PAS-C01 · Question #51
A global retail company is running its SAP S/4HANA workload on AWS. The company's business has grown in the past few years, and user activity has generated a significant amount or data in the SAP S/4H
The correct answer is C. Use Amazon AppFlow to extract the data from SAP S/4HANA and to store the data in Amazon S3.. The requirement is to extract data from SAP S/4HANA to S3 with the least custom development effort, then perform analytics and sales forecasting. Amazon AppFlow (Option C) is a fully managed integration service that includes a native SAP S/4HANA connector. It can extract data fro
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A global retail company is running its SAP S/4HANA workload on AWS. The company's business has grown in the past few years, and user activity has generated a significant amount or data in the SAP S/4HANA system. The company wants to expand into new geographies. Before the company finalizes the expansion plan, the company wants to perform analytics on the historical data from the past few years. The company also wants to generate sales forecasts for potential expansion locations. An SAP solutions architect must implement a solution to extract the data from SAP S/4HANA into Amazon S3. The solution also must perform the required analytics and forecasting tasks. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST custom development effort?
Options
- AUse AWS AppSync to extract the data from SAP S/4HANA and to store the data in Amazon S3.
- BUse the SAP Landscape Transformation (LT) Replication Server SDK to extract the data, to
- CUse Amazon AppFlow to extract the data from SAP S/4HANA and to store the data in Amazon S3.
- DIntegrate AWS Glue and AWS Lambda with the SAP Operational Data Provisioning (ODP)
How the community answered
(35 responses)- A6% (2)
- B9% (3)
- C83% (29)
- D3% (1)
Explanation
The requirement is to extract data from SAP S/4HANA to S3 with the least custom development effort, then perform analytics and sales forecasting. Amazon AppFlow (Option C) is a fully managed integration service that includes a native SAP S/4HANA connector. It can extract data from SAP S/4HANA using SAP OData APIs and store it directly in Amazon S3 - no custom code required, just configuration of the flow in the AWS console. Once data is in S3, it can be consumed by Amazon Athena, Amazon SageMaker, or Amazon QuickSight for analytics and ML-based forecasting with minimal development. Option A (AWS AppSync) is a GraphQL API service, not a data extraction tool, and has no SAP connector. Option B (SAP LT Replication Server SDK) requires significant custom SDK development and SAP-side configuration. Option D (AWS Glue + Lambda with SAP ODP) requires building custom Lambda functions and Glue jobs to interface with SAP ODP, which involves substantially more development effort than the no-code AppFlow approach.
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