What you'll learn:
- Exam AZ-120: Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads
- Identify requirements for target infrastructure
- Design and implement identity and access for SAP workloads
- Design and implement an SAP migration strategy
- Design and implement a compute solution for SAP workloads
- Design and implement a network topology for SAP on Azure Virtual Machines or Azure HLI
- Design and implement a storage solution for SAP on Azure Virtual Machines or Azure HLI
- Spaces Direct [SSD], Azure NetApp Files, Azure shared managed disks)
- Design a high availability and disaster recovery solution for SAP on Azure Virtual Machines or Azure HLI
- Implement high availability and disaster recovery
- AlwaysOn, and Oracle Data Guard
- Optimize performance and costs
- Monitor SAP on Azure
In order to set realistic expectations, please note: These questions are NOT official questions that you will find on the official exam. These questions DO cover all the material outlined in the knowledge sections below. Many of the questions are based on fictitious scenarios which have questions posed within them.
The official knowledge requirements for the exam are reviewed routinely to ensure that the content has the latest requirements incorporated in the practice questions. Updates to content are often made without prior notification and are subject to change at any time.
Each question has a detailed explanation and links to reference materials to support the answers which ensures accuracy of the problem solutions.
The questions will be shuffled each time you repeat the tests so you will need to know why an answer is correct, not just that the correct answer was item "B" last time you went through the test.
Candidates for the Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty certification should be architects or engineers with extensive experience and knowledge of the SAP system landscape and industry standards that are specific to the long-term operation of an SAP solution on Microsoft Azure.
Responsibilities for this role include making recommendations on services and adjust resources as appropriate for optimal resiliency, performance, scale, provision, size, and monitoring.
Architects or engineers for Azure for SAP Workloads partner with cloud administrators, cloud DBAs, and clients to implement solutions.
A candidate for this certification should have extensive experience and knowledge of SAP applications: SAP HANA, S/4HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW/4HANA, OS servers for SAP applications and databases, Azure portal, ARM templates, operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, high availability design, disaster recovery design, data protection concepts, and networking.
For this role, it’s strongly recommended to have an Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification, in addition to SAP HANA and Linux certifications.
Skills measured on Microsoft Azure AZ-120 Exam : Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads
Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25–30%)
Identify requirements for target infrastructure
estimate target database size
determine supportability of operating systems and databases in Azure
estimate compute, storage, and network requirements for the target database
determine target SAPS by using EarlyWatch Alert (EWA) reports or Quick Sizer
assess constraints imposed by subscription models and quota limits
evaluate licensing and pricing across SAP tiers
evaluate components, such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Microsoft Power BI, and SAP Cloud
specify a Microsoft support option for SAP on Azure
Design and implement identity and access for SAP workloads
design and implement access control and authorization for SAP workloads
design and implement authentication for SAP workloads
manage access permissions to SAP systems
Design and implement an SAP migration strategy
choose a migration scenario (lift-and-shift, lift-shift-migrate, lift-shift-migrate to HANA) or greenfield
choose migration methods
configure storage to support migration
implement an SAP migration
Design and Implement an Infrastructure to Support SAP Workloads (25–30%)
Design and implement a compute solution for SAP workloads
specify a compute platform (Azure Virtual Machines versus HANA Large Instances [HLI])
configure Enhanced Monitoring
configure Accelerated Networking
configure VMs for Availability Sets
configure VMs for Availability Zones
deploy an OS by using the Azure Marketplace
create and deploy a custom image
automate deployment by using ARM templates
connect to an Azure HLI
configure license registration for an Azure HLI
configure and apply operating system updates to an Azure HLI
configure a snapshot
Design and implement a network topology for SAP on Azure Virtual Machines or Azure HLI
design and configure proximity placement groups
define SAP zones and subnets
design for latency considerations
design for network security
design and implement networking for Azure HLI
plan for the use of Azure ExpressRoute (FastPath versus direct)
optimize networking to minimize latency between/within SAP tiers
configure routing for Azure HLI
design and configure load balancing for a reverse proxy
Design and implement a storage solution for SAP on Azure Virtual Machines or Azure HLI
specify an appropriate disk option (Managed, Premium, Ultra disk, SOFS with Storage
Spaces Direct [SSD], Azure NetApp Files, Azure shared managed disks)
specify when to use disk striping
design for security considerations for storage
design for data protection considerations
design and implement caching for disks
configure Write Accelerator
configure encryption
Design and Implement High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) (20–25%)
Design a high availability and disaster recovery solution for SAP on Azure Virtual Machines or Azure HLI
design an Azure Site Recovery strategy for SAP workloads
design HANA system replication/SQL Server AlwaysOn/Data Guard
design an Availability Set and Availability Zone strategy for SAP workloads
design load balancing for SAP HA or database HA
design for regional considerations
design for service-level agreement (SLA) considerations
Implement high availability and disaster recovery
configure STONITH
configure database-level replication, including HANA System Replication, SQL Server AlwaysOn, and Oracle Data Guard
configure fencing/Stonith Block Device (SBD)
configure Azure Site Recovery
configure storage-level replication for SAP Central Services
configure load balancing for SAP HA or database HA
configure clustering
configure and validate backups
perform backup and restore
test disaster recovery
Maintain SAP Workloads on Azure (15–20%)
Optimize performance and costs
optimize performance and cost of SAP HANA virtual hardware and Azure HLI
optimize performance and cost of SAP HANA Hardware and Cloud Measurement Tools(HCMT)
measure/reduce network latency between SAP servers and clients
optimize network performance and bandwidth costs
optimize performance and cost of SAP application servers
optimize performance by using the SAPS benchmark tool
configure snoozing
resize VMs
optimize storage costs
optimize an SAP workload on Azure by using Azure Advisor
Monitor SAP on Azure
monitor SAP workloads by using Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions
monitor SAP workloads by using Log Analytics
monitor networking
The exam is available in the following languages:English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean
