AZ-120: Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads


This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: migrate SAP workloads to Azure; design and implement an infrastructure to support SAP workloads on Azure; design and implement high availability and disaster recovery; and maintain SAP workloads on Azure.

AZ-120: Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads


As a candidate for this exam, you’re an architect or engineer with extensive experience and knowledge of the systems applications and products (SAP) system landscape and industry standards that are specific to the initial migration or integration and the long-term operation of an SAP solution on Microsoft Azure.

As an architect or an engineer for Azure for SAP Workloads, you’re responsible for:

◉ Making recommendations on services.
◉ Adjusting resources as appropriate for optimal resiliency, performance, scale, provision, size, and monitoring.

In these roles, you implement solutions by partnering with:

◉ Cloud administrators
◉ Cloud database administrators
◉ Clients

You should have extensive experience and knowledge of the following applications: SAP high performance analytic appliance (HANA), suite for (S/4) HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP business warehouse for (BW/4) HANA, OS servers for SAP applications and databases, Azure portal, Azure Marketplace, and Azure Resource Manager templates.

You should also have experience with:

◉ Virtualization
◉ Cloud infrastructure
◉ Storage structures
◉ High availability design
◉ Disaster recovery design
◉ Data protection concepts
◉ Networking

Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads Exam Summary:


Exam Name Microsoft Certified - Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty
Exam Code   AZ-120
Exam Price  $165 (USD)
Exam Price  120 mins
Number of Questions  40-60
Passing Score  700 / 1000
Books / Training Course AZ-120T00-A: Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads
Sample Questions  Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads Sample Questions
Practice Exam  Microsoft AZ-120 Certification Practice Exam

Microsoft AZ-120 Exam Syllabus Topics:


Topic Details
Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25-30%)
Identify requirements for target infrastructure - Estimate target sizing for SAP workloads
- Identify supported scenarios for SAP deployments on Azure
- Identify compute, storage, and network requirements for SAP workloads
- Assess constraints imposed by subscription models and quota limits
- Identify software licensing requirements for target workloads
- Identify cost implications for target workloads
- Specify an Azure support plan for the target infrastructure
- Choose between lift and shift, lift-shift-migrate, and lift-shift-migrate
- Choose an appropriate SAP workload migration strategy and tools
Design and implement an Azure environment to support SAP workloads - Design and implement authorization and access control for SAP workloads
- Design and implement governance and compliance by using Azure Policy
- Design and implement authentication for SAP workloads
- Design and implement authentication for SAP software as a service (SaaS) applications
- Design and implement a management hierarchy, including management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups
- Design Azure landing zones for SAP
Design and Implement an Infrastructure to Support SAP Workloads on Azure (35-40%)
Design and implement a compute solution for SAP workloads - Choose an SAP-certified Azure virtual machine for a given SAP workload
- Configure the Azure VM Extension for SAP solutions
- Deploy an operating system by using an Azure Marketplace image
- Create and deploy a custom image to an Azure virtual machine
- Automate the deployment of Azure Virtual Machines by using IaC, including Bicep and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
- Automate deployment by using the SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework
- Automate deployment by using Azure Center for SAP solutions
Design and implement networking for SAP on Azure Virtual Machines - Design and implement virtual networks and subnets
- Implement Accelerated Networking for Azure Virtual Machines
- Design and configure proximity placement groups
- Design networking to meet SAP workload latency requirements
- Design and implement network flow control
- Design and implement network security
- Design and implement service endpoints and private endpoints for Azure Storage
- Design name resolution for integration with Azure DNS
- Design and configure ExpressRoute for hybrid connectivity
- Design and configure load balancing for a reverse proxy
Design and implement a storage solution for SAP on Azure Virtual Machines - Choose a storage type
- Specify when to use disk striping and simple volumes
- Design for storage security considerations
- Design and implement data protection
- Design and implement caching for disks
- Configure Write Accelerator
- Configure encryption for storage, disks, and data
- Design and implement disks by using Azure NetApp Files
- Design and implement disks by using Azure Files
Design and Implement High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) (15-20%)
Design and implement a high availability solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines - Design for service-level agreement (SLA) considerations
- Design and deploy SAP workloads into availability sets and availability zones
- Design and implement load balancing for high availability
- Configure clustering for HANA and SAP Central Services (SCS)
- Configure clustering for SQL
- Configure Pacemaker and STONITH
- Configure an Azure fence agent or STONITH Block Device (SBD)
- Design and configure storage-level replication for SAP workloads
- Configure virtual machine restart
Design and implement a disaster recovery solution for SAP on Azure Virtual Machines - Design and implement an Azure Site Recovery strategy for an SAP infrastructure
- Design a disaster recovery solution with regional considerations
- Specify network configurations for disaster recovery
- Design a backup strategy to meet SLA requirements
- Implement policies for backups and snapshots
- Configure and validate snapshots and backups for SAP workloads
- Perform backup and restore
- Test disaster recovery
Maintain SAP Workloads on Azure (10-15%)
Optimize performance and costs - Optimize performance and costs for an SAP workload by using Azure Advisor recommendations
- Analyze and optimize network performance
- Optimize costs by configuring snoozing and deploying reserved instances
- Optimize performance and costs by resizing Azure virtual machines
- Optimize storage costs
- Optimize performance and costs of SAP application servers and databases
Monitor and maintain SAP on Azure - Monitor Azure virtual machines by using Azure Monitor
- Monitor high availability by using Azure Monitor
- Monitor storage by using Azure Monitor
- Monitor networking by using Azure Monitor and Azure Network Watcher
- Configure Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
- Manage backups by using Azure Backup
- Start and stop SAP systems by using Azure Center for SAP solutions
- Manage virtual instances by using Azure Center for SAP solutions
- Implement the SAP LaMa connector for Azure

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