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Microsoft AZ-120 Exam Syllabus

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Before starting your AZ-120 exam preparation, it is recommended to review the complete Microsoft Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads exam syllabus and carefully go through the exam objectives listed below. Once you understand the exam structure and objectives, you should practice using our free AZ-120 questions. We also provide premium AZ-120 practice test, fully updated according to the latest exam objectives, to help you accurately assess your preparedness for the actual exam.

Microsoft
Vendor
AZ-120
Exam Code
324
Total Questions
4
Total Exam Domains

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AZ-120 EXAM QUESTIONS

Microsoft AZ-120 Exam Objectives

Section 1: Migrate SAP workloads to Azure
Weight:
25-30%
Identify requirements for target infrastructure
  • Estimate target sizing for SAP workloads
  • Identify supported scenarios for SAP deployments on Azure
  • Identify compute, storage, and network requirements for SAP workloads
  • Assess constraints imposed by subscription models and quota limits
  • Identify software licensing requirements for target workloads
  • Identify cost implications for target workloads
  • Specify an Azure support plan for the target infrastructure
  • Choose between lift and shift, lift-shift-migrate, and lift-shift-migrate to HANA
  • Choose an appropriate SAP workload migration strategy and tools
Design and implement an Azure environment to support SAP workloads
  • Design and implement authorization and access control for SAP workloads
  • Design and implement governance and compliance by using Azure Policy
  • Design and implement authentication for SAP workloads
  • Design and implement authentication for SAP software as a service (SaaS) applications
  • Design and implement a management hierarchy, including management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups
  • Design Azure landing zones for SAP
Design and implement integration with SAP RISE
  • Design networking for SAP RISE
  • Implement networking for SAP RISE
  • Design and implement Azure compute, network, and storage services with SAP RISE
  • Design and implement integration of data management services such as data archiving
  • Design and implement integration of identity and security services with SAP RISE
Section 2: Design and implement an infrastructure to support SAP workloads on Azure
Weight:
25-30%
Design and implement a compute solution for SAP workloads
  • Choose an SAP-certified Azure virtual machine for a given SAP workload
  • Configure the Azure VM extension for SAP solutions
  • Deploy an operating system by using an Azure Marketplace image
  • Create a custom image and deploy it to an Azure virtual machine
  • Automate a deployment of Azure virtual machines by using IaC, including Bicep and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
  • Automate a deployment by using the SAP Deployment Automation Framework
  • Automate a deployment by using Azure Center for SAP solutions
Design and implement networking for SAP on Azure virtual machines
  • Design and implement virtual networks and subnets
  • Implement Accelerated Networking for Azure virtual machines
  • Design and configure proximity placement groups
  • Design networking to meet SAP workload latency requirements
  • Design and implement network flow control
  • Design and implement network security
  • Design and implement service endpoints and private endpoints for Azure Storage
  • Design name resolution for integration with Azure DNS
  • Design and configure ExpressRoute for hybrid connectivity
Design and implement a storage solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines
  • Choose a storage type
  • Specify when to use disk striping and simple volumes
  • Design for storage security considerations
  • Design and implement data protection
  • Design and implement caching for disks
  • Configure Write Accelerator
  • Configure encryption for storage, disks, and data
  • Design and implement volumes by using Azure NetApp Files
  • Design and implement volumes by using Azure Files
Section 3: Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HADR)
Weight:
20-25%
Design and implement a high availability solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines
  • Design for service-level agreement (SLA) considerations
  • Design and deploy SAP workloads into availability sets and availability zones
  • Design and implement load balancing for high availability
  • Configure clustering for HANA and SAP Central Services (SCS)
  • Configure clustering for SQL
  • Configure Pacemaker and STONITH
  • Configure an Azure fence agent or STONITH Block Device (SBD)
  • Design and configure storage-level replication for SAP workloads
  • Configure restart of SAP systems, instances, and HANA databases
Design and implement a disaster recovery solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines
  • Design and implement an Azure Site Recovery strategy for an SAP infrastructure
  • Design a disaster recovery solution with regional considerations
  • Specify network configurations for disaster recovery
  • Design a backup strategy to meet SLA requirements
  • Implement policies for backups and snapshots
  • Configure and validate snapshots and backups for SAP workloads
  • Perform backup and restore
  • Test disaster recovery
Section 4: Maintain SAP workloads on Azure
Weight:
20-25%
Optimize performance and costs
  • Optimize performance and costs for an SAP workload by using Azure Advisor recommendations
  • Analyze and optimize network performance
  • Optimize costs by using Azure Savings Plans or Reserved Instances for SAP virtual machines
  • Optimize performance and costs by resizing Azure virtual machines
  • Optimize storage costs
  • Optimize data performance by using archiving
  • Optimize performance and costs of SAP application servers and databases
Monitor and maintain SAP on Azure
  • Monitor Azure virtual machines by using Azure Monitor
  • Monitor high availability by using Azure Monitor
  • Monitor storage by using Azure Monitor
  • Monitor networking by using Azure Monitor and Azure Network Watcher
  • Configure Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
  • Manage backups by using Azure Backup
  • Start and stop SAP systems by using Azure Center for SAP solutions
  • Manage virtual instances by using Azure Center for SAP solutions
  • Implement the SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) connector for Azure
Info
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