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SnowPro-Core Practice Exam Questions with Answers SnowPro Core Certification Exam Certification

Question # 6

How can a user improve the performance of a single large complex query in Snowflake?

A.

Scale up the virtual warehouse.

B.

Scale out the virtual warehouse.

C.

Enable standard warehouse scaling.

D.

Enable economy warehouse scaling.

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Question # 7

What is the difference between a stored procedure and a User-Defined Function (UDF)?

A.

Stored procedures can execute database operations while UDFs cannot.

B.

Returning a value is required in a stored procedure while returning values in a UDF is optional.

C.

Values returned by a stored procedure can be used directly in a SQL statement while the values returned by a UDF cannot.

D.

Multiple stored procedures can be called as part of a single executable statement while a single SQL statement can only call one UDF at a time.

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Question # 8

If a Snowflake user decides a table should be clustered, what should be used as the cluster key?

A.

The columns that are queried in the select clause.

B.

The columns with very high cardinality.

C.

The columns with many different values.

D.

The columns most actively used in the select filters.

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Question # 9

A company needs to read multiple terabytes of data for an initial load as part of a Snowflake migration. The company can control the number and size of CSV extract files.

How does Snowflake recommend maximizing the load performance?

A.

Use auto-ingest Snowpipes to load large files in a serverless model.

B.

Produce the largest files possible, reducing the overall number of files to process.

C.

Produce a larger number of smaller files and process the ingestion with size Small virtual warehouses.

D.

Use an external tool to issue batched row-by-row inserts within BEGIN TRANSACTION and COMMIT commands.

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Question # 10

Which feature allows a user the ability to control the organization of data in a micro-partition?

A.

Range Partitioning

B.

Search Optimization Service

C.

Automatic Clustering

D.

Horizontal Partitioning

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Question # 11

Which privilege is required for a role to be able to resume a suspended warehouse if auto-resume is not enabled?

A.

USAGE

B.

OPERATE

C.

MONITOR

D.

MODIFY

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Question # 12

Snowflake's hierarchical key mode includes which keys? (Select TWO).

A.

Account master keys

B.

Database master keys

C.

File keys

D.

Secure view keys

E.

Schema master keys

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Question # 13

Which Snowflake URL type is used by directory tables?

A.

File

B.

Pre-signed

C.

Scoped

D.

Virtual-hosted style

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Question # 14

Two users share a virtual warehouse named wh dev 01. When one of the users loads data, the other one experiences performance issues while querying data.

How does Snowflake recommend resolving this issue?

A.

Scale up the existing warehouse.

B.

Create separate warehouses for each user.

C.

Create separate warehouses for each workload.

D.

Stop loading and querying data at the same time.

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Question # 15

What are benefits of using Snowpark with Snowflake? (Select TWO).

A.

Snowpark uses a Spark engine to generate optimized SQL query plans.

B.

Snowpark automatically sets up Spark within Snowflake virtual warehouses.

C.

Snowpark does not require that a separate cluster be running outside of Snowflake.

D.

Snowpark allows users to run existing Spark code on virtual warehouses without the need to reconfigure the code.

E.

Snowpark executes as much work as possible in the source databases for all operations including User-Defined Functions (UDFs).

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Question # 16

Data storage for individual tables can be monitored using which commands and/or objects? (Choose two.)

A.

SHOW STORAGE BY TABLE;

B.

SHOW TABLES;

C.

Information Schema -> TABLE_HISTORY

D.

Information Schema -> TABLE_FUNCTION

E.

Information Schema -> TABLE_STORAGE_METRICS

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Question # 17

What is a responsibility of Snowflake’s virtual warehouses?

A.

Infrastructure management

B.

Metadata management

C.

Query execution

D.

Query parsing and optimization

E.

Permanent storage of micro-partitions

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Question # 18

A tabular User-Defined Function (UDF) is defined by specifying a return clause that contains which keyword?

A.

ROW_NUMBER

B.

TABLE

C.

TABULAR

D.

VALUES

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Question # 19

What is the MAXIMUM size limit for a record of a VARIANT data type?

A.

8MB

B.

16MB

C.

32MB

D.

128MB

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Question # 20

Credit charges for Snowflake virtual warehouses are calculated based on which of the following considerations? (Choose two.)

A.

The number of queries executed

B.

The number of active users assigned to the warehouse

C.

The size of the virtual warehouse

D.

The length of time the warehouse is running

E.

The duration of the queries that are executed

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Question # 21

Which statements reflect key functionalities of a Snowflake Data Exchange? (Choose two.)

A.

If an account is enrolled with a Data Exchange, it will lose its access to the Snowflake Marketplace.

B.

A Data Exchange allows groups of accounts to share data privately among the accounts.

C.

A Data Exchange allows accounts to share data with third, non-Snowflake parties.

D.

Data Exchange functionality is available by default in accounts using the Enterprise edition or higher.

E.

The sharing of data in a Data Exchange is bidirectional. An account can be a provider for some datasets and a consumer for others.

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Question # 22

In which Snowflake layer does Snowflake reorganize data into its internal optimized, compressed, columnar format?

A.

Cloud Services

B.

Database Storage

C.

Query Processing

D.

Metadata Management

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Question # 23

How often are the Account and Table master keys automatically rotated by Snowflake?

A.

30 Days

B.

60 Days

C.

90 Days

D.

365 Days.

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Question # 24

When unloading data to an external stage, what is the MAXIMUM file size supported?

A.

1 GB

B.

5 GB

C.

10 GB

D.

16 GB

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Question # 25

Which REST API can be used with unstructured data?

A.

inscrtFilcs

B.

insertReport

C.

GET /api/tiles/

D.

loadHistoryScan

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Question # 26

Which Snowflake object helps evaluate virtual warehouse performance impacted by query queuing?

A.

Resource monitor

B.

Account_usage. query_history

C.

