SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company is designing a cross-account backup strategy using AWS Backup. They have a central backup account that needs to manage backups for multiple member accounts. What is the minimal set of permissions required?
⚠ Common exam trap
Test-takers frequently think sharing a KMS key or enabling a monitoring service like AWS Config is sufficient for cross-account backup permissions, but AWS Backup requires explicit IAM role delegation via sts:AssumeRole for the backup account to act in member accounts.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Create an IAM role in each member account that trusts the backup account and allows backup and restore actions.
AWS Backup requires cross-account IAM roles to delegate backup and restore permissions. The central backup account assumes an IAM role in each member account that has a trust policy allowing the backup account's IAM entity to perform backup and restore actions. This is the minimal set of permissions needed to manage backups across accounts without granting broader access.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Create an IAM role in each member account that trusts the backup account and allows backup and restore actions.
Why this is correct
Cross-account role assumption is the standard pattern.
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Create a customer managed key in the backup account and share it with member accounts.
Why it's wrong here
KMS is optional.
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Grant the backup account full S3 access to member account buckets.
Why it's wrong here
Backups are stored in AWS Backup vaults, not S3.
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Enable AWS Config in member accounts to track backup compliance.
Why it's wrong here
Not required for backup functionality.
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