AZ-120 — Planning and Administering Azure for SAP Workloads
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Planning and Administering Azure for SAP Workloads (AZ-120) Practice Questions

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June 15, 2026 updated
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Domain coverage

  • Migrate SAP workloads to Azure
  • Design and implement an infrastructure to support SAP workloads on Azure
  • Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR)
  • Maintain SAP workloads on Azure

Sample Questions (12 of 115 shown)

Q1 Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25–30%)
You are evaluating the migration plan. Licensing for which SAP product can be affected by changing the size of the virtual machines?
  1. SAP Solution Manager
  2. PI
  3. SAP SCM
  4. SAP ECC
✓ Correct Answer: D
SAP ECC (ERP Central Component) licensing is often tied to the hardware sizing and performance metrics like SAPS. Changing VM sizes during migration planning can affect the licensing costs for SAP ECC, as different VM sizes provide different processing capacity.
Q2 Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25–30%)
What should you use to perform load testing as part of the migration plan?
  1. JMeter
  2. SAP LoadRunner by Micro Focus
  3. Azure Application Insights
  4. Azure Monitor
✓ Correct Answer: B
SAP LoadRunner by Micro Focus is the recommended tool for SAP workload load testing. It can simulate workloads, benchmark production system performance, and help optimize SAP HANA deployment performance during migration planning.
Q3 Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25–30%)
Litware is evaluating whether to add high availability after the migration. What should you recommend to meet the technical requirements?
  1. SAP HANA system replication and Azure Availability Sets
  2. Azure virtual machine auto-restart with SAP HANA service auto-restart
  3. Azure Site Recovery
✓ Correct Answer: A
SAP HANA system replication combined with Azure Availability Sets provides a robust high availability solution. Availability Sets protect against rack-level failures within a datacenter, while HANA system replication provides database-level redundancy.
Q4 Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25–30%)
You are evaluating which migration method Litware can implement based on the current environment and the business goals. Which migration method will cause the least amount of downtime?
  1. Use the Database Migration Option (DMO) to migrate to SAP HANA and Azure during the same maintenance window
  2. Use Near-Zero Downtime (NZDT) to migrate to SAP HANA and Azure during the same maintenance window
  3. Migrate SAP to Azure, then migrate SAP ECC to SAP Business Suite on HANA
  4. Migrate SAP ECC to SAP Business Suite on HANA, then migrate SAP to Azure
✓ Correct Answer: A
The SAP Database Migration Option (DMO) with System Move option of SUM allows migration in a single step from on-premises to the target system in Azure, minimizing overall downtime. DMO combines the system migration and database migration into one process.
Q5 Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25–30%)
You need to recommend a solution to reduce the cost of the SAP non-production landscapes after the migration. What should you include in the recommendation?
  1. Deallocate virtual machines when not in use
  2. Migrate the SQL Server databases to Azure SQL Data Warehouse
  3. Configure scaling of Azure App Service
  4. Deploy non-production landscapes to Azure DevTest Labs
✓ Correct Answer: D
Azure DevTest Labs provides cost management features for non-production environments including auto-shutdown, cost tracking, and policies. It is specifically designed for dev/test/non-production landscapes to reduce costs through automated shutdowns and controlled deployment.
Q6 Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25–30%)
You are migrating SAP to Azure. What should you use to perform load testing as part of the migration plan?
  1. Azure Site Recovery
  2. SAP LoadRunner
  3. Azure Migrate
  4. SAP Solution Manager
✓ Correct Answer: B
SAP LoadRunner is the recommended tool for performing load testing during SAP migration planning. It validates software performance, simulates workloads, and benchmarks production system performance to optimize the deployment.
Q7 Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25–30%)
