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Exam AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional DOP-C02 topic 1 question 134 discussion

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. The organization root has an OU that is named Environments. The Environments OU has two child OUs that are named Development and Production, respectively.

The Environments OU and the child OUs have the default FullAWSAccess policy in place. A DevOps engineer plans to remove the FullAWSAccess policy from the Development OU and replace the policy with a policy that allows all actions on Amazon EC2 resources.

What will be the outcome of this policy replacement?

  • A. All users in the Development OU will be allowed all API actions on all resources.
  • B. All users in the Development OU will be allowed all API actions on EC2 resources. All other API actions will be denied.
  • C. All users in the Development OU will be denied all API actions on all resources.
  • D. All users in the Development OU will be denied all API actions on EC2 resources. All other API actions will be allowed.
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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

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d262e67
Highly Voted 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Selected Answer: B
The key point is that "SCP inheritance works differently for Allow and Deny policies". Allowed policies are only inherited if the children don't have any Allow policy. Once they have an allow policy, only actions defined in that policy will be allowed and no "Allow" policy will be inherited from the parent(s) OUs. What inherits is the implicit Deny policy which is a hidden policy sitting above all. Check the tables in this link: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/get-more-out-of-service-control-policies-in-a-multi-account-environment/
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MalonJay
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Very good link about SCPs.
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devakram
Most Recent 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: B
I've just tested in my AWS account with the same scenario. I removed the SCP from the dev env and kept the EC2 policy, which by that I was denied access to all other operations except EC2.
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HayLLlHuK
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: B
Note: Adding an SCP with full AWS access doesn’t give all the principals in an account access to everything. SCPs don’t grant permissions; they are used to filter permissions. Principals still need a policy within the account that grants them access.
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DanShone
4 months, 1 week ago
Selected Answer: A
A - Inherited SCPs cannot be removed so FullAWSAccess will still apply
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devakram
3 months, 2 weeks ago
no, I've just tested it in my account now, and B is the true answer. Although there were inherited SCPs coming from root and env which still showed in the SCP page for that OU, after detaching the allow all SCP, I was denied access on any other API except EC2.
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thanhnv142
5 months, 3 weeks ago
B is correct: SCP have allow statement and this matchs
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sarlos
6 months ago
a is the answer
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1123lluu
7 months, 4 weeks ago
should be B, see example in here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/get-more-out-of-service-control-policies-in-a-multi-account-environment/
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zolthar_z
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Selected Answer: A
Answer is A: You can't remove heritage policy from child OU
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learnwithaniket
8 months, 1 week ago
Selected Answer: B
B is the right answer. For a permission to be allowed for a specific account, there must be an explicit Allow statement at every level from the root through each OU in the direct path to the account (including the target account itself). This is why when you enable SCPs, AWS Organizations attaches an AWS managed SCP policy named FullAWSAccess which allows all services and actions. If this policy is removed and not replaced at any level of the organization, all OUs and accounts under that level would be blocked from taking any actions. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_scps_evaluation.html
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tatarai1964
9 months, 1 week ago
Selected Answer: B
"SCP evaluation follows a deny-by-default model, meaning that any permissions not explicitly allowed in the SCPs are denied. If an allow statement is not present in the SCPs at any of the levels such as Root, Production OU or Account B, the access is denied." https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_scps_evaluation.html#:~:text=SCP%20evaluation%20follows%20a%20deny%2Dby%2Ddefault%20model%2C%20meaning%20that%20any%20permissions%20not%20explicitly%20allowed%20in%20the%20SCPs%20are%20denied.%20If%20an%20allow%20statement%20is%20not%20present%20in%20the%20SCPs%20at%20any%20of%20the%20levels%20such%20as%20Root%2C%20Production%20OU%20or%20Account%20B%2C%20the%20access%20is%20denied.
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jdx000
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: A
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_inheritance_mgmt.html
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zain1258
8 months, 2 weeks ago
This URL does not explain the SCP.
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Radeeka
11 months, 1 week ago
Selected Answer: A
Even the default policy is removed, Child OU will inherit the SCP from the Environment OU, which is AWSFullAccess. So the Child OU will still have full access.
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Gathix444
11 months, 1 week ago
Its A, the new policy is an allow policy not deny, thus all permissions are gratned to Dev OU.
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ixdb
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: B
SCP can define An allow list – actions are prohibited by default, and you specify what services and actions are allowed.
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vherman
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Selected Answer: A
A is correct. Development OU will inherit FullAccess from the Environments OU no explicit DENY in the new AllowAllEc2 Policy
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Aja1
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The answer is B. When a policy is removed from an OU, the default policy for the parent OU is inherited. In this case, the default policy for the Environments OU is FullAWSAccess, which allows all API actions on all resources. When the DevOps engineer replaces the FullAWSAccess policy with a policy that allows all actions on Amazon EC2 resources, the new policy will take precedence over the default policy. This means that all users in the Development OU will be allowed all API actions on EC2 resources. All other API actions will be denied.
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Gathix444
11 months, 1 week ago
The last part is wrong. SCP doesnt deny anything unless you explicit define it.
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yorkicurke
8 months ago
because SCPs define the maximum permissions for an organization or organizational unit (OU) in AWS Organizations. If an SCP doesn’t explicitly grant permissions for an action, then that action is implicitly denied.
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yorkicurke
8 months ago
link; https://repost.aws/questions/QUSHz1PpiJTOqWRuguGn_Trw/resource-and-iam-policy-with-scp
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FunkyFresco
1 year, 1 month ago
Selected Answer: B
B is the correct option.
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ds50421
1 year, 1 month ago
Selected Answer: B
All users in the Development OU will be allowed all API actions on EC2 resources. All other API actions will be denied.
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