A platform team operates a self-hosted multi-agent system on Kubernetes that orchestrates seven specialized agents for invoice processing. The team spends approximately 40 percent of engineering capacity on infrastructure maintenance, message bus reliability, and agent state recovery. The CFO has asked you to evaluate moving to managed agent infrastructure to reclaim engineering capacity. The security officer requires that all customer financial data remain within an approved network boundary.
Which factor should most heavily influence your recommendation?

• A. Whether managed agent data handling satisfies the network boundary required by security.
• B. Whether managed agents support the current bus topology used by the platform team.
• C. Whether the current seven agents map cleanly to the patterns supported by managed agents.
• D. Whether managed agents reduce per-invoice token costs across the existing processing volume.

You are reviewing a peer's draft system prompt that contains contradictory instructions: one section says never to speculate beyond the supplied source, while another says to confidently fill in any gaps.
Which response is most appropriate?

• A. Add a priority instruction directing the model to evaluate all instructions and apply whichever appears most contextually appropriate on each request.
• B. Keep both instructions and rely on the model to decide which one to follow on each request.
• C. Remove or rewrite the gap-filling instruction so the prompt consistently constrains the model to source- supported content.
• D. Increase temperature so output randomness masks the contradiction.

A Claude architect at a health services organization is defining evaluation metrics for a clinical-summary pipeline. The pipeline must remain within a per-query cost ceiling and must never surface patient data to unauthorized roles.
Which two metrics directly address these requirements? (Select two.)

• A. Role-based access-control enforcement rate measured on a red-team dataset
• B. Throughput measured as successful requests processed per minute
• C. BLEU score computed against a human-annotated reference summary set
• D. Response latency at the 95th percentile across a one-week sample window
• E. Per-query token cost measured against the defined cost ceiling

An engineer inadvertently commits an API key to the repository by placing it in .claude/settings.json.
Which configuration design principle was violated?

• A. Managed configuration must be applied before project-scope configuration is read.
• B. MCP server definitions must reside in environment variables to prevent scope conflicts.
• C. Credentials must be resolved at runtime from a secret store and never stored in version-controlled files.
• D. Project-scope configuration should always override user-scope configuration.

A team manager wants all engineers working on the same repository to share identical MCP server definitions without manual synchronization.
Which configuration approach satisfies this requirement?

• A. environment variables set at the operating-system level on each workstation
• B. project-scope .claude/settings.json and .mcp.json files committed to the repository
• C. each engineer maintains a personal ~/.claude/settings.json with the shared definitions
• D. managed configuration pushed to all endpoints by the administrator