Retention and Migration Quiz

What you'll be asked

1. What is the primary purpose of a data retention policy in a pipeline?
2. When migrating a production pipeline to a new cloud provider, which strategy minimizes downtime by running both systems simultaneously before cutover?
3. You are migrating a large-scale data lake. Which of the following is the most critical step to ensure data integrity during the move?
4. If a retention policy is set to 'delete data after 30 days' but the pipeline experiences a 10-day outage, what is the most likely risk regarding data consistency?
5. During a cross-region migration of a streaming pipeline, you notice significant 'clock drift' between the source and destination event timestamps. How do you ensure idempotent processing during the migration?

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