Why should the SaaS versus self-hosted decision be made before agents are deployed?
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Short Explanation
Every agent points at a backend endpoint. If you switch models later, you'll have to touch every one of them and decide what happens to the history.
Full Explanation
The correct choice is that agents are configured to report to a specific backend, so changing the model afterwards means reconfiguring the estate and migrating or abandoning collected data. The backend endpoint and key are part of every agent's configuration. Changing model means revisiting every host and dealing with historical data in the old backend, which is either migrated or lost. The claim that agents cannot be installed until a backend has been chosen and licensed is incorrect because the objection is rework rather than a hard installation prerequisite. The claim that the agent software differs entirely between the two models is incorrect because the agent is fundamentally the same; its configuration points at a different destination. The claim that deployment model determines which sensors are available is incorrect because sensor availability is a product capability rather than a function of deployment model. For the exam, treat the architecture decision as preceding agent rollout.