovery solution on AWS across two regions. Which TWO actions meet the requirement of a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 5 minutes?

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?

A company is designing an SAP system on AWS with SAP HANA as the database. The system must be highly available across multiple Availability Zones. Which TWO actions should the company take to meet this requirement?

An SAP system is running on an EC2 instance with an attached EBS volume for /usr/sap. The operations team notices that the volume is almost full. Which action should be taken to increase the available space without downtime?

A company is migrating its SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS). The solution must support automatic failover in the event of an instance failure. Which AWS architecture meets these requirements?

A company is migrating a large SAP ERP system to AWS using SAP HANA. They want to minimize downtime and ensure consistency. Which three approaches should they combine? (Choose THREE.)

A team is migrating an Oracle database to Amazon RDS for MySQL using AWS DMS with ongoing replication (CDC). The initial load succeeded, but the CDC task fails with the error shown in the exhibit. The source Oracle database is on-premises. Which action should the team take to resolve the issue?

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?

Which THREE metrics should be monitored in Amazon CloudWatch to proactively identify performance issues in an SAP NetWeaver application server? (Choose three.)

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system on Oracle to SAP HANA on AWS. The migration requires near-zero downtime. The company has a test environment that can be used for the migration rehearsal. The SAP HANA database will be 3 TB. Which migration approach should the company use to achieve near-zero downtime?

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?

Your SAP on AWS environment uses a central S3 bucket to store SAP transport files. The operations team reports that transport import fails intermittently. Which AWS service can be used to monitor and alert on S3 API call failures?

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?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance is running out of memory frequently. The instance type is r5.4xlarge with 128 GiB of memory. Which action should the administrator take to resolve this issue?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA database to AWS. They have set up HANA System Replication (HSR) between the on-premises primary and an AWS secondary. The initial data synchronization is complete, but during the final cutover, the replication breaks due to network latency. What should the company do to complete the migration successfully?

An SAP system administrator is troubleshooting an issue where SAP users cannot log in to the SAP system. The administrator checks the SAP application server logs and finds that the connection to the SAP HANA database is failing with 'connection refused'. Which THREE AWS resources should be investigated to resolve the issue?

A company runs a critical workload on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with Multi-AZ. The operations team notices that during a recent failover test, the DNS record updated in about 60 seconds. However, the application experienced a 2-minute downtime because some connections were not re-established quickly. What should the team do to reduce downtime during failover?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP HANA instance is running on an EC2 instance. The volume `/dev/sdf` is used for HANA data. The operations team needs to increase the disk size for HANA data without downtime. Which action should they take?

A company is migrating its SAP system to AWS and needs to transfer a large amount of data (10 TB) from the on-premises data center to AWS. Which TWO AWS services can be used for this data transfer?

An SAP administrator needs to patch the operating system of SAP application servers that are part of an Auto Scaling group. What is the best practice to ensure that instances are updated without downtime?

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?

Which TWO factors are most important to consider when planning the network connectivity for an SAP migration to AWS using AWS Direct Connect?

A company is planning a migration of an SAP system to AWS. Which TWO factors should be considered when selecting the AWS Region for the migration?

A company is migrating a critical SAP HANA database to AWS and needs to ensure high availability. The SAP HANA system replication will be configured across two Availability Zones. Which AWS service should be used to automate the failover of the SAP HANA database?

A company wants to run SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application and database are deployed according to AWS best practices. Which deployment method should they use?

A company is designing a highly available SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP environment on AWS with a 2-node ASCS/ERS cluster. Which TWO of the following must be configured to ensure a successful failover? (Choose 2)

A company runs SAP on AWS. During a maintenance window, the SAP application team needs to apply a kernel update that requires a reboot of the SAP application servers. The environment uses an Auto Scaling group for the application tier. What is the BEST approach to minimize downtime?

Which THREE storage options are supported for SAP HANA data files on AWS? (Select THREE.)

An SAP administrator is migrating an SAP system to AWS and has launched an EC2 instance from an AMI. The administrator runs the command shown in the exhibit. Which statement is true about the root volume?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a three-tier architecture. The operations team receives alerts that the application server's CPU utilization is consistently above 90%. The team wants to add an additional application server to distribute the load. Which AWS service should be used to register the new instance with the SAP system's load balancer?

An organization is migrating a SAP ERP system to AWS. The system has a requirement for high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which architecture should be used to meet this requirement?

An SAP system running on AWS is experiencing high memory utilization on the application server. The team suspects a memory leak in the SAP ABAP application. Which tool or process should be used to identify the root cause?

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 a legacy SAP HANA database (version 1.0) to SAP HANA on Amazon EC2 (version 2.0) with minimal downtime. Which AWS service should be used for the migration?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of SAP HANA on AWS and set alarms? (Select TWO.)

An SAP system is experiencing high CPU utilization on the application server. The administrator wants to automatically scale the EC2 instance based on CPU usage. Which AWS service should be used?

A company runs SAP ERP on AWS with an Oracle database on an r5.4xlarge instance. The system experiences performance degradation during month-end closing. Monitoring shows high CPU and I/O wait on the database server. The storage is EBS gp2 volumes. The company plans to migrate to SAP HANA in the future. What immediate change should be made to improve performance?

A company uses an SAP HANA database on AWS. The database administrator wants to back up the database using Backint integration with AWS. Which AWS service is the recommended target for Backint backups?

A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The SAP application servers and database are in the same VPC. The security team requires encryption in transit between all SAP components. Which combination of services and configurations meets this requirement?

A company runs an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance in a single Availability Zone. The database experiences performance degradation during peak hours. Which action should be taken to improve performance without changing the instance type?

A DevOps engineer needs to automatically restart a specific service on an EC2 instance whenever the service crashes. The instance is running Amazon Linux 2. Which approach is the MOST operationally efficient?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The environment includes an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes for data, log, and backup. The backup strategy uses AWS Backup to create daily snapshots of all EBS volumes. During a disaster recovery test, the team discovers that the snapshots are not crash-consistent and the database cannot be restored to a consistent state. The backup window is set to 2 AM daily. What should the team do to ensure crash-consistent backups?

A company is planning to run SAP HANA on AWS. Which TWO of the following are required to ensure the system is supported by SAP? (Choose TWO.)

A company is designing a disaster recovery strategy for a critical application that runs on EC2 instances with data stored on EBS volumes. The application requires RPO of 15 minutes and RTO of 1 hour. Which TWO approaches meet these requirements?

A company is migrating its SAP landscape to AWS and has a requirement to use existing software licenses to reduce costs. Which AWS pricing model should be used?

A company uses AWS CloudTrail to log API calls. The security team wants to detect unauthorized attempts to modify security group rules and send real-time alerts. Which TWO AWS services should be used together to achieve this?

An SAP HANA database on EC2 is experiencing high I/O latency. The database uses a single EBS volume for /hana/log. The volume is a gp2 volume with 1000 GB size. The administrator notices that the volume's burst balance is depleted. Which action should be taken to improve latency?

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?

Which TWO of the following are valid storage options for SAP HANA data files on AWS?

A company needs to ensure that only authorized users can access the SAP S/4HANA system running on AWS. Which AWS service can be used to manage user identities and permissions?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP ECC system to SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The current system uses an IBM Db2 database on-premises. The target system will use SAP HANA as the database. The company wants to perform the migration with minimal downtime. Which tool or method should be used?

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS and needs to ensure compliance with PCI DSS. The application handles credit card numbers. Which AWS service should be used to encrypt the data at rest?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS using the SAP Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM) tool. During the migration, the team encounters a timeout error when replicating the database. The source database is an SAP HANA multi-tenant database container (MDC) system. What is the most likely cause of the timeout?

An administrator needs to apply a critical OS security patch to multiple SAP application servers in an Auto Scaling group without disrupting ongoing operations. Which strategy should be used?

Which THREE security best practices should be implemented for SAP systems on AWS? (Choose three.)

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?

Which THREE of the following are valid considerations when designing an SAP HANA backup strategy on AWS?

Which TWO of the following are required when integrating SAP HANA with AWS Direct Connect for hybrid connectivity?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the patching of SAP EC2 instances? (Choose 2)

Refer to the exhibit. An operations team sees this log entry in CloudWatch Logs for an SAP system. What is the MOST likely cause?

A company runs SAP ERP on AWS using an Oracle database. To meet disaster recovery requirements, they need to replicate the database to a second AWS Region with low RPO. Which AWS service should be used for continuous, asynchronous replication of the Oracle database?

A company runs a web application on Amazon ECS with Fargate launch type. The application's memory utilization spikes periodically, causing tasks to be killed. The operations team wants to automatically scale the service based on memory usage. Which TWO steps are necessary to implement this?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the deployment of SAP infrastructure during migration? (Choose 2.)

A company is planning to run SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure that the architecture supports high availability for the application layer. Which TWO components are essential for an HA SAP NetWeaver application server setup? (Choose TWO.)

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 customer is using AWS KMS to encrypt EBS volumes for an SAP HANA database. The database administrator reports that the database is slow after enabling encryption. What is the MOST likely cause?

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?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to a fleet of EC2 instances running SAP Web Dispatcher. The operations team notices that some instances are failing health checks intermittently. The ALB health check is configured with a 5-second interval, 2 healthy threshold, and 5 unhealthy threshold. The instances are all in the same Auto Scaling group. What is the most likely cause of the intermittent health check failures?

A company runs SAP ERP on AWS using a single Availability Zone. The system includes an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with 2 TB of memory. The operations team plans to perform a major version upgrade of the SAP HANA database, which requires approximately 4 hours of downtime. The company's SLA allows a maximum of 2 hours of downtime. The team decides to use a blue/green deployment strategy by creating a new HANA instance in a different Availability Zone and replicating data using HANA System Replication (HSR). After setting up replication, they perform a failover to the new instance. However, the failover takes 3 hours due to the large amount of data that needs to be synchronized. What should the team do to meet the 2-hour downtime requirement?

A company uses AWS Systems Manager to automate patching of SAP EC2 instances. The patching fails for some instances with the error 'SSM Agent not running'. What should the administrator do to resolve this?

Drag and drop the steps to configure an SAP Fiori front-end server on AWS behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) into the correct order.

A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS with an Oracle database. The database is stored on Amazon EBS volumes. The architect wants to implement a backup strategy that meets a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which solution is the most cost-effective?

A company needs to back up its SAP HANA database running on Amazon EC2. The database is 500 GB. What is the recommended approach for backups?

A company is designing a disaster recovery solution for SAP HANA on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. Which TWO strategies can be used to replicate HANA data to the DR region? (Choose TWO.)

An SAP system administrator needs to monitor the memory usage of SAP HANA on AWS. Which CloudWatch metric or log should be used to track HANA memory consumption?

Drag and drop the steps to implement disaster recovery for SAP S/4HANA using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) into the correct order.

Which THREE metrics should an operations team monitor to detect performance issues in an SAP HANA database running on EC2?

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator is setting up a migration from on-premises VMware VMs to AWS using AWS Server Migration Service (SMS). The IAM policy shown is attached to the SMS service role. The migration fails with an error indicating insufficient permissions. Which additional permission is required for SMS to successfully replicate VMs?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to retain the same SAP system ID (SID) and hostnames. The migration must be completed with minimal downtime. Which AWS service or feature supports this requirement?

A company is migrating a large SAP HANA database to AWS. They want to use SAP HANA Backup and Recovery with AWS storage. Which THREE options can be used as backup targets? (Choose THREE.)

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to distribute traffic to multiple EC2 instances. The Operations team needs to ensure that the NLB only sends traffic to instances that are healthy. Which health check configuration is appropriate for TCP traffic?

