SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company is using AWS Organizations with a hierarchical OU structure. The security team wants to enforce that any new account created in the organization automatically inherits a baseline set of AWS Config rules and a VPC with a default CIDR block. What is the MOST efficient way to achieve this?
⚠ Common exam trap
Watch out — candidates often confuse SCPs with automation tools, thinking they can enforce resource creation or trigger deployments, when in reality SCPs only restrict permissions and cannot provision resources or invoke AWS services.
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Enable AWS Control Tower and configure Account Factory to provision accounts with a baseline blueprint containing the VPC and Config rules.
AWS Control Tower provides a managed service that automates the setup of a multi-account environment based on AWS best practices. By enabling Control Tower and configuring Account Factory, new accounts are automatically provisioned with a baseline blueprint that includes the desired VPC and AWS Config rules, ensuring consistent governance without manual intervention or custom orchestration.
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 CloudFormation StackSets with a stack that creates the VPC and Config rules, and trigger it via an SCP.
Why it's wrong here
SCPs cannot trigger StackSets; this requires custom automation.
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Create an SCP that denies creation of resources unless they comply with the baseline.
Why it's wrong here
SCPs can only deny actions, not proactively create resources.
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Enable AWS Control Tower and configure Account Factory to provision accounts with a baseline blueprint containing the VPC and Config rules.
Why this is correct
Control Tower automates account provisioning with pre-defined guardrails and blueprints.
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Use AWS Config conformance packs with YAML templates deployed to all accounts via an SCP.
Why it's wrong here
Conformance packs can deploy Config rules but cannot create VPCs.
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