SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company is using AWS Organizations and wants to delegate administration of AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO) to a member account. Which step is required?
⚠ Common exam trap
It's easy for candidates to confuse service control policies (SCPs) with delegation mechanisms, assuming an SCP can grant administrative rights, when in fact SCPs only deny or allow existing permissions and cannot delegate IAM Identity Center administration.
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Enable IAM Identity Center in the management account and then register the member account as a delegated administrator.
To delegate administration of IAM Identity Center to a member account, you must first enable IAM Identity Center in the management account. Then, you can register the member account as a delegated administrator using the IAM Identity Center console or the RegisterDelegatedAdministrator API. This allows the member account to manage IAM Identity Center settings, users, and groups without requiring management account credentials.
Answer analysis
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Enable IAM Identity Center in the management account and then register the member account as a delegated administrator.
Why this is correct
Delegated administration requires the management account to enable IAM Identity Center first, since only that account can register a member account as delegated administrator. This satisfies the stem's constraint: administration is delegated to a member account, not the management account, while AWS Organizations integration remains intact.
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Create a service control policy that allows the member account to manage IAM Identity Center.
Why it's wrong here
SCPs set permission guardrails on accounts within an organization; they cannot grant or delegate IAM Identity Center administration, which is enabled by registering the member account as a delegated administrator. SCPs are tempting because they govern account permissions, but delegation is performed through Organizations rather than policy attachment.
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Use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to deploy IAM Identity Center configurations to the member account.
Why it's wrong here
CloudFormation StackSets deploy resource templates across accounts; IAM Identity Center delegation is enabled by registering the member account as a delegated administrator from the management account. It tempts because StackSets automate cross-account configuration, and would be correct for provisioning standard infrastructure into many member accounts.
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Set up AWS Config rules to enforce IAM Identity Center settings in the member account.
Why it's wrong here
AWS Config rules evaluate resource configuration compliance; they cannot delegate IAM Identity Center administration, which requires enabling the member account as a delegated administrator from the management account. Config is tempting because it enforces and audits settings across accounts, but delegation is an Organizations-level action, not a compliance evaluation.
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