Information_schema.warehouse_load_history

D.

Information schema.warehouse metering history

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Question # 27

Which formats does Snowflake store unstructured data in? (Choose two.)

A.

GeoJSON

B.

Array

C.

XML

D.

Object

E.

BLOB

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Question # 28

What is the purpose of using the OBJECT_CONSTRUCT function with me COPY INTO command?

A.

Reorder the rows in a relational table and then unload the rows into a file

B.

Convert the rows in a relational table lo a single VARIANT column and then unload the rows into a file.

C.

Reorder the data columns according to a target table definition and then unload the rows into the table.

D.

Convert the rows in a source file to a single variant column and then load the rows from the file to a variant table.

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Question # 29

What are valid sub-clauses to the OVER clause for a window function? (Select TWO).

A.

GROUP BY

B.

LIMIT

C.

ORDER BY

D.

PARTITION BY

E.

UNION ALL

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Question # 30

Which SQL command can be used to verify the privileges that are granted to a role?

A.

SHOW GRANTS ON ROLE

B.

SHOW ROLES

C.

SHOW GRANTS TO ROLE

D.

SHOW GRANTS FOR ROLE

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Question # 31

What type of function returns one value for each Invocation?

A.

Aggregate

B.

Scalar

C.

Table

D.

Window

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Question # 32

Which command should be used to unload all the rows from a table into one or more files in a named stage?

A.

COPY INTO

B.

GET

C.

INSERT INTO

D.

PUT

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Question # 33

When referring to User-Defined Function (UDF) names in Snowflake, what does the term overloading mean?

A.

There are multiple SOL UDFs with the same names and the same number of arguments.

B.

There are multiple SQL UDFs with the same names and the same number of argument types.

C.

There are multiple SQL UDFs with the same names but with a different number of arguments or argument types.

D.

There are multiple SQL UDFs with different names but the same number of arguments or argument types.

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Question # 34

What is the only supported character set for loading and unloading data from all supported file formats?

A.

UTF-8

B.

UTF-16

C.

ISO-8859-1

D.

WINDOWS-1253

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Question # 35

A Snowflake user is writing a User-Defined Function (UDF) that includes some unqualified object names.

How will those object names be resolved during execution?

A.

Snowflake will resolve them according to the SEARCH_PATH parameter.

B.

Snowflake will only check the schema the UDF belongs to.

C.

Snowflake will first check the current schema, and then the schema the previous query used

D.

Snowflake will first check the current schema, and them the PUBLIC schema of the current database.

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Question # 36

Which data types optimally store semi-structured data? (Select TWO).

A.

ARRAY

B.

CHARACTER

C.

STRING

D.

VARCHAR

E.

VARIANT

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Question # 37

What is used to denote a pre-computed data set derived from a SELECT query specification and stored for later use?

A.

View

B.

Secure view

C.

Materialized view

D.

External table

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Question # 38

The effects of query pruning can be observed by evaluating which statistics? (Select TWO).

A.

Partitions scanned

B.

Partitions total

C.

Bytes scanned

D.

Bytes read from result

E.

Bytes written

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Question # 39

User1, who has the SYSADMIN role, executed a query on Snowsight. User2, who is in the same Snowflake account, wants to view the result set of the query executed by User1 using the Snowsight query history.

What will happen if User2 tries to access the query history?

A.

If User2 has the sysadmin role they will be able to see the results.

B.

If User2 has the securityadmin role they will be able to see the results.

C.

If User2 has the ACCOUNTADMIN role they will be able to see the results.

D.

User2 will be unable to view the result set of the query executed by User1.

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Question # 40

How are network policies defined in Snowflake?

A.

They are a set of rules that define the network routes within Snowflake.

B.

They are a set of rules that dictate how Snowflake accounts can be used between multiple users.

C.

They are a set of rules that define how data can be transferred between different Snowflake accounts within an organization.

D.

They are a set of rules that control access to Snowflake accounts by specifying the IP addresses or ranges of IP addresses that are allowed to connect

to Snowflake.

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Question # 41

How can a user get the MOST detailed information about individual table storage details in Snowflake?

A.

SHOW TABLES command

B.

SHOW EXTERNAL TABLES command

C.

TABLES view

D.

TABLE STORAGE METRICS view

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Question # 42

What is the Fail-safe retention period for transient and temporary tables?

A.

0 days

B.

1 day

C.

7 days

D.

90 days

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Question # 43

What is the MINIMUM permission needed to access a file URL from an external stage?

A.

MODIFY

B.

READ

C.

SELECT

D.

USAGE

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Question # 44

If a virtual warehouse runs for 61 seconds, shut down, and then restart and runs for 30 seconds, for how many seconds is it billed?

A.

60

B.

91

C.

120

D.

121

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Question # 45

Which statement accurately describes Snowflake's architecture?

A.

It uses a local data repository for all compute nodes in the platform.

B.

It is a blend of shared-disk and shared-everything database architectures.

C.

It is a hybrid of traditional shared-disk and shared-nothing database architectures.

D.

It reorganizes loaded data into internal optimized, compressed, and row-based format.

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Question # 46

Which view can be used to determine if a table has frequent row updates or deletes?

A.

TABLES

B.

TABLE_STORAGE_METRICS

C.

STORAGE_DAILY_HISTORY

D.

STORAGE USAGE

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Question # 47

What SnowFlake database object is derived from a query specification, stored for later use, and can speed up expensive aggregation on large data sets?

A.

Temporary table

B.

External table

C.

Secure view

D.

Materialized view

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Question # 48

How does a Snowflake user extract the URL of a directory table on an external stage for further transformation?

A.

Use the SHOW STAGES command.

B.

Use the DESCRIBE STAGE command.

C.

Use the GET_ABSOLUTE_PATH function.

D.

Use the GET_STAGE_LOCATION function.

