Which statement about ingestion into a governed lakehouse is correct?
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Short Explanation
You need ingestion to preserve the schema contract, handle quality failures explicitly, and capture governance metadata as data arrives. That’s what makes downstream governance and trust possible.
Full Explanation
The correct statement is that ingestion should preserve the schema contract, handle quality failures explicitly, and capture governance metadata as data arrives. The load boundary is where structure is enforced, quality failures are dealt with deliberately, and provenance is recorded. Getting that right is what makes downstream governance and trust possible.
Speed-only ingestion, deferring governance to consuming tools, is wrong because consuming tools govern one path only, and speed achieved by skipping checks delivers unreliable data quickly.
Store-only-summarised ingestion, assuming detail can always be re-requested from the source, is wrong because re-requesting detail assumes the source retains it and that someone can afford to reload history when a new question arrives.
Schema-free ingestion, so source changes never break a load, is wrong because removing the schema removes the consumer contract; the correct response to source change is deliberate schema evolution.
For the exam, ingestion is a governance boundary, not merely a transport step.