AWS Certified SAP on AWS – Specialty (PAS-C01) — Question 114

A company runs a three-system SAP S/4HANA landscape on Amazon EC2 instances. The landscape includes a development system, a QA system, and a production system. Each system runs on its own EC2 instance. The production instance hosts a critical system that must run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The development instance and the QA instance need to run only during business hours and can be stopped for the rest of the day.

An SAP administrator plans to use AWS Systems Manager to implement an automated start-stop solution for the development instance and the QA instance. When the SAP administrator attempts to deploy the solution, the SAP administrator cannot find any SAP S/4HANA systems in Systems Manager.

Which options are possible causes of this problem? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. An appropriate instance profile that contains the AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore policy is not assigned to the EC2 instances.
• B. The EC2 instances are attached to a security group that has an outbound rule that does not explicitly allow port 443.
• C. Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) is not installed on the EC2 instances.
• D. The AWS Data Provider for SAP agent is not installed on the EC2 instances.
• E. Amazon CloudWatch detailed monitoring is not turned on for the EC2 instances.

Correct answer: A, C

Explanation

The correct answers are A and C. Option A is valid because without the necessary instance profile containing the AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore policy, the instances cannot be managed by Systems Manager. Option C is also correct since the Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) must be installed on EC2 instances for them to be registered with Systems Manager. The other options do not directly interfere with the registration process for Systems Manager.