AZ-120 Exam Study Guide (Planning & Administering Azure For SAP)
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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.
I have curated a list of articles from Microsoft documentation for each objective of the AZ-120 exam. Please share the post within your circles so it helps them to prepare for the exam.
Skills Measured
- Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (10-15%)
- Design an Azure Solution to Support SAP Workloads (20-25%)
- Build and Deploy Azure SAP Workloads (35-40%)
- Validate Azure Infrastructure for SAP Workloads (10-15%)
- Operationalize Azure SAP Architecture (10-15%)
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For each test objective, I’ve compiled a thorough collection of articles from Microsoft documentation. Please feel free to forward this page to your friends and coworkers in order to assist them in preparing for the test .
Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (10-15%)
Create an Inventory of Existing SAP Landscapes
- Network inventory
- Azure Networking for SAP workloads
- Security inventory
- Azure VM security considerations for SAP workloads
- Computing inventory
- Azure Compute for SAP workloads
- Operations system inventory
- Infrastructure Technology Basics for SAP Deployment
- Resiliency and availability inventory
- Azure VM high availability & disaster recovery for SAP workloads
- SAP Landscape architecture
- What is SAP Landscape?
- SAP workload performance SLA and metrics
- SLA for SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances
- Migration considerations
- Best practices in migrating SAP applications to Azure – part 1
Design a Migration Strategy
- Certified and support SAP HANA hardware directory
- Best practices in migrating SAP applications to Azure – part 3
- Certified and supported SAP HANA hardware
- Design criteria for Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI) phase 4 and phase 5 solutions
- SAP HANA Tailored data center integration
- Databox with import and export
- Your SAP on Azure – Part 11 – How to migrate?
- What is Azure Import/Export service?
- HANA System Replication (HSR)
- High availability of SAP HANA on Azure VMs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- High Availability for SAP HANA using System Replication
- Azure Migrate SAP
- Protect SAP landscape with Azure Site Recovery
- Disaster recovery for SAP HANA Systems on Azure
- Backup and restore methods and solutions
- Backup guide for SAP HANA on Azure Virtual Machines
- Backup & restore of SAP HANA on HANA Large Instances
- Infrastructure optimization for migration
- Best practices in migrating SAP applications to Azure
Design an Azure Solution to Support SAP Workloads (20-25%)
Design a Core Infrastructure Solution in Azure to Support SAP Workloads
- Network topology requirements
- Basic Network Topology for SAP Systems
- Security requirements
- Azure VM security considerations for SAP workloads
- Virtual or bare metal
- What is SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances)?
- Operating system requirements
- OS support of Azure for SAP workloads
- Supported SAP products/versions
- SAP on Microsoft Azure
- Storage requirements
- SAP HANA Azure virtual machine storage configurations
- Proximity placement group
- Azure proximity placement groups for optimal network latency
- Infrastructure requirements
- SAP HANA infrastructure configurations and operations on Azure
Design Azure Infrastructure Services to Support SAP Workloads
- Backup and restoration requirements
- Prerequisites for backup – SAP HANA database
- SAP HANA database restore
- SLA/High Availability
- SAP on Azure–Designing for availability & recoverability
- SLA for SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances
- Data protection (LRS/GRS, Availability Zones)
- Azure storage types for SAP workload
- SAP workload configurations with Azure Availability Zones
- Compliance
- IRAP protected compliance
- Monitoring
- Azure Enhanced Monitoring for SAP
- Licensing
- SAP NetWeaver Licensing Mechanism in Microsoft Azure Cloud
- YouTube video: SAP NetWeaver Licensing Mechanism in Microsoft Azure Cloud
- Application interfaces
- Extension and Integration Technologies from SAP
- Dependencies
- Detail on Dependencies
Design a Resilient Azure Solution to Support SAP Workloads
- HA/DR models supported in HANA (N+N, N+M)
- SAP HANA Large Instances high availability and disaster recovery on Azure
- High availability and disaster recovery support of Azure for SAP workloads
- Disaster recovery for SAP HANA Systems on Azure
- SAP HANA Disaster Recovery Support
- Application servers
- Overview of SAP application servers
- SAP Central services
- SAP central services
- Availability sets
- Multiple instances of VM in the same availability set
- Availability zones
- SAP workload configurations with Azure Availability Zones
- Disaster Recovery (DR) with paired regions
- Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR): Azure Paired Regions
- Database HA
- High availability of SAP HANA on Azure VMs on SUSE Linux enterprise server
Build and Deploy Azure SAP Workloads (35-40%)
Automate Deployment of Virtual Machines (VMs)
- Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates
- Create and deploy your first ARM template
- Automated configuration of VM
- Configure a VM with Desired State Configuration
- Scripting with automation tools, including script development, script modification, and deployment dependencies
- Use infrastructure automation tools with VMs in Azure
Implement and Manage Virtual Networking
- IDS/IPS for Azure
- Deploy network based intrusion detection/intrusion prevention systems
- Routing fundamentals
- Virtual network traffic routing
- Subnetting strategy
- Design subnets
- Isolation and segmentation for SAP landscape
- Network Isolation
Manage Access and Authentication on Azure
- Custom domains
- Add your custom domain name using the Azure AD portal
- Azure AD Identity Protection
- What is Identity Protection?