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Question # 49

Which function should be used to insert JSON format string data inot a VARIANT field?

A.

FLATTEN

B.

CHECK_JSON

C.

PARSE_JSON

D.

TO_VARIANT

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Question # 50

When using the ALLOW_CLI£NT_MFA_CACHING parameter, how long is a cached Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) token valid for?

A.

1 hour

B.

2 hours

C.

4 hours

D.

8 hours

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Question # 51

What happens when a network policy includes values that appear in both the allowed and blocked IP address list?

A.

Those IP addresses are allowed access to the Snowflake account as Snowflake applies the allowed IP address list first.

B.

Those IP addresses are denied access lei the Snowflake account as Snowflake applies the blocked IP address list first.

C.

Snowflake issues an alert message and adds the duplicate IP address values lo both 'he allowed and blocked IP address lists.

D.

Snowflake issues an error message and adds the duplicate IP address values to both the allowed and blocked IP address list

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Question # 52

What is the Fail-safe period for a transient table in the Snowflake Enterprise edition and higher?

A.

0 days

B.

1 day

C.

7 days

D.

14 days

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Question # 53

By default, how long is the standard retention period for Time Travel across all Snowflake accounts?

A.

0 days

B.

1 day

C.

7 days

D.

14 days

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Question # 54

What are characteristics of transient tables in Snowflake? (Select TWO).

A.

Transient tables have a Fail-safe period of 7 days.

B.

Transient tables can be cloned to permanent tables.

C.

Transient tables persist until they are explicitly dropped.

D.

Transient tables can be altered to make them permanent tables.

E.

Transient tables have Time Travel retention periods of 0 or 1 day.

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Question # 55

Which Snowflake edition offers the highest level of security for organizations that have the strictest requirements?

A.

Standard

B.

Enterprise

C.

Business Critical

D.

Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS)

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Question # 56

Which data formats are supported by Snowflake when unloading semi-structured data? (Select TWO).

A.

Binary file in Avro

B.

Binary file in Parquet

C.

Comma-separated JSON

D.

Newline Delimited JSON

E.

Plain text file containing XML elements

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Question # 57

What is the default value in the Snowflake Web Interface (Ul) for auto suspending a Virtual Warehouse?

A.

1 minutes

B.

5 minutes

C.

10 minutes

D.

15 minutes

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Question # 58

Which role has the ability to create a share from a shared database by default?

A.

ACCOUNTADMIN

B.

SECURITYADMIN

C.

SYSADMIN

D.

ORGADMIN

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Question # 59

During periods of warehouse contention which parameter controls the maximum length of time a warehouse will hold a query for processing?

A.

STATEMENT_TIMEOUT__IN__SECONDS

B.

STATEMENT_QUEUED_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS

C.

MAX_CONCURRENCY__LEVEL

D.

QUERY_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS

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Question # 60

Which of the following Snowflake features provide continuous data protection automatically? (Select TWO).

A.

Internal stages

B.

Incremental backups

C.

Time Travel

D.

Zero-copy clones

E.

Fail-safe

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Question # 61

Which copy INTO command outputs the data into one file?

A.

SINGLE=TRUE

B.

MAX_FILE_NUMBER=1

C.

FILE_NUMBER=1

D.

MULTIPLE=FAISE

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Question # 62

Which of the following commands cannot be used within a reader account?

A.

CREATE SHARE

B.

ALTER WAREHOUSE

C.

DROP ROLE

D.

SHOW SCHEMAS

E.

DESCRBE TABLE

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Question # 63

True or False: Reader Accounts are able to extract data from shared data objects for use outside of Snowflake.

A.

True

B.

False

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Question # 64

Which command can be used to load data into an internal stage?

A.

LOAD

B.

copy

C.

GET

D.

PUT

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Question # 65

Which Snowflake feature is used for both querying and restoring data?

A.

Cluster keys

B.

Time Travel

C.

Fail-safe

D.

Cloning

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Question # 66

True or False: A 4X-Large Warehouse may, at times, take longer to provision than a X-Small Warehouse.

A.

True

B.

False

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Question # 67

Which of the following are benefits of micro-partitioning? (Select TWO)

A.

Micro-partitions cannot overlap in their range of values

B.

Micro-partitions are immutable objects that support the use of Time Travel.

C.

Micro-partitions can reduce the amount of I/O from object storage to virtual warehouses

D.

Rows are automatically stored in sorted order within micro-partitions

E.

Micro-partitions can be defined on a schema-by-schema basis

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Question # 68

Which statement about billing applies to Snowflake credits?

A.

Credits are billed per-minute with a 60-minute minimum

B.

Credits are used to pay for cloud data storage usage

C.

Credits are consumed based on the number of credits billed for each hour that a warehouse runs

D.

Credits are consumed based on the warehouse size and the time the warehouse is running

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Question # 69

Which stage type can be altered and dropped?

A.

Database stage

B.

External stage

C.

Table stage

D.

User stage

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Question # 70

Which of the following compute resources or features are managed by Snowflake? (Select TWO).

A.

Execute a COPY command

B.

Updating data

C.

Snowpipe

D.

AUTOMATIC__CLUSTERING

E.

Scaling up a warehouse

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Question # 71

How long is Snowpipe data load history retained?

A.

As configured in the create pipe settings

B.

Until the pipe is dropped

C.

64 days

D.

14 days

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Question # 72

Which of the following are valid methods for authenticating users for access into Snowflake? (Select THREE)

A.

SCIM

B.

Federated authentication

C.

TLS 1.2

D.

Key-pair authentication

E.

OAuth

F.

OCSP authentication

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Question # 73

Which of the following indicates that it may be appropriate to use a clustering key for a table? (Select TWO).

A.

The table contains a column that has very low cardinality

B.

DML statements that are being issued against the table are blocked

C.

The table has a small number of micro-partitions

D.

Queries on the table are running slower than expected

E.

