A data engineering team has created a Delta Lake table named `customers_clone` using the query `CREATE TABLE customers_clone AS SELECT * FROM customers`. If a data engineer attempts to drop this table with the command `DROP TABLE customers_clone`, what will be the outcome?*_

Real Exam

An error will occur because the table is a deep clone of the customers table.

3.4%

Only the table's metadata will be removed from the catalog, leaving the data files intact in storage.

22.5%

Both the table's metadata and the associated data files will be permanently deleted.

60.7%

The table will remain until a VACUUM command is executed.

9.0%

An error will occur because the table is a shallow clone of the customers table.

4.5%

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