PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
An SAP system experiences an unplanned failover of the HANA database. The database administrator needs to investigate the root cause. Which AWS service should be used to analyze the timeline of events leading to the failover?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudTrail records API calls and events, which can help trace actions leading to failover. Option B (Amazon CloudWatch Logs) collects logs but not API activity. Option C (Amazon VPC Flow Logs) captures network traffic. Option D (AWS Config) tracks configuration changes but not real-time events.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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AWS CloudTrail
Why this is correct
CloudTrail records API calls and events, enabling root cause analysis of failover.
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Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Why it's wrong here
CloudWatch Logs stores application logs, not API activity.
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Amazon VPC Flow Logs
Why it's wrong here
Flow Logs capture IP traffic information, not API events.
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AWS Config
Why it's wrong here
AWS Config tracks resource configuration changes, not event sequences.
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