PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
An SAP Basis team is troubleshooting a performance issue on an SAP HANA database running on AWS. The HANA index server is consuming high CPU. The team suspects that the underlying EC2 instance is throttled. Which CloudWatch metric should be checked to confirm CPU throttling?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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CPUCreditBalance
CPUCreditBalance indicates the number of CPU credits available for burstable performance instances. If the credit balance is depleted, the instance is throttled, which can cause high CPU usage with limited performance. Option A (CPUUtilization) shows CPU usage but does not directly indicate throttling. Option B (NetworkIn) and Option D (DiskReadOps) are unrelated to CPU throttling.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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CPUUtilization
Why it's wrong here
Shows CPU usage, not throttling.
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NetworkIn
Why it's wrong here
Not related to CPU throttling.
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CPUCreditBalance
Why this is correct
Indicates CPU throttling for T2/T3 instances.
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DiskReadOps
Why it's wrong here
Not related to CPU throttling.
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