SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company has 30 AWS accounts in AWS Organizations. The finance team wants to receive a single consolidated bill for all accounts and apply volume discounts across the organization. Which action should a solutions architect take?
⚠ Common exam trap
Test-takers frequently confuse cost visibility tools such as AWS Cost Explorer or AWS Budgets with the billing consolidation that AWS Organizations consolidated billing actually provides.
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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Enable consolidated billing by inviting all accounts to join the organization, and designate one account as the management account.
Consolidated billing in AWS Organizations makes the management account responsible for paying all charges and produces one bill for the organization. It also combines usage across accounts for volume pricing and allows sharing of Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, which is exactly what the finance team needs.
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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Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report in each account and use AWS Cost Explorer to merge the reports into a single view.
Why it's wrong here
Cost and Usage Reports and Cost Explorer provide visibility and analysis, but they do not change how accounts are billed. Each account still receives its own invoice, and volume discounts are not automatically applied across accounts, so this does not satisfy the consolidated billing requirement.
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Enable consolidated billing by inviting all accounts to join the organization, and designate one account as the management account.
Why this is correct
Consolidated billing is a feature of AWS Organizations where the management account pays for all member accounts and receives a single bill. It also aggregates usage for volume pricing tiers and Reserved Instance and Savings Plans sharing, which meets the finance team's requirement for one bill and volume discounts.
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Use AWS Resource Access Manager to share a billing resource across all accounts and enable cost allocation tags.
Why it's wrong here
AWS Resource Access Manager shares resources such as subnets and transit gateways, not billing. Cost allocation tags help categorize costs but do not consolidate invoices or apply volume discounts, so this approach does not deliver the single consolidated bill the finance team needs.
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Configure AWS Budgets in the management account to aggregate spend from all member accounts and send a single invoice.
Why it's wrong here
AWS Budgets monitors spending against thresholds and sends alerts, but it does not generate invoices or consolidate billing. It is a monitoring tool, not a billing mechanism, so it cannot provide the single bill or the volume discount aggregation required.
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