PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
A company is running SAP on AWS and needs to monitor the available memory on their SAP application servers. Which AWS service can be used to collect and visualize memory utilization metrics?
⚠ Common exam trap
Watch out — candidates often assume EC2 instance metrics in CloudWatch automatically include memory utilization, but they do not—only the CloudWatch Agent can collect and publish those OS-level metrics.
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
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Amazon CloudWatch with CloudWatch Agent
Amazon CloudWatch with the CloudWatch Agent is the correct choice because the agent can be installed on EC2 instances to collect custom metrics, including memory utilization, which is not available by default from the hypervisor. The agent sends these metrics to CloudWatch, where you can visualize them using dashboards or set alarms. This directly addresses the need to monitor SAP application server memory on AWS.
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 Config
Why it's wrong here
AWS Config tracks resource configuration changes, not memory metrics.
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Amazon Inspector
Why it's wrong here
Inspector assesses vulnerabilities, not memory metrics.
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Amazon CloudWatch with CloudWatch Agent
Why this is correct
CloudWatch Agent collects memory metrics and sends them to CloudWatch.
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AWS CloudTrail
Why it's wrong here
CloudTrail records API calls, not memory metrics.
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