Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty Advanced Practice Exam: Hard Questions 2025

You are migrating a large SAP ECC landscape (ASCS+ERS, multiple dialog instances, Oracle DB) from an on-premises VMware environment to Azure. The business requires a cutover weekend with the lowest possible downtime and wants to avoid re-IP of SAP servers after failover. The network team confirms you can extend Layer 2 to Azure only via an NVA-based solution, but you want to minimize operational complexity and future coupling to on-premises networking. Which migration approach best meets the requirements with the least long-term complexity?

After migrating SAP application servers to Azure, users report intermittent SAPGUI disconnects and slow RFC calls only during peak hours. You observe that CPU and memory on the VMs are normal, but TCP retransmits increase and SNAT port exhaustion occurs on an Azure Firewall used for all egress. The SAP application servers must reach multiple SaaS endpoints on the internet and also call an on-premises API through VPN. What is the best mitigation that preserves centralized egress control and prevents SNAT exhaustion?

You need to design Azure infrastructure for SAP HANA on Azure with HA. Requirements: (1) HANA scale-up, (2) automatic failover using Pacemaker, (3) shared filesystem for /hana/shared, (4) no single point of failure in storage, (5) minimize complexity and avoid third-party appliances. Which storage design best meets the requirements?

An enterprise runs SAP on Azure in a hub-and-spoke network. The SAP workload is in a spoke VNet. Security requires all outbound internet traffic to pass through a central Azure Firewall in the hub. SAP application servers must also reach an Azure Storage account used for sapmnt backups via a private endpoint. After enabling forced tunneling (0.0.0.0/0) from the spoke to the hub firewall, backups to the Storage private endpoint intermittently fail. Which change most likely fixes the issue while keeping forced tunneling?

You deploy SAP ASCS/ERS on Azure VMs using Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC). The cluster is stable, but during planned maintenance when one node is restarted, the ASCS role fails over and then intermittently fails to come online, reporting that the cluster IP resource cannot be brought online. The environment uses a Standard Load Balancer for the cluster virtual IP. Which configuration is the most likely missing or incorrect?

You must implement a multi-region DR design for SAP HANA (primary in Region A, DR in Region B). Requirements: (1) RPO of minutes, (2) controlled failover initiated by operations, (3) application tier should not connect to DR unless DB promotion is completed, (4) minimize the risk of split-brain. Which design best meets these requirements?

You are designing an SAP NetWeaver ABAP stack on Azure with high availability for ASCS/ERS on Linux using Pacemaker. The customer requires that ASCS and ERS are in different availability zones and that the virtual hostname for ASCS remains consistent during failover. Which approach is the best fit in Azure?

You need to deploy SAP HANA scale-up on Azure with the highest predictable I/O performance. During validation, you find that the HANA data volume latency occasionally spikes above acceptable thresholds even though the VM size supports the required IOPS. The data and log volumes are on a single large managed disk each. Which change is most likely to stabilize performance without changing the VM size?

You operate SAP on Azure with HANA on Linux and observe occasional time jumps reported by SAP and HANA traces, coinciding with node failovers and increased CPU steal time. NTP is configured, but the drift correlates with host maintenance events. What is the best action to improve time reliability for SAP HANA and Pacemaker operations in Azure?

You need to monitor an SAP on Azure landscape and set up alerting for issues that commonly precede SAP outages. You already collect Azure Monitor metrics and SAP OS-level logs. A recurring problem is that HANA becomes unresponsive due to storage throughput saturation, but VM-level CPU stays low. Which monitoring/alerting approach is most effective to detect this early and correlate it to Azure resources?