AZ-120 sample exam questions

SAP HANA Studio can query monitoring views such as M_HOST_RESOURCE_UTILIZATION and the load history, which provide CPU metrics over the last 24 hours, so this meets the goal.

Azure AD DS provides a managed domain for joining the Windows Server VMs without running your own domain controllers, minimizing administration. SAP NetWeaver integrates with Azure AD through SAML for SSO, and Azure AD Conditional Access adds MFA. These are now named Microsoft Entra Domain Services and Microsoft Entra ID.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly Azure Security Center) has a regulatory compliance dashboard with ISO 27001 reports. Log Analytics and Monitor only collect data, and Azure AD handles identity.

azcopy copy uploads the local folder to the blob container, and --recursive makes it include all the subfolders that hold each exported database. Sync compares source and destination rather than doing a plain upload, and bench only tests throughput.

A managed identity (formerly Managed Service Identity) lets the VM authenticate to Key Vault with Azure AD without any stored credentials. RBAC or access policies grant permissions but need an identity first, PIM handles just-in-time elevation, and the Custom Script Extension runs scripts.

Ultra disks can only be used as data disks, not as OS or temporary disks. Availability zones give datacenter-level protection with latency low enough for synchronous HANA system replication, whereas replication across regions would normally be asynchronous.

HCMT ships as an SAR archive, so you download it and extract it with SAPCAR. Then hcmtsetup prepares the tool, hcmt runs the measurements from the execution plan, and the resulting ZIP is uploaded to the online analysis service for evaluation.

VPN connections from the datacenter to VNet1 and from VNet1 to the managed workload are not transitive, because gateways do not forward traffic between separate connections by default. Transitive connectivity needs routing such as a hub with route server, virtual WAN or an appliance, so this does not meet the goal.

HANA backups written to Blob Storage are cheapest when moved to a cooler storage access tier, such as Cool or Archive, with lifecycle management for one-year retention. A stored access policy only controls SAS permissions, and a Recovery Services vault policy applies to Azure Backup, not files in Blob storage.

Azure Center for SAP solutions deploys a whole system as a Virtual Instance for SAP solutions, using az workloads sap-virtual-instance create. The configuration is supplied as a JSON payload file, which is also where customized resource names are defined.

Near-Zero Downtime (NZDT) replicates data to the target while the source stays in use, leaving only a short cutover, so it causes the least downtime. DMO combined with the move needs a long single maintenance window for the whole export and import. Doing two separate migrations adds downtime.

The case study text is not available here, so this is the best-supported choice. SAP licences are bound to the hardware key of the host, so resizing the VMs running the production ERP system, SAP ECC, can invalidate its licence. Solution Manager, PI and SCM are less tied to sizing.

The given answer suggests Azure DevTest Labs, which provides auto-shutdown policies and cost controls for non-production workloads. Deallocating VMs when not in use is also a valid saving, so the choice is close. App Service scaling and SQL Data Warehouse do not apply to SAP non-production VMs.

SAP LoadRunner by Micro Focus is the SAP-supported load testing tool, which simulates users against SAP applications for migration validation. Azure Application Insights and Azure Monitor observe behavior rather than generating load, and JMeter does not natively simulate SAP GUI traffic.

The case study text is not available here; this is the commonly cited answer. After migration the New York office needs enough ExpressRoute bandwidth for user and replication traffic, and 1,000 Mbps covers it. 500 Mbps is likely too small, while 2,000 and 5,000 Mbps add unneeded cost.