Planning Disaster Recovery for SAP on Azure (AZ-120 Prep)

Ensuring business continuity for enterprise SAP systems is a critical skill for cloud professionals. This text-based course guides you through the core concepts of designing and deploying resilient disaster recovery architectures for SAP workloads on Azure. You will transition from understanding basic cloud backup concepts to configuring multi-region failover strategies, protecting SAP NetWeaver application tiers, and managing critical supporting services like Active Directory and DNS during a recovery event. What you'll learn: - Understand foundational disaster recovery terminology, recovery point objectives (RPO), and recovery time objectives (RTO) for enterprise systems. - Design single-region and multi-region disaster recovery topologies for SAP NetWeaver and database tiers. - Configure Active Directory and Domain Name System (DNS) integration to support seamless failovers. - Implement Azure Site Recovery and database-level replication methods to protect critical data. - Align your technical knowledge with the disaster recovery objectives of the AZ-120 certification exam. - Analyze real-world recovery scenarios and recovery validation processes through written exercises. The course starts with essential disaster recovery definitions and Azure infrastructure basics, then progresses systematically through application-tier replication, database synchronization, and network identity mapping during failovers. Designed for IT professionals, cloud administrators, and database engineers who are new to hosting SAP on Azure or preparing for the AZ-120 exam, this program requires no prior SAP administration experience. Start reading today to master the fundamentals of SAP disaster recovery in Azure.