SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company is using AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. The finance team wants to track costs by business unit. Each business unit has its own AWS account. The team needs a solution that allows them to generate cost reports filtered by business unit without additional overhead. Which action should be taken?
⚠ Common exam trap
Watch out — candidates often think filtering by linked account in Cost Explorer is sufficient, but they overlook that without tags or a structured account naming convention, linking accounts to business units requires manual effort, which violates the 'without additional overhead' requirement.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Apply tags to resources and enable cost allocation tags in Billing and Cost Management.
Applying tags to resources and enabling cost allocation tags in AWS Billing and Cost Management allows the finance team to categorize costs by business unit without additional overhead. Each business unit's AWS account can have resources tagged with a key like 'BusinessUnit', and once cost allocation tags are activated, Cost Explorer and cost reports can filter and group by these tags, providing automated cost tracking across accounts in AWS Organizations.
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 Cost Explorer to filter by linked account, which automatically groups by business unit.
Why it's wrong here
Accounts may not map directly to business units.
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Use AWS Budgets to create budgets per account and manually aggregate.
Why it's wrong here
Manual overhead.
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Apply tags to resources and enable cost allocation tags in Billing and Cost Management.
Why this is correct
Correct: Tagging enables filtering by business unit.
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Create a separate payer account for each business unit.
Why it's wrong here
Not needed; consolidated billing is already in place.
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