The clustering depth for the table is large

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Question # 74

Which Snowflake object enables loading data from files as soon as they are available in a cloud storage location?

A.

Pipe

B.

External stage

C.

Task

D.

Stream

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Question # 75

What is a responsibility of Snowflake's virtual warehouses?

A.

Infrastructure management

B.

Metadata management

C.

Query execution

D.

Query parsing and optimization

E.

Management of the storage layer

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Question # 76

What is the default File Format used in the COPY command if one is not specified?

A.

CSV

B.

JSON

C.

Parquet

D.

XML

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Question # 77

What Snowflake features allow virtual warehouses to handle high concurrency workloads? (Select TWO)

A.

The ability to scale up warehouses

B.

The use of warehouse auto scaling

C.

The ability to resize warehouses

D.

Use of multi-clustered warehouses

E.

The use of warehouse indexing

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Question # 78

What is a limitation of a Materialized View?

A.

A Materialized View cannot support any aggregate functions

B.

A Materialized View can only reference up to two tables

C.

A Materialized View cannot be joined with other tables

D.

A Materialized View cannot be defined with a JOIN

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Question # 79

What is a machine learning and data science partner within the Snowflake Partner Ecosystem?

A.

Informatica

B.

Power Bl

C.

Adobe

D.

Data Robot

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Question # 80

What can be used to view warehouse usage over time? (Select Two).

A.

The load HISTORY view

B.

The Query history view

C.

The show warehouses command

D.

The WAREHOUSE_METERING__HISTORY View

E.

The billing and usage tab in the Snowflake web Ul

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Question # 81

What is the recommended file sizing for data loading using Snowpipe?

A.

A compressed file size greater than 100 MB, and up to 250 MB

B.

A compressed file size greater than 100 GB, and up to 250 GB

C.

A compressed file size greater than 10 MB, and up to 100 MB

D.

A compressed file size greater than 1 GB, and up to 2 GB

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Question # 82

Which data type can be used to store geospatial data in Snowflake?

A.

Variant

B.

Object

C.

Geometry

D.

Geography

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Question # 83

Which command can be used to stage local files from which Snowflake interface?

A.

SnowSQL

B.

Snowflake classic web interface (Ul)

C.

Snowsight

D.

.NET driver

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Question # 84

Which of the following are best practice recommendations that should be considered when loading data into Snowflake? (Select TWO).

A.

Load files that are approximately 25 MB or smaller.

B.

Remove all dates and timestamps.

C.

Load files that are approximately 100-250 MB (or larger)

D.

Avoid using embedded characters such as commas for numeric data types

E.

Remove semi-structured data types

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Question # 85

True or False: When you create a custom role, it is a best practice to immediately grant that role to ACCOUNTADMIN.

A.

True

B.

False

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Question # 86

Will data cached in a warehouse be lost when the warehouse is resized?

A.

Possibly, if the warehouse is resized to a smaller size and the cache no longer fits.

B.

Yes. because the compute resource is replaced in its entirety with a new compute resource.

C.

No. because the size of the cache is independent from the warehouse size

D.

Yes. became the new compute resource will no longer have access to the cache encryption key

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Question # 87

What are ways to create and manage data shares in Snowflake? (Select TWO)

A.

Through the Snowflake web interface (Ul)

B.

Through the DATA_SHARE=TRUE parameter

C.

Through SQL commands

D.

Through the enable__share=true parameter

E.

Using the CREATE SHARE AS SELECT * TABLE command

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Question # 88

True or False: Loading data into Snowflake requires that source data files be no larger than 16MB.

A.

True

B.

False

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Question # 89

Which columns are part of the result set of the Snowflake LATERAL FLATTEN command? (Choose two.)

A.

CONTENT

B.

PATH

C.

BYTE_SIZE

D.

INDEX

E.

DATATYPE

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Question # 90

Which of the following significantly improves the performance of selective point lookup queries on a table?

A.

Clustering

B.

Materialized Views

C.

Zero-copy Cloning

D.

Search Optimization Service

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Question # 91

A developer is granted ownership of a table that has a masking policy. The developer's role is not able to see the masked data. Will the developer be able to modify the table to read the masked data?

A.

Yes, because a table owner has full control and can unset masking policies.

B.

Yes, because masking policies only apply to cloned tables.

C.

No, because masking policies must always reference specific access roles.

D.

No, because ownership of a table does not include the ability to change masking policies

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Question # 92

In an auto-scaling multi-cluster virtual warehouse with the setting SCALING_POLICY = ECONOMY enabled, when is another cluster started?

A.

When the system has enough load for 2 minutes

B.

When the system has enough load for 6 minutes

C.

When the system has enough load for 8 minutes

D.

When the system has enough load for 10 minutes

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Question # 93

A virtual warehouse is created using the following command:

Create warehouse my_WH with

warehouse_size = MEDIUM

min_cluster_count = 1

max_cluster_count = 1

auto_suspend = 60

auto_resume = true;

The image below is a graphical representation of the warehouse utilization across two days.

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What action should be taken to address this situation?

A.

Increase the warehouse size from Medium to 2XL.

B.

Increase the value for the parameter MAX_CONCURRENCY_LEVEL.

C.

Configure the warehouse to a multi-cluster warehouse.

D.

Lower the value of the parameter STATEMENT_QUEUED_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS.

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Question # 94

Which statements are correct concerning the leveraging of third-party data from the Snowflake Data Marketplace? (Choose two.)

A.

Data is live, ready-to-query, and can be personalized.

B.

Data needs to be loaded into a cloud provider as a consumer account.

C.

Data is not available for copying or moving to an individual Snowflake account.

D.

Data is available without copying or moving.

E.

Data transformations are required when combining Data Marketplace datasets with existing data in Snowflake.

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Question # 95

Snowflake supports the use of external stages with which cloud platforms? (Choose three.)

