Candidates for this exam 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 an architect or an engineer for Azure for SAP Workloads 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 exam 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 exam, it’s strongly recommended to have an Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification, in addition to SAP HANA and Linux certifications.

This Practice exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: migrate SAP Workloads to Azure; design an Azure solution to support SAP Workloads; build and deploy Azure SAP Workloads; validate Azure infrastructure for SAP Workloads; and operationalize Azure SAP architecture.

Exam Preparation:-

Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (10-15%)

Create an inventory of existing SAP landscapes

 network inventory

 security inventory

 computing inventory

 operations system inventory

 resiliency and availability inventory

 SAP Database Inventory

 SAP Landscape architecture

 SAP workload performance SLA and metrics

 migration considerations

Design a migration strategy

 certified and support SAP HANA hardware directory

 design criteria for Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI) solutions

 databox

 HANA System Replication (HSR)

 Azure Migrate SAP

 backup and restore methods and solutions

 infrastructure optimization for migration

Design an Azure Solution to Support SAP Workloads (20-25%)

Design a core infrastructure solution in Azure to support SAP workloads

 network topology requirements

 security requirements

 virtual or bare metal

 compute

 operating system requirements

 supported SAP products/versions

 storage requirements

 proximity placement group

 infrastructure requirements

Design Azure infrastructure services to support SAP workloads

 backup and restoration requirements

 SLA/High Availability

 data protection (LRS/GRS, Availability Zones)

 compliance

 monitoring

 licensing

 application interfaces

 dependencies

Design a resilient Azure solution to support SAP workloads

 HA/DR models supported in HANA (N+N, N+M)

 application servers (NetWeaver and XS Advanced)

 SAP Central services

 availability sets

 availability zones

 Disaster Recovery (DR) with paired regions

 Database HA

Build and Deploy Azure for SAP Workloads (35-40%)

Automate deployment of Virtual Machines (VMs)

 Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates

 automated configuration of VM

 scripting with automation tools, including script development, script modification, and

deployment dependencies

Implement and manage virtual networking

 IDS/IPS for Azure

 routing fundamentals

 subnetting strategy

 isolation and segmentation for SAP landscape

Manage access and authentication on Azure

 custom domains

 Azure AD Identity Protection

 Azure AD join

 conditional access policies

 Role-based access control (RBAC)

 service principal

 just in time access

Implement and manage identities

 Azure AD Connect

 AD Federation and single sign-on

 LDAP/Kerberos/SSH

 Linux VMs Active Directory domain membership mechanism

 SAP HANA Cloud Platform Identity Authentication (integration with Azure AD)

Monitor SAP workloads on Azure

 Azure Extension for SAP

 Azure Monitor

 Log Analytics workspaces & metrics

Build & Deploy HA/DR infrastructure for SAP products

 ASCS/SCS deployments on Linux & Windows (SOFS with S2D, Azure NetApp Files, 3rd

party products that emulate shared storage)

 HA/DR scenarios for SAP HANA

 HA/DR scenarios for AnyDB

 HA for non-NetWeaver Products like SAP Business One, SAP Business Object BI

 where to use load balances & troubleshooting connectivity

Validate Azure Infrastructure for SAP Workloads (10-15%)

Perform infrastructure validation check

 Apache JMeter, Spirent Avalanche, Microfocus LoadRunner

 test implementation for SAP workloads

 verify network performance and throughput

 verify storage

 SAP HANA Hardware and Cloud Measurement Tools (HCMT) (HANA)

 flexible I/O tester (FIO) and DD

Perform operational readiness check

 backup and restore

 high availability checks

 failover test

 DR test

 print test

Operationalize Azure SAP Architecture (10-15%)

Optimize performance

 test performance and health of SAP workloads on Azure by using ABAPmeter

 storage structure

 SAP workloads on Azure support pre-requisites

 scheduled maintenance for planned outages

 recovery plan for unplanned outages

 SAP application and infrastructure housekeeping (i.e. snapshots on OS volumes)

 bandwidth adjustment for ExpressRoute

 IPtables ExpressRoute Fast Path and ExpressRoute GlobalReach for HANA Large

Instances (HLI)

