AWS Certified SAP on AWS – Specialty (PAS-C01) — Question 128

A company is deploying SAP landscapes in a single AWS account. The company must use separate VPCs to host its production environment and non-production environment. The company is using an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system to host the SAP transport file systems.

An SAP engineer attempts to use AWS Launch Wizard for SAP to perform an automated SAP deployment of the production environment. A deployment failure occurs when the SAP engineer attempts to reuse the SAP transport directory share from the non-production environment. This failure did not occur in previous non-production deployments.

The SAP engineer needs to complete the deployment and ensure that no additional costs are incurred for SAP transport directories.

What should the SAP engineer do to meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Perform a manual deployment.
• B. Set up a new SAP transport directory for the production environment. Copy all files from the non-production transport host into the production transport directory by using rsync. Continue to use separate SAP transport directories for the systems.
• C. Set up a transit gateway or direct VPC peering to make communication possible between the production VPC and the non-production VPC.
• D. Skip the SAP transport directories step to complete the deployment.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct option is C because setting up a transit gateway or direct VPC peering allows for proper communication between the production and non-production environments, which is necessary for reusing the transport directory. Option A is incorrect as a manual deployment won't solve the underlying issue. Option B, while it suggests a workaround, would incur additional costs for creating a new transport directory. Option D ignores the need for a transport directory entirely, which is not a viable solution for SAP deployments.