PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
A company needs to monitor the CPU utilization of SAP EC2 instances and send an alert if it exceeds 90% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used?
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 Alarms
Amazon CloudWatch Alarms (option B) monitor metrics like CPU utilization and can trigger actions such as sending alerts when a threshold is exceeded for a specified duration. Option A (AWS Config) is used for configuration compliance and inventory. Option C (AWS Trusted Advisor) provides best-practice checks. Option D (AWS CloudTrail) is for API auditing and governance.
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 is used to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources, not for monitoring metric thresholds.
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Amazon CloudWatch Alarms
Why this is correct
Amazon CloudWatch Alarms monitor Amazon CloudWatch metrics and automatically perform actions when a metric breaches a defined threshold for a specified number of evaluation periods.
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AWS Trusted Advisor
Why it's wrong here
AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations to help you follow AWS best practices, but it does not monitor CPU utilization or send alerts based on metric thresholds.
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AWS CloudTrail
Why it's wrong here
AWS CloudTrail records API calls for auditing and governance, not for monitoring resource metrics like CPU utilization.
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