SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
Network Topology
Refer to the exhibit. A company has created a CloudTrail trail named 'my-trail' in the management account of AWS Organizations. The trail is configured to deliver logs to a central S3 bucket. The security team wants to capture all management events from all accounts in the organization. Based on the exhibit, what is the most likely issue?
⚠ Common exam trap
Watch out — candidates often assume a trail created in the management account automatically covers all organization accounts, but CloudTrail requires explicit organization trail configuration to enable cross-account logging.
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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The trail is not an organization trail
The exhibit shows that the CloudTrail trail 'my-trail' is not configured as an organization trail. In AWS Organizations, a trail must be explicitly created as an organization trail to automatically log management events from all member accounts. Without this setting, the trail only captures events from the management account, not the entire organization.
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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The trail is not a multi-region trail
Why it's wrong here
Multi-region is not required for organization-wide capture if the trail is an organization trail.
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The trail does not include global service events
Why it's wrong here
IncludeGlobalServiceEvents is true.
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The trail has log file validation enabled, which prevents cross-account delivery
Why it's wrong here
Log file validation does not affect delivery.
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The trail is not an organization trail
Why this is correct
Only organization trails automatically capture events from all accounts in the organization.
Quick reference
AWS S3 Storage Class Comparison
| Storage Class | Min Duration | Retrieval | Use Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| S3 Standard | None | Immediate | Frequently accessed data |
| S3 Standard-IA | 30 days | Immediate | Infrequent access, rapid retrieval |
| S3 One Zone-IA | 30 days | Immediate | Non-critical infrequent data |
| S3 Intelligent-Tiering | None | Immediate–hours | Unknown or changing access patterns |
| S3 Glacier Instant | 90 days | Milliseconds | Archive with instant retrieval |
| S3 Glacier Flexible | 90 days | Minutes–hours | Archive, flexible retrieval |
| S3 Glacier Deep Archive | 180 days | Hours | Long-term compliance archive |
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