AZ-120T00: Planning and Deploying SAP on Azure

• Migrate SAP workloads to Azure (25–30%)

• Design and implement an infrastructure to support SAP workloads on Azure (35–40%)

• Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) (15–20%)

• Maintain SAP workloads on Azure (10–15%)

• 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 to HANA

• Choose an appropriate SAP workload migration strategy and tools

• 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

• 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 a custom image and deploy it to an Azure virtual machine

• Automate a deployment of Azure virtual machines by using IaC, including Bicep and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates

• Automate a deployment by using the SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework

• Automate a deployment by using Azure Center for SAP solutions

• 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

• 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 volumes by using Azure NetApp Files

• Design and implement volumes by using Azure Files

• 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 restart of SAP systems, instances, and HANA databases

• 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

• 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 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 Landscape Management (LaMa) connector for Azure

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