Which statement reflects an advantage of plaintext logs enabling policy updates?

• A. Easy to define and change
• B. Hard to standardize
• C. Requires binary format
• D. Not human-readable

Answer: (A)

Plaintext logs are easy to define and change because their content is human-readable and editable. When policy processing relies on log data, you can inspect the entries, understand exactly what is captured, and modify the logging policy or the rules that act on those logs by editing a simple text file. This makes updates quick and collaborative: you can tweak what gets logged, adjust formats, or change alert thresholds and deploy those changes with minimal tooling. You can also use version control to track and roll back changes. If logs required binary formatting or were not readable, or if standardization was difficult, updating policies would be much slower and would demand more specialized tools.