Migrate SAP workloads to Azure

 migration strategy

 Azure Migrate

 private and public IP addresses, network routes, network interface, subnets, and virtual

network

 storage configuration

 source and target environments preparation

 backup and restore of data

 SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) (migration from DB2, Oracle, SAP ASE, to SQL

Server in an Azure VM)

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Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (10-15%)

Create an inventory of existing SAP landscapes

 network inventory

 security inventory

 computing inventory

 operations system inventory

 resiliency and availability inventory

 SAP Database Inventory

 SAP Landscape architecture

 SAP workload performance SLA and metrics

 migration considerations

Design a migration strategy

 certified and support SAP HANA hardware directory

 design criteria for Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI) phase 4 and phase 5 solutions

 databox with import and export

 HANA System Replication (HSR)

 Azure Migrate SAP

 backup and restore methods and solutions

 infrastructure optimization for migration

Design an Azure Solution to Support SAP Workloads (20-25%)

Design a core infrastructure solution in Azure to support SAP workloads

 network topology requirements

 security requirements

 virtual or bare metal

 compute

 operating system requirements

 supported SAP products/versions

 storage requirements

 proximity placement group

 infrastructure requirements

Design Azure infrastructure services to support SAP workloads

 backup and restoration requirements

 SLA/High Availability

 data protection (LRS/GRS, Availability Zones)

 compliance

 monitoring

 licensing

 application interfaces

 dependencies

Design a resilient Azure solution to support SAP workloads

 HA/DR models supported in HANA (N+N, N+M)

 application servers (NetWeaver and XS Advanced)

 SAP Central services

 availability sets

 availability zones

 Disaster Recovery (DR) with paired regions

 Database HA

Build and Deploy Azure for SAP Workloads (35-40%)

Automate deployment of Virtual Machines (VMs)

 Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates

 automated configuration of VM

 scripting with automation tools, including script development, script modification, and

deployment dependencies

Implement and manage virtual networking

 IDS/IPS for Azure

 routing fundamentals

 subnetting strategy

 isolation and segmentation for SAP landscape

Manage access and authentication on Azure

 custom domains

 Azure AD Identity Protection

 Azure AD join

 enterprise state roaming

 conditional access policies

 Role-based access control (RBAC)

 service principal

 just in time access

Implement and manage identities

 Azure AD Connect

 AD Federation and single sign-on

 LDAP/Kerberos/SSH

 Linux VMs Active Directory domain membership mechanism

 SAP HANA Cloud Platform Identity Authentication (integration with Azure AD)

Monitor SAP workloads on Azure

 Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP workloads

 Azure Monitors

 Log Analytics workspaces & metrics

Build & Deploy HA/DR infrastructure for SAP products

 ASCS/SCS deployments on Linux & Windows (SOFS with S2D, Azure NetApp Files, 3rd

party products that emulate shared storage)

 HA/DR scenarios for SAP HANA

 HA/DR scenarios for AnyDB

 HA for non-NetWeaver Products like SAP Business One, SAP Business Object BI

 where to use load balances & troubleshooting connectivity

Validate Azure Infrastructure for SAP Workloads (10-15%)

Perform infrastructure validation check

 Apache JMeter, Spirent Avalanche, Microfocus LoadRunner

 test implementation for SAP workloads

 verify network performance and throughput

 verify storage

 SAP HANA Hardware and Cloud Measurement Tools (HCMT) (HANA)

 flexible I/O tester (FIO) and DD

Perform operational readiness check

 backup and restore

 high availability checks

 failover test

 DR test

 print test

Operationalize Azure SAP Architecture (10-15%)

Optimize performance

 test performance and health of SAP workloads on Azure by using ABAPmeter

 storage structure

 SAP workloads on Azure support pre-requisites

 scheduled maintenance for planned outages

 recovery plan for unplanned outages

 SAP application and infrastructure housekeeping (i.e. snapshots on OS volumes)

 bandwidth adjustment for ExpressRoute

 IPtables ExpressRoute Fast Path and ExpressRoute GlobalReach for HANA Large

Instances (HLI)

Migrate SAP workloads to Azure

 migration strategy

 Azure Migrate

 private and public IP addresses, network routes, network interface, subnets, and virtual

network

 storage configuration

 source and target environments preparation

 backup and restore of data

 SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) (migration from DB2, Oracle, SAP ASE, to SQL

Server in an Azure VM)