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Governance

Governance on Databricks covers Unity Catalog privileges, model serving endpoint access, and secure data handling for GenAI workloads. Questions present access errors or permission scenarios involving catalogs, schemas, tables, registered models, and serving endpoints, asking you to identify the missing grant, ownership issue, or privilege inheritance rule causing the failure.

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What to know about Governance

Be able to trace an access error to the exact missing Unity Catalog privilege and grant it correctly. The single most important thing: privileges require USE CATALOG and USE SCHEMA on parents, and grants vanish when objects are dropped and recreated.

Granting USE CATALOG, USE SCHEMA, and SELECT privileges for RAG data access

Querying foundation model serving endpoints registered in Unity Catalog as models

Fine-tuning on sensitive Unity Catalog tables using row filters and column masks

Diagnosing access errors from table recreation, ownership changes, and group membership

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Common Governance exam traps

  • ▸Assuming SELECT alone suffices; USE CATALOG and USE SCHEMA are also required on parent objects.
  • ▸Forgetting that recreating a table drops its prior grants, so groups silently lose access.
  • ▸Overlooking that serving endpoint access needs explicit grants, not just model registration.

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1

A data scientist is building a GenAI application that uses the OpenAI API through Databricks external model endpoints. The application must use credentials stored securely in Databricks and must not expose the API key in code or logs. Which Databricks feature should the data scientist use to store and reference the OpenAI API key?

Medium
2

A GenAI engineer is using MLflow to track experiments for a fine-tuned language model. The engineer wants to ensure that model artifacts and parameters are governed by Unity Catalog, so that access can be controlled and audited. Which Unity Catalog object should the engineer use to register the model?

Easy
3

A generative AI team stores prompt/response logs in a Unity Catalog Delta table named `main.genai.interaction_logs`. Compliance requires that the raw `prompt_text` column be readable only by members of the `ai_compliance` group, while all other users querying the table must see the literal string `REDACTED`. Which Unity Catalog feature should be implemented directly on the table to satisfy this requirement without creating a separate view?

Medium
4

A GenAI engineer registers a vector search index in Unity Catalog that points to a Delta table containing customer support transcripts. The security team requires that when an end-user queries the index through a Databricks notebook, the underlying table's row filter and column mask policies are enforced. Which Unity Catalog feature should the engineer configure?

Medium
5

A company is deploying a GenAI chatbot that uses a Databricks Model Serving endpoint hosting a fine-tuned Llama 2 model. The endpoint is registered in Unity Catalog. The security team wants to restrict which groups can invoke the endpoint and also log all inference requests for auditing. Which combination of Unity Catalog and Databricks features should the engineer use to meet these requirements?

Hard
6

A platform team is serving a retrieval-augmented generation application. The vector index is built from a Delta table in Unity Catalog, and the team wants every similarity search executed by an end user to be automatically restricted to documents that user is allowed to see, without maintaining a separate index per department. Which approach best enforces this at query time?

Hard
7

A data engineer wants to track who accessed a specific table in Unity Catalog. Which tool should they use?

Medium
8

A GenAI engineer has built a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) application using Databricks Vector Search. The index is created on a Delta table that contains sensitive customer support transcripts. Company policy requires that end users can only retrieve chunks from documents they are authorized to view. The engineer wants to enforce this at query time without duplicating the index. Which approach should the engineer use?

Medium
9

A generative AI engineer trains a model on a Delta table that contains customer support transcripts. Before registering the model, security requires that the training data be classified so that policies can be applied consistently across the lakehouse. The engineer wants to attach a governed label to the transcript column indicating it contains sensitive personal data. Which Unity Catalog feature should be used?

Hard
10

A company wants to share a GenAI application's prompt templates and evaluation datasets with a partner organization. The partner uses its own Databricks account and must not access any other company data. The company also wants to revoke access easily. Which Unity Catalog feature should they use?

Hard
11

A data engineer wants to share a specific subset of sensitive PII data with an external department using Unity Catalog. The engineering team must ensure the data is anonymized dynamically based on the user's role without creating physical copies. Which feature is most appropriate?

Medium
12

A GenAI engineer is building a chatbot using Databricks Model Serving and needs to ensure that the endpoint can only be invoked by users who have been granted the 'genai_users' group. The endpoint is registered in Unity Catalog. Which configuration is required to enforce this access control?

Hard
13

Which action must an administrator perform to allow a user to use Databricks SQL to query a table that is stored in an external storage location?

Medium
14

A GenAI team is using MLflow to track experiments for a large language model. They want to ensure that only team members can view the experiment results and that the experiment artifacts are stored in a governed location. Which Unity Catalog integration should they use to manage MLflow experiments?

Easy
15

Which TWO of the following are primary components of the Unity Catalog identity model?

Hard
16

A GenAI platform team is preparing a Unity Catalog schema to host a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline. They will store prompt templates and evaluation datasets as Delta tables, and they need to expose the pipeline to a group of application developers. The security team asks the platform team to describe how Unity Catalog privileges must be granted for the developers to query the tables. Which TWO statements correctly describe the required privilege model? (Choose two.)

Medium
17

Which THREE conditions must be met for a user to successfully create a new table in a Unity Catalog schema?

Hard
18

Which Unity Catalog object should be used to manage access to a folder of JSON files that are not part of a formal Delta table?

