PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Question
An SAP system on AWS is using an SAP HANA database. The database administrator wants to monitor memory usage and receive alerts when memory consumption exceeds 90%. Which THREE services can be used together to achieve this?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many candidates confuse AWS Config (which audits configuration changes) with CloudWatch (which monitors performance metrics), or assume Amazon Inspector can monitor memory usage because it runs assessments on EC2 instances, but Inspector only checks for security vulnerabilities, not resource utilization.
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is correct because it provides a fully managed pub/sub messaging service that can deliver alerts (e.g., via email, SMS, or HTTP endpoints) when triggered by an Amazon CloudWatch Alarm. In this scenario, once the CloudWatch Alarm detects that memory usage exceeds 90%, it publishes to an SNS topic, which then sends the notification to the database administrator. This enables real-time alerting without requiring custom polling or additional infrastructure.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Why this is correct
SNS can send notifications when alarms are triggered.
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Amazon CloudWatch custom metrics for SAP HANA
Why this is correct
Custom metrics can be published from SAP HANA to CloudWatch.
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AWS Config
Why it's wrong here
AWS Config tracks resource configuration, not memory usage.
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Amazon CloudWatch Alarms
Why this is correct
Alarms can be set on the custom metric to trigger when memory exceeds threshold.
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Amazon Inspector
Why it's wrong here
Inspector is for security vulnerability assessment, not monitoring.
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