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Which of the following must be specified when creating a new Delta Live Tables pipeline?

The correct answer is C. A path to cloud storage location for the written data. When creating a Delta Live Tables pipeline in Databricks, a cloud storage location for the pipeline's output data is a required field. This path tells DLT where to write the managed tables, checkpoints, and event logs it produces. Without a storage location, the pipeline has…

Submitted by takeshi77· Apr 18, 2026ELT with Spark SQL and Python

Question

Which of the following must be specified when creating a new Delta Live Tables pipeline?

Options

  • AA key-value pair configuration
  • BThe preferred DBU/hour cost
  • CA path to cloud storage location for the written data
  • DA location of a target database for the written data
  • EAt least one notebook library to be executed

How the community answered

(63 responses)
  • A
    5% (3)
  • B
    3% (2)
  • C
    90% (57)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

When creating a Delta Live Tables pipeline in Databricks, a cloud storage location for the pipeline's output data is a required field. This path tells DLT where to write the managed tables, checkpoints, and event logs it produces. Without a storage location, the pipeline has nowhere to persist its results. A target database (option D) is optional - it controls whether tables are published to the metastore, but the pipeline can still write data to storage without one. Key-value configurations and DBU cost preferences are optional. While a notebook library containing pipeline definitions is practically necessary to define any logic, the storage path is the explicitly required infrastructure field during pipeline creation.

Topics

#Delta Live Tables#Pipeline Creation#Cloud Storage#Data Residency

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