What is the main consequence of buying observability tooling before defining the questions it should answer?
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Short Explanation
You buy the tooling first, so it collects a ton of data with no clear consumer. That means you're paying for telemetry while struggling to show what it actually improved.
Full Explanation
Buying tooling first means the deployment collects broadly without a clear consumer, so cost is incurred while operational outcomes are hard to demonstrate. Without defined questions, there is no basis for prioritising instrumentation, no criterion for judging success, and no obvious owner. The claim that the platform cannot be configured after purchase without reinstalling it is wrong: configuration continues throughout its life. The claim that telemetry collected before use cases are defined is unusable afterwards is wrong: previously collected data remains valid. The claim that licensing is calculated from the number of defined use cases is wrong: licensing is based on the monitored estate. For the exam, define use cases before or alongside procurement.