A company is running an SAP HANA database on AWS. The company wants to manage historical infrequently accessed warm data for a native SAP HANA use case An SAP solutions architect needs to recommend a solution that can provide online data storage m extended store available for queries and updates. The solution must be an integrated component of the SAP HANA database and must allow the storage of up to five limes more data in the warm tier than in the not tier
Which solution will meet these requirements?
Answer : C
This is a feature of the SAP HANA database that allows for the management of historical, infrequently accessed data and provides an integrated solution for data storage in the warm tier. It allows for the storage of up to five times more data in the warm tier than in the hot tier, and it allows for online data storage that is available for queries and updates.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sap/latest/sap-hana/warm-data-tiering-options.html
A company is planning to migrate its SAP workloads to AWS. The company will use two VPCs One VPC will be for production systems and one VPC will be for non-production systems. The company will host the non-production systems and the primary node of all the production systems in the same Availability Zone.
What is the MOST cost-effective way to establish a connection between me production systems and the non-production systems?
Answer : B
Establish a VPC peering connection between the two VPCs Add the appropriate routes in the subnet route tables is the most cost-effective way to establish a connection between the production systems and the non-production systems. VPC Peering allows for direct and private communication between VPCs and does not require any additional components such as internet gateways or VPN connections. This method is more cost-effective than using a Transit Gateway or Direct Connect and also provides better security as the traffic remains within the AWS network.
A company needs to migrate its critical SAP workloads from an on-premises data center to AWS The company has a few source production databases that are 10 TB or more in size The company wants to minimize the downtime for this migration
As part of the proof of concept the company used a low-speed high-latency connection between its data center and AWS During the actual migration the company wants to maintain a consistent connection that delivers high bandwidth and low latency. The company also wants to add a layer of connectivity resiliency. The backup connectivity does not need to be as fast as the primary connectivity
An SAP solutions architect needs to determine the optimal network configuration for data transfer. The solution must transfer the data with minimum latency
Which configuration will meet these requirements?
Answer : A
A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for an SAP HANA database that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a single Availability Zone The company can tolerate a long RTO and an RPO greater than zero if it means that the company can save money on its DR process.
The company has configured an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to automatically recover the EC2 instance if the instance experiences an unexpected issue. The company has set up AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA to save the backups into Amazon S3.
What is the MOST cost-effective DR option for the company's SAP HANA database?
Answer : A
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sap/latest/sap-hana/hana-ops-ha-dr.html#backint-hana-hadr
A company's SAP basis team is responsible for database backups in Amazon S3. The company frequently needs to restore the last 3 months of backups into the pre-production SAP system to perform tests and analyze performance. Previously an employee accidentally deleted backup files from the S3 bucket. The SAP basis team wants to prevent accidental deletion of backup files in the future.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
Answer : B
enabling versioning and multi-factor authentication (MFA) on the S3 bucket. Versioning will allow you to keep multiple versions of your backup files in the same bucket, so you won't have to worry about accidental deletion. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) will help ensure that only authorized users can access or delete the backup files.
A company is planning to migrate its on-premises SAP applications to AWS. The applications are based on Windows operating systems A file share stores the transport directories and third party application data on the network attached storage of the company's on-premises data center. The company's plan is to lift and shift the SAP applications and the file share to AWS. The company must follow AWS best practices for the migration
Which AWS service should the company use to host the transport directories and third-party application data on AWS?
Answer : D
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/awsforsap/how-to-setup-sap-netweaver-on-windows-mscs-for-sap-ascs-ers-on-aws-using-amazon-fsx/
A company has an SAP environment that runs on AWS. The company wants to enhance security by restricting Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) to IMDSv2 only. The company's current configuration option supports both iMDSvi and iM0Sv2. The security enhancement must not create an SAP outage.
What should the company do before it applies the security enhancement on EC2 instances that are running the SAP environment?
Answer : A
A is correct because ensuring that the SAP kernel versions are 7.45 or later is required to support IMDSv2 only. SAP kernel versions below 7.45 do not support IMDSv2 and will fail to start if IMDSv1 is disabled. The other options are not relevant for the security enhancement and may create an SAP outage. Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/sap-on-aws-technical-deployment-guide/security.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service.html