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Exam DBDEA Topics: governance Difficulty: medium

An external security auditor is reviewing how the company's lakehouse reaches its cloud storage. The platform lead explains that one Unity Catalog object encapsulates the cloud credential — an AWS IAM role — that authorizes access to storage paths, and the auditor asks who in the platform can create that object. Which explanation is accurate?

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  1. A. Any lakehouse user can create a storage credential whenever they register a new cloud storage path for their team.
  2. B. A storage credential is created at the metastore level by a metastore admin or a principal granted CREATE STORAGE CREDENTIAL.
  3. C. Storage credentials live inside individual schemas, next to the tables and volumes that read from their storage paths.
  4. D. Storage credentials are account-wide objects that every user shares automatically, with no Unity Catalog privilege required to use them.
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Correct answer: A storage credential is created at the metastore level by a metastore admin or a principal granted CREATE STORAGE CREDENTIAL.

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

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