Which migration method should you recommend for migrating SAP application servers to Azure with minimal downtime?
  1. Azure Site Recovery
  2. SAP HANA System Replication
  3. Database Migration Option (DMO)
  4. SAP Software Update Manager (SUM)
✓ Correct Answer: A
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is recommended for migrating SAP application servers (the non-database tier) to Azure with minimal downtime. ASR provides continuous replication and orchestrated failover for the application tier.
Q8 Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25–30%)
Which migration method should you recommend for migrating SAP HANA databases to Azure with minimal downtime?
  1. Azure Site Recovery
  2. SAP HANA System Replication
  3. Azure Database Migration Service
  4. Storage Migration Service
✓ Correct Answer: B
SAP HANA System Replication is the recommended approach for migrating SAP HANA databases to Azure with minimal downtime. It provides near-continuous replication between the source and target HANA instances.
Q9 Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25–30%)
You have an on-premises SAP environment that runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) servers and Oracle. The version of the SAP ERP system is 6.06 and the version of the portal is SAP NetWeaver 7.3. You need to recommend a migration strategy to migrate the SAP ERP system and the portal to Azure. The solution must be hosted on SAP HANA. What should you recommend for the SAP ERP system?
  1. Azure Site Recovery
  2. SUM + DMO + System update
  3. SAP HANA System Replication
  4. Heterogeneous system copy
✓ Correct Answer: B
When migrating SAP ERP from Oracle to SAP HANA on Azure, the Software Update Manager (SUM) with Database Migration Option (DMO) and system update is the recommended approach. This performs a heterogeneous migration (changing database platform) and can be combined with a system update.
Q10 Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25–30%)
You have an on-premises SAP environment that runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) servers and Oracle. The version of the SAP ERP system is 6.06 and the version of the portal is SAP NetWeaver 7.3. You need to recommend a migration strategy. What should you recommend for the portal migration?
  1. Azure Site Recovery
  2. SUM + DMO
  3. Heterogeneous system copy
  4. SAP HANA System Replication
✓ Correct Answer: C
For migrating the SAP NetWeaver Portal (non-HANA component), a heterogeneous system copy is the appropriate approach when the target platform differs from the source. The portal is migrated separately from the ERP system.
Q11 Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25–30%)
You plan to migrate an SAP environment to Azure. You need to create a design to facilitate end-user access to SAP applications over the Internet, while restricting user access to the virtual machines of the SAP application servers. What should you include in the design?
  1. Configure a public IP address for each SAP application server
  2. Deploy an internal Azure Standard Load Balancer for incoming connections
  3. Use an SAP Web Dispatcher to route all incoming connections
  4. Configure point-to-site VPN connections for each user
✓ Correct Answer: C
SAP Web Dispatcher is the recommended entry point for SAP application traffic. It routes incoming connections to SAP application servers based on load balancing rules and ensures that users connect through a controlled access point without direct access to the application server VMs.
Q12 Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (25–30%)
You plan to migrate an SAP environment to Azure. During a bandwidth assessment, you identify that connectivity between Azure and an on-premises datacenter requires up to 5 Gbps. You need to identify which connectivity method you must implement to meet the bandwidth requirement while minimizing costs.
  1. Global VNet peering
  2. An Azure site-to-site VPN that is policy-based
  3. An ExpressRoute connection
  4. An Azure site-to-site VPN that is route-based
✓ Correct Answer: D
A route-based site-to-site VPN can support up to 5 Gbps throughput and is more cost-effective than ExpressRoute. ExpressRoute offers higher bandwidth but at a higher cost. The route-based VPN gateway SKU (VpnGw3 or higher) can support up to 10 Gbps aggregated throughput.

