PAS-C01 Amazon CloudWatch Practice Question
An SAP Basis administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of all EC2 instances running SAP applications. The team wants to receive alerts when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used to set up this monitoring and alerting?
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Correct answer & explanation
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Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is the correct service because it can collect CPU utilization metrics from EC2 instances and trigger alarms when the metric exceeds a threshold (e.g., 80% for 5 consecutive minutes). AWS Trusted Advisor provides best-practice recommendations but cannot create custom metric alarms. AWS CloudTrail is for auditing API calls, not monitoring performance metrics. AWS Config tracks resource configuration changes, not real-time performance metrics.
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Amazon CloudWatch
Why this is correct
CloudWatch can monitor CPU utilization and trigger alarms based on thresholds.
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AWS Trusted Advisor
Why it's wrong here
Trusted Advisor provides cost and security recommendations, not metric alarms.
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AWS CloudTrail
Why it's wrong here
CloudTrail records API calls, not CPU metrics.
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AWS Config
Why it's wrong here
AWS Config tracks configuration changes, not performance metrics.
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