Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads AZ-120 Practice Exam
Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads AZ-120
About Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads AZ-120
Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads AZ-120 Exam has been built to measure your ability to accomplish the specified technical tasks including -
- 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
- Operationalize Azure SAP Architecture
Who should take the Microsoft Azure AZ-120 Exam?
Candidates planning to take AZ-120 exam are primarily architects and engineers with good knowledge about the SAP Landscape Certification process and industry standards that are specific to the long-term operation of an SAP solution. Also, candidates make recommendations on services and adjust resources as appropriate for optimal resiliency, performance, scale, provision, size, and monitoring.
Skills Measured
Candidates planning to take the Microsoft Azure AZ-120 exam must possess the following skills -
- Rigorous knowledge and experience of SAP Applications
- SAP HANA
- S/4HANA
- SAP NetWeaver
- SAP BW
- OS Servers for SAP Applications and Databases
- Azure Portal
- ARM templates
- Operating systems
- Virtualization
- Cloud infrastructure
- Storage structures
- High availability design and disaster recovery design
- Data protection concepts and networking
It is strongly recommended that candidates for this exam have an Azure Administrator or Azure Architect certification, in addition to SAP HANA and Linux certifications.
Course Outline for AZ-120 Exam
The Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads AZ-120 exam covers the latest exam updates and topics as per exam updates as on October 26, 2023 -
Module 1 - Describe Migrate SAP workloads to Azure (25–30%)
1.1 Explain to identify requirements for target infrastructure
- Learn to estimate target sizing for SAP workloads
- Learn to identify supported scenarios for SAP deployments on Azure
- Learn to identify compute, storage, and network requirements for SAP workloads
- Learn to assess constraints imposed by subscription models and quota limits
- Learn to identify software licensing requirements for target workloads
- Learn to identify cost implications for target workloads
- Learn to specify an Azure support plan for the target infrastructure
- Learn to choose between lift and shift, lift-shift-migrate, and lift-shift-migrate to HANA
- Learn to choose an appropriate SAP workload migration strategy and tools
1.2 Explain designing and implementing an Azure environment to support SAP workloads
- Learn to design and implement authorization and access control for SAP workloads
- Learn to design and implement governance and compliance by using Azure Policy
- Learn to design and implement authentication for SAP workloads
- Learn to design and implement authentication for SAP software as a service (SaaS) applications
- Learn to design and implement a management hierarchy, including management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups
- Learn to design Azure landing zones for SAP
Module 2 - Describe designing and implementing an infrastructure to support SAP workloads on Azure (35–40%)
2.1 Explain designing and implementing a compute solution for SAP workloads
- Learn to select an SAP-certified Azure virtual machine for a given SAP workload
- Learn to configure the Azure VM extension for SAP solutions
- Learn to deploy an operating system by using an Azure Marketplace image
- Learn to create and deploy a custom image to an Azure virtual machine
- Learn to automate the deployment of Azure virtual machines by using IaC, including Bicep and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
- Learn to automate deployment by using the SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework
- Learn to automate deployment by using Azure Center for SAP solutions
2.2 Explain designing and implementing networking for SAP on Azure virtual machines
- Learn to design and implement virtual networks and subnets
- Learn to implement Accelerated Networking for Azure virtual machines
- Learn to design and configure proximity placement groups
- Learn to design networking to meet SAP workload latency requirements
- Learn to design and implement network flow control
- Learn to design and implement network security
- Learn to design and implement service endpoints and private endpoints for Azure Storage
- Learn to design name resolution for integration with Azure DNS
- Learn to design and configure ExpressRoute for hybrid connectivity
- Learn to design and configure load balancing for a reverse proxy
2.3 Explain designing and implementing a storage solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines
- Learn to choose a storage type
- Learn to specify when to use disk striping and simple volumes
- Learn to design for storage security considerations
- Learn to design and implement data protection
- Learn to design and implement caching for disks
- Learn to configure Write Accelerator
- Learn to configure encryption for storage, disks, and data
- Learn to design and implement disks by using Azure NetApp Files
- Learn to design and implement disks by using Azure Files
Module 3 - Describe designing and implementing high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) (15–20%)
3.1 Explain designing and implementing a high availability solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines
- Learn to design for service-level agreement (SLA) considerations
- Learn to design and deploy SAP workloads into availability sets and availability zones
- Learn to design and implement load balancing for high availability
- Learn to configure clustering for HANA and SAP Central Services (SCS)
- Learn to configure clustering for SQL
- Learn to configure Pacemaker and STONITH
- Learn to configure an Azure fence agent or STONITH Block Device (SBD)
- Learn to design and configure storage-level replication for SAP workloads
- Learn to configure virtual machine restart
3.2 Explain designing and implementing a disaster recovery solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines
- Learn to design and implement an Azure Site Recovery strategy for an SAP infrastructure
- Learn to design a disaster recovery solution with regional considerations
- Learn to specify network configurations for disaster recovery
- Learn to design a backup strategy to meet SLA requirements
- Learn to implement policies for backups and snapshots
- Learn to configure and validate snapshots and backups for SAP workloads
- Learn to perform backup and restore
- Learn to test disaster recovery
Domain 4 - Describe maintaining SAP workloads on Azure (10–15%)
4.1 Explain to optimize performance and costs
- Learn to optimize performance and costs for an SAP workload by using Azure Advisor recommendations
- Learn to analyze and optimize network performance
- Learn to optimize costs by configuring snoozing and deploying reserved instances
- Learn to optimize performance and costs by resizing Azure virtual machines
- Learn to optimize storage costs
- Learn to optimize performance and costs of SAP application servers and databases
4.2 Explain monitoring and maintaining SAP on Azure
- Learn to monitor Azure virtual machines by using Azure Monitor
- Learn to monitor high availability by using Azure Monitor
- Learn to monitor storage by using Azure Monitor
- Learn to monitor networking by using Azure Monitor and Azure Network Watcher
- Learn to configure Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
- Learn to manage backups by using Azure Backup
- Learn to start and stop SAP systems by using Azure Center for SAP solutions
- Learn to manage virtual instances by using Azure Center for SAP solutions
- Learn to implement the SAP LaMa connector for Azure
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