PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
A company is running SAP on AWS and uses CloudWatch to monitor the SAP HANA database. The database administrator wants to create a dashboard that shows the current memory utilization of all HANA instances. Which CloudWatch feature should they use?
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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CloudWatch Dashboards
CloudWatch Dashboards (Option D) allow you to create custom views that display metrics from multiple sources, including memory utilization from all HANA instances, in a single pane. Option A (CloudWatch Logs) is for collecting and storing log data, not for visualizing metrics. Option B (CloudWatch Alarms) is used to trigger actions based on metric thresholds, not for creating dashboards. Option C (CloudWatch Events) is for event-driven automation, not for metric visualization.
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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CloudWatch Logs
Why it's wrong here
Logs are not for real-time metric display.
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CloudWatch Alarms
Why it's wrong here
Alarms notify when thresholds are breached.
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CloudWatch Events
Why it's wrong here
Events are for triggering actions.
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CloudWatch Dashboards
Why this is correct
Dashboards can aggregate metrics from multiple instances.
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