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Exam DBDEA Topics: governance Difficulty: easy

A platform team supports about 60 analysts who join and leave the company frequently, plus a scheduled ingestion pipeline that runs unattended every night. The team wants to manage Unity Catalog access with minimal maintenance while keeping a clear audit trail of who did what. How should they assign privileges?

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  1. A. Grant SELECT on the analysts' tables to each analyst's individual user account, re-running the grants whenever someone joins or leaves.
  2. B. Grant all privileges to a shared analytics_admin user account and have all analysts sign in with it.
  3. C. Grant privileges to the nightly pipeline's cluster configuration, because compute-level grants cover everyone who attaches to it.
  4. D. Add analysts to groups and grant privileges to the groups; run the pipeline under a service principal granted only the privileges it needs.
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Correct answer: Add analysts to groups and grant privileges to the groups; run the pipeline under a service principal granted only the privileges it needs.

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/data-governance/unity-catalog/

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