Cisco
CompTIA
ISC
EC-Council
EXIN
Fortinet
ITIL
Juniper
Microsoft
VMware
Avaya
SAP
Google
NVIDIA
Salesforce
Amazon
Palo Alto Networks
ISC2
Splunk
ServiceNow
All Vendors
  2. Home
  3. Exams
  4. Microsoft
  5. AZ-120

Microsoft AZ-120 Exam
Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads (Page 12 )

Updated On: 9-Feb-2026
Page 12 of 84
PDF with 412 Questions

You are planning a small-scale deployment of an SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances) landscape.

You identify the costs of the virtual machine SKU required to host the HANA Large Instances landscape.

Which additional costs will be incurred?

  1. a Linux support contract
  2. an ExpressRoute circuit between the HANA Large Instances stamp and Azure
  3. a Site-to-Site VPN connection between the HANA Large Instances stamp and Azure
  4. an Azure Rapid Response support contract

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

SAP HANA (Large Instances) network architecture
Azure offers different services that allow you to run the DBMS, NetWeaver, and S/4HANA systems in Azure.
Azure offers network technology to make Azure look like a virtual data center to your on-premises software deployments. The Azure network functionality includes:
Azure virtual networks connected to the ExpressRoute circuit that connects to your on-premises network assets.
An ExpressRoute circuit that connects on-premises to Azure with a minimum bandwidth of 1 Gbps or higher.
This circuit allows adequate bandwidth for the transfer of data between on-premises systems and systems that run on virtual machines (VMs). It also allows adequate bandwidth for connection to Azure systems from on- premises users.
All SAP systems in Azure set up in virtual networks to communicate with each other.
Active Directory and DNS hosted on-premises are extended into Azure through ExpressRoute from on- premises. They may also run completely in Azure.



Your on-premises network has a 100-Mbps internet connection and contains an SAP production landscape that has 14 TB of data files.

You plan to migrate the on-premises SAP landscape to Azure.

You need to migrate the data files to an Azure Files share. The solution must meet the following requirements:

Migrate the files within seven days.


Minimize administrative effort.


Minimize service outages.


What should you use?

  1. Azure Migrate
  2. AzCopy
  3. Azure Data Box
  4. Azure Site Recovery

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

Azure Data Box
The Microsoft Azure Data Box cloud solution lets you send terabytes of data into and out of Azure in a quick, inexpensive, and reliable way. The secure data transfer is accelerated by shipping you a proprietary Data Box storage device. Each storage device has a maximum usable storage capacity of 80 TB and is transported to your datacenter through a regional carrier. The device has a rugged casing to protect and secure data during the transit.
You can order the Data Box device via the Azure portal to import or export data from Azure. Once the device is received, you can quickly set it up using the local web UI. Depending on whether you will import or export data, copy the data from your servers to the device or from the device to your servers, and ship the device back to Azure. If importing data to Azure, in the Azure datacenter, your data is automatically uploaded from the device to Azure. The entire process is tracked end-to-end by the Data Box service in the Azure portal.
Use cases
Data Box is ideally suited to transfer data sizes larger than 40 TBs in scenarios with no to limited network connectivity. The data movement can be one-time, periodic, or an initial bulk data transfer followed by periodic transfers.



You are planning a deployment of SAP on Azure that will use SAP HANA.

You need to ensure that the SAP application servers are in the same datacenter as the HANA nodes.

What should you use?

  1. an application group
  2. a proximity placement group
  3. a resource group
  4. a virtual machine scale set

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

Proximity Placement Groups
Proximity placement groups enable the grouping of different VM types under a single network spine, ensuring optimal low network latency between them. When the first VM is deployed in proximity placement group, that VM gets bound to a specific network spine. As all the other VMs that are going to be deployed into the same proximity placement group, those VMs get grouped under the same network spine.



HOTSPOT (Drag and Drop is not supported)

You have an Azure subscription.

You need to deploy multiple virtual machines that will host SAP HANA by using an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template. The solution must meet SAP certification requirements.

How should you complete the template? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Hot Area:


  1. See Explanation for the Answer.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:




Box 1: EnableAcceleratedNetworking
Maximize your VM's Performance with Accelerated Networking now generally available for both Windows and Linux.

Note: We are happy to announce that Accelerated Networking (AN) is generally available (GA) and widely available for Windows and the latest distributions of Linux providing up to 30Gbps in networking throughput, free of charge!

AN provides consistent ultra-low network latency via Azure's in-house programmable hardware and technologies such as SR-IOV. By moving much of Azure's software-defined networking stack off the CPUs and into FPGA-based SmartNICs, compute cycles are reclaimed by end user applications, putting less load on the VM, decreasing jitter and inconsistency in latency.

With the GA of AN, region limitations have been removed, making the feature widely available around the

world. Supported VM series include D/DSv2, D/DSv3, E/ESv3, F/FS, FSv2, and Ms/Mms.

Box 2: Standard_M64s
Comparing what is certified (in general) with what is certified for HANA, we can see the following (as at Apr 2020):

VM Type VMSize Mem 2-Tier SAPS
Standard_M32ts 32vCPU 192 33,670
Standard_M32ls 32vCPU 256 33,670
Standard_E64s_v3 64vCPU 432 70,050
Standard_GS5 32vCPU 448 41,670
Standard_M64ls 64vCPU 512 66,600
*-> Standard_M64s 64vCPU 1024 67,315
Standard_M64ms 64vCPU 1792 68,930
Standard_M128s 128vCPU 2048 134,630
Standard_M128ms 128vCPU 3892 134,630



HOTSPOT (Drag and Drop is not supported)

You have an on-premises SAP HANA scale-out system with standby node.

You plan to migrate the system to Azure.

You need to configure Azure compute and database resources for the system. The solution must meet the following requirements:

Support up to 20 TB of memory per node.


Run on non-shared hardware.

What should you use for each resource? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Hot Area:

  1. See Explanation for the Answer.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:



Box 1: HANA on Azure (Large Instances) Type I class
Compute:

Type I class of HANA Large Instances come with four times the memory volume as storage volume.

Incorrect:
* Whereas Type II class of HANA Large Instances come with a volume intended for storing HANA transaction log backups.

* An Mv2-series virtual machine
Virtual machines are hosted on shared hardware.

Box 2: Ultra disks
Database:

Azure ultra disks offer up to 32-TiB per region per subscription by default, but ultra disks support higher capacity by request.

Incorrect:
* Azure NetApp Files
The storage that's used by Azure NetApp Files has a file size limitation of 16 terabytes (TB).






Post your Comments and Discuss Microsoft AZ-120 exam prep with other Community members:

Join the AZ-120 Discussion