PAS-C01 Technology Practice Question
A company is deploying SAP S/4HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the system can handle a sudden increase in user load during month-end closing. Which architectural change would best address this requirement?
⚠ Common exam trap
Candidates often confuse high availability (multi-AZ) with elasticity (auto-scaling), or assume that vertical scaling (larger instance) is the only way to handle load spikes, missing the cloud-native horizontal scaling approach.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
✓
Configure auto-scaling for the SAP application tier based on CPU utilization.
SAP S/4HANA on AWS supports auto-scaling for the application tier (ASCS/PAS/AAS) using AWS Auto Scaling groups based on CPU utilization. This allows the system to dynamically add or remove application server instances to handle sudden spikes in user load during month-end closing, ensuring performance without manual intervention.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✓
Configure auto-scaling for the SAP application tier based on CPU utilization.
Why this is correct
Auto-scaling adds compute capacity automatically during high load.
- ✗
Deploy the application across multiple Availability Zones.
Why it's wrong here
Multi-AZ improves availability, not scalability for load spikes.
- ✗
Increase the provisioned IOPS on the database EBS volumes.
Why it's wrong here
IOPS affects database performance, not application tier scaling.
- ✗
Use a larger EC2 instance type for the application server.
Why it's wrong here
Vertical scaling is limited and requires downtime.
Go deeper
Related to this question
About these practice questions
One of 1,616 original PAS-C01 practice questions on Courseiva, each with a full explanation and wrong-answer analysis — not exam dumps or protected exam content. Learn why practice questions differ from exam dumps →
JA
Written by Johnson Ajibi, MSc IT Security
Senior Network & Security Engineer · founder of Courseiva
This PAS-C01 practice question is part of Courseiva's free Amazon Web Services certification practice question bank. Courseiva provides original exam-style practice questions with explanations, topic-based practice, mock exams, readiness tracking, and study analytics to help learners prepare for the PAS-C01 exam.