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You have a complex SAP environment that has both ABAP- and Java-based systems. The current on-premises landscapes are based on SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (Unicode and Non-Unicode) running on Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server.

You need to migrate the SAP environment to a HANA-certified Azure environment.

Solution: You migrate SAP to Azure by using Azure Site Recovery, and then you upgrade to SAP NetWeaver 7.4.

Does this meet the goal?

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You have an on-premises SAP environment hosted on VMware VSphere that uses Microsoft SQL Server as the database platform.

You plan to migrate the environment to Azure. The database platform will remain the same.

You need gather information to size the target Azure environment for the migration.

What should you use?

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You are planning the deployment of a three-tier SAP landscape on Azure that will use SAP HANA.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

✑ Network latency between SAP NetWeaver and HANA must be minimized.

✑ An SAP production landscape on Azure must be supported.

✑ Network performance must be validated regularly.

What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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Explanation:

Box 1: A proximity placement group

Azure offers proximity placement groups. Proximity placement groups can be used to force grouping of different VM types into a single Azure datacenter to optimize the network latency between these different VM types to the best possible. In the process of deploying the first VM into such a proximity placement group, the VM gets bound to a specific datacenter.

Note: SAP applications based on the SAP NetWeaver or SAP S/4HANA architecture are sensitive to network latency between the SAP application tier and the SAP database tier. This sensitivity is the result of most of the business logic running in the application layer. Because the SAP application layer runs the business logic, it issues queries to the database tier at a high frequency, at a rate of thousands or tens of thousands per second. In most cases, the nature of these queries is simple. They can often be run on the database tier in 500 microseconds or less.

Box 2: Enable Accelerated Networking

To further reduce network latency between Azure VMs, we recommend that you choose Azure Accelerated Networking. Use it when you deploy Azure VMs for an SAP workload, especially for the SAP application layer and the SAP DBMS layer.

Box 3: Network Performance Monitor

Network Performance Monitor (NPM) – a cloud-based network monitoring solution for cloud-only, on-premises, and hybrid networking environments.

Network Performance Monitor offers three broad capabilities:

✑ Performance Monitor: You can monitor network connectivity across cloud deployments and on-premises locations, multiple data centers, and branch offices and mission-critical multitier applications or microservices. With Performance Monitor, you can detect network issues before users complain.

✑ Service Connectivity Monitor

✑ ExpressRoute Monitor

Note 2: Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions is an Azure-native monitoring product for anyone running their SAP landscapes on Azure. It works with both SAP on Azure Virtual Machines and SAP on Azure Large Instances.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/sap-proximity-placement-scenarios

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/dbms_guide_general

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/running-sap-applications-on-the/sap-on-azure-general-update-march-2019/ba-p/377456

You have an on-premises SAP landscape that contains a 20-TB IBM DB2 database. The database contains large tables that are optimized for read operations via secondary indexes.

You plan to migrate the database platform to SQL Server on Azure virtual machines.

You need to recommend a database migration approach that minimizes the time of the export stage.

What should you recommend?

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You have an Azure subscription. The subscription contains a virtual machine named VM1 that runs SAP HANA and a user named User1. User1 is assigned the Virtual Machine Contributor role of VM1.

You need to prevent User1 from placing VM1 in the Stopped (deallocated) state. User1 must be able to restart the operating system on VM1.

What should you do?

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You have an on-premises datacenter.

You have an Azure subscription named Sub1 that contains a virtual network named VNet1.

The datacenter is connected to VNet1 by using an ExpressRoute circuit.

You have an SAP RISE managed workload.

You need to integrate Sub1 with the managed workload.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Minimize latency between the managed workload and the datacenter.

• Restrict the network ports that can be used between the managed workload and VNet1.

• Minimize costs.

What should you use to connect VNet1 and the managed workload, and what should you use to secure the connection? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

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For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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In a Hybrid-IT scenario, Active Directory from on-premises can be extended to serve as the authentication mechanism through an Azure deployed domain controller (as well as potentially using the integrated DNS).

It is important to distinguish between traditional Active Directory Servers and Microsoft Azure Active Directory that provides only a subset of the traditional on-premises AD offering. This subset include Identity and Access Management, but does not have the full AD schema or services that many 3rd party application take advantage of. While Azure Active Directory IS a requirement to establish authentication for the Azure virtual machines in use, and it can synchronize users with customers’ on-premises AD, the two are explicitly different and customers will likely continue to require full Active Directory servers deployed in Microsoft Azure.

Reference: https://www.suse.com/media/guide/sap_hana_on_azure_101.pdf

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You plan to deploy a scale-out SAP HANA deployment on Azure virtual machines that will contain a standby node.

You need to recommend a storage solution for the deployment.

What should you recommend? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point

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You have an SAP environment on Azure.

our on-promises network connects to Azure by using a site-to-site VPN connection.

6u need to alert technical support if the network bandwidth usage between the on-premises network and Azure exceeds 900 Mbps 10 minutes.

What should you use?

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You are building an SAP environment by using Azure Resource Manager templates. The SAP environment will use Linux virtual machines.

You need to correlate the LUN of the data disks in the template to the volume of the virtual machines.

Which command should you run/

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