SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company manages multiple AWS accounts and wants to centralize billing and cost tracking. They have enabled AWS Organizations and consolidated billing. Which additional step should they take to gain granular visibility into costs per department?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many exam-takers confuse the account-level aggregation of consolidated billing (Option D) with the resource-level granularity needed for department tracking, or they assume AWS Budgets (Option B) provide visibility rather than just alerts.
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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Implement cost allocation tags for resources and use AWS Cost Explorer to filter by tags
Cost allocation tags allow you to tag AWS resources with department-specific metadata (e.g., 'Department: Engineering'). Once enabled and activated in the Billing and Cost Management console, AWS Cost Explorer can filter and group costs by these tags, providing granular visibility into per-department spending across multiple accounts in an AWS Organization. This approach directly addresses the need for department-level cost tracking beyond the account-level view provided by consolidated billing.
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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Enable AWS Cost Explorer and use default groupings
Why it's wrong here
Default groupings may not reflect departments without tags.
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Create AWS Budgets for each department
Why it's wrong here
Budgets only provide alerts, not granular cost visibility.
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Implement cost allocation tags for resources and use AWS Cost Explorer to filter by tags
Why this is correct
Tags enable granular cost tracking by department.
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Use the consolidated billing feature to view costs per account
Why it's wrong here
Per-account view is available but not per-department if multiple departments share an account.
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