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A Security Administrator is restricting the capabilities of company root user accounts. The company uses AWS Organizations and has enabled it for all feature sets, including consolidated billing. The top-level account is used for billing and administrative purposes, not for operational AWS resource purposes.
How can the Administrator restrict usage of member root user accounts across the organization?

  • A. Disable the use of the root user account at the organizational root. Enable multi-factor authentication of the root user account for each organizational member account.
  • B. Configure IAM user policies to restrict root account capabilities for each Organizations member account.
  • C. Create an organizational unit (OU) in Organizations with a service control policy that controls usage of the root user. Add all operational accounts to the new OU.
  • D. Configure AWS CloudTrail to integrate with Amazon CloudWatch Logs and then create a metric filter for RootAccountUsage.
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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️

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josellama2000
Highly Voted 3 years, 7 months ago
Correct is C A is incorrect. organization root includes every user/group account in every account B is incorrect. Correct, may be a Identity-based policy applied to the root user on each account D is incorrect. This will not modify user's access or permission Applying a "Control Policy" in your organization. A policy applied to: 1) root applies to all accounts in the organization 2) OU applies to all accounts in the OU and to any child OUs 3) account applies to one account only Note- this requires that Acquirements: -all features are enabled for the organization in AWS Organizations -Only service control policy (SCP) are supported https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies.html
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yd_h
2 years, 1 month ago
A is incorrect because there is no such "feature" offered by AWS to disable root user access from the management account. The way you could do that is by using SCPs. From the docs: "We recommend that you create a service control policy (SCP) in the organization and attach it to the organization's root so that it applies to all member accounts." ( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/best-practices_member-acct.html) "SCPs affect only member accounts in the organization. They have no effect on users or roles in the management account. (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_scps.html)
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BillyC
Highly Voted 3 years, 7 months ago
The Correct Answer is C
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Benah
Most Recent 1 year, 7 months ago
C is correct Create an organizational unit (OU) in Organizations with a service control policy that controls usage of the root user. Add all operational accounts to the new OU.
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ITGURU51
1 year, 11 months ago
We can used OU's and service control policies to provision the appropriate amount of permissions for your accounts.
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gg12345
2 years, 5 months ago
Selected Answer: C
C - Seems like the best answer
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gondohwe
2 years, 8 months ago
SCPs can do this job in multi-account environment.....C is the way
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ideoignus
3 years, 2 months ago
Selected Answer: C
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/best-practices_member-acct.html#best-practices_mbr-acct_scp
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sanjaym
3 years, 6 months ago
Ans: C 100%
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akbntc
3 years, 6 months ago
My vote is also for C
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devjava
3 years, 6 months ago
Ans > C
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AfricanCloudGuru
3 years, 6 months ago
Ans (C) Becuase Service Control Policy are available only in an organization that has all features enabled. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_scps.html
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DanMuniz
3 years, 6 months ago
Correct is C. SCPs affect all users and roles in attached accounts, including the root user. The only exceptions are those described in Tasks and entities not restricted by SCPs. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_scps.html IAM policies can not deny a user if such is a root account.
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freddyman
3 years, 6 months ago
C is the answer IMHO. Interestingly though you can apply an SCP along the chain of the OU hierarchy and have it apply to sub-OUs, as the effective permissions are the union of all the permissions in the SCP hierarchy, plus IAM permissions.
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patelsam
3 years, 6 months ago
C is correct answer
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IfyEze
3 years, 6 months ago
C ANSWER
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inf
3 years, 6 months ago
Answer: C (as everyone else states) https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/general/latest/gr/root-vs-iam.html "You can only use an AWS Organizations service control policy (SCP) to limit permissions to an account, including the root user, that is a member of an organization or organizational unit (OU)"
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RaySmith
3 years, 6 months ago
C is correct
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