PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
An SAP workload running on AWS is experiencing intermittent performance issues. The operations team suspects that a recent change to a security group is causing traffic to be dropped. Which AWS service should the team use to analyze network traffic patterns and identify the source of the issue?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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VPC Flow Logs
VPC Flow Logs capture IP traffic information and can be used to analyze network traffic patterns, helping to diagnose security group rule issues.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Amazon Inspector
Why it's wrong here
Inspector assesses security vulnerabilities, not network flow.
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AWS Config
Why it's wrong here
AWS Config tracks resource configuration changes, but does not capture network traffic.
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AWS CloudTrail
Why it's wrong here
CloudTrail records API calls, not network traffic.
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VPC Flow Logs
Why this is correct
VPC Flow Logs capture IP traffic information and can be analyzed to identify dropped packets due to security group rules.
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