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A company is planning to move to AWS. The company wants to set up sandbox and test environments on AWS to perform proofs of concept (POCs) Development and production environments will remain on premises until the POCs are completed.
At the company's on-premises location SAProuter is installed on the same server as SAP Solution Manager. The company uses SAP Solution Manager to monitor the entire landscape The company uses SAP router to connect to SAP Support The on-premises SAP Solution Manager instance must monitor the performance and server metrics of the newly created POC systems on AWS. The existing SAP router must be able to report any issues to SAP
What should an SAP solutions architect do to set up this hybrid infrastructure MOST cost-effectively'?
It allows to use the existing on-premises SAP Solution Manager and SAP router instances to monitor and report issues from the POC systems on AWS, thus minimizing the additional infrastructure costs. Also this approach allows to use the VPN to establish a secure connection between the on-premises network and the AWS environment, thus ensuring that the monitoring data is transmitted securely. Option D can also be used to manage the transport of the customizing objects and support packages between the on-premises systems and the POC systems on AWS.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sap/latest/general/overview-sap-planning.html#figure-4
A financial services company is implementing SAP core banking on AWS. The company must not allow any system information to traverse the public internet. The company needs to implement secure monitoring of its SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECO system to check for performance issues and faults in its application. The solution must maximize security and must be supported by SAP and AWS.
How should be company integrate AWS metrics with its SAP system to meet these requirements?
VPC endpoints to ensure that traffic to and from the CloudWatch and EC2 services stays within the VPC. Additionally, an IAM policy is created to grant access to only the necessary actions, such as DescribeInstances and GetMetricStatistics, for all EC2 resources. This approach will provide secure monitoring of the SAP system while maximizing security and ensuring support from both SAP and AWS.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sap/latest/general/data-provider-req.html#vpc-endpoints
A company hosts an SAP HANA database on an Amazon EC2 instance in the us-easi-1 Region. The company needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) site in the us-west-1 Region. The company needs a cost-optimized solution that offers a guaranteed capacity reservation an RPO of less than 30 minutes and an RTO of less than 30 minutes.
When solution will meet these requirements?
An SAP engineer has deployed an SAP S 4HANA system on an Amazon EC2 instance mat runs Linux. The SAP license key has been installed After a white the newly installed SAP instance presents an error that indicates that the SAP license key is not valid because the SAP system's hardware key changed. There have been no changes to the EC2 instance or its configuration.
Which solution will permanently resolve this issue?
https://d0.awsstatic.com/enterprise-marketing/SAP/sap-on-aws-high-availability-guide.pdf
SAP software is secured by a license using a hardware key (customer key). As described in SAP note 174911,'' this hardware key is based upon a MAC address of a network card in your Linux system''. In certain situations the algorithm can pick a different network card than it used for calculation before, thus returning a different hardware key.
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?
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 wants to migrate its on-premises servers to AWS. These servers include SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) on Oracle Database. The company is running SAP ECC application servers and Oracle Database servers on AIX. The company must migrate the SAP workloads to AWS with minimal changes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to improve the RPO and RTO for its SAP disaster recovery (DR) solution by running the DR solution on AWS The company is running SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECO on SAP HANA The company has set an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 4 hours.
The production SAP HANA database is running on a physical appliance that has x86 architecture. The appliance has 1 TB of memory and the SAP HANA global allocation limit is set to 768 GB. The SAP application servers are running as VMs on VMware and they store data on an NFS file system The company does not want to change any existing SAP HANA parameters that are related to data and log backup for its on-premises systems.
What should an SAP solutions architect do to meet the DR objectives MOST cost-effectively?
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Design the AWS account structure and connectivity patterns for SAP workloads on AWS, including secure solutions and optimized infrastructure. Create highly resilient solutions that balance cost-effectiveness with performance and security requirements for your SAP deployment.
Sample question from this domain above: Q3
Deploy databases and SAP applications on AWS while configuring high availability and disaster recovery. Automate SAP workload deployments and validate the underlying AWS infrastructure to ensure it meets production requirements.
Determine the optimal migration approach for your SAP environment, whether homogeneous or heterogeneous. Execute migrations efficiently and apply optimization techniques throughout the process to minimize risk and cost.
Monitor infrastructure performance, availability and security for SAP environments on AWS. Manage data protection using AWS native services and perform routine maintenance and proactive optimization activities on your running systems.
Sample question from this domain above: Q6
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