A bank's ingestion team wants partner files to land in an unvalidated area, move to a validated area only after quality rules pass, and then feed a consumer layer. Which Google Cloud construct organizes this with governed zones?
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Answer: D
Dataplex organizes data into lakes that contain zones, typically raw zones for landing data and curated zones for validated data. Data quality tasks evaluate the data in a zone, and an orchestration step can promote it only when the checks pass. A single dataset with stage flags mixes stages and makes governance harder. Folder prefixes carry no governance metadata, and separate organizations add administrative overhead without solving the promotion problem.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. A flag column mixes unvalidated and validated rows in one dataset, so consumers can read raw records by accident and access policies cannot differ by stage.
- B. Naming conventions are only a convention. Without zone metadata or quality tasks, nothing enforces that data was validated before it moved forward.
- C. Organizations are tenancy and policy boundaries for a company. Creating one per pipeline stage is heavy, and it still lacks built-in quality gating.