A financial services company runs a multi-tier application on AWS. The application consists of an Application Load Balancer (ALB), a fleet of EC2 instances for the web tier, and an Amazon RDS for MySQL database for the backend. The operations team uses AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. During a recent deployment, a change to the database security group caused an outage because the web tier lost connectivity to the database. The team wants to prevent similar incidents in the future. They need a solution that allows them to review and approve changes to critical resources before deployment, while still enabling rapid deployment for non-critical changes. The team uses AWS CodePipeline for CI/CD. Which approach should the team implement?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and wants to implement a backup strategy using AWS Backint agent for SAP HANA. Which storage service is best suited for storing the backup files when using Backint?

Which TWO statements are true regarding Amazon EBS volume types for SAP HANA data volumes?

A company runs a production SAP HANA database on AWS using an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The database is experiencing high latency during peak hours. The operations team needs to identify the root cause. Which steps should the team take to diagnose the issue?

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 wants to automate the backup of SAP HANA database on AWS. Which AWS service is best suited for creating consistent snapshots of HANA data volumes?

During a migration of an SAP system to AWS, the administrator notices that the SAP application servers are experiencing high network latency when communicating with the SAP HANA database. The application and database servers are in different VPCs connected via VPC peering. Which design change would most effectively reduce the latency?

A company runs SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application server instances are evenly distributed across two Availability Zones. Which AWS service should be used to distribute traffic?

A company uses AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. During an update, a stack fails to roll back and is left in UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED state. The stack contains a DynamoDB table and a Lambda function. The operations team needs to fix the stack with minimal disruption. What should they do?

An operations team needs to back up the SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The database is 1 TB in size and the team wants to minimize backup time and cost. Which backup strategy should they use?

An SAP administrator configures SAP HANA backup using Backint as shown in the exhibit. The backup job fails with an error indicating that the bucket 'sap-hana-backup-prod' does not exist. The administrator confirms that the bucket name is correct. What is the most likely cause of the failure?

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 is migrating SAP applications to AWS and uses the CloudFormation template snippet shown in the exhibit. The SAP ASCS instance requires a shared file system for the transport directory. However, the template does not create any shared storage. Which AWS resource should be added to the template to provide a shared file system?

An SAP system running on AWS uses a Multi-AZ deployment with an Application Load Balancer (ALB) distributing traffic across two application servers in different Availability Zones. The ALB health checks are configured to check the /sap/public/health endpoint on each instance. Recently, the operations team noticed that one of the instances is being marked as unhealthy intermittently, causing a slight increase in response times. The instance's CPU utilization is under 40%, memory is sufficient, and the health endpoint returns a 200 OK status when tested manually. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system includes an SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance and an SAP application server. Which TWO of the following are required for high availability? (Choose TWO.)

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. They need to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which AWS architecture should they implement?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the restart of an SAP application server when it becomes unresponsive? (Choose 2.)

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and wants to use an existing AWS Direct Connect connection for data transfer. The migration involves transferring 10 TB of data. Which AWS service is designed to accelerate data transfer over Direct Connect?

A company is using AWS Systems Manager to automate patching of SAP EC2 instances. The patching fails for some instances with the error 'Unable to retrieve SSM Agent registration'. What is the MOST likely cause?

A company is deploying SAP Business Suite on AWS and wants to minimize network latency between the SAP application servers and the database server. Which placement strategy is best?

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?

Refer to the exhibit. An operations team uses an EC2 instance with this IAM policy to manage EBS snapshots for SAP HANA backups. The backup script calls the DeleteSnapshot API for snapshot snap-0abcdef1234567890. What will happen?

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 architect is designing a disaster recovery plan for an SAP system using SAP HANA. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. The RPO is 15 minutes and RTO is 1 hour. Which TWO AWS services or features should the architect use to meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)

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 planning to migrate SAP S/4HANA to AWS. The system has a high transaction rate and requires low network latency between SAP application servers and the database. Which AWS infrastructure design minimizes network latency between the SAP application tier and the database tier?

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting an issue where an AWS Lambda function is unable to start an EC2 instance. The Lambda execution role has the IAM policy shown in the exhibit. What is the likely cause of the failure?

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database is 2 TB and has a 1-hour maintenance window. The company needs to minimize downtime and ensure data consistency. Which migration strategy should be used?

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?

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to automate the patching of SAP application servers. The servers are behind an Auto Scaling group. Which AWS service is BEST suited to apply OS patches without downtime?

Which TWO methods can be used to migrate an SAP system from on-premises to AWS while minimizing the need for re-architecture? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating SAP HANA to AWS and needs to ensure that the database instances have high network throughput for replication traffic. Which THREE AWS features should be enabled? (Choose THREE.)

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 administrator wants to automate the patching of SAP application servers. Which TWO AWS services can be used together to achieve this?

A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the database layer. Which AWS service should be used to replicate the database to a standby instance in a different Availability Zone?

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS using a phased approach. The application uses a custom Linux distribution that is not supported by AWS Application Migration Service. Which THREE steps should the company take to migrate the application? (Choose THREE)

A company plans to migrate a 10 TB on-premises SQL Server database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server. The migration must be completed within a 4-hour window. The network bandwidth is 1 Gbps. Which migration approach should they choose?

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?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for SAP HANA on AWS. Which TWO of the following are valid DR approaches? (Choose two.)

A company runs SAP NetWeaver on AWS. The system uses a shared file system for transport files via Amazon EFS. Recently, the transport directory performance has degraded. Which configuration change is most likely to improve the I/O performance for the transport directory?

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting why a user cannot stop a production EC2 instance. The IAM policy attached to the user is shown in the exhibit. Which action is likely causing the failure?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to a fleet of EC2 instances running SAP Web Dispatcher. The operations team needs to implement a health check that verifies the Web Dispatcher is ready to accept traffic. Which THREE configuration options should the team set for the health check? (Choose THREE.)

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) solution for SAP HANA on AWS. 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 1 hour. The company wants to use SAP HANA System Replication (HSR). Which configuration meets these requirements?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA database to AWS using AWS DMS. An IAM policy has been created for the DMS service role as shown in the exhibit. The migration fails with an error that the DMS task cannot access the source database. Which additional permission is most likely required?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP environment to AWS. They have multiple SAP systems that are interconnected. Which migration approach is recommended to minimize dependency issues?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to choose a storage option for the SAP HANA database. Which AWS storage service is most suitable for SAP HANA data volumes?

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?

An SAP administrator needs to apply an OS security patch to all SAP application servers running on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The patch requires a reboot. What is the most efficient way to apply the patch with minimal downtime?

A company needs to back up its SAP HANA database running on AWS. The backup must be stored in a durable and cost-effective manner. Which AWS service should the company use for long-term backup storage?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). Which architecture meets SAP's high availability requirements?

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?

An SAP administrator is trying to run an AWS DMS replication task from an EC2 instance that has this IAM role. The task fails with an access denied error. What is the most likely cause?

A company is planning to run SAP S/4HANA on AWS. They need to ensure that the SAP system can be restored within 4 hours in the event of a disaster. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this recovery time objective (RTO)?

A company is migrating a critical SAP HANA database to AWS. The database size is 2 TB. They require the highest network throughput and low latency between EC2 instances. Which EC2 placement strategy should they use?

A company is migrating its SAP HANA database to AWS. They need to validate that the target AWS environment meets SAP's certification requirements. Which two steps should they take? (Choose TWO.)

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

Which TWO AWS services can be used to migrate an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server with minimal downtime? (Choose two.)

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?

An SAP administrator needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for SAP HANA with an RTO of 2 hours and RPO of 15 minutes. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. The system uses SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) for data replication. Which AWS service should be used to automate failover and minimize downtime?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. They need to minimize downtime and ensure data consistency. Which AWS service or feature should they use?

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 SAP administrator wants to deploy a SAP system across two Availability Zones for high availability. The administrator runs the command shown in the exhibit. How many subnets are available for the deployment?

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.)

An SAP system on AWS uses a multi-AZ deployment with an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic across application servers. The ALB health checks are failing intermittently. What is the most likely cause?

An administrator is troubleshooting an SAP system where the application server cannot connect to the database server. Both servers are in the same VPC but different subnets. Security groups allow traffic on the database port. What is the next step to diagnose the issue?

An SAP system is deployed on EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones. Which AWS service should be used to automatically distribute incoming traffic across the SAP application servers?

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.)

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator is setting up an AWS DMS task to migrate an SAP database. They receive an error that they are not authorized to perform the operation. Which statement is true about the IAM policy?

An SAP system on AWS uses a Multi-AZ RDS for SQL Server as the database. During a failover test, the application experienced a 2-minute outage. The application team wants to reduce this downtime. What should the operations team recommend?

A company is migrating its SAP HANA database to AWS. The migration requires minimal downtime and data consistency. Which THREE steps should the company take to achieve this?

A company runs its SAP S/4HANA production workload on AWS using an 8xlarge instance with 2,000 GB of gp3 storage for /usr/sap and 6,000 GB of io2 Block Express with 64,000 IOPS for /hana/data and /hana/log. The system experiences intermittent performance degradation during peak hours, particularly for batch jobs that heavily write to the database. The SAP team reports that the database response time spikes from under 5 milliseconds to over 200 milliseconds during these periods. The AWS account has a default EBS IOPS limit of 80,000 per region. The current io2 volume is attached as a single volume. Which combination of actions would resolve the performance issue?

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?

A company running SAP on AWS wants to automate the start and stop of non-production instances to save costs. Which AWS service is best suited for scheduling instance state changes?

An SAP system on AWS uses a shared file system via Amazon EFS mounted on multiple EC2 instances. Users report that file operations are slow. Which metric in Amazon CloudWatch should be analyzed to determine if the EFS file system's throughput is being throttled?

An SAP administrator is designing a disaster recovery plan for SAP NetWeaver on AWS. They want to minimize RTO and RPO while keeping costs low. Which strategy should they use?

Which THREE factors should be considered when designing an SAP HANA backup strategy on AWS? (Select THREE.)

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 a critical SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. The system uses an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with EBS storage. The operations team receives an alert that the database is running out of disk space on the /hana/data volume. The current configuration uses a single 2 TB gp2 EBS volume for /hana/data, which is 85% full. The team needs to resolve the immediate space issue and also plan for future growth. The database is in production and cannot tolerate downtime. The team has enabled Multi-Attach on the volume. Which course of action should the team take?

An SAP administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance running SAP HANA. Which AWS service should be used to set an alarm when CPU utilization exceeds 90% for 5 minutes?

A company is migrating a web application from an on-premises data center to AWS. The application uses a MySQL database that is 500 GB in size. The company wants to minimize downtime during the migration. Which approach should the company use?

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?

An SAP system is running on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The operations team needs to ensure that when a new instance is launched, it is automatically registered with the SAP Application Server's load balancer. Which approach should be used?

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 planning to migrate its SAP landscape to AWS. They want to use AWS services to reduce operational overhead. Which TWO services can help automate the deployment and configuration of SAP systems? (Choose two.)

A company has an SAP landscape with multiple instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The operations team needs to ensure that the ALB targets are deregistered before an instance is terminated during a patching activity. Which AWS service can automate this?

Which TWO of the following are best practices for operating SAP HANA on AWS?

A company is deploying SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application servers can automatically scale based on CPU utilization. Which AWS service should they use?

An SAP system on AWS uses a Classic Load Balancer to distribute traffic to web dispatchers. The system is experiencing intermittent timeouts. What is the most likely cause?

