What is the minimum duration charged when starting a virtual warehouse?

A. 1 second
B. 1 minute
C. 1 hour
D. 1 day
True or False: When you create a custom role, it is a practice to immediately grant that role
to ACCOUNTADMIN.
A. True
B. False
True or False: It is possible for a user to run a query against the query result cache without
requiring an active Warehouse.
A. True
B. False
What is the most granular object that the Time Travel retention period can be defined on?
A. Account
B. Database
C. Schema
D. Table
Snowflake recommends, as a minimize, that all users with the following roles(s) should be
enrolled in Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA):
A. SECURITYADMIN, ACCOUNTADMIN, PUBLIC, SYSADMIN
B. SECURITYADMIN ACCOUNTADMIN, SYSADMIN
C. SECURITYADMIN, ACCOUNTADMIN
D. ACCOUNTADMIN
Which statement best describes Snowflake tables?
A. Snowflake tables are logical representations of underlying physical data
B. Snowflake tables ate the physical instantiation of data loaded Into Snowflake
C. Snowflake tables require that clustering keys be defined to perform optimally
D. Snowflake tables are owned by a user
True or False: Users are able to see the result sets of queries executed by other users that
share their same role.
A. True
B. False
Which of the following commands sets the Virtual Warehouse for a session?
A. COPT WAREHOUSE FROM <<Config file> ;
B. SET warehouse = <<warehouse name>>;
C. USE WAREHOUSE <<warehouse name>>;
D. USE VIRTUAL_WAREHOUSE <<warehouse name>>;
Which of the following statements is true of Snowflake micro-partitioning?
A. Micro-partitioning has been known to introduce data skew
B. Micro-partitioning: requires a partitioning schema to be defined up front
C. Micro-partitioning is transparently completed using the ordering that occurs when
the data is inserted/loaded
D. Micro-partitioning can be disabled within a Snowflake account
What happens when a Data Provider revokes privileges to a Share on an object in their
source database?
A. The object immediately becomes unavailable for all Data Consumers
B. Any additional data arriving after this point in time will not be visible to Data Consumers
C. The Data Consumers stop seeing data updates and become responsible for storage
charges for the object
D. A static copy of the object at the time the privilege was revoked is created In the Data
Consumers’ accounts
True or False: AWS Private Link provides a secure connection from the Customer’s on-
premise data center to the Snowflake.
A. True
B. False
True or False: Snowpipe via RFST API can only reference External Stages as source.
A. True
B. False
The Information Schema and Account Usage Share provide storage information for which of
the following objects? (Choose three.)
A. Users
B. Tables
C. Databases
D. Internal Stages
True or False: During data unloading, only JSON and CSV files can be compressed.
A. True
B. False
Which of the following statements are true of Snowflake releases: (Choose two.)
A. They happen approximately weekly
B. They roll up and release approximately monthly, but customers can request early release
application
C. During a release, new customer requests/queries/connections transparently move
over to the newer version
D. A customer is assigned a 30-minute window (that can be moved anytime within a week)
during which the system will be unavailable, and customer is upgraded
If auto-suspend is enable for a Virtual Warehouse, he Warehouse is automatically
suspended when:
A. All Snowflake sessions using the warehouse are terminated.
B. The last query using the warehouse completes.
C. There are no users loaned into Snowflake.
D. The Warehouse is inactive for a specified period of time
True or False: A 4X-Large Warehouse may, at times, take longer to provision than a X-Small
Warehouse.
A. True
B. False
Which of the following commands are not blocking operations? Choose 2 answers
A. UPDATE
B. INSERT
C. MERGE
D. COPY
True or False: It is possible to unload structured data to semi-structured formats such as
JSON and parquet.
A. True
B. False
True or False: When a user creates a role, they are initially assigned ownership of the role
and they maintain ownership until it is transferred to another user.
A. True
B. False
When can a Virtual Warehouse start running queries?
A. 12am-5am
B. Only during administrator defined time slots
C. When its provisioning is complete
D. After replication
True or False: When active, a pipe requires a dedicated Virtual Warehouse to execute.
A. True
B. False
Data storage for individual tables can be monitored using which commands and/or object(s)?
Choose 2 answers
A. SHOW TABLES;
B. SHOW STORAGE BY TABLE;
C. Information Schema -> TABLE_STORAGE_METRICS
D. Information Schema -> TASLE_HISTORY
Which of the following are examples of operations that require a Virtual Warehouse to
complete, assuming no quires have been executed previously? Choose 3 answers
A. MIN(< < column value>>)
B. COPY
C. SUM(<< column value >>)
D. UPDATE
Which of the following statements is true of data loading?
A. Resizing the virtual warehouse from x-Small to Small will process a single file twice as
fast
B. The "deal file size for loading is 16MB to match micro-partition size
C. Marry files in the 10-lOOMB range tend to land In the ‘sweet spot" for load
parallelism Once loaded, there is no option to force a reload of an already loaded file
How a Snowpipe charges calculated?
A. Per-second/per Warehouse size
B. Per-second/per-core granularity
C. Number of Pipes in account
D. Total storage bucket size
Which is true of Snowflake network policies? A Snowflake network policy: (Choose two.)
A. Is available to all Snowflake Editions
B. Is only available to customers with Business Critical Edition
C. Restricts or enables access to specific IP addresses
D. Is activated using an “ALTER DATABASE” command
True or False: Each worksheet in the Snowflake Web Interface (UI) can be associated with
different roles, databases, schemas, and Virtual Warehouses.
A. True
B. False
True or False: Micro-partition metadata enables some operations to be completed without
