SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company uses AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. The finance team needs to allocate costs to different departments based on resource tags. However, some resources are not tagged. What is the most effective solution?
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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Use AWS Cost Categories to create rules for untagged resources and AWS Budgets to alert when resources lack tags.
AWS Cost Categories allow allocating costs based on rules, and AWS Budgets can alert when untagged resources exist. Option A is wrong because AWS Trusted Advisor can identify untagged resources but cannot enforce cost allocation. Option B is wrong because Service Control Policies can deny creation of untagged resources but do not address cost allocation for existing untagged resources. Option D is wrong because AWS Cost Explorer can filter by tags but requires manual identification and does not automate cost allocation for untagged resources.
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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Use AWS Trusted Advisor to check for untagged resources.
Why it's wrong here
Trusted Advisor only reports, doesn't enforce.
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Use Service Control Policies to deny creation of untagged resources.
Why it's wrong here
SCPs cannot enforce tagging on all resource types.
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Use AWS Cost Categories to create rules for untagged resources and AWS Budgets to alert when resources lack tags.
Why this is correct
Cost Categories allocate costs; Budgets can trigger alerts for untagged resources.
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Use AWS Cost Explorer to filter by tags and manually identify untagged resources.
Why it's wrong here
Manual identification is inefficient.
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