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Objective 1.1 Describe and use the Snowflake architecture Domain 1.0: Snowflake AI Data Cloud Features and Architecture

Finance and data science query the same 20 TB fact table. Finance requires predictable dashboard latency, while data science runs irregular joins that occasionally spill. The company will not duplicate the table. Which design MOST directly uses Snowflake's architecture to meet both requirements?

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Source:Snowflake key concepts and architecture
Question 2 of 10
Objective 4.3 Use Snowflake caching Domain 4.0: Performance Optimization, Querying, and Transformation

An engineer must measure actual execution work after a query rewrite rather than retrieval from a prior persisted result. Which session control is MOST relevant?

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Question 3 of 10
Objective 5.3 Share data using the Snowflake Marketplace and listings Domain 5.0: Data Collaboration

A data provider already has a share but now needs a title, description, sample SQL, provider profile, usage-interest metrics, and the option to make the product private or public. What should the provider create?

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Question 4 of 10
Objective 3.3 Identify the different Snowflake Connectors and integrations Domain 3.0: Data Loading, Unloading, and Connectivity

A Java service must use JDBC connection pooling, prepared statements, and result retrieval without introducing a language bridge. Which client is the MOST direct choice?

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Question 5 of 10
Objective 1.4 Configure virtual warehouses Domain 1.0: Snowflake AI Data Cloud Features and Architecture

A team benchmarks a Gen1 standard warehouse and confirms that the same-size Gen2 warehouse materially improves its MERGE-heavy workload. Change control requires an explicit SQL setting because the option is not currently exposed in Snowsight. Which change is MOST appropriate?

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Question 6 of 10
Objective 3.1 Perform data loading and unloading Domain 3.0: Data Loading, Unloading, and Connectivity

JSON documents frequently contain explicit null-valued object elements. Query profiling later shows that these paths are not efficiently columnarized. The source confirms explicit JSON null means 'missing' and can be discarded. Which load option can help?

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Question 7 of 10
Objective 2.1 Explain Snowflake security model and principles Domain 2.0: Account Management and Data Governance

A centralized security team must create role hierarchies and manage grants across the account, while a separate platform team manages databases and warehouses. Which system role is the natural starting point for the security function?

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Objective 4.4 Perform data transformation techniques Domain 4.0: Performance Optimization, Querying, and Transformation

A document-processing application queries metadata in a directory table, then must let an external worker retrieve only the referenced staged PDF for a short period. The worker does not authenticate to Snowflake. Which access pattern BEST limits exposure?

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Question 9 of 10
Objective 5.2 Explain Snowflake's data sharing capabilities Domain 5.0: Data Collaboration

A provider must expose two secure views and one table to a partner's Snowflake account without copying data. The provider also wants one reusable privilege bundle that can be attached to the share. Which sequence is MOST appropriate?

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Question 10 of 10
Objective 2.3 Explain monitoring and cost management Domain 2.0: Account Management and Data Governance

A BI warehouse receives short bursts every 20 minutes. It currently remains idle for hours because AUTO_SUSPEND is disabled. Users accept resume latency of a few seconds. Which change directly removes the avoidable idle compute charge without changing query logic?

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Question 1 Finance and data science query the same 20 TB fact table. Finance requires predictable dashboard latency, while data science runs irregular joins that occasionally spill. The company will not duplicate the table. Which design MOST directly uses Snowflake's architecture to meet both requirements?

Answer choices

  1. A. Create a second physical copy of the fact table and assign one copy to each team.
  2. B. Assign each workload a separate virtual warehouse while leaving the table in the same database.
  3. C. Place both teams on one larger multi-cluster warehouse so every query receives the same cluster.
  4. D. Move data-science queries to the Cloud Services layer and reserve the warehouse for dashboards.

Correct answer

Assign each workload a separate virtual warehouse while leaving the table in the same database.

Independent virtual warehouses can read the same centralized data without copying it, isolating compute resources and workload behavior.

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  • A. Create a second physical copy of the fact table and assign one copy to each team.: Duplicating the data is unnecessary because multiple warehouses can access the same centralized storage.
  • C. Place both teams on one larger multi-cluster warehouse so every query receives the same cluster.: A multi-cluster warehouse helps concurrency, but it does not provide the same workload-governance isolation as separate warehouses.
  • D. Move data-science queries to the Cloud Services layer and reserve the warehouse for dashboards.: Cloud Services does not replace a virtual warehouse for ordinary query execution.

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Snowflake’s storage/compute separation lets teams isolate workloads on separate virtual warehouses without duplicating the underlying table. That protects predictable dashboard latency from an irregular data-science workload while preserving one governed copy of the data.

Objective/domain: Domain 1.0: Snowflake AI Data Cloud Features and Architecture

Source: Snowflake key concepts and architecture

Question 2 An engineer must measure actual execution work after a query rewrite rather than retrieval from a prior persisted result. Which session control is MOST relevant?

Answer choices

  1. A. Suspend the warehouse before each run and leave USE_CACHED_RESULT at its default.
  2. B. Set DATA_RETENTION_TIME_IN_DAYS=0 on the source table before benchmarking.
  3. C. Set USE_CACHED_RESULT=FALSE for the benchmark and record warehouse-cache conditions separately.
  4. D. Change the active role before each run because cached results are isolated only by role name.

Correct answer

Set USE_CACHED_RESULT=FALSE for the benchmark and record warehouse-cache conditions separately.

Objective/domain: Domain 4.0: Performance Optimization, Querying, and Transformation

Source: Using Persisted Query Results

Question 3 A data provider already has a share but now needs a title, description, sample SQL, provider profile, usage-interest metrics, and the option to make the product private or public. What should the provider create?

