AZ-120: Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads
Design, migrate, implement, and operate SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver, and SAP S/4HANA solutions on Microsoft Azure infrastructure, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and certified storage performance.
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The AZ-120 exam consists of 45-60 advanced scenario, case study, and architectural questions over 120 minutes. Cost is $165 USD with a passing threshold of 700/1000 (70%).
Domains include: (1) Migrate SAP workloads to Azure (~25-30%), (2) Design and implement an infrastructure to support SAP workloads (~25-30%), (3) Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) (~20-25%), and (4) Maintain SAP workloads on Azure (~15-20%).
SAP HANA is certified on Azure M-series, Mv2-series, Mv3-series, and E-series (Ebdsv5/Ebsv5) VMs with up to 12 TB of RAM, and HANA Large Instances (HLI) for up to 24 TB RAM.
Azure Premium SSD v1/v2, Ultra Disk Storage, and Azure NetApp Files (ANF) are certified to meet SAP HANA's strict sub-millisecond write latency KPIs (less than 1ms for /hana/log).
HSR synchronously replicates database transactions between primary and secondary SAP HANA instances across Azure Availability Zones with automated failover managed by Pacemaker clusters.
Pacemaker is the open-source cluster resource manager used on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to orchestrate automated failover of SAP ASCS/ERS and HANA DB.
ACSS is an end-to-end Azure service that automates deployment, provides SAP-aware monitoring, and manages the end-to-end lifecycle of SAP systems as a unified Virtual Instance for SAP (VIS).
ANF delivers bare-metal NFS v4.1 storage performance with sub-millisecond latency, instant snapshot backups, and rapid database cloning for SAP development and staging systems.
Azure Fence Agent (fence_azure_arm) or Azure STONITH Block Device (SBD) using shared disks or iSCSI target VMs ensures split-brain protection during node failures.
DR combines asynchronous SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) to a secondary region with Azure Site Recovery (ASR) replicating the SAP application tier VMs.
AZ-120 is valid for one year and renewable annually via Microsoft Learn.
Certified Azure SAP Architects and Enterprise Basis Administrators command premium compensation, with average US salaries between $155,000 and $210,000+.