Maintain SAP workloads on Azure

Exam objectives are the official skill domains Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty tests. Below are the official AZURE docs our questions on this objective cite — review them, then practise.

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Official references for this objective

Microsoft — Back up and recover Oracle Database on an Azure Linux VM by using Azure Backup - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn

SQL> SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE; SQL> STARTUP MOUNT; SQL> ALTER DATABASE ARCHIVELOG; SQL> ALTER DATABASE OPEN; SQL> ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE;
Microsoft — Maintenance Configurations for Azure virtual machines using Azure PowerShell - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn

To apply a configuration to a dedicated host, you need to include -ResourceType hosts , -ResourceParentName with the name of the host group, and -ResourceParentType
Microsoft — Automatic Guest Patching for Azure Virtual Machines and Scale Sets - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn

Patches classified as Critical or Security are automatically downloaded and applied on the VM.
Microsoft — High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity - SQL Server on Azure VMs | Microsoft Learn

GRS replicates changes on each disk independently and asynchronously. This mechanism guarantees the write order within a single disk
Microsoft — Oracle virtual machine images and their deployment on Microsoft Azure - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn

you can improve the effective IOPS performance if you use multiple attached disks, spread database data across them, and then use Oracle Automatic Storage Management