You are part of a healthcare organization where data is organized and managed by respective data owners in various storage services. As a result of this decentralized ecosystem, discovering and…

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• DUse Dataplex to manage data, track data lineage, and perform data quality validation.

• D
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Explanation

Dataplex is Google Cloud's unified data management service purpose-built for decentralized, multi-storage ecosystems - making it the precise fit for this scenario. It natively addresses all three requirements in a single service: it organizes data across lakes, warehouses, and marts (management/discovery), automatically tracks data lineage end-to-end, and provides built-in data quality validation rules without needing custom pipelines.

Why distractors are wrong (typical alternatives in this question type):

• Data Catalog alone handles discovery and metadata tagging but lacks built-in lineage tracking and data quality validation.
• Cloud Data Fusion focuses on ETL/pipeline orchestration - it doesn't manage a decentralized data ecosystem or perform quality validation natively.
• BigQuery is a data warehouse, not a data governance layer; it can't manage data spread across multiple heterogeneous storage services.
• Manual solutions (e.g., custom scripts + Cloud Storage) would be neither cost-optimized nor quick to implement.

Memory tip: Think of Dataplex as the "data estate manager" - when a question mentions a decentralized or multi-storage environment needing governance (discover + lineage + quality), Dataplex is almost always the answer. The three keywords Discover → Track → Validate map directly to Dataplex's three core capabilities.

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