A company has an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes striped using LVM. The database is experiencing high latency during peak hours. Monitoring shows that the EBS volumes have a high Average Queue Length (avgqueue) and are frequently hitting the IOPS limit. The volumes are gp2 with 3000 IOPS each. The operations team wants to improve performance without increasing storage size. What should they do?

Refer to the exhibit. A company is migrating its data to Amazon S3. The security team has provided this IAM policy for the migration user. However, the migration fails with an Access Denied error when trying to upload files to the bucket. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database size is 2 TB and the network bandwidth between the on-premises data center and AWS is 100 Mbps. The company needs to minimize the migration time and wants to use AWS DMS. Which approach should they take?

A company is planning to run SAP NetWeaver on AWS. Which TWO services are recommended for monitoring the SAP system? (Choose TWO.)

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a Multi-AZ RDS for Oracle as the database. They observe that the database failover took longer than expected during a recent test. What is the most likely cause of the increased failover time?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high CPU ready time on the application server VMs. Which configuration change is most likely to reduce CPU contention?

An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit for an EC2 instance running SAP HANA. The administrator notices that the /dev/sdf volume does not have DeleteOnTermination set to true. What is the impact of this configuration?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database is 2 TB in size and has a 24-hour migration window. The company has a 1 Gbps dedicated connection to AWS. Which migration approach minimizes downtime?

A company is running an SAP HANA database on a single EC2 instance. The operations team notices that the instance is running low on memory, which is causing performance degradation. The team needs to increase memory without downtime. Which solution should they use?

A company is migrating its SAP environment to AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP systems can communicate with each other using their hostnames without relying on a DNS service. Which AWS feature should be used?

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 has an SAP HANA database on an r5.8xlarge EC2 instance. The database is experiencing high CPU utilization during peak hours. The company wants to improve performance without changing the instance family. Which action should be taken?

An SAP administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit to check the configuration of an SAP HANA EC2 instance. The instance is running in us-east-1a. They need to deploy a second SAP HANA instance for high availability in a different Availability Zone. Which Availability Zone should be used?

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?

Which TWO Amazon EBS volume types are recommended for SAP HANA database workloads? (Choose two.)

An SAP system is deployed on AWS using a shared account structure. The security team requires that all changes to SAP security groups be logged and alerted. Which combination of AWS services should be used?

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 planning to migrate its SAP HANA database to AWS. They need to ensure high availability with automatic failover. Which AWS service should they use to achieve this?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing slow performance. The operations team suspects a memory bottleneck on the SAP HANA database. Which CloudWatch metric should be monitored to confirm memory pressure?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing performance issues during peak hours. The operations team notices that the EBS volumes are consistently showing high queue depth. What should they do to 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?

An administrator creates a CloudFormation stack with the template shown in the exhibit. The stack creates an Auto Scaling group with a desired capacity of 2. However, only one instance is launched. What is the most likely reason?

A company runs its SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes striped using LVM. The operations team notices increased latency and wants to ensure consistent I/O performance. What is the MOST effective way to monitor the average queue length of the EBS volumes?

A company plans to migrate 50 TB of archived data from on-premises tape storage to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. The data is rarely accessed. Which migration method is most cost-effective and suitable for the data volume?

An organization runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a single-host HANA database on an EC2 instance. The company wants to implement high availability (HA) for the HANA database within the same AWS Region. The HA solution must ensure automatic failover with minimal data loss. The SAP application servers are already distributed across multiple Availability Zones (AZs). The database administrator proposes using SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) with synchronous replication. However, the network latency between the primary and secondary HANA instances is consistently between 2 ms and 4 ms. What should the administrator do to ensure that the HA solution meets the requirements?

A company is migrating SAP to AWS and needs to set up connectivity between on-premises and AWS VPC with high bandwidth and low latency. Which TWO AWS services should be used? (Choose TWO.)

A company is migrating its SAP systems to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance. Which AWS service can be used to implement a failover cluster for ASCS?

An SAP administrator needs to review API calls made by a user who accidentally deleted an S3 bucket used for SAP backups. Which AWS service provides a record of these API calls?

A company runs a critical web application on a fleet of EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in an Auto Scaling group. The application stores session state in an ElastiCache Redis cluster (Cluster Mode disabled). The operations team receives alerts that the application is experiencing intermittent timeouts and high error rates. Upon investigation, they find that the Redis cluster's CPU utilization is consistently above 90%, and there are frequent 'MAXMEMORY' evictions. The application team confirms that they recently increased the number of concurrent users and added more session data per user. The current Redis cluster is a single cache.r5.large node with 13.37 GB of memory. Which of the following should the operations team do FIRST to address the performance issues?

A company is running a production SAP HANA database on an r5.4xlarge EC2 instance with EBS-backed storage. The operations team notices that the database checkpoint writes are frequently slow, causing application performance degradation. The team has already increased the EBS IOPS and throughput. What should the team do next to improve checkpoint write performance?

A customer is running SAP NetWeaver on AWS and wants to use Amazon EFS for shared file storage for the SAP transport directory. Which access option should be used to secure the file system?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to migrate on-premises SAP systems to AWS? (Choose 2.)

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 runs SAP ERP on AWS with a DR strategy using cross-region replication for SAP HANA. During a DR drill, the team discovers that the HANA database is not starting on the DR instance. Which configuration is most likely missing?

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?

A company is migrating their SAP ERP system running on an on-premises IBM Db2 database to Amazon RDS for Db2. The migration must have minimal downtime. The current database size is 2 TB. The network link between on-premises and AWS is 1 Gbps. The migration team plans to use AWS DMS with a full load followed by ongoing replication. During a test migration, they notice that the full load takes longer than expected, causing the change data capture (CDC) lag to grow. They need to adjust the migration approach to meet the downtime window. What should they do?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). They plan to use two EC2 instances in different Availability Zones with a shared file system. Which AWS service should they use to manage the failover of the virtual IP address?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and wants to ensure that the migration process is compliant with SAP's requirements. Which TWO of the following are recommended practices? (Choose 2)

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and uses multiple EBS volumes for data and log storage. The company wants to encrypt all data at rest. Which three steps are required to ensure encryption of all EBS volumes? (Choose THREE.)

Match the SAP sizing parameter to its AWS EC2 equivalent.

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to patch the operating system of multiple SAP application servers. The servers are in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer. What strategy minimizes downtime?

An organization is migrating a large SAP HANA workload to AWS. The current on-premises environment uses IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) for shared storage. Which AWS storage solution should they use to provide a similar shared file system for SAP HANA?

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?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA database to AWS. The database is 2 TB in size and runs on a single server. The company needs to minimize downtime during the migration. Which AWS service should be used for the initial data transfer?

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?

Which TWO of the following are best practices for running SAP HANA on AWS? (Choose TWO.)

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 HANA database on EC2 is experiencing high swap usage. The system administrator suspects that the memory configuration is insufficient. Which CloudWatch metric should be monitored to confirm this?

A company runs its SAP system on AWS and uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to SAP Web Dispatchers. The operations team reports that some users experience intermittent connectivity issues. The ALB health checks are configured to check the /sap/public/bc/icf/logon endpoint. Which configuration change would best improve the reliability of health checks?

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?

An SAP HANA database on AWS is experiencing high latency. The operations team suspects a network bottleneck. The SAP application and HANA are on different subnets within the same VPC. Which AWS feature can help reduce latency?

An SAP HANA database is running on an EC2 instance with an attached gp2 volume of 500 GiB. The exhibit shows the volume attributes. The database performance is degrading during peak hours. What is the most likely cause?

A company is planning to run SAP Business Suite on AWS with an Oracle database. The database requires a shared file system for Oracle Grid Infrastructure (GI). Which AWS storage service should be used?

Which TWO actions can be taken to improve the resilience of an SAP HANA database running on AWS? (Choose two.)

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and wants 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. Which solution meets these requirements?

A company is migrating a large SAP HANA workload to AWS. The source system runs on IBM Power Systems. They need to ensure that the target AWS infrastructure meets SAP certification requirements. Which EC2 instance type should they choose?

A company runs an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance. During a maintenance window, an administrator needs to stop the instance but ensure that the data in the attached EBS volumes is preserved and the instance can be started later without data loss. Which action should the administrator take?

A company is migrating SAP applications to AWS and needs to ensure that the environment meets SAP certification. Which TWO AWS services are specifically designed to help validate SAP workloads on AWS?

An SAP Basis administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The administrator notices that the 'hdbcons' command shows high 'wait time' for 'disk I/O' operations. The instance is an r5.4xlarge with 500 GB of gp2 EBS volumes for /hana/data and /hana/log. Which of the following is the MOST effective action to improve disk I/O performance?

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.)

A company runs SAP Business Warehouse (BW) on AWS. The system uses an SAP HANA database that is also used for other SAP systems. The company wants to set up monitoring to ensure that the HANA database is performing optimally. They have installed the AWS CloudWatch agent on the HANA server to collect operating system metrics. However, they also need to collect HANA-specific metrics such as memory usage and SQL execution times. Which additional step should the company take to collect these metrics?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP HANA database to AWS. Which instance type is specifically designed for SAP HANA workloads on AWS?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and needs to retain the same hostname for the SAP application server after migration. Which configuration should the company use?

A company is using SAP HANA in a multi-node scale-out configuration on AWS. The operations team needs to automate the patching of the operating system on all nodes with minimal downtime. Which approach is most suitable?

A company is migrating a highly critical SAP HANA database to AWS. They need to ensure data consistency and minimal downtime. Which approach should they use?

An SAP HANA database is running on an EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes for data, log, and shared storage. The administrator needs to ensure that the volumes are backed up consistently to avoid data corruption. Which THREE measures should be taken? (Select THREE.)

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP HANA database backup fails with the error shown. The backup target is an EFS file system mounted at /backup. The EC2 instance has the appropriate IAM role to access EFS. What is the MOST likely cause of this error?

A company runs an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The operations team needs to ensure that snapshots of the database volumes are consistent. Which step should be taken before initiating the EBS snapshot?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS using EC2 instances with HANA data replication between two Availability Zones. The operations team needs to test a disaster recovery failover. What is the correct procedure to promote the secondary HANA system to primary?

A company is designing storage for an SAP HANA database on AWS. The database requires high throughput and low latency for data files. Which storage solution should be used for SAP HANA data volumes?

Match the AWS storage service to its characteristic relevant to SAP.

A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The security team wants to ensure that all newly created S3 buckets in any account are automatically tagged with a 'CostCenter' tag. Which solution requires the least operational overhead?

A company runs SAP on AWS with an Oracle database. They want to implement a disaster recovery strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 2 hours. Which combination of AWS services should they use?

A company has a production AWS account that contains an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The database is critical and must have automated backups enabled with a retention period of 30 days. The company also requires point-in-time recovery to any second within the retention period. The operations team has configured automated backups with a retention period of 30 days, but they notice that the automated backups are not being taken consistently. The DB instance is in a Multi-AZ deployment and has a storage size of 500 GB. The team checks the backup window and finds that it is set to 02:00-03:00 UTC. The backup window is non-overlapping with the maintenance window. The DB instance is actively used during the backup window with heavy write traffic. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the inconsistent automated backups?

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?

An SAP administrator needs to perform an OS-level patching of the underlying EC2 instances hosting an SAP HANA database in a production environment. The HANA database is configured with system replication across two Availability Zones. What is the best practice to minimize downtime?

A company is migrating an on-premises SAP HANA database to AWS. The current HANA system uses 2 TB of storage and requires high IOPS. The company wants to use Amazon EBS for storage. Which EBS volume type is most suitable for the HANA data volume?