requiring Compute.
A. True
B. False
Which of the following statements about data sharing are true? choose 2 answers
A. New objects created by a Data Provider are automatically shared with existing Data
Consumers & Reader Accounts
B. All database objects can be included In a shared database
C. Reader Accounts are created and funded by Data Prowlers
D. Shared databases are read-only
The fail-safe retention period is how many days?
A. 1 day
B. 7 days
C. 45 days
D. 90 days
Account-level storage usage can be monitored via:
A. The snowflake wet Interface (UI) in the Databases section.
B. The Snowflake web interface (UI) in the Account -> Billing a usage section
C. The Information Schema -> ACCOUNT_USAGE_HISTORY View
D. The Account usage Schema – > ACCOUNT_USAGE_METRICS View
Query results are stored in the Result Cache for how long after they are last accessed,
assuming no data changes have occurred?
A. 1 Hour
B. 3 Hours
C. 12 hours
D. 24 hours
Which type of table corresponds to a single Snowflake session?
A. Temporary
B. Translent
C. Provisional
D. Permanent
True or False: Snowflake allows its customers to directly access the micro-partition files that
make up its tables.
A. True
B. False
Which statement best describes ” clustering”?
A. Clustering represents the way data is grouped together and stored within
snowflake’s micro-partitions
B. The database administrator must define the clustering methodology for each Snowflake
table.
C. The clustering key must be included on the COPV command when loading data into
Snowflake.
D. Clustering can be disabled within a Snowflake account.
What is the recommended method for loading data into Snowflake?
A. Load row by row
B. Load data in batch
C. Load data by writing it In the Snowflake Web Interface (UI)
D. Load data via frequent, angle row DML’s
Which of the following statements are true of Virtual Warehouses? (Choose all that apply.)
A. Customers can change the size of the Warehouse after creation
B. A Warehouse can be resized while running
C. A Warehouse can be configured to suspend after a period of inactivity
D. A Warehouse can be configured to auto-resume when new queries are submitted
True or False: You can resize a Virtual Warehouse while queries are running.
A. True
B. False
What is the lowest Snowflake edition that offers Time Travel up to 90 days.
A. standard Edition
B. Premier Edition
C. Enterprise Edition
D. Business Critical Edition
True or False: The COPY command must specify a File Format in order to execute.
A. True
B. False
How many shares can be consumed by single Data Consumer?
A. 1
B. 10
C. 100, but can be increased by contacting support
D. Unlimited
Which of the following statements are true about Schemas in Snowflake? (Choose two.)
A. A Schema may contain one or more Databases
B. A Database may contain one or more Schemas
C. A Schema is a logical grouping of Database Objects
D. Each Schema is contained within a Warehouse
What parameter controls if the Virtual warehouse starts immediately after the CREATE
WAREHOUSE statement?
A. INITTIALLY_SUSPENDED = TRUE/FALSE
B. START_AFTCR_CREATE = TRUE/FALSE
C. START_TTIME = 60 // (seconds from now)
D. STAR
E. TIME = CURREN
F. DATE()
True or False: A single database can exist in more than one Snowflake account.
A. True
B. False
When loading data into Snowflake, the COPY command supports: Choose 2 answers
A. Joins
B. Fitters
C. Data type conversions
D. Column reordering
E. Aggregates
Snowflake is designed for which type of workloads? (Choose two.)
A. OLAP (Analytics) workloads
B. OLTP (Transactional) workloads
C. Concurrent workloads
D. On-premise workloads
True or False: Data in Fail-safe can be deleted by a user or the Snowflake team before it
expires.
A. True
B. False
To run a Multi-Cluster Warehouse in auto-scale mode, a user would:
A. Configure the Maximum Clusters setting to “Auto-Scale”
B. Set the Warehouse type to “Auto”
C. Set the Minimum Clusters and Maximum Clusters settings to the same value
D. Set the Minimum Clusters and Maximum Clusters settings to the different values
Which formats are supported for unloading data from Snowflake? Choose 2 answers
A. Delimited (CSV, TSV, etc.)
B. Avro
C. JSON
D. ORC
Select the different types of Internal Stages: (Choose three.)
A. Named Stage
B. User Stage
C. Table Stage
D. Schema Stage
What is the maximum compressed row size in Snowflake?
A. 8KB
B. 16MB
C. 50MB
D. 4000GB
When a pipe is recreated using the CREATE on REPLAC PIPE command: Select one.
A. The Pipe load history is reset to empty
B. The REFRESH parameter is set to TRUE
C. Previously loaded files will be ignored
D. All of the above
Select the three types of tables that exist within Snowflake. Choose 3 answers
A. Temporary
B. Transient
C. Provisioned
D. Permanent
Which of the following are valid Snowflake Virtual Warehouse Scaling Policies? (Choose
two.)
A. Custom
B. Economy
C. Optimized
D. Standard
Which of the following are options when creating a virtual Warehouse? Choose 2 answers
A. Auto-drop
B. Auto resize
C. Auto-resume
D. Auto-suspend
What is the maximum compressed row size in Snowflake?
A. 8KB
B. 16MB
C. 50MB
D. 4000GB
Which of the following statements is true of Snowflake?
A. It was built specifically for the cloud
B. It was built as an on-premises solution and then ported to the cloud
C. It was designed as a hybrid database to allow customers to store data either on premises
or in the cloud
D. It was built for Hadoop architecture
E. It’s based on an Oracle Architecture
True or False: Reader Accounts are able to extract data from shared data objects for use
outside of Snowflake.
A. True
B. False
For a multi-cluster Warehouse, the number of credits billed is calculated on: Select one.
A. The number of queries that ran using the Warehouse.
B. The size of the Warehouse and the number of clusters that ran within a given time
period.
C. The sue of the Warehouse and the maximum number of clusters configured for the
Warehouse.
D. The number of users who accessed the Warehouse.
Which of the following accurately represents how a table fits into Snowflake’s logical