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Exam overview

The AZ-120 exam sits at the intersection of two enterprise platforms that rarely overlap: SAP's ERP ecosystem and Microsoft's Azure infrastructure. The exam code AZ-120 corresponds to the full title "Planning and Administering Azure for SAP Workloads," a specialty-level assessment that assumes you already understand both worlds separately and now must prove you can integrate them under production constraints. Unlike AZ-104 which tests general Azure administration, AZ-120 presents scenario questions where a wrong VM series choice breaks SAP HANA certification, or a missing STONITH configuration voids the support agreement — the stakes are architecturally higher.

Microsoft strongly recommends holding the AZ-104 Azure Administrator Associate credential before attempting this exam, and for good reason: you need to configure ExpressRoute circuits, write Bicep templates for SAP-certified VM deployment, and troubleshoot Azure NetApp Files SMB permissions without referencing documentation. The official preparation course is AZ-120T00-A (3-day advanced classroom training), and the 7-part Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty learning series on Microsoft Learn walks through migration scenarios with SUM/DMO tooling. Because this is a specialty exam, the case studies are longer and more technically dense than associate-level assessments — you will read through multi-page SAP architectural requirement matrices and then answer eight to ten questions that build on each other.

Four domains shape the AZ-120 blueprint, with the heaviest weight split between migrating SAP workloads to Azure (25–30%) and designing infrastructure to support those workloads (25–30%). High availability and disaster recovery design (20–25%) and ongoing maintenance (20–25%) complete the assessment. A distinctive difficulty of this exam is the SAP-specific math: you must convert on-premises SAPS performance ratings into certified Azure M-series or E-series VM specifications, then match storage IOPS requirements to Ultra Disk or Premium SSD SKUs. The exam also tests Linux administration deeply — you need to know how to configure Pacemaker fencing agents and SUSE/RHEL cluster resources for SAP Central Services, not just conceptually but with the actual configuration file paths and command syntax.

The practice questions here mirror the four-domain distribution exactly, with extended case studies that reproduce the multi-page SAP architectural scenarios you will face at the test center. Each question includes a detailed explanation that walks through the architectural reasoning — why an M-series VM is required for SAP HANA production (not just recommended), how SAP RISE changes the networking and identity integration pattern, and when to choose Azure NetApp Files over Premium SSD for the SAP database layer. The downloadable PDF packages the same question bank for offline review, so you can practice SAPS sizing calculations, Pacemaker STONITH configuration steps, and Azure Monitor for SAP solutions alert rule setup during commutes or in environments without reliable internet.

Official Exam Domains & Weighting

To successfully pass the AZ-120 exam, candidates must master the following core domains:
  • Domain 1: Migrate SAP workloads to Azure — 25–30%
Covers SAPS performance rating estimation for database and application layer sizing, subscription quota assessment, and software licensing implications for Windows and Linux environments. You must select the correct migration strategy (lift-and-shift, lift-shift-migrate, or lift-shift-migrate to HANA) and choose appropriate tooling: SAP Software Update Manager (SUM), Database Migration Option (DMO), and Azure Data Box for large-scale data transfer. The SAP RISE integration subtopic requires you to design networking, compute, storage, data management, and security/identity architectures that align with SAP RISE managed service constraints.
  • Domain 2: Design and implement an infrastructure to support SAP workloads on Azure — 25–30%
Tests SAP-certified Azure Virtual Machine selection for specific database and application layers, Azure VM extension for SAP solutions configuration, and custom or marketplace OS image deployment. Storage topics include Ultra Disk, Premium SSD, and Azure NetApp Files selection; disk striping and simple volume specification; storage security and caching; Write Accelerator configuration for SAP HANA log volumes; and encryption at rest and in transit. Networking covers VNet/subnet design, ExpressRoute and VPN connectivity, RBAC and network access control for SAP, Microsoft Entra ID authentication, and Azure Policy governance templates.
  • Domain 3: Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) — 20–25%
Focuses on Availability Set and Availability Zone placement to meet deployment SLA requirements, Azure Load Balancer configuration for SAP high availability, and OS-level clustering for SAP Central Services (SCS) on SUSE and RHEL. You must configure Pacemaker, fencing agents, and STONITH mechanisms — including the exact device mapping and cluster resource agent parameters. Azure Site Recovery (ASR) strategy design for SAP, multi-region disaster recovery networking, backup schedule design to meet RTO/RPO SLAs, and Azure Backup for SAP HANA complete this domain.
  • Domain 4: Maintain SAP workloads on Azure — 20–25%
Covers database and application layer performance optimization, database and OS parameter configuration for SAP tuning, and infrastructure update and patching cycle management. Monitoring topics include Azure Monitor for SAP solutions deployment, custom workspace metric configuration, alert rules for infrastructure performance bottlenecking, and troubleshooting storage latency and end-to-end network connectivity issues using Network Watcher and Azure Monitor diagnostics.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The deepest pitfalls are in areas that require non-Azure knowledge. You will encounter heavy scenario questions on Pacemaker clustering on SUSE/RHEL — including which fence agent device to configure for which Linux distribution, and how STONITH mechanisms interact with Azure VM serial console access. SAPS sizing calculations are another frequent failure point: the exam gives you an on-premises SAPS rating and asks you to select the correct Azure M-series VM size, then match the storage IOPS requirement to either Ultra Disk, Premium SSD, or Azure NetApp Files. Write Accelerator configuration for SAP HANA log volumes and SAP RISE networking constraints round out the most difficult topics.

