SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company manages 200 AWS accounts using AWS Organizations. The security team wants to prevent developers from creating resources outside of a set of approved AWS Regions. Additionally, they want to restrict the creation of resources that are not tagged with a cost center tag. Which THREE actions should be taken to enforce these requirements?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many exam-takers confuse tag policies (which only enforce compliance after creation) with SCPs that can deny creation of untagged resources, and they mistakenly think IAM policies can be centrally managed across accounts when only SCPs provide organization-wide enforcement.
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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Create an SCP that denies all actions in non-approved regions.
Service Control Policies (SCPs) in AWS Organizations can be used to deny all actions in non-approved regions by specifying a condition key like 'aws:RequestedRegion' with a list of allowed regions. This effectively prevents developers in any member account from creating or interacting with resources outside the approved set, regardless of their IAM permissions.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✓
Create an SCP that denies all actions in non-approved regions.
Why this is correct
SCPs can centrally deny actions in specific regions.
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Enable AWS Config rules to detect untagged resources and automatically apply the required tag.
Why this is correct
Config rules can detect and remediate untagged resources.
- ✗
Use IAM policies in each account to deny actions in non-approved regions.
Why it's wrong here
IAM policies are per-account and not centrally managed; SCPs are better.
- ✗
Define a tag policy using AWS Organizations to enforce cost center tags.
Why it's wrong here
Tag policies enforce tagging on resource creation but do not remediate existing resources; Config is needed for that.
- ✓
Create an SCP that denies the creation of resources that do not have a cost center tag.
Why this is correct
SCPs can enforce tagging on resource creation.
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