A.

Amazon Web Services

B.

Docker

C.

IBM Cloud

D.

Microsoft Azure Cloud

E.

Google Cloud Platform

F.

Oracle Cloud

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Question # 96

What COPY INTO SQL command should be used to unload data into multiple files?

A.

SINGLE=TRUE

B.

MULTIPLE=TRUE

C.

MULTIPLE=FALSE

D.

SINGLE=FALSE

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Question # 97

What is the purpose of multi-cluster virtual warehouses?

A.

To create separate data warehouses to increase query optimization

B.

To allow users the ability to choose the type of compute nodes that make up a virtual warehouse cluster

C.

To eliminate or reduce Queuing of concurrent queries

D.

To allow the warehouse to resize automatically

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Question # 98

True or False: Snowpipe via REST API can only reference External Stages as source.

A.

True

B.

False

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Question # 99

What happens to historical data when the retention period for an object ends?

A.

The data is cloned into a historical object.

B.

The data moves to Fail-safe

C.

Time Travel on the historical data is dropped.

D.

The object containing the historical data is dropped.

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Question # 100

What is the default file size when unloading data from Snowflake using the COPY command?

A.

5 MB

B.

8 GB

C.

16 MB

D.

32 MB

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Question # 101

A user created a new worksheet within the Snowsight Ul and wants to share this with teammates

How can this worksheet be shared?

A.

Create a zero-copy clone of the worksheet and grant permissions to teammates

B.

Create a private Data Exchange so that any teammate can use the worksheet

C.

Share the worksheet with teammates within Snowsight

D.

Create a database and grant all permissions to teammates

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Question # 102

When cloning a database containing stored procedures and regular views, that have fully qualified table references, which of the following will occur?

A.

The cloned views and the stored procedures will reference the cloned tables in the cloned database.

B.

An error will occur, as views with qualified references cannot be cloned.

C.

An error will occur, as stored objects cannot be cloned.

D.

The stored procedures and views will refer to tables in the source database.

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Question # 103

When should a multi-cluster warehouse be used in auto-scaling mode?

A.

When it is unknown how much compute power is needed

B.

If the select statement contains a large number of temporary tables or Common Table Expressions (CTEs)

C.

If the runtime of the executed query is very slow

D.

When a large number of concurrent queries are run on the same warehouse

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Question # 104

What are best practice recommendations for using the ACCOUNTADMIN system-defined role in Snowflake? (Choose two.)

A.

Ensure all ACCOUNTADMIN roles use Multi-factor Authentication (MFA).

B.

All users granted ACCOUNTADMIN role must be owned by the ACCOUNTADMIN role.

C.

The ACCOUNTADMIN role must be granted to only one user.

D.

Assign the ACCOUNTADMIN role to at least two users, but as few as possible.

E.

All users granted ACCOUNTADMIN role must also be granted SECURITYADMIN role.

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Question # 105

What type of query benefits the MOST from search optimization?

A.

A query that uses only disjunction (i.e., OR) predicates

B.

A query that includes analytical expressions

C.

A query that uses equality predicates or predicates that use IN

D.

A query that filters on semi-structured data types

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Question # 106

What affects whether the query results cache can be used?

A.

If the query contains a deterministic function

B.

If the virtual warehouse has been suspended

C.

If the referenced data in the table has changed

D.

If multiple users are using the same virtual warehouse

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Question # 107

What are supported file formats for unloading data from Snowflake? (Choose three.)

A.

XML

B.

JSON

C.

Parquet

D.

ORC

E.

AVRO

F.

CSV

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Question # 108

What are the correct parameters for time travel and fail-safe in the Snowflake Enterprise Edition?

A.

Default Time Travel Retention is set to 0 days.

Maximum Time Travel Retention is 30 days.

Fail Safe retention time is 1 day.

B.

Default Time Travel Retention is set to 1 day.

Maximum Time Travel Retention is 365 days.

Fail Safe retention time is 7 days.

C.

Default Time Travel Retention is set to 0 days.

Maximum Time Travel Retention is 90 days.

Fail Safe retention time is 7 days.

D.

Default Time Travel Retention is set to 1 day.

Maximum Time Travel Retention is 90 days.

Fail Safe retention time is 7 days.

E.

Default Time Travel Retention is set to 7 days.

Maximum Time Travel Retention is 1 day.

Fail Safe retention time is 90 days.

F.

Default Time Travel Retention is set to 90 days.

Maximum Time Travel Retention is 7 days.

Fail Safe retention time is 356 days.

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Question # 109

How does Snowflake Fail-safe protect data in a permanent table?

A.

Fail-safe makes data available up to 1 day, recoverable by user operations.

B.

Fail-safe makes data available for 7 days, recoverable by user operations.

C.

Fail-safe makes data available for 7 days, recoverable only by Snowflake Support.

D.

Fail-safe makes data available up to 1 day, recoverable only by Snowflake Support.

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Question # 110

How many days is load history for Snowpipe retained?

A.

1 day

B.

7 days

C.

14 days

D.

64 days

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Question # 111

Which file formats are supported for unloading data from Snowflake? (Choose two.)

A.

Avro

B.

JSON

C.

ORC

D.

XML

E.

Delimited (CSV, TSV, etc.)

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Question # 112

Which of the following is an example of an operation that can be completed without requiring compute, assuming no queries have been executed previously?

A.

SELECT SUM (ORDER_AMT) FROM SALES;

B.

SELECT AVG(ORDER_QTY) FROM SALES;

C.

SELECT MIN(ORDER_AMT) FROM SALES;

D.

SELECT ORDER_AMT * ORDER_QTY FROM SALES;

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Question # 113

A user created a transient table and made several changes to it over the course of several days. Three days after the table was created, the user would like to go back to the first version of the table.

How can this be accomplished?

A.