No. Microsoft Learn access is a safety net, not a study strategy. The AZ-120 case studies are longer and more technically dense than associate-level exams — you may read through a three-page SAP architectural requirement matrix before answering ten locked-order questions. The exam clock does not pause while you browse and page-specific searches (Ctrl+F) are disabled, trying to find basic answers dynamically will cause you to run out of time. You must know Pacemaker cluster resource agent syntax and SAP HANA configuration parameters from memory.

If you score below 700 on your first attempt, you must wait 24 hours before rescheduling. For a third, fourth, or fifth attempt, a mandatory 14-day waiting period applies between bookings. Microsoft caps you at five attempts within any rolling 12-month window, and each retake requires full payment of the $165 exam fee. Because AZ-120 is a specialty-level exam with a smaller candidate pool, rescheduling may take longer than for associate-level exams.

The credential is valid for one year from your exam date. Within 180 days before expiration, you can renew for free by passing an unproctored, open-book renewal assessment on Microsoft Learn that covers only the features added in the past year — such as Azure networking changes for SAP RISE and Very Large Database (VLDB) migration paths. No retesting of the full exam is required.

Our mock exam reproduces the AZ-120 question formats: single-choice, multiple-response, drag-and-drop matching, hot area diagrams, drop-down configuration completion, and 1–2 extended case studies with complex SAP architectural requirement matrices. The practice test enforces the same 120-minute timer and presents scenario questions that require you to calculate SAPS-to-VM sizing, choose between Azure NetApp Files and Ultra Disk for SAP HANA log volumes, and configure Pacemaker STONITH fencing agents on SUSE/RHEL clusters — the same skills measured in the real exam.

Yes, the complete question bank is available as a downloadable PDF that packages all four domains in the same weighted distribution as the real exam. The PDF includes detailed answer explanations with references to official Azure and SAP documentation, Bicep template examples for SAP-certified VM deployment, and Azure Monitor for SAP solutions KQL query samples. You can use the PDF to review Pacemaker STONITH configuration steps, SAP RISE networking requirements, and Azure Site Recovery SAP HANA failover procedures while commuting or in environments without internet access.

Deploy a small SAP NetWeaver sandbox on Azure using marketplace SAP-calibrated images: configure an M-series VM for SAP HANA, attach Ultra Disk with Write Accelerator enabled for the log volume, and set up Pacemaker clustering with an Azure fence agent on SUSE Linux. Configure ExpressRoute or VPN connectivity to simulate hybrid connectivity, then deploy Azure Monitor for SAP solutions and create alert rules for database response time degradation. When you can complete a full SAP HANA scale-out deployment with Pacemaker STONITH fencing without referencing documentation, the AZ-120 scenario questions become straightforward applications of your hands-on experience.