Quick Answer
The answer is to use AWS Organizations with a delegated administrator for IAM. This approach allows a centralized IT team to create and manage IAM roles across multiple accounts by designating a specific member account as the delegated administrator, which inherits permissions to perform IAM actions without requiring full admin rights. On the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 exam, this scenario tests your understanding of scalable, least-privilege cross-account management—a common trap is selecting full admin access or relying on individual account configurations that don’t scale. Remember that AWS Organizations enables service-linked roles and delegated administration, making it the only option that grants role creation capabilities across accounts while avoiding blanket admin privileges. A useful memory tip: think “Organizations for delegation, not elevation”—the goal is to delegate specific IAM tasks, not escalate permissions.
This SAP-C02 practice question tests your understanding of design solutions for organizational complexity. Match the stated requirement to the specific cloud service, access model, or configuration option — many options are valid in isolation but not for this scenario. 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 has a centralized IT team that manages AWS accounts for multiple departments. They need to grant the team permissions to create and manage IAM roles in all accounts, but without giving them full administrator access. What should they use?
Use AWS Single Sign-On with permission sets.
Why wrong: SSO manages access but not role creation.
Create an IAM user in each account with AdministratorAccess.
Why wrong: Grants full admin, not limited.
Use AWS Organizations with a delegated administrator for IAM.
Delegated administrator can manage IAM across accounts.
Use cross-account roles with a policy that allows iam:CreateRole.
Why wrong: Requires manual setup per account.
Answer choices
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
Use AWS Organizations with a delegated administrator for IAM.
Option B is correct because AWS Organizations allows you to create service-linked roles and delegate administration. Option A is wrong because it gives full admin. Option C is wrong because it does not scale across accounts. Option D is wrong because it is not for role creation.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
Use AWS Single Sign-On with permission sets.
Why it's wrong here
SSO manages access but not role creation.
Create an IAM user in each account with AdministratorAccess.
Why it's wrong here
Grants full admin, not limited.
Use AWS Organizations with a delegated administrator for IAM.
Why this is correct
Delegated administrator can manage IAM across accounts.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Use cross-account roles with a policy that allows iam:CreateRole.
Why it's wrong here
Requires manual setup per account.
Common exam traps
Many certification questions include familiar terms but test a specific constraint. Read the exact wording before choosing an answer that is generally true but wrong for this case.
Detailed technical explanation
This question should be treated as a scenario, not a definition check. Identify the problem, the constraint and the best action. Then compare each option against those facts.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
A company's IT admin needs to give a contractor read-only access to production logs without sharing account credentials. Using role-based access control (RBAC) and temporary scoped permissions — not a permanent shared password — is the correct pattern. Questions like this test whether you can apply least-privilege access across cloud identity services.
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..
The correct answer is: Use AWS Organizations with a delegated administrator for IAM. — Option B is correct because AWS Organizations allows you to create service-linked roles and delegate administration. Option A is wrong because it gives full admin. Option C is wrong because it does not scale across accounts. Option D is wrong because it is not for role creation.
Identify which SAP-C02 exam domain this question belongs to, then review the specific concept being tested. Practise related questions in that domain and focus on understanding why each wrong answer is tempting — not just why the correct answer is right.
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
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