Significance of ATG staging site, DS configuration and preview server

Am a newbie to ATG. Got a question. Please read through my understanding below and find the my questions at last. Correct me if my understanding is wrong as well.
A typical staging enabled ATG will look like below (at basic level) as per my understanding so far in ATG learning,
Asset management server - Stores/Manages internal users(BCC/CA/Merchandising/ACC users), versioning commerce assets & other versioned repositories
Staging server - Unversioned/non-versioned commerce items and other repositories
Production server - Unversioned/non-versioned commerce items & other repositories and Stores/Manages External users(customer)-"core schema"
In this, the external(customers) profiles are stored only in production site.
As staging site is basically termed as replica of production site, Should the Store(customer facing) application to be deployed in staging server as well? If so, how does it will point production core schema?
Keeping this on one side, I have also heared 'preview feature/server'? Isn't this staging? what is the difference?

Thanks Shaik for your response.
Got 2 more doubts need clarification:
Question 1: You were saying staging will have replica of CORE and switcha/switchb schemas. I have tried creating an external user from BCC in my environment and it fell only in production server's CORE schema even-though I configured JTDataSource_staging to point to staging's CORE and JTDataSource_production to point to production's CORE on asset mgmt ear deployed. Is this the expected behavior? BCC only points and updates production's CORE schema? If so, how do I replicate production's CORE schema data to staging's CORE? and why the replication is necessary instead of staging pointing production's CORE schema?
Question 2:
So, isn't the staging server a 'Preview'?
Preview isn't the actual application? I was thinking 'Preview' means previewing the actual application with the newly created content before deploying to production. How do I need to configure my module in BCC to preview? how would the preview page URL would look like?

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