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Exam DBDEA Topics: ingestion Difficulty: easy

A company is building its lakehouse on the medallion architecture. Several sources feed the first layer: Parquet files in Amazon S3, events from Kafka, and Salesforce data through Lakeflow Connect. Before any transformation is applied, the engineers must agree on what this first layer should contain. Which statement best describes what belongs in that first layer?

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  1. A. Joins and aggregations across all the sources, so that downstream layers only need lightweight filtering to serve consumers
  2. B. Cleaned, deduplicated, and validated records, so later layers can assume the data is already correct
  3. C. The raw source data landed as-is and appended incrementally, preserving the original state as the source of truth
  4. D. Aggregated KPIs for executives, while the raw data stays in an archive bucket outside Unity Catalog
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Correct answer: The raw source data landed as-is and appended incrementally, preserving the original state as the source of truth

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/lakehouse/medallion

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Official Answer (C): The raw source data landed as-is and appended incrementally, preserving the original state as the source of truth

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