SpecialtyAZ-120
Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads
Validate expertise planning, migrating, and administering SAP on Azure — infrastructure, SAP HANA, high availability, and disaster recovery.
Study Hours
50h
Prep Time
~4 months
Avg. Pass Rate
68%
Topics Covered
SAP on Azure
Migration Planning
Compute & Storage
SAP HANA
High Availability
Skills measured
Official study guideMicrosoft's own objectives, in the order the exam presents them. Each area links to its section on Microsoft Learn. Checked 2026-10-26.
Migrate SAP workloads to Azure25–30%
This area on Microsoft LearnIdentify requirements for target infrastructure
- Estimate target sizing for SAP workloads
- Identify supported scenarios for SAP deployments on Azure
- Identify compute, storage, and network requirements for SAP workloads
- Assess constraints imposed by subscription models and quota limits
- Identify software licensing requirements for target workloads
- Identify cost implications for target workloads
- Specify an Azure support plan for the target infrastructure
- Choose between lift and shift, lift-shift-migrate, and lift-shift-migrate to HANA
- Choose an appropriate SAP workload migration strategy and tools
Design and implement an Azure environment to support SAP workloads
- Design and implement authorization and access control for SAP workloads
- Design and implement governance and compliance by using Azure Policy
- Design and implement authentication for SAP workloads
- Design and implement authentication for SAP software as a service (SaaS) applications
- Design and implement a management hierarchy, including management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups
- Design Azure landing zones for SAP
Design and implement integration with SAP RISE
- Design networking for SAP RISE
- Implement networking for SAP RISE
- Design and implement Azure compute, network, and storage services with SAP RISE
- Design and implement integration of data management services such as data archiving
- Design and implement integration of identity and security services with SAP RISE
Design and implement an infrastructure to support SAP workloads on Azure25–30%
This area on Microsoft LearnDesign and implement a compute solution for SAP workloads
- Choose an SAP-certified Azure virtual machine for a given SAP workload
- Configure the Azure VM extension for SAP solutions
- Deploy an operating system by using an Azure Marketplace image
- Create a custom image and deploy it to an Azure virtual machine
- Automate a deployment of Azure virtual machines by using IaC, including Bicep and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
- Automate a deployment by using the SAP Deployment Automation Framework
- Automate a deployment by using Azure Center for SAP solutions
Design and implement networking for SAP on Azure virtual machines
- Design and implement virtual networks and subnets
- Implement Accelerated Networking for Azure virtual machines
- Design and configure proximity placement groups
- Design networking to meet SAP workload latency requirements
- Design and implement network flow control
- Design and implement network security
- Design and implement service endpoints and private endpoints for Azure Storage
- Design name resolution for integration with Azure DNS
- Design and configure ExpressRoute for hybrid connectivity
Design and implement a storage solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines
- Choose a storage type
- Specify when to use disk striping and simple volumes
- Design for storage security considerations
- Design and implement data protection
- Design and implement caching for disks
- Configure Write Accelerator
- Configure encryption for storage, disks, and data
- Design and implement volumes by using Azure NetApp Files
- Design and implement volumes by using Azure Files
Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HADR)20–25%
This area on Microsoft LearnDesign and implement a high availability solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines
- Design for service-level agreement (SLA) considerations
- Design and deploy SAP workloads into availability sets and availability zones
- Design and implement load balancing for high availability
- Configure clustering for HANA and SAP Central Services (SCS)
- Configure clustering for SQL
- Configure Pacemaker and STONITH
- Configure an Azure fence agent or STONITH Block Device (SBD)
- Design and configure storage-level replication for SAP workloads
- Configure restart of SAP systems, instances, and HANA databases
Design and implement a disaster recovery solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines
- Design and implement an Azure Site Recovery strategy for an SAP infrastructure
- Design a disaster recovery solution with regional considerations
- Specify network configurations for disaster recovery
- Design a backup strategy to meet SLA requirements
- Implement policies for backups and snapshots
- Configure and validate snapshots and backups for SAP workloads
- Perform backup and restore
- Test disaster recovery
Maintain SAP workloads on Azure20–25%
This area on Microsoft LearnOptimize performance and costs
- Optimize performance and costs for an SAP workload by using Azure Advisor recommendations
- Analyze and optimize network performance
- Optimize costs by using Azure Savings Plans or Reserved Instances for SAP virtual machines
- Optimize performance and costs by resizing Azure virtual machines
- Optimize storage costs
- Optimize data performance by using archiving
- Optimize performance and costs of SAP application servers and databases
Monitor and maintain SAP on Azure
- Monitor Azure virtual machines by using Azure Monitor
- Monitor high availability by using Azure Monitor
- Monitor storage by using Azure Monitor
- Monitor networking by using Azure Monitor and Azure Network Watcher
- Configure Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
- Manage backups by using Azure Backup
- Start and stop SAP systems by using Azure Center for SAP solutions
- Manage virtual instances by using Azure Center for SAP solutions
- Implement the SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) connector for Azure