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AZ-120 · Question #272

You have an SAP on Azure deployment that contains a production landscape, a development landscape, and a quality assurance landscape. All the landscapes are hosted on Azure virtual machines. You…

The correct answer is B. Azure Advisor. Azure Advisor is the correct choice because it is a built-in Azure service that automatically analyzes your deployed resources-including VMs hosting SAP landscapes-and generates personalized, actionable recommendations across performance, security, reliability, cost, and…

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Question

You have an SAP on Azure deployment that contains a production landscape, a development landscape, and a quality assurance landscape. All the landscapes are hosted on Azure virtual machines. You need to create a monthly report that identifies opportunities for performance and security optimization. The solution must minimize administrative effort. What should you use?

Options

  • ASAP HANA hardware and cloud measurement tools
  • BAzure Advisor
  • CSAP GUI
  • DAzure Monitor

How the community answered

(39 responses)
  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    90% (35)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    5% (2)

Explanation

Azure Advisor is the correct choice because it is a built-in Azure service that automatically analyzes your deployed resources-including VMs hosting SAP landscapes-and generates personalized, actionable recommendations across performance, security, reliability, cost, and operational excellence categories. It requires no configuration and produces reports with minimal effort, satisfying the "minimize administrative effort" requirement.

Why the distractors are wrong:

  • A. SAP HANA hardware and cloud measurement tools are used for sizing and benchmarking SAP HANA hardware, not for ongoing cross-landscape optimization reporting.
  • C. SAP GUI is the SAP application client interface for transactional work-it has no Azure infrastructure monitoring or reporting capability.
  • D. Azure Monitor is a powerful observability platform, but it requires significant setup (dashboards, alerts, queries) to produce optimization reports, which violates the "minimize administrative effort" constraint.

Memory tip: Think "Advisor = free advice, zero setup." Azure Advisor is the automatic, periodic recommendations engine-if an exam question says "minimize effort" + "optimization report," Advisor is almost always the answer over the more hands-on Azure Monitor.

Topics

#Azure Advisor#performance optimization#security optimization#SAP landscape

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