PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
An SAP system administrator notices that an SAP HANA database on AWS is experiencing high memory usage and slow query performance. The administrator wants to identify the root cause. Which Amazon CloudWatch metric should be analyzed first?
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Why each option matters
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SwapUsage
SwapUsage is the correct metric to analyze first because high swap usage indicates that the system is running out of physical memory, causing it to use disk-based swap space. This can directly lead to slow query performance due to increased I/O and memory pressure. The other metrics are less directly related: CPUUtilization may not reflect memory issues, NetworkIn is unrelated to memory, and DiskQueueDepth relates to disk I/O, not memory.
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SwapUsage
Why this is correct
SwapUsage is the correct metric. High swap usage indicates memory pressure, which can cause slow query performance.
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NetworkIn
Why it's wrong here
NetworkIn monitors incoming network traffic, which is not directly related to memory usage or query performance.
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CPUUtilization
Why it's wrong here
CPUUtilization measures CPU usage; while high CPU can be related, it does not directly indicate memory pressure.
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DiskQueueDepth
Why it's wrong here
DiskQueueDepth measures I/O queue depth, which is related to disk performance, not directly to memory issues.
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