Snowflake SNOWPRO ADVANCED ARCHITECT Exam Questions
Questions for the SNOWPRO ADVANCED ARCHITECT were updated on : Nov 14 ,2024
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Question 1
A healthcare company wants to share data with a medical institute. The institute is running a Standard edition of Snowflake; the healthcare company is running a Business Critical edition.
How can this data be shared?
- A. The healthcare company will need to change the institutes Snowflake edition in the accounts panel.
- B. By default, sharing is supported from a Business Critical Snowflake edition to a Standard edition.
- C. Contact Snowflake and they will execute the share request for the healthcare company.
- D. Set the share_restriction parameter on the shared object to false.
Answer:
c
Question 2
A company has several sites in different regions from which the company wants to ingest data.
Which of the following will enable this type of data ingestion?
- A. The company must have a Snowflake account in each cloud region to be able to ingest data to that account.
- B. The company must replicate data between Snowflake accounts.
- C. The company should provision a reader account to each site and ingest the data through the reader accounts.
- D. The company should use a storage integration for the external stage.
Answer:
a
Question 3
Files arrive in an external stage every 10 seconds from a proprietary system. The files range in size from 500 K to 3 MB. The data must be accessible by dashboards as soon as it arrives.
How can a Snowflake Architect meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of coding? (Choose two.)
- A. Use Snowpipe with auto-ingest.
- B. Use a COPY command with a task.
- C. Use a materialized view on an external table.
- D. Use the COPY INTO command.
- E. Use a combination of a task and a stream.
Answer:
ae
Question 4
How can an Architect enable optimal clustering to enhance performance for different access paths on a given table?
- A. Create multiple clustering keys for a table.
- B. Create multiple materialized views with different cluster keys.
- C. Create super projections that will automatically create clustering.
- D. Create a clustering key that contains all columns used in the access paths.
Answer:
b
Question 5
Which security, governance, and data protection features require, at a MINIMUM, the Business Critical edition of Snowflake? (Choose two.)
- A. Extended Time Travel (up to 90 days)
- B. Customer-managed encryption keys through Tri-Secret Secure
- C. Periodic rekeying of encrypted data
- D. AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud private connectivity to Snowflake
- E. Federated authentication and SSO
Answer:
bd
Question 6
An Architect runs the following SQL query:
How can this query be interpreted?
- A. FILEROWS is a stage. FILE_ROW_NUMBER is line number in file.
- B. FILEROWS is the table. FILE_ROW_NUMBER is the line number in the table.
- C. FILEROWS is a file. FILE_ROW_NUMBER is the file format location.
- D. FILERONS is the file format location. FILE_ROW_NUMBER is a stage.
Answer:
a
Question 7
A companys client application supports multiple authentication methods, and is using Okta.
What is the best practice recommendation for the order of priority when applications authenticate to Snowflake?
- A. 1. OAuth (either Snowflake OAuth or External OAuth)2. External browser3. Okta native authentication4. Key Pair Authentication, mostly used for service account users5. Password
- B. 1. External browser, SSO2. Key Pair Authentication, mostly used for development environment users3. Okta native authentication4. OAuth (ether Snowflake OAuth or External OAuth)5. Password
- C. 1. Okta native authentication2. Key Pair Authentication, mostly used for production environment users3. Password4. OAuth (either Snowflake OAuth or External OAuth)5. External browser, SSO
- D. 1. Password2. Key Pair Authentication, mostly used for production environment users3. Okta native authentication4. OAuth (either Snowflake OAuth or External OAuth)5. External browser, SSO
Answer:
b
Question 8
A Snowflake Architect is designing a multi-tenant application strategy for an organization in the Snowflake Data Cloud and is considering using an Account Per Tenant strategy.
Which requirements will be addressed with this approach? (Choose two.)
- A. There needs to be fewer objects per tenant.
- B. Security and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) policies must be simple to configure.
- C. Compute costs must be optimized.
- D. Tenant data shape may be unique per tenant.
- E. Storage costs must be optimized.
Answer:
ce
Question 9
An Architect would like to save quarter-end financial results for the previous six years.
Which Snowflake feature can the Architect use to accomplish this?
- A. Search optimization service
- B. Materialized view
- C. Time Travel
- D. Zero-copy cloning
- E. Secure views
Answer:
d
Question 10
What are some of the characteristics of result set caches? (Choose three.)
- A. Time Travel queries can be executed against the result set cache.
- B. Snowflake persists the data results for 24 hours.
- C. Each time persisted results for a query are used, a 24-hour retention period is reset.
- D. The data stored in the result cache will contribute to storage costs.
- E. The retention period can be reset for a maximum of 31 days.
- F. The result set cache is not shared between warehouses.
Answer:
bce