PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
An SAP system running on AWS uses a shared file system via Amazon EFS. Recently, the file system has become slow. The administrator suspects that the burst credits are exhausted. What metric should the administrator check in Amazon CloudWatch to confirm this?
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BurstCreditBalance
EFS has a BurstCreditBalance metric that tracks available burst credits. When exhausted, throughput drops. PercentIOLimit is not a valid metric. Throughput is the actual throughput, not credit balance. PermittedThroughput is not a metric.
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PermittedThroughput
Why it's wrong here
This is not a standard CloudWatch metric for EFS.
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BurstCreditBalance
Why this is correct
This metric shows the number of burst credits remaining.
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Throughput
Why it's wrong here
Throughput shows actual data transfer, not credit balance.
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PercentIOLimit
Why it's wrong here
This is not a valid CloudWatch metric for EFS.
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