An SAP customer wants to reduce the cost of running a non-production SAP system on AWS. The system is used only during business hours (8 AM to 6 PM) on weekdays. What is the most cost-effective solution?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator receives reports that an application server is slow. The administrator checks the CloudWatch alarm for high CPU but it shows 'OK' state. The get-metric-statistics output shows CPU utilization around 90-95%. What is the most likely reason the alarm is not triggering?

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?

An SAP administrator attaches this IAM policy to a user. The user is unable to start an EC2 instance with ID i-0abcdef1234567890. What is the most likely cause?

Which THREE metrics should be monitored to ensure the health of an SAP NetWeaver application server? (Choose three.)

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor SAP HANA database performance metrics? (Choose TWO.)

During the migration of an SAP HANA database to AWS, the migration team encounters high latency on the database connections. The team is using AWS Direct Connect. Which configuration change can help reduce latency?

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 running SAP ERP on AWS. The SAP application servers are in private subnets, and the database is in a separate private subnet. The company needs to allow the application servers to communicate with the database. Which AWS networking component should be configured to allow this traffic?

An SAP on AWS environment uses a shared file system with Amazon EFS. The operations team reports slow performance during peak hours. Which configuration change would most likely improve throughput?

An SAP system running on AWS experiences high latency when accessing data in Amazon S3. The operations team suspects network bandwidth limitations. Which AWS service can be used to monitor the network throughput between the EC2 instances and S3?

A company is running an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with a single EBS volume for /hana/data. The performance team reports high write latency during peak hours. Which change would most effectively reduce write latency without compromising data durability?

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 runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS. They want to ensure high availability for the central services (ASCS) and enqueue replication. Which TWO components should be deployed to meet this requirement?

An SAP administrator created the IAM policy shown for a backup script. The script fails when trying to upload a backup to S3. What is the likely cause?

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?

A company runs a critical SAP application on an SAP HANA database on AWS. The database is backed up daily to Amazon S3. The company needs to ensure that the database can be restored to a point in time within the last 24 hours with minimal data loss. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this requirement?

An SAP administrator notices that the /hana/data filesystem on an SAP HANA database is approaching 95% utilization. The HANA instance uses EBS gp3 volumes. What is the MOST efficient way to increase storage without downtime?

An SAP system on AWS is running on a single Availability Zone. The operations team wants to improve high availability. Which THREE actions should they take?

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The instance type is r5.4xlarge with EBS-optimized enabled. CloudWatch metrics show high WriteIOPS but low throughput. Which THREE factors could be causing this behavior? (Choose three.)

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

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high write latency on the database layer. The DB is running on an r5.8xlarge instance with EBS gp2 volumes. The SAP team notices that the EBS volume write queue depth is frequently above 16. What is the MOST likely cause and what change should be made?

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 wants to automate the backup of SAP HANA databases running on EC2 instances. The backups must be stored in Amazon S3 for long-term retention. Which AWS service can be used to schedule and manage these backups?

A company is migrating a SAP HANA database to AWS. Which THREE factors should be considered when choosing the EC2 instance type for SAP HANA?

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 planning to migrate an SAP HANA database to AWS. They need to ensure that the instance type supports the required amount of memory and that the storage can handle high IOPS. Which AWS service can help determine the appropriate instance type and storage configuration based on the SAP workload requirements?

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?

Which THREE of the following are valid strategies for disaster recovery (DR) of SAP workloads on AWS? (Select THREE.)

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 runs SAP on AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application logs are centrally collected and analyzed for security incidents. Which AWS service should be used to collect and store the logs from EC2 instances?

An SAP administrator is setting up a new SAP HANA system on AWS and needs to ensure that the system can recover from an Availability Zone failure. Which strategy should they implement for high availability?

A company wants to automate the installation of SAP HANA on AWS using CloudFormation. Which AWS service can provide a Quick Start for SAP HANA?

A company is migrating SAP HANA to AWS and needs to ensure high availability. The database must be replicated synchronously across two Availability Zones with automatic failover. Which AWS service should be used?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. They want to minimize downtime and ensure data consistency. Which AWS service should be used for the migration?

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?

Solutions Architect needs to automate the patching of Amazon EC2 instances running Amazon Linux 2. The instances are in an Auto Scaling group and must be patched without downtime. Which approach is BEST?

Which TWO actions are required to set up automated failover for an SAP HANA database using AWS services? (Choose TWO.)

A company runs SAP ERP on AWS with a two-tier architecture: application and database on the same EC2 instance. The instance is part of an Auto Scaling group with a minimum of 1 and maximum of 1, so it's effectively a single instance. The operations team wants to implement a patching strategy for the operating system that minimizes downtime. They need to apply security patches quarterly. Which approach should they take?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS. The HANA database is deployed on an r5.8xlarge instance. The company notices high CPU utilization on the instance during peak loads. The SAP team confirms that the HANA workload requires more CPU capacity. What is the most cost-effective way to increase CPU capacity without changing the instance family?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a distributed deployment with multiple application servers in an Auto Scaling group. They want to ensure that when a new instance is launched, it is automatically registered with the SAP Central Services instance. Which approach should they use?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the patching of SAP application servers?

A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to patch the operating system of multiple EC2 instances on a schedule. The instances are part of an Auto Scaling group. Which AWS service can be used to apply patches without disrupting the Auto Scaling group's desired capacity?

Which TWO components are typically migrated as part of an SAP workload migration to AWS?

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to automatically recover an unhealthy EC2 instance that hosts their SAP application. Which AWS feature should they configure to automatically restart the instance in the same Availability Zone if it fails?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for its SAP HANA database on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1. The DR site must be in us-west-2. The company requires a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which AWS service should be used for replicating HANA data?

A company is migrating an SAP Business Suite system on Oracle to SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The migration involves a near-zero downtime requirement. The current system uses SAP Oracle on Linux. Which combination of tools should the company use?

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

A company is running SAP ERP on AWS and is experiencing high costs due to underutilized EC2 instances. The SAP system is non-production and can tolerate interruptions. Which approach would most cost-effectively reduce costs without compromising the ability to resume operations quickly?

A company is planning to run SAP NetWeaver on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the database layer. Which AWS service can be used to achieve automatic failover of an SAP HANA database?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator has created this CloudFormation snippet to create a Route 53 record for an SAP system. The record is intended to point to an Application Load Balancer. What is a potential issue with this configuration?

A company is migrating an SAP BW system to AWS. The source runs on Oracle. The target is SAP HANA. Which AWS service can help with the migration of custom ABAP code and stored procedures?

An SAP system administrator notices that the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance on an EC2 instance has failed. The instance is still running, but the ASCS service is unresponsive. What is the MOST efficient way to restore the ASCS service without affecting the SAP application?

An SAP administrator is restoring an SAP HANA database from a backup stored in Amazon S3. The restore fails with an error indicating that the backup file is corrupt. The backup was created using the SAP HANA BACKUP command with the S3 backint agent. What could cause the backup file to be corrupt?

Refer to the exhibit. A CloudTrail log entry shows that the user 'sapadmin' stopped an instance. Which of the following is true based on the log?

A company is migrating its SAP NetWeaver system to AWS. The system uses an Oracle database. The company wants to use the SAP Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM) to perform a system copy. The target database will be Amazon RDS for Oracle. Which of the following backup types can be used as the source for the SWPM system copy?

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 components are required to set up SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) on AWS for high availability? (Choose TWO.)

An SAP administrator needs to back up the SAP HANA database daily to Amazon S3 using the Backint agent. What is the prerequisite for this integration?

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

Which THREE actions should be taken to secure an SAP environment running on AWS?

A company is migrating SAP ECC to AWS and needs to ensure low-latency connectivity between the SAP application and database servers. Which AWS service is most appropriate to achieve this?

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 migrating SAP applications to AWS and needs to test the migration process without affecting the production environment. Which AWS service should be used to create an isolated test environment?

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?

A company is planning to migrate its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system requires high availability with automatic failover and minimal data loss. Which TWO strategies should the company implement to meet these requirements?

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 runs its SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance with Amazon EBS volumes. The system is experiencing high write latency. The current EBS volume type is gp2. Which change should a solutions architect recommend to improve write performance for the SAP HANA data volume?

An SAP administrator needs to back up an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The backup must be consistent and restorable to any point in time. Which approach meets these requirements?

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?

An SAP HANA database is running on a Dedicated Host in us-east-1a. The system requires a disaster recovery site in us-west-2. What limitation does the use of a Dedicated Host impose on the DR setup?

During an SAP system refresh, the operations team needs to restore an SAP HANA database from an S3 backup to a new EC2 instance. The backup was created using SAP HANA Backint. Which AWS service is required to read the backup from S3?

An SAP application on AWS needs to access an S3 bucket containing sensitive data. Which IAM policy element should be used to enforce encryption in transit?

A company is designing an SAP HANA workload on AWS. They need to ensure high availability for the SAP HANA database with automatic failover in case of an instance failure. Which AWS service should they use to achieve this?

A company is migrating their SAP Business Warehouse (BW) system to AWS. They want to use Amazon S3 for BW near-line storage (NLS). They have set up an S3 bucket and configured the SAP BW NLS connection. However, when they test the connection, it fails. What is the MOST likely cause?

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?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA database to AWS. The source system uses a Linux filesystem with a specific block size. After migration, the performance is lower than expected. What is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating an on-premises data center to AWS. The company needs to transfer 50 TB of data to Amazon S3. Which TWO AWS services can be used for this data transfer?

A company is using SAP S/4HANA on AWS and wants to optimize costs. Which THREE actions would help reduce costs without impacting performance? (Choose THREE.)

An SAP NetWeaver administrator needs to patch the operating system of an SAP application server running in an Auto Scaling group. The instances are behind an Application Load Balancer. What is the correct procedure to minimize downtime?

Which TWO actions should be taken to improve the performance of an SAP HANA database running on AWS? (Choose TWO.)

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

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting an issue where the SAP system is not responding. The administrator checks the AWS Management Console and finds that the EC2 instance status checks are failing. Which three actions should the administrator take to recover the instance? (Choose THREE.)

Which TWO of the following AWS services can be used to create and manage SAP system backups in an automated manner?

An SAP administrator is setting up backup for an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance. The database is 1 TB in size. Which TWO AWS services can be used to create a cost-effective backup strategy?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a High Availability (HA) cluster spanning two Availability Zones (us-east-1a and us-east-1b). The cluster uses an Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file system for the global transport directory. Recently, the cluster experienced a split-brain situation, leading to data corruption. The administrator wants to prevent this from recurring. The current setup uses a single FSx file system mounted on both cluster nodes. What should the administrator do to prevent split-brain?

A company runs SAP on AWS using an SAP HANA database on an R5.8xlarge EC2 instance. The SAP application generates alerts about high disk I/O latency. Which AWS service should the administrator use to identify the root cause?

A company is migrating a custom CRM application to AWS. The application uses a PostgreSQL database. Which migration approach minimizes downtime?

An SAP Basis administrator is monitoring the health of an SAP HANA database on AWS. The administrator wants to receive alerts when the CPU utilization of the HANA instance exceeds 90% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which combination of AWS services should be used?

An administrator deploys the CloudFormation stack above. The EC2 instance launches but the s3fs mount fails. Which TWO actions are needed to fix the issue? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating its SAP Business Warehouse (BW) system to AWS. The source system runs on an on-premises IBM AIX server with an Oracle database. The target AWS environment will use SAP HANA as the database. The migration tool is SAP Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM). The company has a requirement to minimize downtime during the migration. The SAP BW system has 5 TB of data. The network bandwidth between on-premises and AWS is 1 Gbps. The migration team plans to use AWS Direct Connect for the data transfer. They estimate that the initial data load will take approximately 12 hours. However, the cutover window is limited to 8 hours. What should the migration team do to meet the cutover window?

