- A
Amazon RDS for SAP HANA
Why wrong: Amazon RDS does not support SAP HANA.
- B
Pacemaker cluster on Amazon EC2 with EBS multi-attach
Correct. Pacemaker coordinates failover using shared storage via EBS multi-attach.
- C
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Why wrong: Elastic Beanstalk is for web applications, not SAP HANA.
- D
Amazon Route 53 health checks with DNS failover
Why wrong: Route 53 does not provide automatic database failover; it only redirects traffic.
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SAP HANA High Availability with Pacemaker
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.
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?
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
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Pacemaker cluster on Amazon EC2 with EBS multi-attach
Pacemaker is a high-availability cluster resource manager that, when combined with Amazon EC2 and EBS Multi-Attach, enables automatic failover for SAP HANA. EBS Multi-Attach allows the same EBS volume to be attached to multiple EC2 instances in the same Availability Zone, which is required for SAP HANA's shared-storage-based scale-up or scale-out HA configurations. This setup supports the SAP HANA system replication or storage replication failover mechanism, ensuring automatic recovery upon instance failure.
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.
- ✗
Amazon RDS for SAP HANA
Why it's wrong here
Amazon RDS does not support SAP HANA.
- ✓
Pacemaker cluster on Amazon EC2 with EBS multi-attach
Why this is correct
Correct. Pacemaker coordinates failover using shared storage via EBS multi-attach.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
- ✗
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Why it's wrong here
Elastic Beanstalk is for web applications, not SAP HANA.
- ✗
Amazon Route 53 health checks with DNS failover
Why it's wrong here
Route 53 does not provide automatic database failover; it only redirects traffic.
Common exam traps
Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
The trap here is that candidates confuse DNS-level failover (Route 53) with true database-level high availability, or assume a managed service like RDS exists for SAP HANA, when in fact SAP HANA on AWS requires self-managed clustering with Pacemaker and EBS Multi-Attach.
Detailed technical explanation
How to think about this question
Pacemaker uses STONITH (Shoot The Other Node In The Head) fencing to ensure data integrity during failover, and it integrates with AWS's fencing agents (e.g., aws_fence) to isolate failed instances. For SAP HANA, the cluster typically manages the HANA system replication (HSR) or scale-out topology, using EBS Multi-Attach to share the /hana/data and /hana/log volumes across nodes, which requires careful I/O fencing and quorum configuration to prevent split-brain scenarios. In a real-world deployment, you must also configure the AWS CloudWatch agent and custom scripts to monitor HANA health and trigger Pacemaker resource actions.
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
A media company stores terabytes of video archives that are accessed once a year for audit purposes. Moving these objects to a cold storage tier (Azure Archive, S3 Glacier, or Google Nearline) costs a fraction of hot storage. Questions like this test whether you understand storage tiers, access frequency tradeoffs, and retrieval latency requirements.
Quick reference
AWS S3 Storage Class Comparison
| Storage Class | Min Duration | Retrieval | Use Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| S3 Standard | None | Immediate | Frequently accessed data |
| S3 Standard-IA | 30 days | Immediate | Infrequent access, rapid retrieval |
| S3 One Zone-IA | 30 days | Immediate | Non-critical infrequent data |
| S3 Intelligent-Tiering | None | Immediate–hours | Unknown or changing access patterns |
| S3 Glacier Instant | 90 days | Milliseconds | Archive with instant retrieval |
| S3 Glacier Flexible | 90 days | Minutes–hours | Archive, flexible retrieval |
| S3 Glacier Deep Archive | 180 days | Hours | Long-term compliance archive |
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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: Pacemaker cluster on Amazon EC2 with EBS multi-attach — Pacemaker is a high-availability cluster resource manager that, when combined with Amazon EC2 and EBS Multi-Attach, enables automatic failover for SAP HANA. EBS Multi-Attach allows the same EBS volume to be attached to multiple EC2 instances in the same Availability Zone, which is required for SAP HANA's shared-storage-based scale-up or scale-out HA configurations. This setup supports the SAP HANA system replication or storage replication failover mechanism, ensuring automatic recovery upon instance failure.
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