PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
A company runs an SAP HANA database on an EC2 instance in a single Availability Zone. The database experiences performance degradation during peak hours. Which action should be taken to improve performance without changing the instance type?
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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Enable Enhanced Networking on the EC2 instance
Enabling Enhanced Networking on the EC2 instance reduces network latency and improves throughput, which is critical for SAP HANA performance during peak hours. Option A is wrong because increasing provisioned IOPS can help with storage performance but does not address network bottlenecks. Option B is wrong because detailed CloudWatch monitoring provides more metrics but does not directly improve performance. Option C is wrong while gp3 volumes offer better baseline performance, switching to gp3 may not fully resolve network-related performance degradation without also enabling Enhanced Networking.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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Increase the provisioned IOPS on the EBS volumes
Why it's wrong here
Increasing provisioned IOPS addresses storage performance but not network bottlenecks.
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Enable detailed CloudWatch monitoring
Why it's wrong here
Detailed CloudWatch monitoring provides metrics but does not improve performance.
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Change the EBS volumes to gp3
Why it's wrong here
Switching to gp3 volumes may improve storage performance but not network throughput.
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Enable Enhanced Networking on the EC2 instance
Why this is correct
Enhanced Networking reduces network latency and improves throughput, directly benefiting HANA performance.
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