AZ-120 Exam Study Guide (Planning & Administering Azure for SAP)

AZ-120 Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads Certificate Study Guide

AZ-120 Preparation Details

Preparing for the AZ-120 Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads certification exam? Don’t know where to start? This post is the AZ-120 Certificate Study Guide (with links to each exam objective), which helps you to achieve the Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty Certification.

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Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25-30%)

Identify Requirements for Target Infrastructure

Estimate target database size

Size SAP systems running on Azure VMs

Sizing of SAP HANA on Azure

Determine supportability of operating systems and databases in Azure

What SAP software is supported on Azure?

Estimate compute, storage, and network requirements for the target database

Onboarding requirements for SAP HANA on Azure

Network requirements for SAP HANA on Azure

Determine target SAPS by using Early Watch Alert (EWA) reports or Quick Sizer

Sizing SAP systems running on Azure – Quick Sizer

SAP EWA Notification

Assess constraints imposed by subscription models and quota limits

Azure subscription limits and quotas

Recommend licensing and pricing across SAP tiers

SAP NetWeaver Licensing in Azure

Pricing SAP solutions on Azure

Recommend components, such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Microsoft Power BI,
and SAP Cloud

Export SAP data to Azure Data Lake

Hana SDI Adapter for Azure Data Lake

Read HANA DB data from Data Lake

Specify a Microsoft support option for SAP on Azure

SAP on Azure supported scenarios

Design and Implement Identity and Access for SAP Workloads

Design and implement access control and authorization for SAP workloads

Identity & access management for SAP on Azure

SAP Security Operations On Azure

Design for security: SAP on Azure Architecture

Design and implement authentication for SAP workloads

Azure AD integration with SAP Identity Authentication

SSO integration with SAP NetWeaver

Manage access permissions to SAP systems

Resource-based access control

Design and Implement an SAP Migration Strategy

Choose a migration scenario (lift-and-shift, lift-shift-migrate, lift-shift-migrate to HANA) or greenfield

SAP on Azure Migration Scenarios

Choose migration methods

How to migrate?

Configure the storage to support migration

Storage for SAP HANA large instance

Implement an SAP migration

SAP on Azure implementation guide

az-120 SAP on Azure implementation Guide

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Design and Implement an Infrastructure to Support SAP Workloads (25-30%)

Design and Implement a Compute Solution for SAP Workloads

Specify a compute platform (Azure Virtual Machines versus HANA Large Instances [HLIs])

The architecture of SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances)

Run SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances)

Configure Azure Extension for SAP

Azure Monitoring Extension for SAP

Configure Accelerated Networking

Use accelerated networking to reduce network latency

Create VM with accelerated networking

Configure VMs for Availability Sets

Availability Set: Azure VMs for SAP

Configure VMs for Availability Zones

Availability Zones: Azure VMs for SAP

Deploy an OS by using an Azure Marketplace image

Deploy a VM from the Azure Marketplace for SAP

Create and deploy a custom image

Deploy a VM with a custom image for SAP

Automate deployment by using ARM templates

Your SAP on Azure: ARM Templates

Automate the deployment of SAP HANA on Azure

Connect to an Azure HLI

Azure HANA Large Instances control through Azure portal

Configure license registration for an Azure HLI

Onboarding requirements for SAP HANA on Azure HLI

Configure and apply operating system updates to an Azure HLI

OS upgrade for SAP HANA on Azure HLI

Configure a snapshot

Configure Azure Application Consistent snapshot tool

Design and Implement a Network Topology for SAP on Azure Virtual Machines or Azure
HLI

Design and configure proximity placement groups

Azure proximity placement groups for SAP applications

Define SAP zones and subnets

Choose Availability Zones for SAP

Define subnet in Azure VNet

Design for latency considerations

Designing a network for performance

Design for network security

Designing for security

Design and implement networking for Azure HLI

The network architecture of SAP HANA on Azure HLI

Other network requirements for SAP HANA on Azure HLI

Plan for the use of Azure ExpressRoute (FastPath versus Direct)

ExpressRoute Fast Path

Apply ExpressRoute Fast Path to HLI

Configure ExpressRoute Direct

Optimize networking to minimize latency between/within SAP tiers

Network latency between & within zones

Configure routing for Azure HLI

Routing in Azure

Design and configure load balancing for a reverse proxy

How-to-Guide for reverse proxy & load balancing in SAP

Azure certification Frequently Asked Questions

Design and Implement a Storage Solution for SAP on Azure Virtual Machine or Azure HLI

