Correct Answer: Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is used to replicate the OS and disks of SAP application servers (NetWeaver/Central Services) to a secondary region for DR. Note: ASR is NOT recommended f...
Correct Answer
Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
Why This Answer Is Correct
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is used to replicate the OS and disks of SAP application servers (NetWeaver/Central Services) to a secondary region for DR. Note: ASR is NOT recommended for the database layer; native DB replication (like HSR) should be used instead.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Disaster Recovery — a core concept tested in Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty (AZ-120). Understanding Disaster Recovery is essential for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Mastery of this topic will help you answer scenario-based questions confidently on exam day.
Your organization requires a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy for an SAP HANA database. The DR site is in a different Azure region with high network latency. Which SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) mode must be used?
You are backing up an SAP HANA database on an Azure VM. Which Azure service provides a certified, agentless streaming backup solution directly via the SAP HANA Backint API?
A company runs SAP on Azure HANA Large Instances (HLI). They need to back up the HANA database. Which backup method is recommended for HLI environments that cannot use Azure Backup directly?
Which Azure service provides the foundation for automated, orchestrated failover of an entire SAP landscape (including application servers and HANA DB) to a secondary Azure region for disaster recovery?
HANA backups to Azure Blob via Backint are running successfully, but the backup files older than 30 days need to be automatically moved to cheaper storage and deleted after 1 year. Which Azure feature handles this lifecycle without custom scripts?