Overview
Level up with Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty certification.
This AZ-120T00: Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads course teaches IT Professionals experienced in SAP solutions how to leverage Azure resources that include deployment and configuration of virtual machines, virtual networks, storage accounts, and Azure AD that includes implementing and managing hybrid identities. Students of this course will learn through concepts, scenarios, procedures, and hands-on labs how to best plan and implement migration and operation of an SAP solution on Azure.
Your will receive guidance on subscriptions, create and scale virtual machines, implement storage solutions, configure virtual networking, back up and share data, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement Azure Active Directory, secure identities, and monitor your solution.
Skills Covered
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Migrate and manage SAP applications (SAP HANA, S/4HANA, SAP NetWeaver) on Azure
- Leverage Azure Portal, Cloud Shell, Azure PowerShell, CLI, Resource Manager, and Resource Manager Te
- Use intersite connectivity features including VNet Peering, VNet-to-VNet connections, Site-to-Site C
- Work with Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure AD Connect, and Azure AD Join, and Azure AD Identity
Who Should Attend
This course is for Azure Administrators who migrate and manage SAP solutions on Azure. Azure Administrators manage the cloud services that span storage, networking, and compute cloud capabilities, with a deep understanding of each service across the full IT lifecycle. They take end-user requests for new cloud applications and make recommendations on services to use for optimal performance and scale, as well as provision, size, monitor and adjust as appropriate.
This role requires communicating and coordinating with vendors. Azure Administrators use the Azure Portal and as they become more proficient they use PowerShell and the Command Line Interface.
This Microsoft Official Course prepares students for the Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty certification. The AZ-120 exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure; Design and Implement an Infrastructure to Support SAP Workloads; Design and Implement High Availability and Disaster Recovery; and Maintain SAP Workloads on Azure.
Course Curriculum
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students should have:
- Hands-on experience with Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions, including VM, VNet, Load Balancers, Storage (Blob, Files, Disks).
- Understanding of on-premises and cloud virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.
- Understanding of network configuration, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.
- Understanding of Active Directory concepts
- Experience with Linux/Unix environments.
- Solid knowledge of SAP Applications, SAP HANA, S/4HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW, OS Servers for SAP Applications and Databases.
- Understanding of SAP HANA deployment and configuration.
- Hands-on experience with SAP HANA administration.
Prerequisite Courses (or equivalent knowledge and hands-on experience):
- AZ-900T00: Azure Fundamentals
- AZ-104T00: Azure Administrator
- AZ-305T00: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (recommended)
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Course Modules
Explore the expanded partnership between Microsoft and SAP. This partnership allows you to run fully supported SAP applications across development, test, and production scenarios in Azure alongside other Microsoft components.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Discover the SAP and Microsoft partnership.
- Explore your options with SAP on Azure.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
You will be introduced to some of the common terms that will be used in working with SAP workloads on Azure.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Discover common terms and meanings for SAP, Azure and SAP deployments on Azure.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
Help identify prerequisites, deployment options, and SAP-certified configurations available to you when deploying SAP products in Azure.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Explore general prerequisites for SAP support in public cloud environments.
- Discover SAP certifications and configurations running on Microsoft Azure.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
Examine the architecture options available when deploying SAP AnyDB workloads on Azure VMs.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Explore SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure virtual machines and learn to recognize the architecture’s components.
- Examine a sample functional workflow.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
Examine the architecture when deploying SAP S/4HANA workloads and in-memory SAP HANA databases, running on Azure VMs.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Explore SAP S/4HANA on Azure virtual machines and learn to recognize the architecture’s components.
- Examine a sample functional workflow.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module explores the design of scalable, performant, and resilient compute components for SAP deployments in Azure.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Plan for implementing SAP solutions.
- Explore Azure virtual machines.
- Examine Azure virtual machine compute considerations.
- Implement and verify high availability SAP HANA on Azure virtual machines.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module explores the use of Azure network components to design scalable, performant, and resilient SAP deployments in Azure.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Explore Azure virtual networks.
- Examine Azure virtual machine networking considerations.
- Examine load balancing considerations.
- Explore virtual network connectivity.
- Explore cross-premises connectivity.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module explores the use of Azure he storage component to design scalable, performant, and resilient SAP deployments in Azure.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Explore Azure Storage types.
- Examine general database sizing.
- Examine SAP HANA Azure virtual machine storage configurations.
- Explore solutions with Premium Storage and Azure Write Accelerator for Azure M-Series virtual machines.
- Examine sizing for HANA databases on Azure NetApp Files.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module explores SAP on Azure database support and best practices for Azure for SAP workloads.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Explore database support of Azure for SAP workloads.
- Explore storing database files directly on Azure Blob Storage.
- Explore Azure virtual machine and blob storage security.
- Examine SQL Server and Oracle recommendations.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
- Azure Data Fundamentals training (DP-900).
- Azure Fundamentals training (AZ-900).
This module explores using identity services to design multiple authentication and authorization scenarios Azure facilitates, that includes support for a range of identity providers.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Define Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
- Define Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
- Discuss Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS)
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module explores ways to apply Azure remote management components to design remote management of virtual machines and set up the Azure connector for SAP Landscape Management.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Consider remote management of Azure virtual machines.
- Set up the Azure connector for SAP Landscape Management.
- Explore access management.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module explores using the Azure Governance collection of concepts and services that are designed to enable management of Azure resources at scale
After completing this module, you Learning objectiveswill be able to:
- Explore Azure Resource Manager and Azure Resource Manager templates.
