PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
Which TWO actions should be taken to improve the high availability of a single-instance SAP HANA database running on EC2? (Choose two.)
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Set up HANA System Replication to a second EC2 instance in a different Availability Zone.
HANA System Replication provides a standby instance in a different Availability Zone for automatic failover, improving high availability. Option E is correct because automated EBS snapshots enable point-in-time recovery, reducing recovery time after a failure. Option B is incorrect because Multi-AZ RDS is a feature for RDS databases, not for EC2-hosted SAP HANA. Option C is incorrect because moving HANA data files to FSx for Lustre does not inherently improve availability. Option D is incorrect because increasing instance size improves performance, not availability.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Set up HANA System Replication to a second EC2 instance in a different Availability Zone.
Why this is correct
HANA System Replication provides automatic failover across AZs.
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Enable Multi-AZ on the RDS instance.
Why it's wrong here
RDS Multi-AZ is for RDS, not EC2 HANA.
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Move the HANA data files to Amazon FSx for Lustre.
Why it's wrong here
FSx does not provide high availability for HANA.
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Increase the instance size to a larger type.
Why it's wrong here
Scaling up does not provide redundancy.
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Configure automated EBS snapshots for the HANA data volumes.
Why this is correct
Automated snapshots enable recovery from failures.
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