container hierarchy?
A. Account -> Schema -> Database -> Table
B. Account -> Database -> Schema -> Table
C. Database -> Schema -> Table -> Account
D. Database -> Table -> Schema -> Account
Which of the following are examples of operations that require a Virtual Warehouse to
complete, assuming no quires have been executed previously? Choose 3 answers
A. MIN(< < column value>>)
B. COPY
C. SUM(<< column value >>)
D. UPDATE
When creating a user it is advisable sable to: Choose 2 answers
A. Set the user to be initially disabled
B. Force an immediate password change
C. Set a default role for the user
D. Set the number of minutes to unlock to 15 minutes
E. Set the users access to expire within a specified timeframe
In which layer of its architecture does Snowflake store its metadata statistics?
A. Storage Layer
B. Compute Layer
C. Database Layer
D. Cloud Service Layer
True or False: The user has to specify which cluster a query will run on in multi-clustering
Warehouse.
A. True
B. False
As a best practice, clustering keys should only be defined on tables of which minimum size?
A. Multi-Kilobyte (KB) Range
B. Multi-Megabyte (MB) Range
C. Multi-Gigabyte (GB) Range
D. Multi-Terabyte (TB) Range
Which of the following are main sections of the top navigation of the Snowflake web
Interface (UI)?
A. Database
B. Tables
C. Warehouses
D. Worksheets
Fail-safe is unavailable on which table types?
A. Temporary
B. Translent
C. Provisional
D. Permanent
Increasing the size of a Virtual Warehouse from an X-Small to an X-Large is an example of:
A. Scaling rhythmically
B. Scaling max
C. Scaling out
D. Scaling up
Which of the following languages can be used to implement Snowflake User Defined
Functions (UDFs)? Choose 2 answers
A. Java
B. JavaScript
C. SQL
D. Python
The number of queries that a Warehouse can concurrently process is determined by:
Choose 2 answers
A. The complexity of each query
B. The CONCURRENT_QUERY_UMIT parameter set on the Snowflake account
C. The size of the data required for each query
D. The tool that s executing the query
What happens when a Data Provider revokes privileges to a Share on an object in their
source database?
A. The object immediately becomes unavailable for all Data Consumers
B. Any additional data arriving after this point in time will not be visible to Data Consumers
C. The Data Consumers stop seeing data updates and become responsible for storage
charges for the object
D. A static copy of the object at the time the privilege was revoked is created In the Data
Consumers’ accounts
True or False: Each worksheet in the Snowflake Web Interface (UI) can be associated with
different roles, databases, schemas, and Virtual Warehouses.
A. True
B. False
Increasing the maximum number of clusters in a Multi-Cluster Warehouse is an example of:
A. Scaling rhythmically
B. Scaling max
C. Scaling out
D. Scaling Up
Which of the following connectors are available in the Downloads section of the Snowflake
web Interface (UI) Choose 2 answers
A. SnowSQL
B. ODBC
C. R
D. HIVE
Which of the following statements is true of zero-copy cloning?
A. Zero-copy clones objects inherit
B. All zero-copy clone objects inherit the privileges of their original objects
C. Zero-copy coning is licensed as an additional Snowflake feature
D. At the instance/instance a clone is created, all micro-partitions in the original table
and the clone are fully shared.
When scaling up Virtual Warehouse by increasing Virtual Warehouse t-shirt size, you are
primarily scaling for improved:
A. Concurrency
B. Performance
True or False: A third-party tool that supports standard JDBC or ODBC but has no
Snowflake-specific driver will be unable to connect to Snowflake.
A. True
B. False
Which of the following items does the Cloud services Layer manage? Choose 4 answers
A. user authentication
B. Metadata
C. Query compilation and optimization
D. external blob storage
E. Data security
which of the following are valid approaches to loading data into a snowflake table? Select all
the below that apply.
A. Bulk copy from an External Stage
B. Continuous load using Snowpipe REST API
C. The Snowflake Web Interface (UT) data loading wizard
D. Bulk copy from an Internal Stage
True or False: When Snowflake is configured to use Single Sign-on (sso), Snowflake receive
the usernames and credentials from the sso service and loads them into the customer’s
Snowflake account.
A. True
B. false:
Which of the following statements are true of Snowflake data loading? Choose 3 answers
A. VARIANT "nut" values are not the same as SQL Null values
B. It is recommended to do frequent, single row DMLS
C. It is recommended to validate the data before loading into the Snowflake target
table
D. It is recommended to use staging tables to manage MERGE statements
Which of the following are common use cases for zero-copy cloning? Choose 3 answers
A. Quick provisioning of Dev and Test/QA environments
B. Data backups
C. Point in time snapshots
D. Performance optimization
Increasing the maximum number of clusters in a Multi-Cluster Warehouse is an example of:
A. Scaling rhythmically
B. Scaling max
C. Scaling out
D. Scaling Up
When a Pipe is recreated using the CREATE OR REPLACE PIPE command:
A. The Pipe load history is reset to empty
B. The REFRESH parameter is set to TRUE
C. Previously loaded files will be ignored
D. All of the above
Which of the following are best practices for users with the SYSADMIN/ACCOUNTADMIN
roles? Choose 3 answers
A. Their default role should be set to SYSTEMADMIN (the lower of the two)
B. They should not set up multi_Factor Authentication (MFA)―as administrator they may
need to change the MFA settings and those enrolled in MFA are unable to do so
C. They should only access and ‘step into’ the ACCOUNTADMIN role temporarily, as
needed to complete a specific operation
D. They should ensure all database objects in the account are owned by the
ACCOUNTADMIN role
E. They should use the SYSADMIN role to perform administrative work on database
objects
Which object allows you to limit the number of credits consumed within a Snowflake
account?