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?

Match the SAP transport type to its description.

Which TWO of the following are valid options for implementing high availability for SAP NetWeaver on AWS?

An SAP workload running on AWS is experiencing intermittent performance issues. The operations team suspects that a recent change to a security group is causing traffic to be dropped. Which AWS service should the team use to analyze network traffic patterns and identify the source of the issue?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the health of SAP systems and send notifications? (Select TWO.)

Which THREE AWS services can be used to automate the patching of SAP application servers on EC2? (Choose 3).

Which THREE considerations are important when designing a SAP workload for high availability on AWS? (Select three.)

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator runs the CLI command to check the status of SAP application instances. The output shows two instances. The administrator needs to stop the running instance and start the stopped instance for a planned migration. Which command should they run?

An SAP system administrator needs to perform a backup of an SAP HANA database running on EC2. Which TWO AWS services can be used together to create consistent backups? (Choose TWO.)

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP application performance has degraded over the past week. The system is running on Amazon EC2 with EBS volumes. Which AWS service should be used to analyze the performance impact of the EBS volumes?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency for database queries. The administrator notices that the EBS volume used for /hana/log has a baseline IOPS of 5000 but the workload requires 8000 IOPS. What should the administrator do to resolve this?

A company is migrating a multi-tier application to AWS and wants to ensure high availability. The application has a web tier, application tier, and database tier. The database is currently running on a single on-premises server. Which migration strategy minimizes downtime and provides the HIGHEST availability for the database tier?

A company is migrating an SAP NetWeaver system to AWS. The system uses SAProuter for secure network communication. What is the recommended approach to preserve the SAProuter functionality during the migration?

An organization is planning a migration of SAP applications to AWS. Which AWS service should be used to track and manage the migration project's tasks and milestones?

An SAP application on AWS is experiencing high network latency and packet loss between the SAP application server and the SAP HANA database. The application and database are in the same AWS Region and Availability Zone. What is the most likely cause?

A company has an SAP system running on AWS with a production database on an RDS for SAP ASE instance. The operations team needs to perform a minor version upgrade of the database engine. The upgrade must be applied with minimal downtime. The team has a maintenance window scheduled for the upcoming weekend. Which action should the team take to apply the upgrade?

A company runs its SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance in a single Availability Zone. The system is critical and requires high availability. The current setup uses an EBS volume for data storage. During a recent failure simulation, the database took 45 minutes to recover because the EBS volume had to be reattached and the database had to replay logs. The operations team wants to reduce recovery time to less than 15 minutes. Which solution should they implement?

An SAP system on AWS uses a large memory instance (x1e.32xlarge) for HANA. The administrator notices that the system is experiencing high swap usage. The HANA memory usage is at 90% of physical RAM. The instance has 4 TB of RAM, and the HANA data size is 3.8 TB. The administrator wants to avoid swap usage to maintain performance. Which solution should be implemented?

A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. The SAP HANA database is 2 TB and requires Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 4 hours. Which solution meets these requirements?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and wants to use storage that offers the highest IOPS for the SAP HANA database. Which storage option should be used?

An SAP administrator needs to ensure that an EC2 instance hosting SAP HANA is rebooted automatically after a hardware failure. Which AWS feature provides this capability?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to perform automated backups of an SAP HANA database running on EC2? (Choose 2.)

A company is migrating its SAP landscape to AWS and plans to use an SAP HANA multi-node scale-out configuration. Which THREE considerations are important for the network design?

A company is migrating a large SAP S/4HANA system (8 TB total data, high I/O) from on-premises to AWS. The SAP system runs on HANA database and uses a three-tier architecture with application servers and database servers. The migration plan must minimize downtime and ensure data consistency. The company has a 10 Gbps direct connection to AWS. They have considered using AWS DMS, but the database is SAP HANA, which is not supported as a source by DMS. The migration team needs to transfer the HANA database and also the application files. They also need to replicate ongoing changes to minimize downtime. Which combination of AWS services should the migration team use? (Choose the best answer.)

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to automate the creation of consistent snapshots of EBS volumes attached to SAP HANA instances. Which AWS service is BEST suited for this task?

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'?

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP HANA database running on an r5.24xlarge instance. The database is I/O bound during high load periods. The administrator has already verified that the EBS volumes are not saturated. What should the administrator check next?

A company is migrating an on-premises application to AWS. The application requires low-latency access to a shared file system that can be mounted by multiple EC2 instances simultaneously. Which storage solution should they use?

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?

A company is planning to migrate a legacy Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database is 500 GB and has a 24/7 workload. The company needs minimal downtime. Which AWS service should be used for the migration?

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)

An SAP workload is running on an EC2 instance in a private subnet. The application needs to access an S3 bucket for backups. Which AWS service should be used to enable private connectivity without traversing the internet?

A company runs SAP Business Suite on an SAP HANA database on AWS. The database uses EBS gp2 volumes. The operations team notices high latency during peak hours. The metrics show that the volume queue depth is consistently above the recommended threshold. What is the MOST cost-effective change to reduce latency?

Refer to the exhibit. An EC2 instance is running and has a public IP address. A security engineer needs to verify that the instance is not publicly accessible from the internet. Which additional step is required?

A company runs SAP on AWS and uses a Multi-AZ RDS for SAP ASE database. The operations team receives an alert that the database instance failed over automatically. After the failover, the SAP application servers are unable to connect to the database. The team checks the RDS console and sees that the DB instance status is 'available' and the endpoint is the same as before. The security groups and network ACLs have not changed. What is the MOST likely reason for the connectivity issue?

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?

A company uses SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a multi-AZ deployment. The primary database is in us-east-1a and the secondary in us-east-1b. During a failover test, the secondary database becomes active but performance degrades significantly. Which configuration is most likely causing the performance issue?

A company is running an SAP HANA database on AWS using an i3.16xlarge instance. The database storage is configured with multiple EBS gp2 volumes in a RAID 0 stripe to meet IOPS requirements. During a workload spike, the application experiences increased latency and the database performance degrades. The CloudWatch metrics show high Average Queue Length (avg_queue_len) on the EBS volumes but not 100% utilization of the CPU. Which design change is MOST likely to resolve the performance issue?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure that the migration complies with regulatory requirements for data residency. The source system is in Germany and the target AWS Region is Frankfurt. Which step should be taken to address data residency?

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?

During a disaster recovery test, an SAP administrator finds that the SAP application cannot connect to the replicated HANA database in the DR region. The replication is done using SAP HANA System Replication. What is the MOST likely cause?

A company runs a multi-tier application on AWS. The application consists of an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that distributes traffic to a fleet of EC2 instances running a web server. The web servers write logs to an Amazon EFS file system mounted across all instances. The operations team reports that the web application is experiencing intermittent high latency and timeouts. Monitoring shows that the ALB's target response time is normal, but the application's internal processing time is high. Further investigation reveals that the EFS performance metrics show high 'BurstCreditBalance' and 'PercentIOLimit' during the latency spikes. The EFS file system is configured with 'Bursting' throughput mode. The team needs to resolve the latency issue with minimal cost. What should they do?

Which TWO options are best practices for securing SAP systems on AWS?

An organization is migrating a legacy Windows-based .NET application to AWS. The application currently uses IIS and SQL Server on a single server. They want to minimize changes to the application code. Which migration strategy is most appropriate?

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?

A company is migrating a large SAP ERP system to AWS. The system has multiple interfaces with external systems using RFC connections. During the migration, the team needs to minimize changes to the external systems' configurations. What approach should be taken for the RFC connections?

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?

A company plans to migrate their SAP HANA database to AWS. They require the highest availability with automatic failover in case of an AZ failure. Which architecture should they use?

A company is migrating an SAP BusinessObjects (BO) system to AWS. The system includes a large number of reports and users. What is the recommended approach to migrate the SAP BO repository?

A company is migrating its SAP HANA database to AWS. The SAP HANA database requires high throughput and low latency for data persistence. Which AWS storage solution should be used for the HANA data volume to meet performance requirements?

During a migration of an SAP system to AWS, the SAP application team reports that batch jobs are failing with an error 'RFC connection refused'. The on-premises system and AWS are connected via a VPN. What is the MOST likely cause?

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

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency in database transactions. The SAP HANA database is running on an r5.24xlarge instance with GP3 EBS volumes. CloudWatch metrics show high Write IOPS but low Read IOPS. The application team expects high write throughput. What should be changed to improve write performance?

A manufacturing company is planning to migrate a legacy inventory application from a data center to AWS. The application runs on Windows Server 2012 R2 and uses a SQL Server 2014 database. The application requires low-latency access to a shared file system for storing CAD drawings. The current on-premises environment uses a SAN-based storage array for the database and a Windows File Server for the CAD files. The company wants to minimize operational overhead and avoid refactoring the application. The migration must be completed within 3 months. The company has already established a Direct Connect connection between the data center and AWS. Which migration strategy should the company use?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS. They want to use an AWS service to automate the deployment of SAP applications according to best practices. Which TWO services can be used for this purpose? (Choose TWO.)

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?

A company is migrating its SAP environment to AWS and wants to ensure that the migration complies with SAP's software licensing requirements. What is the most important consideration regarding SAP license mobility?

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to automate the deployment of new SAP application servers. The company uses AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. Which AWS service should they use to run custom scripts during the CloudFormation stack creation to configure the SAP application?

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

Which THREE of the following are best practices for operating an SAP HANA database on AWS in a production environment?

An SAP Basis administrator needs to monitor the health of SAP application servers running on EC2. The administrator wants to receive alerts when a server becomes unreachable or when critical SAP processes stop. Which AWS service should be used to create a custom dashboard and set up alarms?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA system from on-premises to AWS. The HANA system uses a large amount of memory (2 TB). Which EC2 instance type is most suitable for this workload?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA database to AWS using the SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) with asynchronous mode. The database size is 5 TB. The migration must be completed within 8 hours. Which AWS resource is most critical to ensure the initial data synchronization completes within the time window?

An SAP Basis administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP HANA database running on AWS. The database is on an EC2 instance of type r5.12xlarge with 8 x 1 TB EBS io2 Block Express volumes configured for maximum IOPS. The application team reports that batch jobs are taking longer than expected. The administrator checks Amazon CloudWatch metrics and sees that the EBS write latency averages 2 ms, which is within the expected range. However, the CPU utilization is at 95% consistently during batch runs. The HANA index server is using 70% of the CPU. The administrator also notices that the HANA threads are mostly waiting on 'lock wait' events. What is the MOST likely cause of the performance issue?

An SAP administrator notices that the SAP application server performance degrades during peak hours. The application servers are running on EC2 instances with gp2 EBS volumes. The administrator suspects the EBS volumes are experiencing burst bucket depletion. Which action should the administrator take to improve performance?

Refer to the exhibit. An SAP administrator is configuring Route 53 to point a custom domain name to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that fronts SAP Web Dispatchers. The record set is configured as shown. However, when users access sap.example.com, they receive a 503 error. What is the MOST likely cause?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing performance degradation. Amazon CloudWatch metrics show high CPU utilization on the application server, but the database server (RDS) metrics are normal. The application team suspects a memory leak. Which action should the operations team take FIRST to confirm the issue?

An SAP administrator wants to automate the creation of a DR environment for SAP HANA on AWS. The DR site should be in a different region and must be started only during a disaster. Which AWS service should be used to orchestrate the DR process?

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

A company runs a production EC2 instance that experiences intermittent connectivity issues. The instance is part of an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer. Which step should be taken FIRST to diagnose the issue?

