Course Overview
The Planning and Deploying SAP on Azure (AZ-120T00-A) course is designed for IT professionals with SAP experience who want to build practical knowledge of running SAP workloads on Microsoft Azure. It covers the Azure infrastructure and services required to plan, deploy, migrate, and manage SAP solutions in a cloud environment.
Through concepts, real-world scenarios, procedures, and hands-on labs, participants learn how to work with Azure virtual machines, networking, storage, identity, governance, backup, and hybrid connectivity. The course also covers SAP workload migration, business continuity, disaster recovery, monitoring, and troubleshooting, helping Azure Administrators develop the skills needed to support SAP environments throughout their lifecycle.
Course Objective
- Understand the key Azure services and considerations for hosting SAP workloads.
- Explain the fundamentals of Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for SAP environments.
- Identify identity and governance requirements for SAP workloads on Azure.
- Configure virtual machines, storage, and virtual networking to support SAP solutions.
- Implement connectivity between Azure and on-premises environments.
- Implement Azure Active Directory and manage identities within Azure environments.
- Deploy SAP workloads using appropriate Azure infrastructure and services.
- Implement backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery for SAP solutions.
- Apply suitable approaches for migrating existing SAP workloads to Azure.
- Monitor and troubleshoot Azure environments supporting SAP workloads.
Pre-requisites
Participants should have experience working with SAP solutions. The course is intended for Azure Administrators who are familiar with cloud infrastructure capabilities such as compute, storage, networking, identity, and monitoring. No additional mandatory prerequisites are specified in the source.
Course Curriculum
- Understand Azure services and capabilities that support SAP workloads.
- Explore SAP workload architecture in Azure.
- Identify key infrastructure requirements for SAP environments.
- Understand compute, storage, and networking options for SAP workloads.
- Explore high availability and disaster recovery considerations.
- Review security, scalability, and performance requirements.
- Understand key considerations for planning SAP environments on Azure.
- Understand core Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities for SAP workloads.
- Explore Azure compute options for deploying SAP solutions.
- Understand storage solutions for SAP applications and databases.
- Explore networking capabilities for SAP environments.
- Review scalability and performance considerations for SAP workloads.
- Understand availability and reliability options for SAP solutions.
- Explore key IaaS considerations for deploying and operating SAP solutions on Azure.
- Understand identity and governance fundamentals for SAP workloads on Azure.
- Explore Microsoft Entra ID for identity and access management.
- Implement role-based access control (RBAC) for SAP resources.
- Understand Azure Policy for governance and compliance.
- Explore resource organization and management for SAP environments.
- Apply security and access control principles to SAP workloads.
- Review governance considerations for secure and compliant SAP environments.
- Understand the SAP deployment process on Azure.
- Explore Azure infrastructure requirements for SAP solutions.
- Configure compute, storage, and networking resources for SAP workloads.
- Review SAP-certified Azure virtual machine options.
- Understand high availability and scalability considerations.
- Explore deployment tools and automation options for SAP environments.
- Apply best practices for deploying and configuring SAP solutions on Azure.
- Understand backup and recovery strategies for SAP workloads on Azure.
- Explore Azure Backup capabilities for protecting SAP solutions.
- Understand business continuity requirements for SAP environments.
- Design and implement disaster recovery (DR) strategies.
- Explore high availability and resiliency options for SAP workloads.
- Plan for data protection and service availability.
- Review best practices for backup, recovery, and disaster preparedness.
- Understand key considerations for migrating SAP workloads to Azure.
- Assess existing SAP environments and migration requirements.
- Explore different SAP migration strategies and approaches.
- Plan Azure infrastructure for SAP migration.
- Prepare SAP workloads and dependencies for migration to Azure.
- Understand data migration and system transition considerations.
- Validate and optimize SAP workloads after migration.
- Understand monitoring requirements for SAP workloads on Azure.
- Explore Azure monitoring tools and services for SAP environments.
- Monitor SAP application and infrastructure performance.
- Track availability, health, and resource utilization.
- Identify and diagnose operational and performance issues.
- Apply effective troubleshooting techniques for SAP workloads.
- Optimize SAP environments for reliability and performance.
