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SAP-C02 · Question #310

A financial company with multiple departments wants to expand its on-premises environment to the AWS Cloud. The company must retain centralized access control using an existing on- premises Active…

The correct answer is B. Deploy an AWS Control Tower landing zone. Create an AD Connector linked to the on-premises. AWS Control Tower automates the setup of a new landing zone using best-practices blueprints for identity, federated access, and account structure. The account factory automates provisioning of new accounts in your organization. As a configurable account template, it helps you…

Submitted by olafpl· Mar 6, 2026Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity

Question

A financial company with multiple departments wants to expand its on-premises environment to the AWS Cloud. The company must retain centralized access control using an existing on- premises Active Directory (AD) service. Each department should be allowed to create AWS accounts with preconfigured networking and should have access to only a specific list of approved services. Departments are not permitted to have account administrator permissions. What should a solutions architect do to meet these security requirements?

Options

  • AConfigure AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) with a SAML identity provider (IdP) linked
  • BDeploy an AWS Control Tower landing zone. Create an AD Connector linked to the on-premises
  • CDeploy an Amazon Cloud Directory.
  • DConfigure AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory with AWS Single Sign-On.

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • A
    21% (7)
  • B
    64% (21)
  • C
    6% (2)
  • D
    9% (3)

Explanation

AWS Control Tower automates the setup of a new landing zone using best-practices blueprints for identity, federated access, and account structure. The account factory automates provisioning of new accounts in your organization. As a configurable account template, it helps you standardize the provisioning of new accounts with pre-approved account configurations. You can configure your account factory with pre-approved network configuration and region selections. https://aws.amazon.com/controltower/features/

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