Select one.
A. Account usage Tracking
B. Resource Monitor
C. Warehouse Limit Parameter
D. Credit Consumption Tracker
Which is true of Snowflake network policies? A Snowflake network policy: (Choose two.)
A. Is available to all Snowflake Editions
B. Is only available to customers with Business Critical Edition
C. Restricts or enables access to specific IP addresses
D. Is activated using an “ALTER DATABASE” command
Which item in the Data Warehouse migration process does not apply in Snowflake>
A. Migrate Users
B. Migrate Schemas
C. Migrate Indexes
D. Build the Data pipeline
What command is used to load files into an Internal Stage within Snowflake? Select one.
A. PUT
B. COPY INTO
C. TRANSFER
D. INSERT
Which formats are supported for unloading data from Snowflake? Choose 2 answers
A. Delimited (CSV, TSV, etc.)
B. Avro
C. ISON
D. ORC
Which are true of Snowflake roles?
A. All grants to objects are given to roles, and never to users
B. In order to do DML/DOL, a user needs to have selected a single role that has that
specific access to the object and operation
C. The public role controls at other roles
D. Roles are a subset of users and users own objects In Snowflake
True or False: A 4X-Large Warehouse may, at times, take longer to provision than a X-Small
Warehouse.
A. True
B. False
Which of the following statements is true of Snowflake micro-partitioning?
A. Micro-partitioning has been known to introduce data skew
B. Micro-partitioning: requires a partitioning schema to be defined up front
C. Micro-partitioning is transparently completed using the ordering that occurs when
the data is inserted/loaded
D. Micro-partitioning can be disabled within a Snowflake account
True or False: When active, a pipe requires a dedicated Virtual Warehouse to execute.
A. True
B. False
True or False: During data unloading, only JSON and CSV files can be compressed.
A. True
B. False
True or False: AWS Private Link provides a secure connection from the Customer’s on-
premise data center to the Snowflake.
A. True
B. False
1. A user's default role is:

