- A
Classic Load Balancer, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon Inspector
Why wrong: Classic Load Balancer is outdated; CloudTrail and Inspector are for auditing and security, not HA.
- B
Amazon Route 53, Application Load Balancer, and AWS CloudFormation
Route 53 provides DNS failover, ALB health checks, and CloudFormation automates resource creation for HA.
- C
NAT Gateway, EBS snapshots, and AWS Lambda
Why wrong: NAT Gateway is for outbound internet, not HA. Lambda can automate snapshots but does not provide HA.
- D
EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon RDS, and AWS Backup
Why wrong: Auto Scaling is for stateless apps, not SAP HANA scale-up. RDS is not used for SAP HANA.
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PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Question
This PAS-C01 practice question tests your understanding of design of sap workloads on aws. This is a configuration task: choose the command set that satisfies every stated requirement. Small differences — like 'secret' vs 'password' or 'transport input ssh' vs 'all' — change whether the answer is correct. After answering, compare your reasoning against the explanation and wrong-answer breakdown below. Once you have made your selection, read the full explanation to reinforce the concept and understand why each distractor is designed to mislead on exam day.
An SAP administrator is designing a high-availability (HA) setup for SAP HANA in a multi-AZ deployment on AWS. Which combination of AWS services and configurations is required for a fully automated HA solution?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
✓
Amazon Route 53, Application Load Balancer, and AWS CloudFormation
Option B is correct because a fully automated HA setup for SAP HANA on AWS requires Amazon Route 53 for DNS-based failover routing, an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for health-check-driven traffic distribution to healthy HANA instances, and AWS CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and configuration of the entire stack, including the HANA system replication and failover logic. Route 53's health checks can trigger failover records, while the ALB's target group health checks ensure traffic is only sent to the active primary node, and CloudFormation enables infrastructure-as-code deployment for repeatability and automation.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
Classic Load Balancer, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon Inspector
Why it's wrong here
Classic Load Balancer is outdated; CloudTrail and Inspector are for auditing and security, not HA.
- ✓
Amazon Route 53, Application Load Balancer, and AWS CloudFormation
Why this is correct
Route 53 provides DNS failover, ALB health checks, and CloudFormation automates resource creation for HA.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
- ✗
NAT Gateway, EBS snapshots, and AWS Lambda
- ✗
EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon RDS, and AWS Backup
Why it's wrong here
Auto Scaling is for stateless apps, not SAP HANA scale-up. RDS is not used for SAP HANA.
Common exam traps
Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
The trap here is that candidates often confuse high-availability services like Auto Scaling or RDS with SAP HANA's specific HA requirements, not realizing that SAP HANA requires DNS-based failover and application-layer health checks rather than horizontal scaling or managed database services.
Detailed technical explanation
How to think about this question
SAP HANA HA on AWS typically uses HANA System Replication (HSR) with automatic takeover, where Route 53's failover routing records update DNS to point to the secondary instance when health checks fail, and the ALB's target group health checks monitor the HANA SQL port (3xx15) or a custom health endpoint to ensure traffic is directed only to the active primary. CloudFormation can orchestrate the entire deployment, including the creation of the Route 53 records, ALB target groups, and the HANA instances with pre-configured HSR, enabling a fully automated, infrastructure-as-code solution that meets SAP's HA certification requirements.
KKey Concepts to Remember
- Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
- Find the constraint that changes the correct option.
- Eliminate answers that are true in general but not in this case.
TExam Day Tips
- Watch for words such as best, first, most likely and least administrative effort.
- Review why wrong options are wrong, not only why the correct option is correct.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
How this comes up in practice
An e-commerce site experiences heavy traffic on Black Friday and near-zero traffic during off-peak weeks. Rather than provisioning permanent large VMs, the team uses auto-scaling groups that add capacity automatically under load and reduce it overnight. Questions like this test whether you understand elasticity, availability zones, and cloud compute scaling patterns.
Visual reference
Quick reference
Common DNS Record Types
| Record | Purpose | Example |
|---|---|---|
| A | IPv4 address mapping | example.com → 93.184.216.34 |
| AAAA | IPv6 address mapping | example.com → 2606:2800::1 |
| CNAME | Alias to another hostname | www → example.com |
| MX | Mail server for domain | example.com → mail.example.com (priority 10) |
| TXT | Text data (SPF, DKIM, verification) | v=spf1 include:_spf.example.com ~all |
| NS | Authoritative name servers | example.com NS ns1.example.com |
| PTR | Reverse DNS (IP → hostname) | 34.216.184.93.in-addr.arpa → example.com |
| SOA | Zone authority record | Primary NS, admin email, serial, TTL defaults |
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Design of SAP Workloads on AWS — This question tests Design of SAP Workloads on AWS — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
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The correct answer is: Amazon Route 53, Application Load Balancer, and AWS CloudFormation — Option B is correct because a fully automated HA setup for SAP HANA on AWS requires Amazon Route 53 for DNS-based failover routing, an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for health-check-driven traffic distribution to healthy HANA instances, and AWS CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and configuration of the entire stack, including the HANA system replication and failover logic. Route 53's health checks can trigger failover records, while the ALB's target group health checks ensure traffic is only sent to the active primary node, and CloudFormation enables infrastructure-as-code deployment for repeatability and automation.
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