- Azure AD join
- Plan your Azure AD join implementation
- Enterprise state roaming
- What is enterprise state roaming?
- Enable enterprise state roaming in Azure AD
- Conditional access policies
- What is conditional access?
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- What is Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC)?
- Service principal
- Create an Azure service principal with Azure PowerShell
- Just in time access
- What is Azure AD Privileged Identity Management?
Implement and Manage Identities
- Azure AD Connect
- What is Azure AD Connect?
- AD Federation and single sign-on
- What is federation with Azure AD?
- What is single sign-on (SSO)?
- LDAP/Kerberos/SSH
- Configure secure LDAP for an Azure AD DS managed domain
- Configure Kerberos constrained delegation in Azure AD DS
- Linux VMs Active Directory domain membership mechanism
- Join an Ubuntu Linux VM to an Azure AD DS managed domain
Monitor SAP Workloads on Azure
- Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP
- Azure Enhanced Monitoring for SAP
- Azure Monitor
- How to monitor SAP HANA (large instances) on Azure
- Workspaces & metrics
- Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
Build & Deploy HA/DR Infrastructure for SAP Products
- ASCS/SCS deployments on Linux & Windows (SOFS with S2D, Azure NetApp Files, 3rd Party products that emulate shared storage
- Prepare the infrastructure for SAP HA by using a shared disk for SAP ASCS/SCS
- High availability for SAP NetWeaver on Azure VMs
- High-availability architecture for an SAP ASCS/SCS instance on Windows
- ASCS High Availability with Storage Spaces Direct
- SAP ASCS/SCS instance with Windows Server Failover Clustering on Azure
- HA for Azure VMs on Windows with Azure NetApp Files for SAP apps
- Azure VMs HA for SAP NetWeaver on RHEL with Azure NetApp Files for SAP
- HA/DR scenarios for SAP HANA
- SAP HANA Large Instances HA & DR on Azure
- HA/DR scenarios for AnyDB
- Configure SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure VMs
- Disaster Recovery considerations for AnyDB on Azure
- HA for non-NetWeaver Products like SAP Business One, SAP Business Object BI
- SAP Business One on Azure Virtual Machines
- High Availability setup for SAP Business Objects with SQL Server on Windows
- Where to use load balances & troubleshooting connectivity
- Public connectivity for VMs using Azure Load Balancer in SAP HA scenarios
Validate Azure Infrastructure for SAP Workloads (10-15%)
Perform Infrastructure Validation Check
- Apache JMeter, Spirent Avalanch, Load Runner
- What are the best Performance Testing Tools?
- Test implementation for SAP workloads
- Go live phase
- Verify network performance and throughput
- Designing for performance & scalability
- Verify storage
- SAP HANA Azure virtual machine storage configurations
- SAP HANA Hardware and Cloud Measurement Tools (HCMT) (HANA)
- SAP HANA Hardware and Cloud Measurement Tools (HCMT)
- Flexible I/O tester (FIO) DD
- Flexible IO Tester: Practical Testing Tool for Developers
Perform Operational Readiness Check
- Backup and restore
- Backup & restore of SAP HANA on HANA Large Instances
- High availability checks
- High availability for SAP NetWeaver on Azure VMs on SLES
- Failover test
- Run a test failover
- DR test
- Protect SAP landscape with Azure Site Recovery
- Print test
- Printing on a local network printer from SAP instance in Azure
Operationalize Azure SAP Architecture (10-15%)
Optimize Performance
- SAP workloads on Azure using ABAPmeter
- Performance tool ABAPMETER (Towards the bottom)
- Storage structure
- Storage structure of a VM for RDBMS deployments
- SAP workloads on Azure support pre-requisites
- Prerequisites for SAP workloads in the public cloud
- Scheduled maintenance for planned outages
- High Availability for SAP NetWeaver on Windows
- Recovery plan for unplanned outages
- Protect SAP landscape with Azure Site Recovery
- SAP application and infrastructure housekeeping
- Bandwidth adjustment for ExpressRoute
- Increase ExpressRoute circuit bandwidth
- IPtables ExpressRoute Fast Path and ExpressRoute GlobalReach for HANA Large Instances (HLI)
- ExpressRoute Fast Path
- Apply ExpressRoute Fast Path to HLI ExpressRoute circuits
- Express Route Global Reach for HANA Large Instances
- ExpressRoute Global Reach
Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure
- Migration strategy
- Strategies for migrating SAP systems to Microsoft Azure
- Azure Migrate
- Migrating SAP Applications to Azure
- Best practices in migrating SAP applications to Azure
- Private and public IP addresses, Subnets
- Connecting Azure VMs to HANA Large Instances
- Network routes
- Routing in Azure
- Network interface
- Accessing SAP systems running within Azure VMs
- Virtual network
- Connect a virtual network to HANA large instances
- Storage configuration
- SAP HANA Azure virtual machine storage configurations
- Source and target environments preparation
- DMO with System Move
- Backup and restore of data
- Back up SAP HANA databases in Azure VMs
- Restore SAP HANA databases on Azure VMs
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