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Answer: The changes made by Tasks A and B are persisted in the Lakehouse, while Task C's failure does not trigger a rollback of those successful tasks.
Databricks Jobs provide **failure isolation**, not cross-task atomicity. Each task in a workflow is managed as an independent unit of work. When **Task A** and **Task B** succeed, their changes are committed to the Lakehouse immediately according to the ACID properties of Delta Lake for each specific write. If **Task C** fails, only the operations within Task C are affected. While Delta Lake ensures atomicity *within* a single write operation (transaction), there is no built-in mechanism to automatically roll back multiple successful tasks in a workflow just because a downstream or parallel task fails. Therefore, the work of A and B remains intact, and Task C might be left in a partially completed state depending on how many individual transactions it contained before the failure.
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In a Databricks Workflow, a job is configured with three tasks: Task A runs first. Upon its completion, Tasks B and C are triggered to run in parallel. If Tasks A and B finish successfully but Task C fails, which of the following describes the state of the Lakehouse?
A
The changes made by Tasks A and B are persisted in the Lakehouse, while Task C's failure does not trigger a rollback of those successful tasks.
B
No changes will be saved to the Lakehouse; a failure in any task (like Task C) triggers an automatic rollback of the entire job's progress to ensure consistency.
C
Databricks uses a global commit barrier, meaning changes from Tasks A and B are only finalized and visible once Task C also succeeds.
D
The results of Tasks A and B are saved, but Databricks will automatically identify and undo every single write operation performed by Task C before the failure occurred.
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