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During ingestion design, a junior engineer proposes dropping rows with NULLs and casting every column to its final type before writing to the bronze table, arguing that the silver pipelines would then "just work" with no cleaning code at all. A senior engineer objects, citing the responsibilities of the medallion architecture layers. Where does this cleaning work belong, and why?

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  1. A. In the bronze layer, because bronze must store only validated, strongly typed data before any table is published
  2. B. In the gold layer, because only gold tables are schema-enforced in Unity Catalog
  3. C. In the source system, because the medallion architecture requires clean data before any ingestion
  4. D. In the silver layer — bronze should keep raw data as landed so it can be replayed and audited
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Correct answer: In the silver layer — bronze should keep raw data as landed so it can be replayed and audited

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

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Official Answer (D): In the silver layer — bronze should keep raw data as landed so it can be replayed and audited

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