PAS-C01 Technology Practice Question
Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor SAP system availability and send notifications when a system goes down? (Choose two.)
⚠ Common exam trap
Many candidates confuse AWS Config (which tracks resource configuration changes) with a monitoring and alerting service, or they incorrectly assume S3 event notifications can be used for application-level health checks, when in fact only CloudWatch Events and CloudWatch Alarms provide the necessary event-driven and metric-based monitoring for SAP availability.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Amazon CloudWatch Events
Amazon CloudWatch Events (now part of Amazon EventBridge) can monitor SAP system health by capturing state changes or custom events emitted by SAP via the SAP Cloud Platform Integration or AWS Lambda, and route them to targets like SNS or Lambda for notification. Amazon CloudWatch Alarms can monitor SAP-specific metrics (e.g., from SAP Host Agent or custom metrics published via the CloudWatch agent) and trigger actions such as sending an SNS notification when a threshold (e.g., system down) is breached. Together, they provide event-driven and metric-based monitoring and alerting for SAP availability.
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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AWS Trusted Advisor
Why it's wrong here
Provides recommendations.
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Amazon CloudWatch Events
Why this is correct
Can trigger notifications based on events.
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Amazon S3 event notifications
Why it's wrong here
For S3 object events.
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Amazon CloudWatch Alarms
Why this is correct
Monitors metrics and sends notifications.
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AWS Config
Why it's wrong here
Tracks configuration changes.
Quick reference
Cloud Service Model Comparison
| Model | You Manage | Provider Manages | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| IaaS | OS, runtime, apps, data | Hardware, hypervisor, networking | EC2, Azure VMs, GCP Compute Engine |
| PaaS | Apps and data | OS, runtime, middleware, hardware | Elastic Beanstalk, Azure App Service |
| SaaS | Data and settings only | Everything else | Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Workday |
| FaaS / Serverless | Function code only | Infra, scaling, runtime | Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloud Run |
| CaaS | Containers and apps | Kubernetes, OS, hardware | EKS, AKS, GKE |
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