(A) Along the bottom of the screen in blue.

(B) The role a user is set to each time they log in to the system.

(C) The name used to log in to the WebUI.

2. Snowflake adds four roles to each new account. Check the four default roles.

(A) SYSADMIN

(B) PUBLIC

(C) DISPLAYUSER

(D) SECURITYADMIN

(E) ACCOUNTADMIN

(F) ADMINISTRATOR

(G) USERADMIN

3. Which default role has access to the Account and Notifications ribbon options?

(A) SYSADMIN
 (B) PUBLIC

(C) DISPLAYUSER

(D) SECURITYADMIN

(E) ACCOUNTADMIN

(F) ADMINISTRATOR

4. Which default roles have access to the ACCOUNT option in the ribbon? (Check two)

(A) SYSADMIN

(B) PUBLIC

(C) DISPLAYUSER

(D) SECURITYADMIN

(E) ACCOUNTADMIN

(F) ADMINISTRATOR

To change the warehouse that will be used to run a SQL command within a specific
5. worksheet (for example, changing the worksheet so that it uses SMALL_WH), what two
options are available?
 (A) Run a SQL command like USE WAREHOUSE SMALL_WH;

(B) Run a SQL command like SET WAREHOUSE CONTEXT=SMALL_WH

(C) Update the Warehouse field in the Context Menu located above the worksheet.

