AWS Certified SAP on AWS - Specialty Advanced Practice Exam: Hard Questions 2025

A company is designing an SAP HANA scale-up production system on AWS. The workload is latency-sensitive and requires consistent high IOPS with minimal jitter for the data and log volumes. The team also requires encryption at rest and the ability to take application-consistent backups. Which storage design best meets these requirements?

An enterprise runs SAP ASCS and ERS on Amazon EC2 across two Availability Zones with a Pacemaker cluster. During a failover test, the ASCS instance starts in the secondary AZ but SAP work processes cannot connect because the enqueue service endpoint changes. The team needs a design that provides a stable endpoint during failovers and aligns with AWS best practices. What should the team implement?

A company needs to implement a multi-account landing zone for SAP on AWS. Security requires that SAP application servers in spoke accounts access Amazon S3 buckets for SAP backups in a central security account without traversing the public internet. The design must prevent data exfiltration to non-approved buckets and keep management overhead low. Which approach best satisfies these requirements?

An SAP landscape uses SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) across two AZs. The company wants to offload analytics reporting to the secondary HANA node while ensuring production performance is not impacted and failover remains reliable. Which configuration best meets these goals?

During implementation of SAP NetWeaver on Amazon EC2, an engineer places the database in private subnets and configures AWS Systems Manager Session Manager for administration. Patch automation fails because the instances cannot reach required AWS endpoints, and the security team prohibits adding NAT gateways. What is the BEST solution to enable required connectivity while keeping the instances private?

A team implements an SAP application tier Auto Scaling group behind an internal load balancer. After scaling events, some newly launched instances fail SAP logon because they are not registered correctly with SAP message server groups and start with inconsistent SAP profiles. The team wants a robust, repeatable implementation that supports frequent scaling and immutable infrastructure. What should the team do?

A company is migrating a 50 TB SAP HANA database to AWS with a short downtime window. Network bandwidth is limited and initial full backup transfer will take too long. The company needs to minimize downtime while ensuring data consistency. Which migration approach is MOST appropriate?

A company is migrating SAP NetWeaver application servers and a separate SAP HANA database to AWS. After migrating the application tier first, dialog response time becomes erratic and CPU wait increases on app servers, while the database shows normal CPU utilization. Network metrics show occasional microbursts and packet drops. Which action is the BEST next step to address the issue?

A company performs an SAP on AWS migration and uses AWS Backup to protect EBS volumes of SAP application servers. During a restore test, the systems boot but SAP application services fail due to inconsistent application state and missing mount configurations. The company needs a recovery approach that is more reliable and repeatable for SAP application tiers. What should they do?

An operations team runs SAP HANA and NetWeaver on AWS. They observe intermittent HANA log write stalls and occasional SAP work process timeouts. CloudWatch shows EBS burst balance is not the issue, but there are periodic spikes in storage latency. The team needs an operational control to detect and remediate issues quickly while minimizing false positives. Which solution is BEST?