This PAS-C01 practice question tests your understanding of technology. Match the stated requirement to the specific cloud service, access model, or configuration option — many options are valid in isolation but not for this scenario. After answering, compare your reasoning against the explanation and wrong-answer breakdown below. Once you have made your selection, read the full explanation to reinforce the concept and understand why each distractor is designed to mislead on exam day.
Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of SAP HANA databases running on EC2 instances? (Choose two.)
Amazon CloudWatch
CloudWatch can monitor SAP HANA metrics via custom metrics.
Amazon Inspector
Why wrong: Inspector is for security assessment, not performance monitoring.
Amazon RDS Performance Insights
Why wrong: Performance Insights is for Amazon RDS, not for SAP HANA on EC2.
AWS X-Ray
Why wrong: X-Ray is for tracing and debugging applications.
AWS Config
Why wrong: Config is for compliance and configuration tracking.
Answer choices
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Correct answer & explanation
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is correct because it can collect and monitor custom metrics from SAP HANA databases running on EC2 instances, such as CPU utilization, memory usage, and disk I/O, via the CloudWatch agent or direct API calls. Additionally, SAP HANA-specific metrics like row store memory and column store memory can be exposed through CloudWatch by integrating with SAP HANA's monitoring views or using AWS-provided solutions like the SAP HANA CloudWatch monitoring script.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
Amazon CloudWatch
Why this is correct
CloudWatch can monitor SAP HANA metrics via custom metrics.
Related concept
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Amazon Inspector
Why it's wrong here
Inspector is for security assessment, not performance monitoring.
Amazon RDS Performance Insights
Why it's wrong here
Performance Insights is for Amazon RDS, not for SAP HANA on EC2.
AWS X-Ray
Why it's wrong here
X-Ray is for tracing and debugging applications.
AWS Config
Why it's wrong here
Config is for compliance and configuration tracking.
Common exam traps
The trap here is that candidates often confuse Amazon RDS Performance Insights (which is specific to RDS-managed databases) with a general-purpose database monitoring tool, forgetting that SAP HANA on EC2 is self-managed and requires custom metric collection via CloudWatch.
Detailed technical explanation
Under the hood, CloudWatch can ingest SAP HANA metrics by using the SAP HANA CloudWatch monitoring script (e.g., hana_cloudwatch.py), which queries SAP HANA system views like M_HOST_INFORMATION and M_MEMORY to extract metrics and push them as custom CloudWatch metrics via the PutMetricData API. In a real-world scenario, you might set up a cron job on the EC2 instance to run this script every minute, enabling you to create CloudWatch alarms for thresholds like high column store memory usage, which can trigger auto-scaling or notification actions.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
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Technology — This question tests Technology — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
The correct answer is: Amazon CloudWatch — Amazon CloudWatch is correct because it can collect and monitor custom metrics from SAP HANA databases running on EC2 instances, such as CPU utilization, memory usage, and disk I/O, via the CloudWatch agent or direct API calls. Additionally, SAP HANA-specific metrics like row store memory and column store memory can be exposed through CloudWatch by integrating with SAP HANA's monitoring views or using AWS-provided solutions like the SAP HANA CloudWatch monitoring script.
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