What is a data pipeline?

What is a data pipeline?

• A. A special folder in OneLake storage where data can be exported from a lakehouse
• B. A sequence of activities to orchestrate a data ingestion or transformation process
• C. A saved Power Query
• D. A data catalog entry for a workflow

Answer: (B)

A data pipeline is the sequence of steps that moves data from a source to a destination, handling ingestion, transformation, and loading, often with orchestration to run tasks in the correct order. This captures the idea of coordinating a data ingestion or transformation process, which is why that option is the best fit. The storage-folder description refers to where data lives rather than the workflow itself; a saved Power Query is just a single query, not the entire pipeline; and a data catalog entry is metadata about data or workflows, not the execution of the data flow.

A data pipeline is the sequence of steps that moves data from a source to a destination, handling ingestion, transformation, and loading, often with orchestration to run tasks in the correct order. This captures the idea of coordinating a data ingestion or transformation process, which is why that option is the best fit. The storage-folder description refers to where data lives rather than the workflow itself; a saved Power Query is just a single query, not the entire pipeline; and a data catalog entry is metadata about data or workflows, not the execution of the data flow.