Which statement best summarises when cloud service and serverless agents should be used?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Use cloud service and serverless agents for provider-managed resources where you can't install a host agent. You also grant the cloud account the permissions those agents need to read the provider's monitoring data. They don't replace host agents when a host exists.
Full Explanation
The correct statement says to use them for provider-managed resources where no host agent can be installed, and to grant the cloud account permissions those agents need to read the provider's monitoring data. These agent types exist for resources the provider operates on your behalf. Choosing them is a design decision based on who controls the host, and their effectiveness depends on the cloud permissions granted to them.
Using them everywhere in cloud environments, replacing host agents on virtual machines and clusters as well, is incorrect because host agents give richer visibility where a host exists, including process and infrastructure detail these agents cannot see.
Using them only when host agents have already been tried and have failed to install is incorrect because agent selection should follow from the resource type rather than from a failed installation attempt.
Using them as a reporting layer over provider billing data is incorrect because they collect operational telemetry through monitoring APIs, not cost data.
For the exam, state both halves: the right agent type for managed resources, and the permissions it requires.