PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
An SAP HANA database is experiencing high memory utilization. The operations team needs to determine if the database is using more memory than allocated. Which CloudWatch metric should they monitor?
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MemoryUtilization
(MemoryUtilization) is correct because the SAP HANA agent in CloudWatch publishes the 'MemoryUtilization' metric, which directly shows the percentage of memory used by the HANA database. Option D (HANA_Memory_Usage) is not a standard CloudWatch metric name. Option B (SwapUsage) is for swap, not memory. Option C (CPUUtilization) is for CPU usage.
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MemoryUtilization
Why this is correct
This metric (published by the SAP HANA agent) shows memory utilization percentage.
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SwapUsage
Why it's wrong here
Swap usage is not memory utilization; indicates memory pressure.
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CPUUtilization
Why it's wrong here
CPU metric, not memory.
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HANA_Memory_Usage
Why it's wrong here
Not a standard CloudWatch metric; custom metrics use different naming.
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