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DATABRICKS-CERTIFIED-DATA-ENGINEER-ASSOCIATE · Question #76
A data engineer is attempting to drop a Spark SQL table my_table and runs the following command: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS my_table; After running this command, the engineer notices that the data files and
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Submitted by tom_us· Apr 18, 2026Data Management
Question
A data engineer is attempting to drop a Spark SQL table my_table and runs the following command: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS my_table; After running this command, the engineer notices that the data files and metadata files have been deleted from the file system. Which of the following describes why all of these files were deleted?
Options
- AThe table was managed
- BThe table's data was smaller than 10 GB
- CThe table's data was larger than 10 GB
- DThe table was external
- EThe table did not have a location
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#Spark SQL#Table Management#Managed Tables