Databricks Certified Data Engineer - Professional

Correct Answer: B. Use streaming tables for bronze quality data and streaming live tables for silver and gold quality data.

Explanation:

This is the recommended best practice because:

• Streaming tables are ideal for bronze quality data (raw data ingestion) as they provide low-latency ingestion capabilities for streaming data sources
• Streaming live tables are better suited for silver and gold quality data as they support more complex transformations, data quality constraints, and incremental processing pipelines

This approach ensures:

• Efficient raw data ingestion with minimal latency
• Proper data quality enforcement and transformations in later stages
• Scalable and maintainable streaming data pipelines
• Clear separation between ingestion and transformation layers