SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company wants to allow developers to manage their own resources in individual AWS accounts while the central IT team manages networking and security. Which AWS service can help enforce that developers cannot modify networking resources?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many candidates confuse detective controls (AWS Config) with preventive controls (SCPs), or assume IAM roles alone can enforce cross-account restrictions without understanding that SCPs are the only mechanism to set a centralized permission boundary that cannot be bypassed by account administrators.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Use AWS Organizations Service Control Policies (SCPs) to deny networking actions for developer accounts.
AWS Organizations Service Control Policies (SCPs) allow the central IT team to define a permission guardrail that explicitly denies actions on networking resources (e.g., ec2:CreateVpc, ec2:DeleteSubnet) for developer accounts. SCPs are applied at the account or organizational unit level and cannot be overridden by any IAM policy within the account, ensuring developers cannot modify networking resources even if they have full administrative access.
Answer analysis
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Use AWS Organizations Service Control Policies (SCPs) to deny networking actions for developer accounts.
Why this is correct
SCPs can block specific actions across accounts.
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Use IAM roles to grant developers access only to their own resources.
Why it's wrong here
Developers could potentially create other roles with broader permissions.
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Use AWS Config rules to detect changes to networking resources.
Why it's wrong here
Detective controls do not prevent changes.
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Use resource tags to identify networking resources and apply IAM conditions.
Why it's wrong here
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