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Paper 3 · Question 39

D1 Agentic Architecture & Orchestration · Paper 3

[Scenario 4: Developer Productivity with Claude] You are building developer productivity tooling on the Claude Agent SDK: helping engineers explore unfamiliar codebases, understand legacy systems, generate boilerplate, and automate repetitive tasks — using the built-in tools (Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob) plus MCP servers. You are choosing decomposition strategies for two workflows: a code review that always checks the same five aspects, and a production-incident investigation whose next step depends on what each finding reveals. Which pairing is right?

• A.Dynamic decomposition for both, since flexibility is always better
• B.Prompt chaining for both, since fixed steps are easier to test
• C.Prompt chaining (a fixed sequence of focused passes) for the predictable five-aspect review; dynamic adaptive decomposition for the investigation, where intermediate findings determine the next subtask
• D.Dynamic decomposition for the review; prompt chaining for the investigation

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Correct answer: C

A: pays adaptivity overhead on a task with no uncertainty

B: forces an investigation to follow steps written before the evidence existed

C: The selection rule: fixed sequential pipelines for predictable multi-aspect work, adaptive decomposition where the path emerges from intermediate findings. Each workflow gets the structure its uncertainty profile demands.

D: assigns each strategy to the workflow that defeats it

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