PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Question
Which THREE are valid strategies for backing up an SAP HANA database on AWS? (Choose three.)
⚠ Common exam trap
Many exam-takers confuse Amazon RDS with EC2-based deployments, incorrectly assuming RDS supports SAP HANA, or they may think immediate Glacier transitions are acceptable without considering SAP HANA's need for rapid restore access.
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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Use Amazon EBS snapshots of the HANA data volumes.
Amazon EBS snapshots provide crash-consistent, point-in-time backups of the HANA data volumes. When used with SAP HANA's snapshot mode (e.g., via hdbsql or Python scripts), they ensure transactional consistency by quiescing the database before the snapshot. This is a valid and commonly used backup strategy for SAP HANA on AWS.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Use Amazon EBS snapshots of the HANA data volumes.
Why this is correct
EBS snapshots are crash-consistent and can be used for HANA backups with application consistency steps.
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Use AWS Backup to schedule and manage HANA backups.
Why this is correct
AWS Backup supports SAP HANA workloads.
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Use SAP HANA Backint agent to back up to Amazon S3.
Why this is correct
Backint is a native HANA backup interface that can target S3.
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Set up an Amazon RDS for SAP HANA read replica.
Why it's wrong here
RDS does not support SAP HANA; HANA is self-managed on EC2.
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Configure a lifecycle policy to move backups to Amazon S3 Glacier immediately.
Why it's wrong here
Glacier is for archival; immediate move is not practical for recovery.
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