PAS-C01 Technology Practice Question
Which THREE AWS services are commonly used to implement high availability for SAP HANA databases on AWS? (Choose three.)
⚠ Common exam trap
It's easy for candidates to confuse DNS-based routing (Route 53) or global traffic acceleration (Global Accelerator) with direct database high availability mechanisms, but AWS expects you to recognize that SAP HANA HA relies on instance recovery, multi-AZ replication, and load balancing at the application layer, not just network-level traffic management.
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery
Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery is correct because it automatically recovers an impaired EC2 instance by restarting it on a new healthy host within the same Availability Zone, preserving the instance ID, private IP, and Elastic IP. For SAP HANA, this minimizes downtime by quickly restoring the database instance without manual intervention, though it does not protect against an entire Availability Zone failure.
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Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery
Why this is correct
Auto Recovery can automatically recover an instance from hardware failure.
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AWS Global Accelerator
Why it's wrong here
Global Accelerator is more for global traffic, not typically for HANA HA.
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Multi-AZ deployment of SAP HANA
Why this is correct
Multi-AZ provides redundancy across Availability Zones.
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Amazon Route 53
Why it's wrong here
Route 53 is DNS, can be used but not a core service for HANA HA.
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Elastic Load Balancing
Why this is correct
ELB can distribute traffic to healthy application servers.
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