AWS Certified SAP on AWS – Specialty (PAS-C01) — Question 99

A company is running its on-premises SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) system on an Oracle database on Oracle Enterprise Linux. The database is 1 TB in size and uses 27,000 IOPS for its peak performance Multiple SSD volumes are striped to store Oracle data files in separate sapdata directories to gain the required IOPS.

The company is planning to move this workload to AWS. The company chooses high I/O bandwidth instances with a Nitro hypervisor to host the target database instance. Downtime is not a constraint for the migration. The company needs an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage layout that optimizes cost for the migration.

How should the company reorganize the Oracle data files to meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Reorganize the Oracle data files into one 9 TB General Purpose SSD (gp2) EBS volume.
• B. Reorganize the Oracle data files into a striped volume of three 3 TB General Purpose SSD (gp2) EBS volumes.
• C. Reorganize the Oracle data files into one 1 TB General Purpose SSD (gp3) EBS volume with 27,000 provisioned IOPS.
• D. Reorganize the Oracle data files into ten 100 GB General Purpose SSD (gp3) EBS volumes.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because using three 3 TB General Purpose SSD (gp2) EBS volumes in a striped configuration allows the company to achieve the required IOPS while optimizing costs effectively. Option A does not meet the IOPS requirement efficiently, option C provides excessive IOPS for a single volume, leading to higher costs, and option D would not provide sufficient IOPS due to the smaller volume sizes.