SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company has a centralized IT team that manages AWS accounts for multiple departments. They need to grant the team permissions to create and manage IAM roles in all accounts, but without giving them full administrator access. What should they use?
⚠ Common exam trap
Test-takers frequently confuse cross-account roles (Option D) as a scalable solution for centralized management, but they require per-account trust policy setup and do not provide a single point of control like a delegated administrator does.
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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Use AWS Organizations with a delegated administrator for IAM.
AWS Organizations allows you to centrally manage multiple accounts and designate a delegated administrator for IAM. This enables the centralized IT team to create and manage IAM roles across all member accounts without granting full administrator access, as the delegated administrator can perform IAM actions within the scope defined by service control policies (SCPs) and IAM permissions.
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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Use AWS Single Sign-On with permission sets.
Why it's wrong here
SSO manages access but not role creation.
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Create an IAM user in each account with AdministratorAccess.
Why it's wrong here
Grants full admin, not limited.
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Use AWS Organizations with a delegated administrator for IAM.
Why this is correct
Delegated administrator can manage IAM across accounts.
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Use cross-account roles with a policy that allows iam:CreateRole.
Why it's wrong here
Requires manual setup per account.
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