Medium
19

A GenAI engineer is developing a RAG application that uses a Vector Search index. The index is created from a Delta table that contains sensitive information. The security team requires that the engineer can audit which users have queried the index and what data they retrieved. Which Unity Catalog feature should the engineer enable to capture this information?

Medium
20

A generative AI engineer registers a model in Unity Catalog and wants a downstream application to call it for inference without granting the application broad workspace access. The engineer is told to grant a specific Unity Catalog privilege on the registered model so the application can invoke it. Which privilege should be granted?

Easy
21

A GenAI engineer has built a RAG application that queries a Delta table named `prod_ai.knowledge_base.documents` through a Databricks SQL warehouse. The application uses a service principal `sp-rag-prod` to authenticate. The table contains confidential internal documents. The security team wants to ensure that the service principal can only read the table and cannot modify or delete it. Which Unity Catalog privilege should be granted to `sp-rag-prod` on the table?

Medium
22

A data scientist wants to use a Unity Catalog registered model in a GenAI pipeline. The model was trained on sensitive data, and the governance team requires that the model's lineage back to the training dataset be traceable. Which Unity Catalog capability provides this traceability?

Easy
23

What is the purpose of the 'metastores.list' command in the Unity Catalog CLI?

Hard
24

Which Unity Catalog object is used to link a specific cloud storage path to a catalog, schema, or table, allowing users to create tables without managing individual storage credentials?

Easy
25

What is the primary function of a Storage Credential in Unity Catalog?

Easy
26

A data scientist is developing a GenAI application that uses a foundation model served via Databricks Model Serving. The model endpoint is configured to log inference tables for monitoring. The data science team wants to ensure that the inference logs, which may contain sensitive user prompts, are protected according to Unity Catalog policies. Which Unity Catalog object should be used to store and govern the inference tables?

Easy
27

A healthcare company uses Databricks to build a GenAI chatbot that answers questions from patient records stored in a Delta table. The records contain PHI, and the company must ensure that the chatbot never returns PHI to unauthorized users. The security team wants to enforce policies at the data layer so that even if the LLM is manipulated, it cannot access PHI. Which Unity Catalog feature should be used to dynamically redact PHI columns based on the user's group membership?

Hard
28

A GenAI engineer is building a RAG application on Databricks. They have registered a foundation model endpoint in Unity Catalog as a model. The application needs to query the endpoint, and the engineer wants to ensure that only members of the group 'genai_team' can invoke it. Which Unity Catalog privilege must be granted on the model object to allow invocation?

Medium
29

Which Unity Catalog feature is best suited for sharing data assets with users outside of your Databricks account?

Medium
30

A data scientist is using Databricks to fine-tune a large language model. The training data is stored in a Unity Catalog table that contains sensitive customer information. The data scientist needs to read the table but should not be able to see the raw values of certain columns. Which Unity Catalog feature should be used to dynamically mask the sensitive columns based on the user's group membership?

Medium
31

A data engineer needs to ensure that sensitive PII columns are masked for specific groups while remaining visible to analysts. Which Unity Catalog feature should be used to implement this requirement?

Medium
32

Refer to the exhibit. Why did the analyst group lose access after the table was recreated?

Hard
33

Refer to the exhibit. The user is a member of the 'finance_team'. Why might the user encounter an access error when executing this join query?

Hard
34

A company is preparing a generative AI application for production and must demonstrate that model inputs and outputs are traceable and that access to sensitive prompt data is controlled. Which TWO Unity Catalog capabilities should the team rely on to meet these governance objectives? (Choose two.)

Medium
35

Refer to the exhibit. What is the current permission state for the 'analyst_group' after the execution of the REVOKE statement?

Hard
36

A GenAI engineer has written a notebook that calls the Databricks Foundation Model APIs to summarize documents. Before the notebook can run in production, the security team wants to confirm exactly which workspace users and service principals are permitted to invoke the pay-per-token foundation model endpoints. Where should the engineer point them to review and manage those permissions?

Easy
37

A healthcare company uses Databricks to build a RAG application over clinical notes stored in a Unity Catalog table. An auditor requires proof that only authorized personnel can view raw note text, while the RAG application must use embeddings generated from those notes. The team wants to avoid copying data outside Unity Catalog. Which approach best satisfies the auditor while preserving RAG functionality?

Hard
38

A GenAI engineer registers a fine-tuned model in Unity Catalog and wants a downstream application to call it through the Databricks Model Serving endpoint without embedding a long-lived personal access token in the application. The application runs on Azure Databricks and must authenticate as its own identity, and the security team requires that credentials be short-lived and automatically rotated. Which authentication approach should the engineer implement?

Hard
39

A GenAI engineer is deploying a RAG application that uses Databricks Vector Search and a Foundation Model API. The solution must comply with governance policies that require all data access and model invocations to be auditable and access-controlled at a fine-grained level. Which two Unity Catalog features should the engineer leverage to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Medium

Frequently asked questions

What does the Governance domain cover on the Databricks-GenAI-Assoc exam?
Be able to trace an access error to the exact missing Unity Catalog privilege and grant it correctly. The single most important thing: privileges require USE CATALOG and USE SCHEMA on parents, and grants vanish when objects are dropped and recreated.
How many questions are in this domain?
This page lists all 39 Governance questions in the Databricks-GenAI-Assoc question bank. The actual exam draws from this domain proportionally to its weighting in the official exam blueprint.
What is the best way to practise this domain?
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