A customer wants to know why governance inventories should be configured before onboarding any AI use cases, rather than after. What is the best justification?
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Short Explanation
You configure the inventory first because governance needs a place to capture, assess, and manage each new AI use case. Without that structure, the use case has nowhere to be governed.
Full Explanation
Sequencing the inventory first ensures every use case has somewhere to be registered and a defined path to assessment from the moment it is onboarded. The claim that configuring inventories afterward is illegal under most AI regulations is incorrect; there is no blanket legal prohibition, and the justification is operational, not regulatory. The claim that use cases onboarded before the inventory exists cannot technically be deployed to production is incorrect; deployment is a technical capability unrelated to whether an inventory exists. The claim that inventories only work correctly if configured on the first day of a calendar quarter is incorrect; inventory configuration has no dependency on calendar timing. For the exam, justify inventory-first sequencing on the grounds of having somewhere to capture use cases, not on invented compliance or scheduling rules.