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Exam DBDEA Topics: governance Difficulty: medium

A global company syncs its Databricks groups from its identity provider using automatic identity management. The group data-latam is a nested member of the corporate group data-global, which holds SELECT on the catalog analytics. A data engineer whose only group is data-latam runs a query against a table in analytics. What happens?

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  1. A. The query fails: Databricks groups cannot be nested, so data-latam would have to be flattened into data-global before any grant can apply.
  2. B. The query succeeds: members of nested groups inherit the parent's permissions, so the SELECT granted to data-global applies to data-latam's members.
  3. C. The query fails: privileges granted to a group apply only to the users and service principals listed as its direct members.
  4. D. The query succeeds, but only because Unity Catalog automatically duplicates the parent's grant onto every child group at the moment the nesting is created.
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Correct answer: The query succeeds: members of nested groups inherit the parent's permissions, so the SELECT granted to data-global applies to data-latam's members.

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

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Official Answer (B): The query succeeds: members of nested groups inherit the parent's permissions, so the SELECT granted to data-global applies to data-latam's members.

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