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Exam DBDEA Topics: governance Difficulty: medium

A data engineer created the Unity Catalog table main.finance.risk_scores and owned it until she changed teams. No GRANT statement ever named her user, yet she could always query the table, modify its data, and grant other groups access to it. Her successor asks how that was possible. What is the explanation?

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  1. A. Object owners receive hidden grants that SHOW GRANTS deliberately omits from its output to keep listings short.
  2. B. An owner's only automatic capability is dropping the table; reads and writes still require explicitly granted privileges.
  3. C. Unity Catalog grants owners every capability on their object implicitly — including granting privileges to other principals.
  4. D. Ownership cannot be transferred after creation, so the engineer's account must keep owning the table forever.
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Correct answer: Unity Catalog grants owners every capability on their object implicitly — including granting privileges to other principals.

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

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Official Answer (C): Unity Catalog grants owners every capability on their object implicitly — including granting privileges to other principals.

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