| Exam Code/Number: | C_DBADMJoin the discussion |
| Exam Name: | SAP Certified - Database Administrator - SAP HANA |
| Certification: | SAP |
| Question Number: | 216 |
| Publish Date: | Jul 17, 2026 |
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A regional public-sector records office performs a SAP HANA recovery test after updating its backup schedule. The backup monitor shows recent backups completed, but the recovery test log indicates that the selected recovery point does not match the retention window defined for the updated schedule. The administrator can still access the backup catalog, and no production outage has occurred.
The constraint is that the recovery test must prove resilience under the current backup schedule, not under a previous retention assumption. The administrator must determine whether the recovery evidence is usable for sign-off or whether the selected recovery point invalidates the test result.
What is the best next action?
A regional diagnostics provider uses SAP HANA for laboratory operations analytics. The administrator performs a recovery rehearsal in a validation environment. The restore completes, but the validation notes show that the recovery used a backup chain selected from a manually exported catalog snapshot. The live backup catalog contains a newer log entry that was not included in the exported snapshot. The operations manager wants to accept the rehearsal because the database opened successfully.
The constraint is that the administrator must validate recovery using evidence that reflects the current backup catalog. The rehearsal must prove the recoverable state without relying on stale catalog metadata.
What should the administrator do next?
<strong>CHALLENGE 3 — Cloud Modernization Evidence Boundary</strong> The modernization lead wants the SAP HANA Cloud database included in the same readiness status because it is provisioned and has a limited outage analytics dataset. The cloud environment has not completed the startup, monitoring, or recovery evidence package used for active hypercare systems. What is the best response?
<strong>CHALLENGE 2 — Dispatch Simulation Monitoring Baseline</strong> The cutover team has two viable actions: tune workload-related settings now to improve carrier exception dashboards, or preserve monitoring evidence first and tune only if current evidence supports it. Which option best balances performance and evidence quality?
<strong>CHALLENGE 4 — Operational Recoverability Evidence Gate</strong> The operations lead can accept readiness on schedule using backup completion evidence, or delay briefly to include recovery validation for the validation database and recoverability evidence for the upgraded system. Which path is most defensible?