AZ-120: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty

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Learn, Design and Implement an Infrastructure to Support SAP Workloads
Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure
Design and Implement High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR)

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Course Overview:

This course is designed to help you prepare for the AZ-120 Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads exam. Even if you don’t plan to take the exam, these courses will help you understand what is required to host SAP in the Azure cloud.

The AZ-120 exam is the only requirement for becoming a Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialist. The course is aimed at those familiar with SAP who want to learn more about Azure’s Infrastructure as a Service options for hosting SAP workloads and how to migrate from an on-premises environment to the Azure cloud.

Course Prerequisites

You should have extensive experience and knowledge of the following applications and services: SAP high-performance Analytic Appliance (HANA), SAP Business Suite 4 (S/4) HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP Business Warehouse 4 (BW/4) HANA, servers for SAP applications and databases, Azure portal, Azure Marketplace, and Azure Resource Manager templates.

You should also have experience with:

Virtualization
Cloud infrastructure
Storage structures
High availability design
Disaster recovery design
Data protection concepts
Networking

Course Objective

Design and Implement an Infrastructure to Support SAP Workloads
Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure
Design and Implement High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR)
Maintain SAP Workloads on Azure
Optimize database and system performance

AZ-120: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty course outline

Module 1: 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

Module 2: 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

Module 3: 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 on Azure Deployment Automation Framework
Automate a deployment by using Azure Center for SAP solutions

Module 4: 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

Module 5: 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

Module 6: 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

Module 7: 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

Module 8: 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 configuring snoozing and deploying reserved instances
Optimize performance and costs by resizing Azure virtual machines
Optimize storage costs
Optimize performance and costs of SAP application servers and databases

Module 9: 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

This course is for Azure Administrators who migrate and manage SAP solutions on Azure. Azure Administrators manage the cloud services that span storage, networking, and compute cloud capabilities, with a deep understanding of each service across the full IT lifecycle. They take end-user requests for new cloud applications and make recommendations on services to use for optimal performance and scale, as well as provision, size, monitor and adjust as appropriate. This role requires communicating and coordinating with vendors. Azure Administrators use the Azure Portal and as they become more proficient they use PowerShell and the Command Line Interface.

In these roles, you implement solutions by partnering with:

Cloud administrators
Cloud database administrators
Clients

32 hours

Azure recommends that you should have at least six months of hands-on experience administering the Microsoft Azure environment, along with the following skills:

A strong understanding of core Azure services, Azure workloads, security, and governance.
Experience using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure portal, and Azure Resource Manager templates.
If you are an administrator in the cloud or an IT professional with the recommended Azure knowledge and want to grow your career in Azure administrator roles, then passing this exam is crucial.
If you are an aspiring Azure administrator or you want to specialize in the Azure administrator certification path then the skills obtained from preparing for this exam are extremely important.
In general, if you are a software administrator, cloud administrator, software engineer, and cloud engineer or work in related roles then you can take up this exam.