Use Time Travel, as long as DATA_RETENTION_TIME_IN_DAYS was set to at least 3 days.

B.

The transient table version cannot be retrieved after 24 hours.

C.

Contact Snowflake Support to have the data retrieved from Fail-safe storage.

D.

Use the FAIL_SAFE parameter for Time Travel to retrieve the data from Fail-safe storage.

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Question # 114

Network policies can be set at which Snowflake levels? (Choose two.)

A.

Role

B.

Schema

C.

User

D.

Database

E.

Account

F.

Tables

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Question # 115

What types of data listings are available in the Snowflake Data Marketplace? (Choose two.)

A.

Reader

B.

Consumer

C.

Vendor

D.

Standard

E.

Personalized

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Question # 116

Which Snowflake function will interpret an input string as a JSON document, and produce a VARIANT value?

A.

parse_json()

B.

json_extract_path_text()

C.

object_construct()

D.

flatten

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Question # 117

Which of the following are characteristics of Snowflake virtual warehouses? (Choose two.)

A.

Auto-resume applies only to the last warehouse that was started in a multi-cluster warehouse.

B.

The ability to auto-suspend a warehouse is only available in the Enterprise edition or above.

C.

SnowSQL supports both a configuration file and a command line option for specifying a default warehouse.

D.

A user cannot specify a default warehouse when using the ODBC driver.

E.

The default virtual warehouse size can be changed at any time.

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Question # 118

Which service or feature in Snowflake is used to improve the performance of certain types of lookup and analytical queries that use an extensive set of WHERE conditions?

A.

Data classification

B.

Query acceleration service

C.

Search optimization service

D.

Tagging

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Question # 119

When cloning a database, what is cloned with the database? (Choose two.)

A.

Privileges on the database

B.

Existing child objects within the database

C.

Future child objects within the database

D.

Privileges on the schemas within the database

E.

Only schemas and tables within the database

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Question # 120

Which privilege is required on a virtual warehouse to abort any existing executing queries?

A.

USAGE

B.

OPERATE

C.

MODIFY

D.

MONITOR

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Question # 121

What are characteristics of Snowflake network policies? (Select TWO).

A.

They can be set for any Snowflake Edition.

B.

They can be applied to roles.

C.

They restrict or enable access to specific IP addresses.

D.

They are activated using ALTER DATABASE SQL commands.

E.

They can only be managed using the ORGADMIN role.

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Question # 122

What is the MINIMUM size of a table for which Snowflake recommends considering adding a clustering key?

A.

1 Kilobyte (KB)

B.

1 Megabyte (MB)

C.

1 Gigabyte (GB)

D.

1 Terabyte (TB)

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Question # 123

What is the default access of a securable object until other access is granted?

A.

No access

B.

Read access

C.

Write access

D.

Full access

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Question # 124

Which types of subqueries does Snowflake support? (Select TWO).

A.

Uncorrelated scalar subqueries in WHERE clauses

B.

Uncorrelated scalar subqueries in any place that a value expression can be used

C.

EXISTS, ANY / ALL, and IN subqueries in WHERE clauses: these subqueries can be uncorrelated only

D.

EXISTS, ANY / ALL, and IN subqueries in where clauses: these subqueries can be correlated only

E.

EXISTS, ANY /ALL, and IN subqueries in WHERE clauses: these subqueries can be correlated or uncorrelated

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Question # 125

What are potential impacts of storing non-native values like dates and timestamps in a variant column in Snowflake?

A.

Faster query performance and increased storage consumption

B.

Slower query performance and increased storage consumption

C.

Faster query performance and decreased storage consumption

D.

Slower query performance and decreased storage consumption

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Question # 126

Which statement describes Snowflake tables?

A.

Snowflake tables arc logical representation of underlying physical data.

B.

Snowflake tables are the physical instantiation of data loaded into Snowflake.

C.

Snowflake tables require that clustering keys be defined lo perform optimally.

D.

Snowflake tables are owned by a use.

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Question # 127

What happens to the privileges granted to Snowflake system-defined roles?

A.

The privileges cannot be revoked.

B.

The privileges can be revoked by an ACCOUNTADMIN.

C.

The privileges can be revoked by an orgadmin.

D.

The privileges can be revoked by any user-defined role with appropriate privileges.

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Question # 128

Which of the following SQL statements will list the version of the drivers currently being used?

A.

Execute SELECT CURRENT_ODBC_CLlENT(); from the Web Ul

B.

Execute SELECT CURRENT_JDBC_VERSION() ; from SnowSQL

C.

Execute SELECT CURRENT_CLIENT(); from an application

D.

Execute SELECT CURRENT_VERSION (); from the Python Connector

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Question # 129

What do temporary and transient tables have m common in Snowflake? (Select TWO).

A.

Both tables have no Fail-safe period.

B.

Both tables have data retention period maximums of one day.

C.

Both tables are visible only to a single user session.

D.

For both tables the retention period ends when the tables are dropped.

E.

For both tables, the retention period does not end when the session ends

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Question # 130

The property mins_to_bypass_network_policy is set at which level?

A.

User

B.

Role

C.

Account

D.

Organization

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Question # 131

Which Snowflake table type persists until it is explicitly dropped. is available for all users with relevant privileges (across sessions). and has no Fail-safe period?

A.

External

B.

Permanent

C.

Temporary

D.

Transient

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Question # 132

Given the statement template below, which database objects can be added to a share?(Select TWO).

GRANT ON To SHARE ;

A.

Secure functions

B.

Stored procedures

C.

Streams

D.

Tables

E.

Tasks

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Question # 133

Which semi-structured file format is a compressed, efficient, columnar data representation?

A.

Avro

B.

JSON

C.

TSV

D.

Parquet

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Question # 134

Which task is supported by the use of Access History in Snowflake?

A.

Data backups

B.

Cost monitoring

C.

Compliance auditing

D.

