What Is a Data Lake

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Multiple Choice

What is a data lake?

• A) A business that collects personal information about consumers and sells that information to other organizations
• B) A storage repository that holds a vast amount of raw data in its original format until the business needs it
• C) A technique for establishing a match, or balance, between the source data and the target data warehouse
• D) An approach to business governance that values decisions that can be backed up with verifiable data
• A data lake is a storage repository that holds a vast amount of raw data in its original format until the business needs it.

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