PAS-C01 Migration Practice Question
A company is migrating an SAP system to AWS and wants to monitor the performance of the SAP application servers. Which TWO AWS services can be used to collect and analyze SAP performance metrics?
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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
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AWS Systems Manager
Amazon CloudWatch with the SAP monitoring agent can collect SAP-specific metrics directly. AWS Systems Manager can collect OS-level metrics (CPU, memory, disk) and run custom scripts to gather SAP performance data, making it suitable for SAP performance monitoring. Option A (CloudTrail) logs API calls, not performance. Option D (Inspector) is for security scanning. Option E (X-Ray) traces application requests, not SAP performance.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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AWS CloudTrail
Why it's wrong here
CloudTrail records API calls, not performance metrics.
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AWS Systems Manager
Why this is correct
Systems Manager can run commands and collect OS metrics, complementing SAP monitoring.
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Amazon CloudWatch with SAP monitoring agent
Why this is correct
CloudWatch can collect and visualize SAP metrics via agents.
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Amazon Inspector
Why it's wrong here
Inspector is for security assessments.
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AWS X-Ray
Why it's wrong here
AWS X-Ray traces requests through distributed applications to identify latency and errors, but it does not collect SAP-specific performance metrics such as dialog response times, work process utilisation, or buffer hit ratios. It is tempting because X-Ray provides detailed request-level tracing for microservices, which would be correct for debugging custom application code, but SAP metrics require purpose-built tools like Amazon CloudWatch with SAP-specific agents or AWS Systems Manager for SAP.
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