Specify an appropriate storage option (Managed, Premium, Ultra disk, SOFS with Storage Spaces Direct [SSD], Azure NetApp Files, Azure shared Disks)

Azure storage types for SAP workload

Specify when to use disk striping

Disk striping in SAP

Design for security considerations for storage

SAP on Azure: Design for security

Design for data protection considerations

Protect & manage SAP HANA in Azure

Design and implement caching for disks

Caching for VMs and data disks

Caching recommendations for Azure premium disks

Configure Write Accelerator

Enable Write Accelerator

SAP HANA Azure VM write accelerator

Configure encryption

Maintain data integrity through encryption methods

SQL Server TDE with Azure Key Vault

Design and Implement High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) (20–25%)

Design a High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution for SAP on Azure Virtual Machine
or Azure HLI

Design an Azure Site Recovery strategy for SAP workloads

Protect SAP landscape with Azure Site Recovery

Set up SAP NetWeaver disaster recovery with Site Recovery

Disaster recovery for SAP HANA Systems on Azure

Design HANA system replication/SQL Server Always On/Oracle Data Guard

High Availability for SAP HANA using System Replication

SAP System on Oracle Database on Azure

Design an availability set and availability zone strategy for SAP workloads

SAP on Azure: Planning: Azure Availability Sets

SAP on Azure: Planning: Availability Zones

Design load balancing for SAP HA or database HA

Run SAP NetWeaver in Windows on Azure

High availability of SAP HANA on Azure VMs

Design for regional considerations

Quantifying your region choice

Design for service-level agreement (SLA) considerations

A quick guide to SAP on Azure SLA

AZ-120 Exam details and tips

Implement High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Configure STONITH

Create Azure Fence agent STONITH device

Configure database-level replication, including HANA System Replication, SQL Server AlwaysOn, and Oracle Data Guard

Configure SAP HANA system replication

SQL Server Always On

SAP NetWeaver on SQL Server

Implement Oracle Data Guard on an Azure VM

Configure fencing/Stonith Block Device (SBD)

HA set up with STONITH for SAP HANA on Azure

Configure Azure Site Recovery

Set up SAP NetWeaver disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery

Configure storage-level replication for SAP Central Services

High Availability for SAP Central Service

Configure load balancing for SAP HA or database HA

HA of SAP HANA on Azure VMs

Configure clustering

Cluster SAP ASCS/SCS instance in Azure

Configure and validate backups

About SAP HANA database backup in Azure VMs

Perform backup and restore

Back up an SAP HANA database to Azure with Azure Backup

Restore SAP HANA databases on Azure VMs

Test disaster recovery

Run an Azure VM disaster recovery drill

Maintain SAP Workloads on Azure (15-20%)

Optimize Performance and Costs

Optimize performance and cost of SAP HANA virtual hardware and Azure HLI

SAP on Azure: Designing for performance

Reduce costs with Azure VMs certified for SAP HANA

Optimize costs & increase agility with the latest SAP on Azure offering

Optimize performance and cost by using SAP HANA Hardware and Cloud Measurement Tools (HCMT)

SAP HANA Hardware & Cloud Measurement Tools (HCMT)

Measure/reduce network latency between SAP servers and clients

Proximity Placement Groups in Azure

Display network latency measurements

Optimize network performance and bandwidth costs

SAP on Azure: Design for performance and scalability

Optimize performance and cost of SAP application servers

Reduce costs with Azure VMs certified for SAP HANA

Measure performance by using the SAPS benchmark tool

Measuring in SAP Application Performance Standard (SAPS)

SAPS ratings on Azure VMs

Configure snoozing

SAP snoozing

Automatic snoozing of SAP systems on Azure

Resize VMs

Resize virtual machines

Optimize storage costs

Optimizing Azure Storage costs

Disks: Optimize Azure Storage Costs

Optimize an SAP workload on Azure by using Azure Advisor

Optimize your Azure workloads with Azure Advisor

Monitor SAP on Azure

Monitor SAP workloads by using Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions

Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions providers

Monitor SAP workloads by using Log Analytics

Overview of Log Analytics in Azure Monitor

Monitor SAP on Azure

Monitor networking

Monitoring SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances)

This brings us to the end of the AZ-120 Study Guide

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