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Exam DBDEA Topics: ingestion Difficulty: medium

A feed has a strict schema contract with the producing team: the ingested table must contain exactly the agreed columns, and anything the producer adds outside the contract must be captured for review rather than silently appearing in the table. The ingestion uses Auto Loader. How should the stream be configured?

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  1. A. Supply the agreed schema explicitly with evolution off; unexpected columns then land in the rescued data column
  2. B. Use schema inference with default evolution, so new columns appear immediately and visibly in the table for review
  3. C. Let inference run without a schema location, which freezes the schema on the first file read
  4. D. Set evolutionMode to addNewColumns and review the table's history after each run for surprises
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Correct answer: Supply the agreed schema explicitly with evolution off; unexpected columns then land in the rescued data column

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/ingestion/cloud-object-storage/auto-loader/

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