The predefined Data Engineer role in IBM Cloud Pak for Data is designed for users responsible for creating, managing, and populating data assets. According to the official IBM documentation, this role is explicitly granted a set of permissions to perform these tasks. Among the key permissions are the ability to Create projects, which provides an environment to build and run data integration jobs, and the ability to Manage data protection rules, which is essential for implementing data governance and ensuring data is handled according to organizational policies.

A. Monitor project workload: This permission is typically associated with administrative roles responsible for platform health and resource management, not the Data Engineer role's primary function.

D. Manage platform: This is a high-level administrative permission reserved for the Administrator role, granting comprehensive control over the Cloud Pak for Data platform.

E. Manage workflows: While data engineers build and use workflows (e.g., DataStage flows), "Manage workflows" is not a distinct platform-level permission assigned to this role; it's an activity performed within a project.

1. IBM Cloud Pak for Data 4.8 Documentation

"Predefined roles and permissions."

Section: Data Engineer

Content: This official documentation explicitly lists the permissions for the Data Engineer role. It states

"Users with the Data Engineer role can... Create projects... Manage data protection rules." This directly supports the selection of options B and C.

2. IBM Cloud Pak for Data 4.8 Documentation

"Managing users."

Section: User roles and permissions

Content: This section details the different levels of authorization within the platform. It distinguishes between platform-level permissions and permissions within a specific service or asset. The permissions to "Create projects" and "Manage data protection rules" are defined as platform-level permissions granted to the Data Engineer role

whereas "Manage platform" is reserved for the Administrator.