PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
A company runs a critical SAP application on AWS. The operations team needs to monitor the system for performance issues and receive alerts when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used to set up this monitoring and alerting?
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
Amazon CloudWatch can monitor CPU utilization and trigger alarms when a threshold is breached. CloudTrail is for API auditing, Config is for compliance, and AWS Health provides service health notifications.
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
Config evaluates resource configurations, not real-time metrics.
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AWS CloudTrail
Why it's wrong here
CloudTrail records API calls, not system metrics.
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Amazon CloudWatch
Why this is correct
CloudWatch monitors metrics and can trigger alarms based on thresholds.
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AWS Health
Why it's wrong here
AWS Health provides service health notifications, not custom metric alarms.
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