SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
Which TWO AWS services can be used to automate the enforcement of compliance policies across multiple AWS accounts? (Choose TWO.)
⚠ Common exam trap
Watch out — candidates often confuse monitoring services (CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs) with enforcement services, or assume that infrastructure deployment tools (CloudFormation StackSets) inherently enforce compliance, when in fact they only provision resources without policy enforcement.
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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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AWS Organizations SCPs
AWS Organizations Service Control Policies (SCPs) allow you to centrally control the maximum available permissions for all accounts, enabling automated enforcement of compliance policies by restricting actions across multiple accounts without per-account configuration. AWS Config rules allow you to define rules that evaluate resource configurations against desired policies and can trigger automatic remediation actions, enforcing compliance across accounts when integrated with AWS Organizations.
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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AWS CloudTrail
Why it's wrong here
CloudTrail records API calls, does not enforce.
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AWS Organizations SCPs
Why this is correct
SCPs can deny or allow actions across accounts.
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AWS CloudFormation StackSets
Why it's wrong here
StackSets deploy resources, not enforce policies.
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Amazon VPC Flow Logs
Why it's wrong here
Flow logs capture network traffic, not compliance.
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AWS Config rules
Why this is correct
Config rules evaluate resources and can trigger remediation.
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