PAS-C01 Technology Practice Question
A company is running an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. The system experiences high memory usage. The administrator wants to monitor the SAP HANA memory consumption and set alarms for when memory usage exceeds 85% of available memory. Which steps should the administrator take to achieve this? (Choose THREE.)
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Use SAP HANA SQL queries to monitor memory usage and publish custom metrics to CloudWatch.
Options B, C, and E are correct. B: SAP HANA provides detailed memory consumption metrics via SQL views, which can be queried and published as custom CloudWatch metrics. C: The CloudWatch agent collects OS-level memory metrics from the EC2 instance, enabling monitoring of overall system memory. E: A CloudWatch alarm can be set on the memory metric (either custom HANA metric or OS-level metric) with a threshold of 85% to trigger notifications via SNS. Option A is incorrect because SNS alone does not provide monitoring; it only delivers notifications. Option D is incorrect because CloudWatch Synthetics is used for endpoint monitoring, not for HANA memory metrics.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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Configure an Amazon SNS topic to send email notifications when memory usage is high.
Why it's wrong here
SNS is used for notifications, not for monitoring; alarms use SNS.
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Use SAP HANA SQL queries to monitor memory usage and publish custom metrics to CloudWatch.
Why this is correct
Custom metrics can be published via CloudWatch PutMetricData.
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Install the Amazon CloudWatch agent on the EC2 instance to collect memory metrics.
Why this is correct
CloudWatch agent can collect memory utilization.
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Use Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics to monitor HANA memory.
Why it's wrong here
Synthetics is for endpoint monitoring, not memory.
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Create a CloudWatch alarm on the memory metric with a threshold of 85%.
Why this is correct
Alarm triggers when threshold is exceeded.
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