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How to approach troubleshooting scenario questions

These questions describe a network symptom and ask you to identify the root cause or the correct fix. They appear across all certification exams and reward systematic thinking over memorisation. The best candidates follow a consistent troubleshooting framework even under time pressure.

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Question 1hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 2hardmulti select
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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?

Question 3mediummultiple 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 4hardmultiple 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?

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# 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 5mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 6hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 7easymultiple choice
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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?

Question 8hardmultiple choice
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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?

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Command: aws ec2 describe-instancesinstance-ids i-1234567890abcdef0Refer to the exhibit.Output:"Reservations": ["Groups": [],"Instances": ["InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0","ImageId": "ami-0abcdef1234567890","State": {"Name": "running"},"InstanceType": "r5.8xlarge","Placement": {"AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1a""BlockDeviceMappings": ["DeviceName": "/dev/sda1","Ebs": {"VolumeId": "vol-0a1b2c3d4e5f67890","Status": "attached""DeviceName": "/dev/sdb","VolumeId": "vol-0b2c3d4e5f67890a1",],"EnaSupport": true
Question 9easymultiple choice
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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?

Question 10mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 11easymultiple choice
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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?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.
{
  "Rules": [
    {
      "SourceSecurityGroupId": "sg-12345",
      "IpProtocol": "tcp",
      "FromPort": 3300,
      "ToPort": 3300
    }
  ]
}
Question 12hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 13hardmulti select
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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.)

Question 14mediummultiple choice
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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?

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aws dms describe-replication-tasksregion us-east-1Refer to the exhibit."ReplicationTasks": ["ReplicationTaskIdentifier": "migration-task-1","SourceEndpointArn": "arn:aws:dms:us-east-1:123456789012:endpoint:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP1","TargetEndpointArn": "arn:aws:dms:us-east-1:123456789012:endpoint:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP2","ReplicationInstanceArn": "arn:aws:dms:us-east-1:123456789012:rep:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP3","MigrationType": "full-load","TableMappings": "{\"rules\":[{\"rule-type\":\"selection\",\"rule-id\":\"1\",\"rule-name\":\"1\",\"object-locator\":{\"schema-name\":\"%\",\"table-name\":\"%\"},\"rule-action\":\"include\"}]}","ReplicationTaskSettings": "{\"TargetMetadata\":{\"TargetSchema\":\"\",\"SupportLobs\":true,\"FullLoadSettings\":{\"MaxFullLoadSubTasks\":8,\"TransactionConsistencyTimeout\":600,\"CreatePkAfterFullLoad\":false}}}","Status": "failed","StopReason": ""
Question 15easymultiple choice
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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?

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