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Question 1

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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Correct Answer:
  • A. Data is live, ready-to-query, and can be personalized
  • D. Data is available without copying or moving
Question 2

What command should be used to move data from a Snowflake database table into one or more files in an external stage?

  • A. GET
  • B. COPY INTO
  • C. PUT
  • D. SHOW
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Correct Answer:
B. COPY INTO
Question 3

A Virtual Warehouse's auto-suspend and auto-resume settings apply to:

  • A. The primary cluster in the Virtual Warehouse
  • B. The entire Virtual Warehouse
  • C. The database the Virtual Warehouse resides in
  • D. The queries currently being run by the Virtual Warehouse
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Correct Answer:
B. The entire Virtual Warehouse
Question 4

What Snowflake objects can be added to a share? (Choose two.)

  • A. Views
  • B. Tables
  • C. Stored procedures
  • D. Streams
  • E. Secure views
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Correct Answer:
  • B. Tables
  • E. Secure views
Question 5

What general guideline does Snowflake recommend when setting the auto-suspension time limit?

  • A. Set tasks for immediate suspension
  • B. Set tasks for suspension after 5 minutes
  • C. Set query warehouses for suspension after 15 minutes
  • D. Set query warehouses for suspension after 30 minutes
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Correct Answer:
B. Set tasks for suspension after 5 minutes
Question 6

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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Correct Answer:
A. The privileges cannot be revoked
Question 7

What is the name of the SnowSQL file that can store connection information?

  • A. history
  • B. config
  • C. snowsql.cnf
  • D. snowsql.pubkey
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Correct Answer:
B. config
Question 8

What are the recommended steps to address poor SQL query performance due to data spilling? (Choose two.)

  • A. Clone the base table
  • B. Fetch required attributes only
  • C. Use a larger virtual warehouse
  • D. Process the data in smaller batches
  • E. Add another cluster in the virtual warehouse
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Correct Answer:
  • C. Use a larger virtual warehouse
  • D. Process the data in smaller batches
Question 9

Which command will unload data from a table into an external stage?

  • A. PUT
  • B. INSERT
  • C. COPY INTO [location]
  • D. GET
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Correct Answer:
C. COPY INTO [location]
Question 10

What activities can a user with the ORGADMIN role perform? (Choose two.)

  • A. Create INFORMATION_SCHEMA in a database
  • B. View usage information for all accounts in the organization
  • C. Enable database cloning for an account in the organization
  • D. Enable database replication for an account in the organization
  • E. View micro-partition information for all accounts in the organization
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Correct Answer:
  • B. View usage information for all accounts in the organization
  • D. Enable database replication for an account in the organization
Question 11

Snowpark provides libraries for which programming languages? (Choose two.)

  • A. JavaScript
  • B. Python
  • C. Scala
  • D. R
  • E. C++
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Correct Answer:
  • B. Python
  • C. Scala
Question 12

Which actions can be performed using a resource monitor in Snowflake? (Choose two.)

  • A. Monitor the performance of individual queries in real-time
  • B. Automatically allocate more storage space to a virtual warehouse
  • C. Modify the queries being executed within a virtual warehouse
  • D. Suspend a virtual warehouse when its credit usage reaches a defined limit
  • E. Trigger a notification to account administrators when credit usage reaches a specified threshold
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Correct Answer:
  • D. Suspend a virtual warehouse when its credit usage reaches a defined limit
  • E. Trigger a notification to account administrators when credit usage reaches a specified threshold
Question 13

What is Snowflake's general guideline for files used to load data?

  • A. Files can be loaded directly into a table
  • B. Any delimiter is supported: the default is a semicolon
  • C. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is one of the supported semi-structured formats
  • D. For delimited files, the default character set is UTF-8
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Correct Answer:
D. For delimited files, the default character set is UTF-8
Question 14

How many resource monitors can be assigned at the account level?

  • A. 1
  • B. 2
  • C. 3
  • D. 4
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Correct Answer:
A. 1
Question 15

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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Correct Answer:
C. Heat grid
Question 16

What is used to limit the credit usage of a virtual warehouse within a Snowflake account?

  • A. Load monitor
  • B. Resource monitor
  • C. Query Profile
  • D. Stream
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Correct Answer:
B. Resource monitor
Question 17

A marketing co-worker has requested the ability to change a warehouse size on their medium virtual warehouse called MKTG_WH. Which of the following statements will accommodate this request?

  • A. ALLOW RESIZE ON WAREHOUSE MKTG_WH TO USER MKTG_LEAD;
  • B. GRANT MODIFY ON WAREHOUSE MKTG_WH TO ROLE MARKETING;
  • C. GRANT MODIFY ON WAREHOUSE MKTG_WH TO USER MKTG_LEAD;
  • D. GRANT OPERATE ON WAREHOUSE MKTG_WH TO ROLE MARKET;
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Correct Answer:
B. GRANT MODIFY ON WAREHOUSE MKTG_WH TO ROLE MARKETING;
Question 18

Which activities are managed by Snowflake’s Cloud Services layer? (Choose two.)

  • A. Authentication
  • B. Access delegation
  • C. Data pruning
  • D. Data compression
  • E. Query parsing and optimization
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Correct Answer:
  • A. Authentication
  • E. Query parsing and optimization
Question 19

Which statement accurately describes a characteristic of a materialized view?

  • A. materialized view can query only a single table
  • B. Data accessed through materialized views can be stale
  • C. Materialized view refreshes need to be maintained by the user
  • D. Querying a materialized view is slower than executing a query against the base table of the view
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Correct Answer:
A. materialized view can query only a single table
Question 20

Which DDL/DML operation is allowed on an inbound data share?

  • A. ALTER TABLE
  • B. INSERT INTO
  • C. MERGE
  • D. SELECT
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Correct Answer:
D. SELECT

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