Answer choices

  1. A. Create a listing that attaches the share and supplies product metadata and availability.
  2. B. Create a secure view over the share and place the title, description, and sample SQL in its COMMENT.
  3. C. Create a reader account template for each prospective consumer and publish its login instructions.
  4. D. Add the share to a failover group and use replication metadata as the provider profile.

Correct answer

Create a listing that attaches the share and supplies product metadata and availability.

Objective/domain: Domain 5.0: Data Collaboration

Source: About listings

Question 4 A Java service must use JDBC connection pooling, prepared statements, and result retrieval without introducing a language bridge. Which client is the MOST direct choice?

Answer choices

  1. A. Launch the Python connector in a subprocess and translate each Java prepared statement to Python.
  2. B. Use COPY INTO as the application connection protocol and represent each prepared statement as a staged file.
  3. C. Use the supported Snowflake JDBC driver with the required connection and session parameters.
  4. D. Use a reader account in place of a driver because reader accounts expose JDBC result sets directly.

Correct answer

Use the supported Snowflake JDBC driver with the required connection and session parameters.

Objective/domain: Domain 3.0: Data Loading, Unloading, and Connectivity

Source: Drivers and connectors

Question 5 A team benchmarks a Gen1 standard warehouse and confirms that the same-size Gen2 warehouse materially improves its MERGE-heavy workload. Change control requires an explicit SQL setting because the option is not currently exposed in Snowsight. Which change is MOST appropriate?

Answer choices

  1. A. Alter the standard warehouse with `GENERATION = '2'`, then validate performance and credit efficiency with representative workload measurements.
  2. B. Set `WAREHOUSE_TYPE = 'GEN2'` and assume every query will be twice as fast.
  3. C. Change the warehouse to Snowpark-optimized with `RESOURCE_CONSTRAINT = 'STANDARD_GEN_2'`.
  4. D. Create a multi-cluster warehouse with `MAX_CLUSTER_COUNT = 2`; that converts the compute generation.

Correct answer

Alter the standard warehouse with `GENERATION = '2'`, then validate performance and credit efficiency with representative workload measurements.

Objective/domain: Domain 1.0: Snowflake AI Data Cloud Features and Architecture

Source: Snowflake generation 2 standard warehouses

Question 6 JSON documents frequently contain explicit null-valued object elements. Query profiling later shows that these paths are not efficiently columnarized. The source confirms explicit JSON null means 'missing' and can be discarded. Which load option can help?

Answer choices

  1. A. Enable STRIP_NULL_VALUES in the semi-structured file format.
  2. B. Set NULL_IF=('null') on a CSV file format.
  3. C. Apply a row access policy to the VARIANT column.
  4. D. Disable micro-partition metadata.

Correct answer

Enable STRIP_NULL_VALUES in the semi-structured file format.

Objective/domain: Domain 3.0: Data Loading, Unloading, and Connectivity

Source: Preparing your data files

Question 7 A centralized security team must create role hierarchies and manage grants across the account, while a separate platform team manages databases and warehouses. Which system role is the natural starting point for the security function?

Answer choices

  1. A. SYSADMIN
  2. B. SECURITYADMIN
  3. C. ORGADMIN
  4. D. PUBLIC

Correct answer

SECURITYADMIN

Objective/domain: Domain 2.0: Account Management and Data Governance

Source: Overview of Access Control

Question 8 A document-processing application queries metadata in a directory table, then must let an external worker retrieve only the referenced staged PDF for a short period. The worker does not authenticate to Snowflake. Which access pattern BEST limits exposure?

Answer choices

  1. A. Return the stage's permanent storage credentials to the worker.
  2. B. Grant the worker a Snowflake account role and a file URL even though it cannot authenticate.
  3. C. Load the PDF bytes into a VARCHAR column and expose the table publicly.
  4. D. Generate a short-lived pre-signed URL for the specific staged file and avoid persisting or broadly redistributing the URL.

Correct answer

Generate a short-lived pre-signed URL for the specific staged file and avoid persisting or broadly redistributing the URL.

Objective/domain: Domain 4.0: Performance Optimization, Querying, and Transformation

Source: Introduction to unstructured data

Question 9 A provider must expose two secure views and one table to a partner's Snowflake account without copying data. The provider also wants one reusable privilege bundle that can be attached to the share. Which sequence is MOST appropriate?

Answer choices

  1. A. Bundle privileges in a database role, grant it to the share, add the partner, and let it import.
  2. B. Grant the partner's account role directly inside the provider account and let it query provider objects.
  3. C. Clone the objects into the partner account and transfer OWNERSHIP of the cloned database.
  4. D. Create a provider-managed reader account and replicate the objects even though the partner already has Snowflake.

Correct answer

Bundle privileges in a database role, grant it to the share, add the partner, and let it import.

Objective/domain: Domain 5.0: Data Collaboration

Source: Create and configure shares

Question 10 A BI warehouse receives short bursts every 20 minutes. It currently remains idle for hours because AUTO_SUSPEND is disabled. Users accept resume latency of a few seconds. Which change directly removes the avoidable idle compute charge without changing query logic?

Answer choices

  1. A. Increase MAX_CLUSTER_COUNT so idle clusters consume fewer credits between bursts.
  2. B. Disable persisted-result reuse so the warehouse can suspend as soon as each query finishes.
  3. C. Convert the warehouse to a transient object so its compute charges expire after each burst.
  4. D. Enable a short AUTO_SUSPEND interval while retaining AUTO_RESUME.

Correct answer

Enable a short AUTO_SUSPEND interval while retaining AUTO_RESUME.

Objective/domain: Domain 2.0: Account Management and Data Governance

Source: Controlling cost

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