PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Question
An SAP administrator wants to monitor the CPU utilization of SAP application servers using Amazon CloudWatch. What is the minimum configuration required?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many exam-takers confuse enabling EC2 detailed monitoring (Option D) with collecting OS-level metrics, not realizing that detailed monitoring only increases the frequency of hypervisor-level metrics and does not provide the application-specific CPU data required for SAP monitoring.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Install and configure the AWS CloudWatch Agent on each SAP application server.
The AWS CloudWatch Agent must be installed and configured on each SAP application server to collect custom metrics like CPU utilization at the granularity and frequency required for SAP monitoring. CloudWatch by default only provides basic EC2 metrics (every 5 minutes) and cannot capture OS-level or application-level CPU utilization without the agent. The agent sends metrics via the CloudWatch PutMetricData API, enabling detailed monitoring of SAP-specific performance counters.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Install and configure the AWS CloudWatch Agent on each SAP application server.
Why this is correct
Agent collects OS-level metrics and sends to CloudWatch.
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Set up an AWS Lambda function to query EC2 metrics from the CloudWatch API.
Why it's wrong here
Lambda cannot get guest OS metrics.
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Configure SAP Solution Manager to export metrics to CloudWatch.
Why it's wrong here
Not a direct integration.
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Enable EC2 detailed monitoring from the AWS Management Console.
Why it's wrong here
Detailed monitoring provides more frequent hypervisor metrics, not guest OS CPU.
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