Exam Databricks-Certified-Data-Engineer-Associate Topic 4 Question 104 Discussion

Actual exam question for Databricks's Databricks-Certified-Data-Engineer-Associate exam
Question #: 104
Topic #: 4
A data engineer is decommissioning a sandbox schema in Unity Catalog. Some tables are ephemeral staging outputs that can be safety removed entirely, but a few tables point at shared cloud storage used by downstream jobs outside Databricks. The engineer must avoid deleting any shared files when cleaning up catalog objects.
How does Unity Catalog behave when dropping Managed vs External tables?

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In Unity Catalog, dropping a managed table deletes both the table metadata and the underlying data files, while dropping an external table removes only the catalog metadata and leaves the referenced cloud storage data intact.

by Barbara at Jul 23, 2026, 10:24 PM

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