You have a Fabric workspace named Workspace1 that contains a lakehouse named Lakehouse1. You have write permissions to an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account named storage1 that contains a folder named Folder1. You plan to delete a shortcut named Shortcut1 that points to a file named File1 stored in Folder1. You run the delete operation on the following path. Lakehouse1\Files\Shortcut1 What will occur after you run the delete operation?

• A. Both Shortcut1 and File1 will be deleted
• B. The file File1 will be moved to a trash folder
• C. Only Shortcut1 will be deleted
• D. The entire folder will be deleted

Answer: (C)

Shortcuts are references to a target file, not the actual data. Deleting a shortcut removes that reference, not the underlying file.

So deleting Lakehouse1\Files\Shortcut1 removes the shortcut itself and leaves the real file File1 in Folder1 intact and accessible via its original path. It also doesn’t delete the enclosing folder. In short, only the shortcut is removed.