Azure AZ-120 study guide
Azure AZ-120 · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty is an intermediate-level Microsoft certification for architects and engineers who design and manage an SAP landscape on Azure. It is aimed at professionals who plan migrations, set industry-specific standards for integration, and keep an SAP solution running reliably inside Azure while recommending services and adjusting resources for resiliency, performance, scale, provisioning, size, and monitoring. Candidates are expected to work alongside cloud administrators, cloud database administrators, and clients on solutions that can include RISE with SAP, and to manage SAP infrastructure through the Azure portal, Azure Marketplace, and Azure Resource Manager and Bicep templates. Microsoft states that candidates should have extensive experience with SAP applications and databases, including SAP HANA, SAP Business Suite, and SAP NetWeaver, plus experience with virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, data protection, and networking. The Azure AZ-120 study guide has 4 sections and about 1,145 words.
01Migrating SAP Workloads to Azure
Start with an inventory of the SAP landscape: NetWeaver or S/4HANA release, database (HANA, AnyDB, ASE, SQL Server), OS, kernel version, sizing (SAPS and memory), and dependencies between systems. The migration method follows from downtime tolerance and database size: homogeneous lift-and-shift with export/import, backup/restore, or the Database Migration Option (DMO) of SUM for in-place upgrades plus migration.
294 words, about 1 min02Designing and Implementing SAP Infrastructure on Azure
Infrastructure design centers on virtual networks, subnets, network security groups, and routing. Separate subnets for application, database, and management tiers; use user-defined routes or Azure Firewall for egress control and to avoid asymmetric routing with ExpressRoute.
308 words, about 2 min03High Availability and Disaster Recovery
HA design uses availability zones for the database tier, since zonal deployment protects against datacenter failure, and availability sets where zones are unavailable. For SAP central services, use a Windows or Linux cluster with a file share witness or Azure shared disk, and for HANA use HANA system replication with automatic failover managed by a cluster agent.
278 words, about 1 min04Maintaining SAP Workloads on Azure
Ongoing maintenance covers patching, backup, monitoring, and cost control. Use Azure Backup or native database backup to a storage account or Azure Backup vault; HANA backups should follow the certified backint integration.
265 words, about 1 min