An administrator runs the command shown in the exhibit to check the status of an EBS volume attached to an SAP HANA instance. The volume is 200 GB gp3 and is attached to instance i-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890. The administrator wants to increase the I/O performance. The volume is currently set to 3000 IOPS (baseline for gp3). Which action will increase IOPS without downtime?

A company is migrating a legacy SAP ECC 6.0 system to SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The current database is IBM Db2. Which AWS service should be used to assess the source system and plan the migration?

Which TWO of the following are valid methods to monitor the health of an SAP HANA database running on AWS?

An SAP system administrator needs to monitor the health of Amazon RDS for SAP ASE database instances. Which TWO CloudWatch metrics should be used to detect if the database is under memory pressure?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and 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. The primary site is in us-east-1, and the DR site is in us-west-2. Which two actions should the company take to meet these objectives? (Choose TWO.)

Match the SAP system type to its typical AWS deployment pattern.

Which TWO are best practices for designing high availability for SAP NetWeaver on AWS? (Choose two.)

An SAP administrator is migrating an on-premises SAP system to AWS using this IAM policy. When attempting to launch a new EC2 instance from an AMI stored in the S3 bucket, the launch fails. What is the likely cause?

An SAP system uses a shared file system mounted via EFS from multiple EC2 instances. The operations team notices that the file system is not performing well during peak loads. What is the most effective way to improve throughput without changing the application?

A company is using AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to patch a fleet of EC2 instances. The instances are in a patch group and have the SSM Agent installed. After a patching operation, the operations team notices that some instances did not apply the patches. The instances show a status of 'Failed' in the Patch Manager console. Which TWO steps should the team take to troubleshoot and resolve the issue? (Choose TWO.)

A company is running SAP on AWS and wants to implement a patching strategy for the operating system of EC2 instances with minimal downtime. The instances are part of an Auto Scaling group. Which of the following approaches is the MOST appropriate?

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?

A company is migrating its SAP production system to AWS and needs to ensure that the migration does not exceed the allowed downtime window of 4 hours. The source database is 5 TB. Which migration strategy should be used?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS using an ASCS and PAS cluster with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The cluster fails over unexpectedly several times a day. What is the most likely cause and solution?

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)?

An IAM policy is attached to a user. The user attempts to upload a file to s3://my-bucket/restricted/data.txt. What is the outcome?

A company runs SAP on AWS with an SAP HANA database on a single EC2 instance. They want to implement a disaster recovery solution with a recovery time objective (RTO) of 15 minutes and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 1 hour. The DR site is in a different AWS Region. Which approach meets these requirements?

Which THREE are valid steps when performing a cross-Region disaster recovery failover for SAP HANA using AWS? (Choose THREE.)

A company wants to migrate a 50 TB SAP HANA database to AWS with minimal downtime. Which migration approach should be used?

A company plans to migrate its SAP systems to AWS and needs to set up a secure connection to the corporate data center. The company requires consistent network performance and low latency. Which AWS service should be used?

A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and needs to perform a backup of the HANA database to Amazon S3. Which AWS service should be used to orchestrate the backup and ensure consistency?

A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS. The database size is 2 TB. They need to restore the database to a point-in-time from the last 24 hours. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this with minimal impact on production performance?

A company is migrating a large SAP HANA workload to AWS. They need to ensure the fastest network throughput for data transfer between on-premises and AWS. Which AWS service or feature should they use?

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

A company is migrating its SAP landscape to AWS. They need to choose a migration method for each system. Which TWO factors are most important to consider when selecting a migration method for SAP systems? (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?

A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that meets a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The DR region must have the SAP application stack ready but the database can be replayed from backups. Which TWO actions should be taken to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A company runs SAP on AWS and needs to monitor the performance of its SAP HANA database. The operations team wants to receive alerts when the CPU utilization exceeds 90% for more than 5 minutes. Which TWO steps should be taken to set up this monitoring and alerting?

An SAP administrator receives an alert that the SAP application server is not responding. The administrator checks the EC2 console and sees that the instance state is 'running' but the status checks have failed. Which step should be taken first to restore the SAP application?

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

A company is migrating an SAP S/4HANA system to AWS and needs to choose the storage for the HANA database. The database requires high IOPS and low latency. Which AWS storage solution is most suitable?

Which THREE steps should an administrator take to troubleshoot an issue where an SAP application server cannot connect to the database server after a security group change? (Choose THREE.)

A company is migrating a Windows-based .NET application to AWS. The application currently uses Active Directory for authentication. Which AWS service should they use to maintain a similar authentication experience?

A retail company is migrating its SAP ERP system from on-premises to AWS. The system includes an SAP HANA database (2 TB) and an SAP NetWeaver application server. The migration strategy is to use SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) to replicate the database to an EC2 instance running SAP HANA, then perform a takeover. The application server will be migrated using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN). The network connection is AWS Direct Connect with 1 Gbps bandwidth. During a test migration, the HSR replication is working, but the application server replication through MGN is taking much longer than expected. The MGN console shows that the data replication progress is stuck at 45% for several hours. The source server is a physical server with a 500 GB disk, 75% utilized. Which action is most likely to resolve the issue?

A company is migrating on-premises servers to AWS. After migrating, the administrator runs the AWS CLI command shown in the exhibit. The company wants to ensure that all EC2 instances are in the 'running' state. Which action should the administrator take?

A company is migrating an SAP BusinessObjects environment to AWS. The migration must ensure that the legacy reporting system remains accessible during the transition. Which AWS service can help facilitate this by allowing the company to redirect traffic gradually?

A company is migrating an SAP HANA database to AWS and needs to ensure high availability with automatic failover. Which solution meets this requirement with the least administrative overhead?

A company is running SAP ERP on a single EC2 instance with an SAP HANA database. The operations team receives an alert that the /hana/data filesystem is 85% full. The filesystem is mounted from an EBS volume. Which of the following actions should be taken to resolve the issue with MINIMAL downtime?

A financial services company is migrating its SAP HANA-based system from on-premises to AWS. The system is critical and must have a recovery point objective (RPO) of less than 1 minute and recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 15 minutes. The migration strategy is to use SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) in synchronous mode to an EC2 instance in the same region, then perform a takeover. However, during the test, the HSR replication latency is consistently above 100 ms, which prevents synchronous replication from working. The network between on-premises and AWS uses AWS Direct Connect with 1 Gbps bandwidth, and the physical distance is about 50 miles. Which action should the administrator take to achieve the RPO/RTO requirements?

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 best practices for securing SAP workloads on AWS?

A company is running a production SAP HANA database on an AWS EC2 instance with multiple EBS volumes. The operations team notices that the database performance degrades during peak hours. Which AWS service can be used to analyze the disk I/O performance and identify bottlenecks?

A company is migrating a critical SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure high availability for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). Which AWS service can be used to manage the virtual IP address required for the SAP high availability setup?

An SAP administrator runs the command shown in the exhibit. The volume is attached to an EC2 instance. The administrator plans to increase the volume size to 1000 GiB. After resizing, the volume type remains gp2. What is the expected baseline IOPS for the resized volume?

An SAP system is running on AWS and uses Amazon EFS for the /sapmnt directory. The system is experiencing high latency during file operations. Which configuration change could improve the performance of the EFS file system?

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.)

An SAP administrator needs to back up an SAP HANA database running on an Amazon EC2 instance. The requirement is to perform daily backups to Amazon S3 with minimal cost and impact on database performance. Which backup strategy should be used?

A company is designing a disaster recovery solution for SAP S/4HANA. They need to meet an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 2 hours. Which THREE components should be included in the DR plan? (Choose 3.)

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and wants to use AWS Systems Manager for patching. The SAP application server is running Windows. What is a prerequisite for Systems Manager to manage the instance?

An SAP system on AWS needs to be highly available across multiple Availability Zones (AZs). The SAP Central Services (ASCS) and the database are both critical. Which architecture should be used?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The database is 2 TB and has a 4-hour maintenance window. Which AWS service should be used to minimize downtime during the migration?

An SAP system is running on an EC2 instance with an instance profile that grants access to an S3 bucket. The application is unable to read a specific object from the bucket. What is the first step to troubleshoot the issue?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application servers can scale automatically based on CPU utilization. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this?

An SAP Basis administrator is setting up an SAP HANA database in a Multi-AZ deployment on AWS. They need to ensure that the database remains available during an Availability Zone failure. Which AWS services should be used together to achieve this?

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?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the database can be recovered to a specific point in time within the last 24 hours. Which backup strategy should be used?

A company is migrating a file server to AWS and needs a scalable, highly available file storage solution that supports the SMB protocol. Which AWS service should be used?

An SAP administrator is designing a backup strategy for SAP HANA on AWS. Which THREE practices should be implemented to ensure reliable backups?

An SAP system running on EC2 is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues between application servers and the database server. The network team suspects that the security group rules are too restrictive. What is the best approach to identify which traffic is being blocked?

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.)

An SAP administrator is deploying an SAP ASCS instance using CloudFormation. The deployment fails because the instance cannot be reached from other SAP components. Based on the exhibit, what is the most likely cause?

A company is migrating a fleet of 200 on-premises Windows servers to AWS. The servers run a mix of custom applications and Microsoft SQL Server databases. The migration plan includes using AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) for the servers and AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for the databases. During the initial replication, several servers fail with the error 'Unable to create AMI: Insufficient permissions'. The IAM role used by SMS has the following policy: {"Version":"2012-10-17","Statement":[{"Effect":"Allow","Action":["ec2:Describe*","ec2:CreateImage","ec2:RegisterImage","s3:PutObject","s3:GetObject","s3:ListBucket"],"Resource":"*"}]}. Which change should be made to resolve the error?

A company is planning to run SAP applications on AWS. The security team requires that all data transmitted between the SAP application servers and the SAP HANA database be encrypted in transit. The SAP HANA database is on an EC2 instance in the same VPC. The application servers are also in the same VPC. Which configuration should the company implement to meet the encryption requirement with minimal impact on performance?

Which THREE AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of an SAP HANA database running on EC2? (Choose 3)

Which THREE factors must be considered when choosing an EC2 instance type for SAP HANA production workloads?

A company has an SAP HANA database running on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. The operations team needs to ensure that database backups are stored in Amazon S3 and are automatically deleted after 90 days. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to back up the HANA database to Amazon S3. The database is 1 TB and changes frequently. The backup must be completed within 4 hours. What is the most efficient backup method?

A company is deploying a mission-critical SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. They need to ensure the highest level of availability and minimize data loss. Which TWO strategies should they implement? (Choose two.)

Which THREE of the following are best practices for securing SAP systems on AWS?

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?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS in a single region with a multi-AZ setup. The SAP HANA database uses HANA System Replication (HSR) for high availability. The primary HANA instance is in us-east-1a and the secondary is in us-east-1b. The application servers are split across both AZs. Recently, during a maintenance window, the primary HANA instance failed unexpectedly. The secondary automatically took over. However, after the failover, the application servers in us-east-1a are experiencing higher latency when connecting to the database, while application servers in us-east-1b have normal latency. The network team confirms that the inter-AZ latency is within normal limits. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the increased latency?

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.)

An organization is migrating an SAP system from on-premises to AWS. The SAP system uses a shared file system (NFS) for transport directories. The company wants a fully managed NFS solution on AWS. Which service should they use?

A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the system can survive a single Availability Zone failure. Which architecture meets this requirement?

A company wants to monitor the disk space utilization of their SAP application servers. Which AWS service can provide a centralized view of disk space metrics without installing additional agents?