- Examine role-based access control and Azure Policy.
- Explore security and compliance services.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
SAP professionals need to evaluate deploying SAP solutions on Azure. This module explores the preparation for single-instance SAP HANA deployment on Azure.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Explore deployment methodologies.
- Deploy via Azure Resource Manager templates.
- Prepare Azure virtual machines for a manual installation of SAP HANA.
- Implement SAP HANA scale-out.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
SAP professionals need to evaluate deploying SAP solutions on Azure. This module explores the preparation for SAP NetWeaver high availability AnyDB deployment on Azure.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Examine single SID 3-tier SAP NetWeaver high availability AnyDB deployment.
- Examine multi-SID 3-tier SAP NetWeaver high availability AnyDB deployment.
- Set up a Windows Server failover cluster for an SAP ASCS-SCS instance.
- Examine Installation of SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition for the SAP ASCS-SCS cluster shared disk.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module explores high availability and disaster recovery support of Azure for SAP workloads, such as SAP application servers, SAP ASCS-SCS instances, DBMS instances, and SAP HANA.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Explore high availability and disaster recovery support of Azure for SAP workloads.
- Examine principal architectures.
- Determine latency between Azure virtual machines across Availability Zones.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module explores disaster recovery support of Azure for SAP workloads, including deployments within single and multiple Azure regions, multi-tier SAP NetWeaver app deployment in Azure, and Azure services, such as Active Directory and DNS.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Explore disaster recovery of SAP workloads.
- Combine availability within one region and across regions.
- Explore site recovery.
- Implement disaster recovery for SAP deployments across Azure regions with Azure Site Recovery.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module explores backup and restore of Azure virtual machines and examines the steps and important considerations involved in backing up and restoring SAP workloads on Azure.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Explore backup and restore of Azure virtual machines.
- Explore application backup.
- Explore SAP HANA backup.
- Explore Oracle backup.
- Explore SQL Server backups.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module uses the SAP workload planning and deployment checklist to guide SAP deployment teams through each phase of the SAP on Azure migration process.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Examine the SAP workload planning and deployment checklist.
- Explore the phases from project preparation and planning, and through the Go Live and post production phases.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module explores strategies for migration of SAP workloads to Azure, including migration of on-premises SAP workloads to Azure in conjunction to performing an upgrade.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Analyze strategies for migrating SAP systems to Microsoft Azure.
- Compare classical migration options.
- Explore downtime-optimized migration.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module explores migration of databases over 20 TB, considered very large databases. These databases use extra techniques and procedures to achieve migration from on-premises to Azure within acceptable downtime and with low risk.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Explore very large database migration.
- Learn best practices for optimizing the source system, network upload, and the target system.
- Examine very large database migration best practices.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module covers monitoring of data from several Azure systems and tools to support SAP on Azure workloads.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Examine monitoring, logging, and alerting services.
- Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
- Explore operating system and workload updates for Azure virtual machines.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module covers the configuration of the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Explore the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP.
- Configure the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
This module explores Azure and SAP licensing requirements and licensing costs, and walks through the support request process for Azure virtual machines.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Learn how to price Azure virtual machine-based solutions.
- Explore licensing, pricing, and support of Azure for SAP workloads.
Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should complete:
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) exam.
- SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.
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Training Options
- ILT: Instructor-Led Training
- VILT: Virtual Instructor-Led Training
Exam & Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty.
The Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty certification validates that you have extensive experience and knowledge of the SAP system landscape and industry standards that are specific to the long-term operation of an SAP solution on Azure. You earn this certification by passing Exam AZ-120: Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads.
If your responsibilities include making recommendations on services and adjusting resources for optimal resiliency, performance, scale, provision, size, and monitoring, this could be the certification for you. Additionally, you partner with cloud administrators, cloud database administrators, and clients to implement solutions.
Training & Certification Guide
Architects or engineers for Azure for SAP Workloads have extensive experience and knowledge
of the SAP system landscape and industry standards that are specific to the long-term operation of an SAP solution on Microsoft Azure.
Candidates for this certification should be architects or engineers with extensive experience and knowledge of the SAP system landscape and industry standards that are specific to the initial
migration or integration and the longterm operation of an SAP solution on Microsoft Azure.
Responsibilities for this role include making recommendations on services and adjust resources as appropriate for optimal resiliency, performance, scale, provision, size, and monitoring.
- Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure
- Design an Azure Solution to Support SAP Workloads
- Build and Deploy Azure for SAP Workloads
- Validate Azure Infrastructure for SAP Workloads
- Operationalize Azure SAP Architecture
A candidate for this exam should have extensive experience and knowledge of SAP applications:
SAP HANA, S/4HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW/4HANA, OS servers for SAP applications
and databases, Azure portal, ARM templates, operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, high availability design, disaster recovery design, data protection concepts, and networking.
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Frequently Asked Questions
If your responsibilities include making recommendations on services and adjusting resources for optimal resiliency, performance, scale, provision, size, and monitoring, this could be the certification for you. Additionally, you partner with cloud administrators, cloud database administrators, and clients to implement solutions.
If you’re ready to help your organization simplify and accelerate SAP migration, unlock new insights, and drive business value, earn your Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty certification. Not only can you help your business but also you can create new and better customer and employee experiences, as you bring the benefits of Azure to your SAP applications.
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