SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to allow certain accounts to use AWS Service Catalog for self-service provisioning. The IT team needs to control which products are available. Where should the product portfolio be shared?
⚠ Common exam trap
A common mix-up: candidates confuse AWS Service Catalog portfolio sharing with other cross-account mechanisms like CloudFormation StackSets or IAM roles, failing to recognize that Service Catalog's native sharing via RAM is the correct way to control product availability for self-service provisioning.
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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Share the portfolio with the target accounts from the Service Catalog console
AWS Service Catalog allows you to share a product portfolio directly with individual AWS accounts or organizational units (OUs) within AWS Organizations. By sharing the portfolio from the Service Catalog console, the IT team can control which products are available to specific accounts, enabling self-service provisioning while maintaining governance. This approach leverages Service Catalog's native portfolio sharing mechanism, which does not require additional infrastructure or cross-account IAM roles.
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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Share the portfolio with the target accounts from the Service Catalog console
Why this is correct
Portfolio sharing enables cross-account access to products.
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Use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to deploy products to each account
Why it's wrong here
StackSets deploy stacks, not portfolios.
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Use SCPs to allow specific accounts to use Service Catalog
Why it's wrong here
SCPs do not share portfolios.
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Create IAM roles in the central account that developers can assume
Why it's wrong here
This gives access to the central account, not self-service in their own account.
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