Your company runs SAP ERP on AWS with a multi-AZ deployment. The SAP HANA database is replicated across two Availability Zones using HANA System Replication. The application servers are behind an Application Load Balancer. During a recent Availability Zone failure, the primary HANA instance failed, and the standby took over. However, the application servers continued to try to connect to the primary instance for several minutes, causing downtime. The DNS record for the database endpoint was manually updated after the failover. What is the most effective solution to automate the failover and minimize downtime?

A company is migrating an SAP S/4HANA system to AWS. The system requires high availability for the database and application layers. Which THREE components should the company configure to achieve high availability for SAP S/4HANA on AWS?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA in a multi-AZ deployment with a standby database in a different Availability Zone. The primary database fails. What is the expected behavior of the SAP HANA system replication?

A company wants to use an SAP-certified AMI for a non-production SAP system to reduce deployment time. Which AWS service provides access to SAP-certified AMIs?

An architect is designing a disaster recovery (DR) solution for an SAP ERP system on AWS. The primary site is in us-east-1 and the DR site is in us-west-2. The SAP application uses an Oracle database. The RTO is 4 hours and RPO is 1 hour. Which solution meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?

An SAP administrator is setting up a disaster recovery (DR) site for SAP S/4HANA in a different AWS Region. To minimize data loss, which THREE strategies should be implemented? (Choose THREE.)

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?

A company runs SAP on AWS with a shared storage solution for transport files. They need a highly available, scalable, and POSIX-compliant file system. Which AWS storage service should they use?

A company uses Amazon CloudWatch Logs to store SAP application logs. The Security team requires that logs be encrypted at rest using a customer-managed KMS key (CMK). How can this be achieved?

An SAP administrator needs to ensure that all API calls made to create, modify, or delete AWS resources are logged for auditing. Which AWS service should be enabled?

A company is running an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. During a planned maintenance window, the operations team needs to apply an SAP kernel patch that requires stopping all SAP instances. Which AWS service can be used to orchestrate the stop/start sequence of multiple EC2 instances and ensure proper dependencies are maintained?

A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to monitor the health of their SAP application servers. Which TWO AWS services can be used together to achieve this?

An SAP system on AWS uses a shared file system via Amazon EFS for transport directory (/usr/sap/trans). The system experiences slow batch jobs. Monitoring shows high read latency on EFS. Which action would most likely reduce latency?

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.)

A company is migrating its SAP NetWeaver system from on-premises to AWS. The system uses a central instance (ASCS) and multiple dialog instances. The migration must be completed with minimal downtime. Which approach should the company use?

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?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS in a multi-AZ deployment. The SAP HANA database is 2 TB and uses EBS gp3 volumes. During a monthly patching cycle, the primary database fails over to the secondary, but the secondary takes over 30 minutes to come online. Which TWO changes would most likely reduce the failover time? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating an SAP Business Suite system to AWS. The source database is Oracle. The target is Amazon RDS for Oracle. Which AWS service should be used to automate the schema conversion and data migration?

A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS. The SAP system frequently crashes with a 'JAVA out of memory' error. The application server is an EC2 instance with 32 GB RAM. Which solution should be implemented to prevent this issue?

A company is migrating an SAP S/4HANA system to AWS. The system uses SAP HANA as its database. The company has a complex networking setup with multiple VPCs and on-premises connectivity via AWS Direct Connect. The SAP HANA system replication will be used for high availability across two Availability Zones. What is the minimum number of Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) required per HANA instance to support the recommended network architecture?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to migrate an on-premises SAP HANA database to AWS with minimal downtime? (Choose 2.)

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?

An architect is designing a network topology for an SAP system on AWS. The SAP application servers must be placed in private subnets, and the web dispatchers must be accessible from the internet. Which configuration should the architect use to meet these requirements?

An SAP system on AWS uses a shared file system for the SAP transport directory. The file system is hosted on an Amazon EFS file system. Recently, the operations team noticed that SAP transports are failing with errors indicating file locking issues. The EFS file system is mounted using the NFS client with default options. What is the most likely cause of the file locking issues?

An SAP system running on AWS has a recurring issue where the SAP application server becomes unresponsive every evening at 8 PM. The administrator suspects a batch job causing high CPU usage. Which set of AWS services can best help identify the root cause?

A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS with a large HANA database (10 TB). The database uses EBS gp3 volumes. The system experiences performance degradation due to high disk I/O. The architect decides to migrate to EBS io2 Block Express volumes. Which THREE factors should the architect consider when planning the migration?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system uses an SAP HANA database and runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). The company wants to use the same SLES version on AWS and needs to ensure that the instance type supports the required SAP HANA workload. Which AWS resource should the administrator use to find the appropriate instance types?

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

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing performance degradation. The SAP administrator wants to monitor the EC2 instance's CPU utilization and memory usage. Which AWS service should be used to collect memory metrics?

An SAP administrator needs to monitor the free space of EBS volumes across multiple EC2 instances running SAP. Which AWS service should be used to collect and visualize this data?

An SAP system is running on EC2 instances with EBS volumes. The administrator wants to automate the creation of point-in-time snapshots of the EBS volumes for disaster recovery. Which AWS service is best suited for this?

A multinational company runs SAP on AWS with a complex landscape including development, quality assurance, and production environments. The production SAP HANA database is running on an r5.8xlarge instance with 3.5 TB of data on EBS gp3 volumes. The operations team has been asked to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that can recover the system in another AWS Region within 4 hours. The maximum acceptable data loss is 30 minutes. The current backup strategy uses daily EBS snapshots stored in the same Region. Which approach should the team take to meet the DR requirements?

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

An SAP administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an SAP application server EC2 instance and send an alert if it exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used?

An SAP administrator is configuring the /hana/data volume for SAP HANA on an EC2 instance. The exhibit shows the /etc/fstab entry. What is the purpose of the 'noatime' mount option?

A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP license is compliant. The current license is based on the number of users. Which AWS pricing model is most appropriate for this scenario?

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?

Drag and drop the steps to perform a backup and restore of an SAP HANA database using AWS Backup into the correct order.

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP NetWeaver system running on AWS. The system uses an Oracle database. The CPU utilization of the database server is consistently below 30%, but application response times are slow. Which THREE checks should the administrator perform to identify the bottleneck?

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to minimize network latency between the SAP application servers and the database. Which AWS service or feature should be used to meet this requirement?

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 migrating an SAP environment to AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP HANA database can be backed up efficiently. Which THREE AWS services can be used together to implement a backup strategy for SAP HANA?

A company is migrating an SAP ERP system to AWS and wants to use SAP HANA as the database. The current on-premises database is 4 TB. Which EC2 instance type is optimized for SAP HANA workloads and provides sufficient memory?

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?

A company is planning to migrate an SAP HANA database to AWS. Which THREE factors should the company consider when selecting an EC2 instance type for the SAP HANA database?

A company is migrating a SAP system to AWS and wants to use the same SAP system ID (SID) as on-premises. What is a prerequisite for this migration?

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?

A company is migrating its SAP BusinessObjects to AWS. They want to use a managed service to reduce operational overhead. Which AWS service is most suitable?

A company is using this CloudFormation template to provision infrastructure for an SAP HANA migration. When the stack is created, the RDS instance fails to launch. What is the most likely reason?

A company wants to ensure that its SAP systems on AWS are compliant with internal security policies. Which AWS service can be used to continuously monitor and evaluate resource configurations?

A company is migrating SAP applications to AWS and needs to replicate data from on-premises Active Directory to AWS Managed Microsoft AD for authentication. Which AWS service should be used?

A company runs SAP Business Suite on AWS with a large SAP HANA database. They observe high memory utilization and need to scale up. Which instance type should they choose to provide the highest memory capacity for SAP HANA?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency for disk I/O. The system uses Amazon EBS gp2 volumes. The operations team notices that the volume queue depth is consistently high. Which change is most likely to reduce latency?

An administrator is migrating an on-premises application to AWS. The application stores persistent data on a separate disk. The administrator launched an EC2 instance as a test and attached an additional EBS volume for the persistent data. The above exhibit shows the block device mapping for the test instance. Later, the administrator terminates the test instance, but the persistent data must be retained. However, after termination, the persistent data volume is also deleted. 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?

Drag and drop the steps to automate the installation of SAP HANA on AWS using AWS CloudFormation into the correct order.

A company wants to ensure that its SAP system backups are stored in a different AWS Region to comply with disaster recovery requirements. Which AWS service should be used to copy EBS snapshots to another Region?

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 migrating a 10 TB SQL Server database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server using AWS DMS. The migration is taking longer than expected. Which TWO actions can improve the migration speed? (Choose two.)

Match the SAP system component to its AWS service or concept.

A company is migrating an SAP system from on-premises to AWS. The current system uses a dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) network. The company wants to ensure that the SAP system on AWS supports both IP versions. Which THREE actions should the company take? (Choose 3.)

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?

An SAP system administrator needs to automate the patching of Amazon RDS for SAP ASE databases. Which AWS service can be used to schedule and apply database patches automatically?

A company is designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical application running on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application uses an RDS Multi-AZ database. Which TWO actions should the operations team take to minimize recovery time and data loss?

A company is migrating a 5 TB Oracle data warehouse to Amazon Redshift. They need to minimize downtime and ensure data consistency. Which migration approach should they use?

A company is designing an SAP HANA database on AWS. The database requires high throughput and low latency for data volumes. Which TWO AWS features should be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

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?

A company is migrating its on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. They need to minimize downtime and ensure data consistency. Which AWS service should they use for the initial data load and ongoing replication?

An SAP administrator needs to implement a backup strategy for an SAP HANA database on AWS that provides point-in-time recovery (PITR) with minimal RPO. Which combination of AWS services should be used?

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?

A company is planning to run SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the database meets the required memory and CPU performance. Which instance family should the company choose for the SAP HANA database?

A company runs a large SAP ERP system on AWS. The SAP application servers are deployed across multiple Availability Zones using an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer. The SAP HANA database is a single-node instance on a large EC2 instance with EBS io1 volumes. The database experiences high write latency during peak hours. The administrator investigates and finds that the EBS volume write throughput is consistently at the maximum limit of 250 MB/s. The volume is 4 TB with 10,000 provisioned IOPS. The application servers are idle during the peak hour due to database slowness. The company needs a solution to reduce write latency without changing the application. Which solution should the administrator implement?

An organization is migrating an SAP ECC system to AWS using SAP Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM) and a homogeneous system copy. They have already exported the source system and are now importing to the target. The import fails with an error indicating that the target database tablespace is full. What should the administrator do to resolve the issue?

An organization is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS. The system uses SAP NetWeaver and a third-party backup tool that requires direct access to the database files. Which AWS storage option should be used for the database to ensure compatibility?

An SAP administrator is creating an IAM policy for the AWS SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) connector. The policy includes the actions shown. Which additional action is missing for LaMa to perform its typical automation tasks?

Which TWO of the following are valid considerations when designing the network for SAP workloads on AWS? (Select TWO.)

A company is running SAP on EC2 instances with EBS volumes. They need to take daily snapshots of the EBS volumes and retain them for 90 days. Which approach is most cost-effective?

An SAP Basis administrator notices that the SAP application is running slowly during peak hours. The system is deployed on a single r5.8xlarge instance with 256 GiB of memory. CloudWatch metrics show high CPU utilization but moderate memory usage. Which action should the architect take to improve performance?

An operations team is troubleshooting a performance issue in an SAP environment where the database server's memory usage is consistently high. The team suspects that the SAP buffer cache is not sized optimally. Which CloudWatch metric should be monitored to confirm this?

A company is migrating its SAP environment to AWS and wants to automate the installation of SAP software on EC2 instances. Which AWS service is best suited for this purpose?

