SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to centrally manage backups for EC2 instances across multiple accounts. They want to create a backup plan that backs up all EC2 instances tagged with Backup=Weekly. The backup must be stored in a central backup vault in the management account. Which solution meets these requirements?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Use AWS Backup with a backup policy in AWS Organizations to centrally manage backups across accounts.
AWS Backup can be configured across accounts using backup policies in AWS Organizations, which can apply a backup plan to resources in member accounts based on tags. Option A is wrong because creating a backup plan in each account is not central management and requires manual setup. Option B is wrong because CloudFormation StackSets deploy infrastructure but do not dynamically manage backups based on tags. Option D is wrong because Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager is for automated EBS snapshots, not for centralized backup management across accounts.
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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Create a backup plan in each account targeting the tagged instances and store backups in the management account's vault using cross-account backup.
Why it's wrong here
Creating a backup plan in each account is not central management and requires manual setup.
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Use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to deploy a backup plan to each account.
Why it's wrong here
CloudFormation StackSets deploy infrastructure but do not dynamically manage backups based on tags.
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Use AWS Backup with a backup policy in AWS Organizations to centrally manage backups across accounts.
Why this is correct
AWS Backup can be configured across accounts using backup policies in AWS Organizations, which can apply a backup plan to resources in member accounts based on tags.
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Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to create cross-account snapshot copies for tagged instances.
Why it's wrong here
Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager is for automated EBS snapshots, not for centralized backup management across accounts.
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