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A company is expanding its AWS environment from a single account to multiple accounts using AWS Organizations. The security team wants to enforce a baseline set of permissions across all accounts, ensuring that users in any account cannot disable AWS CloudTrail or modify Amazon S3 bucket policies that prevent public access. Which feature of AWS Organizations should the security team use to achieve this control?
Answer choices
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A
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Consolidated Billing
Consolidated Billing combines costs from multiple accounts into a single bill but does not provide any mechanism to enforce permissions or restrict actions. It is a billing feature, not a security control.
B
Best answer
Service Control Policies (SCPs)
SCPs allow you to define and enforce maximum permissions for all accounts in your AWS Organization. They act as a guardrail, ensuring that even if an account has permissive IAM policies, the effective permissions are limited by the SCP. This enables central enforcement of security baselines such as preventing the disabling of CloudTrail or modification of S3 bucket policies that block public access.
C
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AWS Config rules
AWS Config rules evaluate your resource configurations against desired policies. They can detect noncompliant resources and trigger remediation actions, but they do not prevent actions from being taken in real time. They are detective, not preventive, controls.
D
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IAM roles
IAM roles grant permissions to users and services within a single AWS account. They cannot centrally restrict permissions across multiple accounts. While cross-account roles exist, they are not designed to enforce a baseline of allowed or denied actions across all accounts in an organization.
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How to think about this question
This question should be treated as a scenario, not a definition check. Identify the problem, the constraint and the best action. Then compare each option against those facts.
KKey Concepts to Remember
- Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
- Find the constraint that changes the correct option.
- Eliminate answers that are true in general but not in this case.
- Use explanations to understand the rule behind the answer.
TExam Day Tips
- Underline the problem statement mentally.
- Watch for words such as best, first, most likely and least administrative effort.
- Review why wrong options are wrong, not only why the correct option is correct.
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Question 1
A developer needs to launch a test server for a new application prototype. The developer logs into the AWS Management Console, selects an Amazon EC2 instance type, configures the security group, and starts the instance. The instance is running within two minutes, and the developer did not need to submit a formal request to the company's IT procurement team or wait for approval from a cloud administrator. Which essential characteristic of cloud computing does this scenario best demonstrate?
Question 2
A solutions architect is planning a new web application on AWS. The workload will include 3 Amazon EC2 instances (t3.medium) running 24/7, an Application Load Balancer, and an Amazon RDS for MySQL db.t3.small database. The architect needs to estimate the monthly cost for the first year, considering different purchasing options (On-Demand, 1-year All Upfront Reserved Instance, and Compute Savings Plan). Which AWS tool should the architect use to create this estimate?
Question 3
A company's development team frequently needs temporary test environments. A developer can log into the AWS Management Console, select an Amazon EC2 instance type, configure storage, and launch the instance within minutes without any interaction with the IT infrastructure team. This capability is an example of which essential characteristic of cloud computing?
Question 4
A company's finance team needs to analyze AWS spending in detail. They require a report that includes hourly cost data for each AWS service, each individual resource (e.g., a specific EC2 instance), and any cost allocation tags applied. The team plans to export this data to an Amazon S3 bucket and then import it into a custom business intelligence (BI) analytics dashboard. Which AWS tool should the finance team use to generate this level of detailed cost data?
Question 5
A company uses AWS for its development environment. The finance team wants to set a monthly budget of $10,000. They want to receive an email notification when the actual costs reach 80% of the budget ($8,000) and again when costs exceed the budget. The team needs a managed AWS service that can automatically send these alerts without requiring custom code or third-party tools. Which AWS service should the team use?
Question 6
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. The security team needs to enforce a policy that restricts SSH access (port 22) from the internet (0.0.0.0/0) in all VPCs across all accounts. The team wants to centrally define the allowed rules and automatically apply them to newly created VPCs and security groups, while also automatically remediating any existing non-compliant security groups. Which AWS service should the team use?
FAQ
Questions learners often ask
What does this CLF-C02 question test?
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Service Control Policies (SCPs) — Service Control Policies (SCPs) are a feature of AWS Organizations that allow you to centrally control the maximum permissions available to all accounts in your organization. SCPs can restrict what AWS actions and resources users and roles in member accounts can access, even if IAM policies in those accounts grant broader permissions. This makes SCPs the correct tool for enforcing baseline security controls like preventing the disabling of CloudTrail or changing S3 bucket policies to allow public access. Consolidated Billing only aggregates costs. AWS Config rules detect noncompliant resources but do not prevent actions. IAM roles grant permissions but are scoped to individual accounts and cannot centrally restrict capabilities across accounts.
What should I do if I get this CLF-C02 question wrong?
Then try more questions from the same exam bank and focus on understanding why the wrong options are tempting.
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