Microsoft
N-AZ-120: Planning and
Administering
Microsoft Azure for
SAP Workloads
QUESTION AND ANSWER
GRADED A PLUS
Which item describes a benefit of running SAP applications on Azure?
-Hyper-V snapshot support
-Guaranteed 100% uptime
-Lower TCO
✓ Lower TCO
Azure provides for a 60% cost reduction when compared to traditional, on-premise storage systems.
By using SAP technologies on Azure, customers can realize 40-75% TCO cost savings in Dev and Test
environments.
,Which Microsoft technology is used to build advanced pipelines to automate data movement and
transformation in SAP on Azure environments?
-Azure Data Lake
-Azure Data Factory
-Microsoft Power BI
✓ Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory allows you to build advanced pipelines to automate data movement and
transformation. SAP connectors in Azure Data Factory often use the integration runtime to
communicate with the SAP system, and so the installation of this component is mandatory to enable
data replication.
Which of the following terms is defined as "One or more SAP components logically grouped to
perform a business function, such as development, quality assurance, training, disaster recovery, or
production"?
-Landscape
-System
-Environment
✓ Environment
The SAP term is "environment".
,Which of the following terms is defined as "Purpose-built physical servers running in Azure, certified
to run SAP HANA"?
-HANA Large Instances
-SAP S/4HANA Cloud
-Azure VMs
✓ HANA Large Instances
HANA Large Instances (HLI) are purpose-built physical servers running in Azure certified to run SAP
HANA.
Providing an easy way to deploy and test pre-configured SAP solutions offered by SAP without
having to deploy underlying infrastructure is the primary benefit of which SAP on Azure deployment
option?
-Azure VMs
-SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances)
-SAP Cloud Appliance Library
✓ SAP Cloud Appliance Library
SAP Cloud Appliance Library allows you to deploy pre-configured software appliances on different
public clouds, including Azure.
Which of the following is one of the SAP-certified operating systems supported for SAP products on
Azure VMs?
-Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
, -Oracle Linux 7 (OL7)
-Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5)
✓ Oracle Linux 7 (OL7)
At the time of authoring, only Oracle Linux 7 of the operating systems listed above is supported. The
earliest supported version of Microsoft Windows Server is Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, and
the earliest supported version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is RHEL7.
What is the single source of truth for SAP solutions configurations on Azure?
-SAP
-Microsoft
-Either SAP or Microsoft
✓ SAP
Both Microsoft and SAP have documentation on what is certified, but SAP should be the single
source of truth for their solutions configurations, which consist of combinations of: SAP product;
Operating system; RDBMS; and Azure offerings (Azure VM SKU, SAP HANA on Azure Large
Instances).
In SAP HANA Certified IaaS Platform, SAP uses the term 'clustering' to mean what?
-Scale-out only
-High availability clustering only
-Both
N-AZ-120: Planning and
Administering
Microsoft Azure for
SAP Workloads
QUESTION AND ANSWER
GRADED A PLUS
Which item describes a benefit of running SAP applications on Azure?
-Hyper-V snapshot support
-Guaranteed 100% uptime
-Lower TCO
✓ Lower TCO
Azure provides for a 60% cost reduction when compared to traditional, on-premise storage systems.
By using SAP technologies on Azure, customers can realize 40-75% TCO cost savings in Dev and Test
environments.
,Which Microsoft technology is used to build advanced pipelines to automate data movement and
transformation in SAP on Azure environments?
-Azure Data Lake
-Azure Data Factory
-Microsoft Power BI
✓ Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory allows you to build advanced pipelines to automate data movement and
transformation. SAP connectors in Azure Data Factory often use the integration runtime to
communicate with the SAP system, and so the installation of this component is mandatory to enable
data replication.
Which of the following terms is defined as "One or more SAP components logically grouped to
perform a business function, such as development, quality assurance, training, disaster recovery, or
production"?
-Landscape
-System
-Environment
✓ Environment
The SAP term is "environment".
,Which of the following terms is defined as "Purpose-built physical servers running in Azure, certified
to run SAP HANA"?
-HANA Large Instances
-SAP S/4HANA Cloud
-Azure VMs
✓ HANA Large Instances
HANA Large Instances (HLI) are purpose-built physical servers running in Azure certified to run SAP
HANA.
Providing an easy way to deploy and test pre-configured SAP solutions offered by SAP without
having to deploy underlying infrastructure is the primary benefit of which SAP on Azure deployment
option?
-Azure VMs
-SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances)
-SAP Cloud Appliance Library
✓ SAP Cloud Appliance Library
SAP Cloud Appliance Library allows you to deploy pre-configured software appliances on different
public clouds, including Azure.
Which of the following is one of the SAP-certified operating systems supported for SAP products on
Azure VMs?
-Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
, -Oracle Linux 7 (OL7)
-Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5)
✓ Oracle Linux 7 (OL7)
At the time of authoring, only Oracle Linux 7 of the operating systems listed above is supported. The
earliest supported version of Microsoft Windows Server is Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, and
the earliest supported version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is RHEL7.
What is the single source of truth for SAP solutions configurations on Azure?
-SAP
-Microsoft
-Either SAP or Microsoft
✓ SAP
Both Microsoft and SAP have documentation on what is certified, but SAP should be the single
source of truth for their solutions configurations, which consist of combinations of: SAP product;
Operating system; RDBMS; and Azure offerings (Azure VM SKU, SAP HANA on Azure Large
Instances).
In SAP HANA Certified IaaS Platform, SAP uses the term 'clustering' to mean what?
-Scale-out only
-High availability clustering only
-Both
