PAS-C01 Technology Practice Question
A company runs SAP on AWS and uses SAP HANA as its database. The system is experiencing high latency during peak hours. The SAP HANA administrator wants to identify performance bottlenecks at the CPU, memory, and disk I/O levels. Which TWO AWS services can be used together to monitor and correlate these metrics?
⚠ Common exam trap
Test-takers frequently confuse AWS X-Ray (application tracing) with infrastructure-level monitoring, or assume AWS Config can track performance metrics, when in fact only CloudWatch and CloudWatch Logs together provide the necessary metric and log correlation for SAP HANA bottleneck analysis.
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 Logs
Amazon CloudWatch (Option D) collects and stores CPU, memory, and disk I/O metrics from SAP HANA instances via the CloudWatch Agent or direct integration. Amazon CloudWatch Logs (Option B) ingests SAP HANA diagnostic logs, such as trace files and performance dumps, enabling correlation of log events with metric spikes. Together, they provide a unified view to pinpoint bottlenecks at the CPU, memory, and I/O levels during peak hours.
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 tracks resource configurations, not performance.
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Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Why this is correct
CloudWatch Logs can ingest HANA traces for correlation.
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Amazon Inspector
Why it's wrong here
Inspector is for vulnerability assessment.
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Amazon CloudWatch
Why this is correct
CloudWatch collects CPU, memory, disk I/O metrics from EC2/EBS.
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AWS X-Ray
Why it's wrong here
X-Ray traces HTTP requests, not system-level metrics.
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