SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
This SAP-C02 practice question tests your understanding of design solutions for organizational complexity. This is a configuration task: choose the command set that satisfies every stated requirement. Small differences — like 'secret' vs 'password' or 'transport input ssh' vs 'all' — change whether the answer is correct. After answering, compare your reasoning against the explanation and wrong-answer breakdown below. Once you have made your selection, read the full explanation to reinforce the concept and understand why each distractor is designed to mislead on exam day.
A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to establish a central logging solution. They need to collect CloudTrail logs from all accounts and store them in a central S3 bucket in the management account. Which THREE steps are required to achieve this?
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 a new CloudTrail trail in the management account with organization trail enabled.
Option C is correct because enabling organization trail in the management account allows CloudTrail to automatically create a trail that logs events for all accounts in the AWS Organization, eliminating the need to manually enable CloudTrail in each member account. This is the only way to centrally collect CloudTrail logs from all accounts without individual account configuration.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
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 an AWS Config rule to monitor CloudTrail configuration.
Why it's wrong here
Config rule is optional and not a required step.
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Apply a service control policy (SCP) to enforce CloudTrail logging.
Why it's wrong here
SCPs are not required; the organization trail covers all accounts.
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Create a new CloudTrail trail in the management account with organization trail enabled.
Why this is correct
An organization trail automatically applies to all accounts.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
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Configure the trail to deliver logs to a central S3 bucket in the management account.
Why this is correct
This centralizes the logs.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
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Enable CloudTrail in each member account individually.
Why this is correct
Ensures logging is active in each account.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Common exam traps
Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
The trap here is that candidates often think they must enable CloudTrail in each member account individually (Option E) or use SCPs to enforce logging (Option B), but the organization trail feature in the management account handles both the creation and central delivery automatically.
Detailed technical explanation
How to think about this question
When an organization trail is created in the management account, CloudTrail creates a trail with the 'IsOrganizationTrail' attribute set to true, which instructs CloudTrail to replicate the trail configuration to all member accounts. Logs from each account are delivered to the specified S3 bucket using a bucket policy that grants cross-account write access from the CloudTrail service principal (cloudtrail.amazonaws.com) for all organization accounts. This design ensures that even if a member account is added later, logging is automatically enabled without manual intervention.
KKey Concepts to Remember
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Find the constraint that changes the correct option.
Eliminate answers that are true in general but not in this case.
TExam Day Tips
→Watch for words such as best, first, most likely and least administrative effort.
→Review why wrong options are wrong, not only why the correct option is correct.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
How this comes up in practice
A media company stores terabytes of video archives that are accessed once a year for audit purposes. Moving these objects to a cold storage tier (Azure Archive, S3 Glacier, or Google Nearline) costs a fraction of hot storage. Questions like this test whether you understand storage tiers, access frequency tradeoffs, and retrieval latency requirements.
What to study next
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Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity — This question tests Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Create a new CloudTrail trail in the management account with organization trail enabled. — Option C is correct because enabling organization trail in the management account allows CloudTrail to automatically create a trail that logs events for all accounts in the AWS Organization, eliminating the need to manually enable CloudTrail in each member account. This is the only way to centrally collect CloudTrail logs from all accounts without individual account configuration.
What should I do if I get this SAP-C02 question wrong?
Identify which exam domain this question belongs to, review the core concept, then practise similar questions from the same domain.
What is the key concept behind this question?
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
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