SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to centrally manage CloudWatch dashboards. Which solution should they use?
⚠ Common exam trap
It's easy for candidates to confuse AWS Config aggregator (which aggregates configuration data) with CloudWatch cross-account dashboards (which aggregate metric data), or assume CloudFormation StackSets provide a central view when they only replicate resources per account.
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 CloudWatch cross-account dashboards with a monitoring account.
CloudWatch cross-account dashboards allow you to create a single dashboard in a central monitoring account that displays metrics from multiple source accounts. This is the native AWS solution for centralized observability, requiring no additional data movement or custom code. The monitoring account uses the CloudWatch cross-account functionality to query metrics across accounts via IAM roles and the CloudWatch API.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✓
Use CloudWatch cross-account dashboards with a monitoring account.
Why this is correct
Native cross-account dashboard feature.
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Use AWS Config aggregator to view resources.
Why it's wrong here
Config aggregator is for resource configuration, not metrics.
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Use Amazon QuickSight with data sources from each account.
Why it's wrong here
Not designed for CloudWatch dashboards.
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Use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to deploy dashboards in each account.
Why it's wrong here
Does not aggregate.
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