Performance optimization

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Question # 135

Which system_defined, read-only view display information on column lineage that specifies how data flows from source to target in a SQL write operation?

A.

ACCESS_HISTORY

B.

LOAD_HOSTORY

C.

QUERY_HISTORY

D.

COPY_HISTORY

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Question # 136

A Snowflake user is trying to load a 125 GB file using SnowSQL. The file continues to load for almost an entire day. What will happen at the 2< hour mark?

A.

The file will continue to load until all contents arc loaded.

B.

The tile will slop loading and all data up to that point will be committed.

C.

The file loading could be aborted without any portion of the file being committed.

D.

The file's number of allowable hours to load can be programmatically controlled to load easily into Snowflake

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Question # 137

What happens when a suspended virtual warehouse is resized in Snowflake?

A.

It will return an error.

B.

It will return a warning.

C.

The suspended warehouse is resumed and new compute resources are provisioned immediately.

D.

The additional compute resources are provisioned when the warehouse is resumed.

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Question # 138

While running a query on a virtual warehouse in auto-scale mode, additional clusters are stated immediately if which setting is configured?

A)

SnowPro-Core question answer

B)

SnowPro-Core question answer

C)

SnowPro-Core question answer

D)

SnowPro-Core question answer

A.

Option A

B.

Option B

C.

Option C

D.

Option D

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Question # 139

Which chart type is supported in Snowsight for Snowflake users to visualize data with dashboards?

A.

Area chart

B.

Box plot

C.

Heat grid

D.

Pie chart

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Question # 140

Which function returns the URL of a stage using the stage name as the input?

A.

BUILD_STAGE_FILE_URL

B.

BUILD_SCOPED_FILE_URL

C.

GET_PRESIGNED_URL

D.

GET STAGE LOCATION

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Question # 141

Which typos of charts does Snowsight support? (Select TWO).

A.

Area charts

B.

Bar charts

C.

Column charts

D.

Radar charts

E.

Scorecards

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Question # 142

To use the overwrite option on insert, which privilege must be granted to the role?

A.

truncate

B.

DELETE

C.

UPDATE

D.

SELECT

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Question # 143

Snowflake users can create a resource monitor at which levels? (Select TWO).

A.

User level

B.

Pipe level

C.

Account level

D.

Cloud services level

E.

Virtual warehouse level

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Question # 144

What type of account can be used to share data with a consumer who does have a Snowflake account?

A.

Data provider

B.

Data consumer

C.

Reader

D.

Organization

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Question # 145

Which Snowflake database object can be shared with other accounts?

A.

Tasks

B.

Pipes

C.

Secure User-Defined Functions (UDFs)

D.

Stored Procedures

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Question # 146

What information is stored in the ACCESS_HlSTORY view?

A.

History of the files that have been loaded into Snowflake

B.

Names and owners of the roles that are currently enabled in the session

C.

Query details such as the objects included and the user who executed the query

D.

Details around the privileges that have been granted for all objects in an account

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Question # 147

How can an administrator check for updates (for example, SCIM API requests) sent to Snowflake by the identity provider?

A.

ACCESS_HISTORY

B.

LOAD_HISTORY

C.

QUERY_HISTORY

D.

REST EVENT HISTORY

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Question # 148

Which system_defined Snowflake role has permission to rename an account and specify whether the original URL can be used to access the renamed account?

A.

ACCOUNTADMIN

B.

SECURITYADMIN

C.

SYSADMIN

D.

ORGADMIN

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Question # 149

What does Snowflake attempt to do if any of the compute resources for a virtual warehouse fail to provision during start-up?

A.

Repair the failed resources.

B.

Restart failed resources.

C.

Queue the failed resources

D.

Provision the failed resources

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Question # 150

In which hierarchy is tag inheritance possible?

A.

Organization » Account» Role

B.

Account » User » Schema

C.

Database » View » Column

D.

Schema » Table » Column

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Question # 151

How can performance be optimized for a query that returns a small amount of data from a very large base table?

A.

Use clustering keys

B.

Create materialized views

C.

Use the search optimization service

D.

Use the query acceleration service

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Question # 152

Which metadata table will store the storage utilization information even for dropped tables?

A.

DATABASE_STORAGE_USAGE_HISTORY

B.

TABLE_STORAGE_METRICS

C.

STORAGE_DAILY_HISTORY

D.

STAGE STORAGE USAGE HISTORY

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Question # 153

What is the purpose of the Snowflake SPLIT TO_TABLE function?

A.

To count the number of characters in a string

B.

To split a string into an array of sub-strings

C.

To split a string and flatten the results into rows

D.

To split a string and flatten the results into columns

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Question # 154

What objects in Snowflake are supported by Dynamic Data Masking? (Select TWO).'

A.

Views

B.

Materialized views

C.

Tables

D.

External tables

E.

Future grants

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Question # 155

Which Snowflake table objects can be shared with other accounts? (Select TWO).

A.

Temporary tables

B.

Permanent tables

C.

Transient tables

D.

External tables

E.

User-Defined Table Functions (UDTFs)

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Question # 156

Which views are included in the DATA SHARING USAGE schema? (Select TWO).

A.

ACCESS_HISTORY

B.

DATA_TRANSFER_HISTORY

C.

WAREHOUSE_METERING_HISTORY

D.

MONETIZED_USAGE_DAILY

E.

LISTING TELEMETRY DAILY

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Question # 157

At what level is the MIN_DATA_RETENTION_TIME_IN_DAYS parameter set?

A.

Account

B.

Database

C.

Schema

D.

Table

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Question # 158

How can a Snowflake user validate data that is unloaded using the COPY INTO command?

A.

Load the data into a CSV file.

B.

Load the data into a relational table.

C.

Use the VALlDATlON_MODE - SQL statement.

D.

Use the validation mode = return rows statement.