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 migrating an SAP system to AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP application can communicate with the database over a low-latency, high-bandwidth connection. What is the best practice for network architecture?

A company is running SAP Business Suite on AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 2 hours and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 15 minutes. The primary and DR sites are in different AWS regions. Which solution meets these requirements?

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?

An SAP system administrator notices that the SAP HANA database backup job to Amazon S3 is failing intermittently. The backup script uses the AWS CLI. Which step should be taken to diagnose the issue?

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?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing high latency between the SAP application servers and the HANA database. The application servers are in a different Availability Zone than the database. Which change should a migration specialist recommend to reduce latency without increasing costs significantly?

A company is migrating a 10 TB SAP HANA database to AWS. They have a limited time window and need to minimize migration time. The database is running on a physical server with 1 Gbps network link to AWS. Which migration strategy is MOST suitable?

A company wants to automatically recover an SAP HANA database EC2 instance if it becomes impaired due to underlying hardware issues. Which THREE components are required for this automatic recovery?

An SAP system is deployed on EC2 with a Multi-AZ RDS for SAP ASE database. The operations team needs to ensure that database backups are stored in a separate AWS account for compliance. Which TWO actions should they take?

An SAP system on AWS uses Amazon RDS for its database. The operations team needs to perform a point-in-time recovery (PITR) to restore the database to a specific timestamp. Which AWS feature enables PITR for RDS?

A company is migrating a legacy SAP ERP system to AWS. The system uses a custom kernel and has strict latency requirements. The SAP application servers must be placed in the same AWS region as the database. Which migration strategy should be used?

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 SAP on AWS and uses a central syslog server to collect logs from all SAP instances. The operations team wants to use a managed AWS service to centralize log storage and enable real-time analysis. Which service should they use?

Which TWO actions should be taken to ensure high availability for an SAP NetWeaver system on AWS? (Choose TWO.)

A company is migrating its SAP NetWeaver system to AWS and wants to implement a high-availability architecture for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) and Enqueue Replication Server (ERS). Which TWO of the following are required components in a recommended AWS HA setup for ASCS and ERS?

A company has an SAP environment with a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. Which backup strategy meets these requirements?

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 multinational corporation is migrating its SAP S/4HANA system to AWS. The system consists of a production database (3 TB), a development database (500 GB), and multiple application servers. The migration plan is to use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for the databases and AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) for the application servers. The company has set up a test environment in AWS and has performed a test migration. During the test, the production database migration via DMS completed successfully, but the development database migration failed with an error indicating that the source database version is not supported by DMS. The development database is SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 04, while the production database is SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 05. The target for both is Amazon RDS for SAP HANA. The DMS source endpoint was created using the same settings for both databases. Which step should the administrator take to resolve the development database migration failure?

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?

A company is running SAP HANA on AWS. They want to ensure that the database is backed up automatically and the backups are stored securely and durably. Which AWS service should be used to store the backup files?

An organization has a production SAP ERP system on AWS with a multi-node SAP HANA scale-out configuration. The system uses a cluster placement group for low latency. During a maintenance window, the administrator needs to stop and start all instances. After restart, the HANA nodes cannot communicate with each other. The cluster placement group is still intact, but the private IP addresses have changed. The HANA topology relies on hostnames resolved via /etc/hosts. What is the MOST likely cause and solution?

An SAP system administrator needs to automate the patching of SAP applications on EC2 instances. Which AWS service should they use?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the start and stop of SAP EC2 instances based on a schedule? (Select TWO.)

An organization is migrating an SAP BusinessObjects system to AWS. The system uses a Sybase ASE database. They need to minimize downtime. Which migration strategy is most appropriate?

An operations team uses this IAM policy for a role assumed by SAP administrators. An administrator tries to stop a production SAP HANA instance in the us-west-2 region but receives an access denied error. What is the cause?

Which TWO options are valid methods to back up an SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose 2)

A company is migrating its SAP ERP system to AWS and needs to ensure that the SAP license is compliant. The company has a production license for SAP ERP. What should the company do for licensing on AWS?

A company needs to migrate its SAP application server from on-premises to AWS. The server runs on Windows Server 2012 R2 and has a custom SAP kernel. Which AWS service should be used to migrate the server with minimal changes?

An SAP system on AWS experiences intermittent performance issues. CloudWatch metrics show high CPU credit usage on the t3.large EC2 instance hosting the SAP application. The instance is configured as a 'standard' placement group. What is the MOST likely cause and recommended action?

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 experiences an unplanned failover of the HANA database. The database administrator needs to investigate the root cause. Which AWS service should be used to analyze the timeline of events leading to the failover?

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 system on AWS experiences intermittent connectivity issues between the SAP Central Services (SCS) instance and the application servers. The SCS instance is in a private subnet in us-east-1a, and the application servers are spread across us-east-1a and us-east-1b. Security groups allow traffic on all required ports. What is the MOST likely cause of the intermittent connectivity?

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 runs SAP Business Suite on AWS. They plan to use the SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) connector to automate system copy and relocation. What is a prerequisite for using the AWS LaMa connector?

An SAP administrator is migrating an SAP Business Suite system from on-premises to AWS. The system uses an Oracle database that is 2 TB in size. The bandwidth between the on-premises data center and AWS is limited to 100 Mbps. The migration must be completed within a weekend (48 hours). The administrator decides to use AWS DMS for ongoing replication after an initial full load. However, the initial full load takes too long. What should the administrator do to accelerate the initial full load?

Your organization runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The system is critical and must have high availability. The architecture includes two SAP application servers behind an Application Load Balancer, and the HANA database uses replication to a standby in another Availability Zone. During a recent test of a failure scenario, you noticed that when the standby HANA instance takes over, the application servers cannot connect because the database hostname changes. What is the best solution to ensure application servers can connect to the database without manual intervention after a failover?

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?

Drag and drop the steps to configure an SAP S/4HANA high-availability cluster using AWS Resilience Hub into the correct order.

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. They need to minimize downtime. Which AWS service should they use for ongoing replication during the migration?

A company is running a critical web application on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. During a recent deployment, a new version of the application was released, and within minutes, the error rate spiked. The operations team rolled back the deployment, but the error rate remained high. The team suspects that the ALB is still routing traffic to unhealthy instances. Which step should the team take to immediately stop routing traffic to the problematic instances?

A systems administrator is troubleshooting an SAP HANA database that runs on an EC2 instance. The exhibit shows the block device mappings of the EC2 instance. The administrator needs to ensure that the data volumes (/dev/sdf and /dev/sdg) are not accidentally terminated when the instance is terminated. However, the administrator also wants to take a nightly snapshot of these volumes using AWS Backup. Which of the following is a potential issue with the current configuration?

An SAP system administrator notices that an SAP HANA database on AWS is experiencing high memory usage and slow query performance. The administrator wants to identify the root cause. Which Amazon CloudWatch metric should be analyzed first?

A company is migrating its SAP system to AWS and wants to use a high-availability setup for the database layer. Which AWS service should the company use to achieve automatic failover for SAP HANA?

During a migration of an SAP system, the team notices that the source system uses a custom kernel parameter that is not supported on the target Amazon EC2 instance. What should the migration team do?

An organization is migrating a large on-premises data lake (500 TB) to Amazon S3. The migration must complete within 2 weeks. The network bandwidth is 1 Gbps. Which AWS service should be used?

A company runs SAP on AWS with a distributed system: an SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance, a primary application server (PAS), and additional dialog instances (DI). All instances are in a single Availability Zone. The company wants to implement high availability for the ASCS instance using a shared filesystem for the /sapmnt directory. The ASCS instance uses a single EBS volume for /sapmnt. The operations team plans to use a Network File System (NFS) solution to share /sapmnt between instances. Which approach should the team use to achieve a highly available shared filesystem?

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?

Your company runs an 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 with multiple EBS volumes. Recently, the database instance experienced a failure due to an underlying hardware issue, and you had to recover from an EBS snapshot. The recovery took longer than expected, and management wants to reduce the recovery time objective (RTO). What should you do to achieve a lower RTO for the HANA database?

An SAP HANA database is running on an r5.8xlarge instance. The administrator notices high swap usage and suspects memory pressure. Which AWS metric should be monitored to confirm memory utilization?

A company is migrating a SAP HANA database to AWS. The database is 10 TB and requires a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which backup strategy should be used?

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.)

A company is migrating their SAP HANA database to AWS. The on-premises HANA system is 10 TB and runs on a physical server. They need to minimize the migration time and cannot afford more than 4 hours of downtime. The network bandwidth is limited to 500 Mbps. They decide to use AWS Snowball Edge to transfer the data. After copying the data to Snowball, they ship it to AWS. However, upon receiving the data, they find that the checksum verification fails. What should they do to resolve this issue and complete the migration within the downtime window?

An SAP administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue where the SAP application is slow. The administrator suspects that the EBS volumes are not meeting performance requirements. Which THREE metrics should be examined in Amazon CloudWatch to confirm this? (Choose THREE.)

A company is migrating a legacy .NET application to AWS. The application uses Windows Authentication and relies on Active Directory for user authentication. The company wants to minimize changes to the application code. Which AWS service should be used to integrate Active Directory with the migrated application?

Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of an SAP system running on EC2?

A company is running SAP S/4HANA on AWS. The application team reports that batch jobs are failing intermittently with database connection timeouts. The SAP system uses a single Availability Zone deployment. Which design change should the architect recommend to improve database availability?

A company runs SAP HANA on EC2 with a Multi-AZ deployment. The database uses EBS volumes for /hana/data and /hana/log. The operations team needs to implement a disaster recovery strategy with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which THREE actions should be taken? (Choose THREE.)

An SAP Basis administrator needs to apply security patches to the operating system of SAP EC2 instances. The administrator wants to use AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager. Which THREE steps are required to set up patching? (Choose THREE.)

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 planning to migrate their SAP HANA database to AWS. Which TWO of the following are valid EC2 instance types for SAP HANA? (Choose 2.)

An administrator needs to restore an SAP HANA database from a backup stored in Amazon S3. The backup was created using AWS Backup. Which AWS service should be used to perform the restore?

A company is implementing an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. The system must be highly available across multiple Availability Zones. Which of the following strategies should the company implement for the SAP Central Services (ASCS) instance to meet high availability requirements?

An SAP Basis team is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP HANA database running on AWS. The HANA index server is consuming high CPU. The team suspects that the underlying EC2 instance is throttled. Which CloudWatch metric should be checked to confirm CPU throttling?

A company is designing an SAP environment on AWS and needs to ensure high availability for SAP HANA. Which TWO AWS services or features are commonly used to achieve this? (Choose TWO.)

A company runs SAP Business Warehouse (BW) on AWS. The BW system uses a single HANA database instance on an r5.12xlarge EC2 instance with 4 EBS io1 volumes for data. The company has noticed that during peak data loads, the CPU utilization on the HANA instance reaches 90%. An SAP consultant recommends increasing the CPU capacity. The company wants to minimize costs and avoid over-provisioning. What is the most cost-effective solution to increase CPU capacity for the HANA instance?

An SAP system on AWS is experiencing performance issues due to high I/O wait times on the database server. The database runs on an EC2 instance with EBS volumes. Which THREE actions can improve the I/O performance? (Choose THREE.)

Which TWO of the following are best practices for monitoring SAP on AWS? (Choose 2)

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?

An SAP HANA system on AWS is experiencing slow backup performance when using Backint to Amazon S3. The backup throughput is only 200 MB/s. The environment uses an m5.24xlarge instance with 25 Gbps network. What is the most likely cause and solution?