PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
An SAP Basis administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP application server running on an Amazon EC2 instance. The administrator notices high CPU utilization. Which AWS tool can provide detailed insights into the CPU usage at the process level without installing additional agents?
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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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AWS Systems Manager Run Command
AWS Systems Manager Inventory collects metadata about instances but not process-level CPU. EC2 Instance Connect is for shell access. CloudWatch metrics provide aggregate CPU, not per-process. Systems Manager Run Command can execute scripts to gather process data, but the question asks for a tool that provides the information directly without agents; however, Systems Manager with default agent can run commands to get process-level data, which is more direct than the others. CloudWatch does not provide process-level CPU without custom metrics.
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 Systems Manager Inventory
Why it's wrong here
Inventory collects software and configuration data, not real-time process CPU.
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Amazon CloudWatch CPU Utilization metric
Why it's wrong here
Only shows aggregate instance CPU, not per-process breakdown.
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Amazon EC2 Instance Connect
Why it's wrong here
Provides SSH access but not a managed monitoring solution.
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AWS Systems Manager Run Command
Why this is correct
Run Command can execute scripts like 'top' to get process-level CPU usage without additional agents.
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