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Question # 159

A tag object has been assigned to a table (TABLE_A) in a schema within a Snowflake database.

Which CREATE object statement will automatically assign the TABLE_A tag to a target object?

A.

CREATE TABLE LIKE TABLE_A;

B.

CREATE VIEW AS SELECT * FROM TABLE_A;

C.

CREATE TABLE AS SELECT * FROM TABLE_A;

D.

CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW AS SELECT * FROM TABLE A;

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Question # 160

A permanent table and temporary table have the same name, TBL1, in a schema.

What will happen if a user executes select * from TBL1 ;?

A.

The temporary table will take precedence over the permanent table.

B.

The permanent table will take precedence over the temporary table.

C.

An error will say there cannot be two tables with the same name in a schema.

D.

The table that was created most recently will take precedence over the older table.

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Question # 161

Which type of loop requires a BREAK statement to stop executing?

A.

FOR

B.

LOOP

C.

REPEAT

D.

WHILE

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Question # 162

A column named "Data" contains VARIANT data and stores values as follows:

SnowPro-Core question answer

How will Snowflake extract the employee's name from the column data?

A.

Data:employee.name

B.

DATA:employee.name

C.

data:Employee.name

D.

data:employee.name

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Question # 163

Which data types can be used in Snowflake to store semi-structured data? (Select TWO)

A.

ARRAY

B.

BLOB

C.

CLOB

D.

JSON

E.

VARIANT

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Question # 164

What will prevent unauthorized access to a Snowflake account from an unknown source?

A.

Network policy

B.

End-to-end encryption

C.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

D.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

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Question # 165

Which Snowflake feature allows a user to track sensitive data for compliance, discovery, protection, and resource usage?

A.

Tags

B.

Comments

C.

Internal tokenization

D.

Row access policies

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Question # 166

While working with unstructured data, which file function generates a Snowflake-hosted file URL to a staged file using the stage name and relative file path as inputs?

A.

GET_PRESIGNED_URL

B.

GET_ABSOLUTE_PATH

C.

BUILD_STAGE_FILE_URL

D.

BUILD SCOPED FILE URL

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Question # 167

What metadata does Snowflake store for rows in micro-partitions? (Select TWO).

A.

Range of values

B.

Distinct values

C.

Index values

D.

Sorted values

E.

Null values

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Question # 168

Which Snowflake feature allows administrators to identify unused data that may be archived or deleted?

A.

Access history

B.

Data classification

C.

Dynamic Data Masking

D.

Object tagging

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Question # 169

What type of query will benefit from the query acceleration service?

A.

Queries without filters or aggregation

B.

Queries with large scans and selective filters

C.

Queries where the GROUP BY has high cardinality

D.

Queries of tables that have search optimization service enabled

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Question # 170

Which Snowflake database object can be used to track data changes made to table data?

A.

Tag

B.

Task

C.

Stream

D.

Stored procedure

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Question # 171

Which Snowflake role can manage any object grant globally, including modifying and revoking grants?

A.

USERADMIN

B.

ORGADMIN

C.

SYSADMIN

D.

SECURITYADMIN

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Question # 172

When using the ALLOW CLIENT_MFA_CACHING parameter, how long is a cached Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) token valid for?

A.

1 hour

B.

2 hours

C.

4 hours

D.

8 hours

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Question # 173

How is unstructured data retrieved from data storage?

A.

SQL functions like the GET command can be used to copy the unstructured data to a location on the client.

B.

SQL functions can be used to create different types of URLs pointing to the unstructured data. These URLs can be used to download the data to a client.

C.

SQL functions can be used to retrieve the data from the query results cache. When the query results are output to a client, the unstructured data will be output to the client as files.

D.

SQL functions can call on different web extensions designed to display different types of files as a web page. The web extensions will allow the files to be downloaded to the client.

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Question # 174

A user wants to access files stored in a stage without authenticating into Snowflake. Which type of URL should be used?

A.

File URL

B.

Staged URL

C.

Scoped URL

D.

Pre-signed URL

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Question # 175

Which statistics are displayed in a Query Profile that indicate that intermediate results do not fit in memory? (Select TWO).

A.

Bytes scanned

B.

Partitions scanned

C.

Bytes spilled to local storage

D.

Bytes spilled to remote storage

E.

Percentage scanned from cache

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Question # 176

How can a Snowflake user traverse semi-structured data?

A.

Insert a colon (:) between the VARIANT column name and any first-level element.

B.

Insert a colon (:) between the VARIANT column name and any second-level element. C. Insert a double colon (: :) between the VARIANT column name and any first-level element.

C.

Insert a double colon (: :) between the VARIANT column name and any second-level element.

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Question # 177

Which VALIDATION_MODE value will return the errors across the files specified in a COPY command, including files that were partially loaded during an earlier load?

A.

RETURN_-1_R0WS

B.

RETURN_n_ROWS

C.

RETURN_ERRORS

D.

RETURN ALL ERRORS

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Question # 178

What tasks can an account administrator perform in the Data Exchange? (Select TWO).

A.

Add and remove members.

B.

Delete data categories.

C.

Approve and deny listing approval requests.

D.

Transfer listing ownership.

E.

Transfer ownership of a provider profile.

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Question # 179

Which command is used to unload data from a Snowflake database table into one or more files in a Snowflake stage?

A.

CREATE STAGE

B.

COPY INTO

C.

COPY INTO

D.

CREATE PIPE

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Question # 180

Which privilege must be granted by one role to another role, and cannot be revoked?

A.

MONITOR

B.

OPERATE

C.

OWNERSHIP

D.

ALL

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Question # 181

What step can reduce data spilling in Snowflake?

A.

Using a larger virtual warehouse

B.

Increasing the virtual warehouse maximum timeout limit

C.

Increasing the amount of remote storage for the virtual warehouse

D.

Using a common table expression (CTE) instead of a temporary table

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