Note that on softer cheese, both of these would be same. If you see outer spores, that means they’ve grown too much on its inside and made mycel webs enough to contaminate it.

It depends on the cheese, lots of cheese have mold on the outside to begin with and some lime Roquefort has it all over it (and is all good and healthy) others shouldn’t have them like many cheap “hard” cheese.

I like blue cheese, fight me