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Question 1hardmultiple choice
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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?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

Error from AWS DMS task:
"Last Error: Failed to start change data capture for table 'sales.orders'.
Details: The source database is not configured for full supplemental logging. To enable full supplemental logging, run: ALTER DATABASE ADD SUPPLEMENTAL LOG DATA (ALL) COLUMNS;"
Question 2hardmultiple choice
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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?

Network Topology
$ aws ec2 describe-instancesinstance-ids i-0abcd1234efgh5678query 'Reservations[0].Instances[0].BlockDeviceMappings'Refer to the exhibit."DeviceName": "/dev/xvda","Ebs": {"AttachTime": "2023-08-01T10:00:00.000Z","DeleteOnTermination": true,"Status": "attached","VolumeId": "vol-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890"},"DeviceName": "/dev/sdf","AttachTime": "2023-08-01T11:00:00.000Z","DeleteOnTermination": false,"VolumeId": "vol-0f1e2d3c4b5a67890"
Question 3hardmultiple choice
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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?

Network Topology
# aws ec2 describe-instancesinstance-ids i-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890query 'Reservations[0].Instances[0].BlockDeviceMappings'Refer to the exhibit.```"DeviceName": "/dev/xvda","Ebs": {"AttachTime": "2023-08-01T10:00:00.000Z","DeleteOnTermination": true,"Status": "attached","VolumeId": "vol-0abcdef1234567890"},"DeviceName": "/dev/sdf","AttachTime": "2023-08-01T10:05:00.000Z","DeleteOnTermination": false,"VolumeId": "vol-0abcdef1234567891""DeviceName": "/dev/sdg","VolumeId": "vol-0abcdef1234567892"
Question 4easymultiple choice
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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?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:PutObject"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket/*",
      "Condition": {
        "IpAddress": {
          "aws:SourceIp": "10.0.0.0/16"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
Question 5mediummultiple choice
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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?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

Health check failed on target group 'tg-app' with the following:
- Target: i-0abc123def456 (10.0.1.5:8080)
- Health check protocol: HTTP
- Health check path: /health
- Health check response: 503 Service Unavailable
- The application logs show: "Health check endpoint /health is returning 503 due to database connection timeout."
Question 6mediummultiple choice
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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?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

CloudFormation template snippet:
"SAPASCS": {
  "Type": "AWS::EC2::Instance",
  "Properties": {
    "InstanceType": "m5.large",
    "ImageId": "ami-0abcdef1234567890",
    "NetworkInterfaces": [{
      "DeviceIndex": "0",
      "SubnetId": "subnet-12345678",
      "AssociatePublicIpAddress": false,
      "Groups": ["sg-12345678"]
    }],
    "BlockDeviceMappings": [{
      "DeviceName": "/dev/sda1",
      "Ebs": {
        "VolumeSize": 50,
        "VolumeType": "gp2"
      }
    }],
    "Tags": [{"Key": "Name", "Value": "ASCS"}]
  }
}
Question 7hardmultiple choice
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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?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
{
  "SAP HANA Backup Configuration": {
    "Backint": {
      "Bucket": "sap-hana-backup-prod",
      "ParallelStreams": 4,
      "ChunkSizeMB": 1024,
      "Compression": "gzip",
      "Encryption": "SSE-S3"
    }
  }
}
```
Question 8mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 9easymultiple choice
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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?

Question 10hardmultiple choice
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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?

Network Topology
aws ec2 describe-instancesinstance-ids i-0abcd1234query 'Reservations[0].Instances[0].BlockDeviceMappings'Refer to the exhibit.```Output:"DeviceName": "/dev/xvda","Ebs": {"AttachTime": "2023-05-01T12:00:00.000Z","DeleteOnTermination": true,"Status": "attached","VolumeId": "vol-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890"},"DeviceName": "/dev/sdf","AttachTime": "2023-05-01T12:05:00.000Z","DeleteOnTermination": false,"VolumeId": "vol-0f1e2d3c4b5a67890"
Question 11hardmultiple choice
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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?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Resources": {
    "SAPAppServer": {
      "Type": "AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup",
      "Properties": {
        "AvailabilityZones": ["us-east-1a", "us-east-1b"],
        "LaunchConfigurationName": {"Ref": "LaunchConfig"},
        "MinSize": "1",
        "MaxSize": "5",
        "DesiredCapacity": "2"
      }
    },
    "LaunchConfig": {
      "Type": "AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration",
      "Properties": {
        "ImageId": "ami-0abcdef1234567890",
        "InstanceType": "m5.large",
        "SecurityGroups": [{"Ref": "SGSAP"}]
      }
    }
  }
}
Question 12easymultiple choice
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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?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:DeleteObject"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::sap-backup-bucket/*"
    }
  ]
}
Question 13mediummultiple choice
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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?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:instance/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:Describe*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}
Question 14mediummultiple choice
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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?

Network Topology
$ aws ec2 describe-instancesinstance-ids i-1234567890abcdef0query 'Reservations[0].Instances[0].BlockDeviceMappings'Refer to the exhibit."DeviceName": "/dev/xvda","Ebs": {"VolumeId": "vol-0abcdef1234567890","Status": "attached","DeleteOnTermination": true},"DeviceName": "/dev/sdf","VolumeId": "vol-1234567890abcdef0","DeleteOnTermination": false
Question 15hardmultiple choice
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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?

Network Topology
$ aws ec2 describe-volumesvolume-ids vol-0abcdef123456789Refer to the exhibit."Volumes": ["Attachments": ["AttachTime": "2023-03-15T10:00:00.000Z","Device": "/dev/xvdf","InstanceId": "i-0a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8","State": "attached","VolumeId": "vol-0abcdef123456789","DeleteOnTermination": false],"AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1a","CreateTime": "2023-03-15T09:00:00.000Z","Encrypted": false,"Size": 500,"SnapshotId": "snap-0a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8","State": "in-use","VolumeType": "gp2","Iops": 1500

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