PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Question
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An SAP administrator runs the command shown in the exhibit. The volume is attached to an EC2 instance. The administrator plans to increase the volume size to 1000 GiB. After resizing, the volume type remains gp2. What is the expected baseline IOPS for the resized volume?
⚠ Common exam trap
It's easy for candidates to confuse the gp2 baseline IOPS calculation (3 IOPS/GiB) with the gp3 baseline (3000 IOPS fixed for any size) or mistakenly apply the 16,000 IOPS cap as a default value for all gp2 volumes, rather than recognizing it as a maximum that only applies at larger sizes.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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3000 IOPS
Gp2 volumes have a baseline IOPS of 3 IOPS per GiB, up to a maximum of 16,000 IOPS. For a 1000 GiB gp2 volume, the calculation is 1000 × 3 = 3000 IOPS, which is below the 16,000 IOPS cap, so the expected baseline IOPS is exactly 3000.
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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4500 IOPS
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect calculation.
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16,000 IOPS
Why it's wrong here
That is the maximum burst IOPS, not baseline.
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3000 IOPS
Why this is correct
Baseline IOPS = 3 * 1000 = 3000.
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1500 IOPS
Why it's wrong here
That was the previous IOPS for 500 GiB.
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