Q36 — AWS SAP-C02 Ch.1

Question 36 of 75 | ← Chapter 1

Q111. A retail company has structured its AWS accounts to be part of an organization in AWS Organizations. The company has set up consolidated billing and has mapped its departments to the following OUs: Finance Sales, Human Resources (HR), Marketing, and Operations. Each OU has multiple AWS accounts, one for each environment within a department. These environments are development. test.pre-production. and Production.The HR department is releasing a new system that will launch in 3 months. In preparation. the HR department has purchased several Reserved Instances (RIs) in its production AWS account. The HR department will install the new application on this account. The HR department wants to make sure that other departments cannot share the RI discountsWhich solution will meet these requirements?

• A. In the AWS Billing and Cost Management console for the HR department's production account, turn off RI sharing
• B. Remove the HR department's production AWS account from the organization. Add the account to the consolidating billing configuration only
• C. In the AWS Billing and Cost Management console, use the organization's management account to turn off RI sharing for the HR department's production AWS account ✓
• D. Create an SCP in the organization to restrict access to the RIs. Apply the SCP to the OUs of the other departments

Correct Answer: C. In the AWS Billing and Cost Management console, use the organization's management account to turn off RI sharing for the HR department's production AWS account

Explanation

To meet the requirement of ensuring that other departments cannot share the Reserved Instance (RI) discounts of the HR department's production AWS account, the recommended solution is: C. In the AWS Billing and Cost Management console, use the organization's management account to turn off RI sharing for the HR department's production AWS account. Explanation: C. In the AWS Billing and Cost Management console, use the organization's management account to turn off RI sharing for the HR department's production AWS account: By using the organization's management account, you can access the Billing and Cost Management console and disable RI sharing specifically for the HR department's production account. This ensures that the RI discounts are not shared with other departments. Option A is incorrect because turning off RI sharing in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console of the HR department's production account would only affect sharing RIs with other accounts within the same AWS account, not with other departments' accounts. Option B is incorrect because removing the HR department's production AWS account from the organization and adding it to the consolidated billing configuration would not prevent other departments from sharing RI discounts. Option D is incorrect because creating an SCP in the organization to restrict access to the RIs and applying the SCP to the OUs of the other departments would control general access and permissions within the organization, but it would not specifically address the requirement of preventing other departments from sharing RI discounts with the HR department. Therefore, the recommended solution is C: In the AWS Billing and Cost Management console, use the organization's management account to turn off RI sharing for the HR department's production AWS account.