(D) Go to the Worksheet properties page and set the Warehouse field to SMALL_WH.

The Worksheet's Context drop menu includes a Warehouse field with a drop list. Two
6.
additional pieces of information are available in that drop list. What are they?

(A) The size of each warehouse is listed in parentheses after the warehouse name.

(B) The number of concurrent queries are listed after the warehouse name.

(C) The status of the warehouse is listed - Suspended or On.

(D) The recommended warehouse size based on warehouse history is listed.

Snowflake allows for custom column separators (a.k.a. column delimiters). In order to
7. use the caret symbol as a custom column separator, what option must you first
choose?

(A) Comma

(B) Vertical Bar

(C) Tab
 (D) None

(E) Other

Snowflake does NOT allow for custom field enclosures like tildes. What three options
8.
are offered for field enclosures?

(A) Single Quotes

(B) Double Quotes

(C) Tildes

(D) Commas

(E) None

(F) Other

If we chose to use DOUBLE QUOTES as the enclosing character in a file, and in our
9. Snowflake file format definition, which of the following values would cause an error
during loading?

(A) Rumble, Goss, & McSure Esq.

(B) Lydia's Lizard Emporium

(C) Clark Superman Kent

10. The acronym ETL stands for what three words?

(A) Extract, Transfer, Load

(B) Enterprise Transition Loading

(C) Extract, Transform, Load

(D) Extract, Transition, Loam

11. Which of the following is the correct syntax for the REPLACE FUNCTION?

(A) REPLACE(, [,])

(B) REPLACE(, [,])

(C) REPLACE(, [,])

What can be typed in front of a line of text in the SQL pane to make it into a comment
12.
or note rather than have it treated as code?(Check all that apply.)

(A) A double slash: //

(B) A double dash: --

(C) A slash, dash and slash pattern: /-/

 (D) A dash, slash and dash pattern: -/-

Which of the following options would result in a column named MY_VALUE being
13.
sandwiched between two percent signs? (Check all that apply)

(A) '%'||MY_VALUE||'%'

(B) CONCATN('%',MY_VALUE,'%')

(C) MERGESTRING('%',MY_VALUE,'%')

(D) CONCAT('%',CONCAT(MY_VALUE,'%'))

Not all Snowflake Editions have Elastic Data Warehousing. Check all the Snowflake
14.
editions that have Elastic Data Warehousing enabled.

(A) Standard Edition

(B) Premium Edition

(C) Enterprise Edition

(D) Business Critical Edition (formerly Enterprise for Sensitive Data)

(E) Virtual Private Snowflake

The following statements have to do with warehousing metaphors. Check all true
15.
statements.
 (A) Real-world warehouses have goods and workers.

(B) Traditional data warehouses have data and servers.

(C) Goods = Data = Storage

(D) Workers = Servers = Compute Power

(E) Goods = Servers = Storage

The following statements have to do with the scaling of the warehouses. Check all true
16.
statements.

(A) Scaling a warehouse UP will decrease the number of clusters. (e.g. Small to Medium)

(B) Scaling a warehouse DOWN will decrease the number of servers. (e.g. Medium to Small)

(C) Scaling a warehouse OUT will increase the number of clusters. (e.g. Min to Max)

(D) Scaling a warehouse OUT will increase the number of servers. (e.g. Min to Max)

(E) Scaling a warehouse IN will decrease the number of clusters. (e.g. snapping back)

Contrast Snowflake Warehouses from traditional data marts. Choose all correct
17.
statements.

(A) Both Data Marts and Snowflake Warehouses can be assigned to a business' departments
for their specific needs.
 (B) Data Marts have access to all of a company's data at all times.

(C) Snowflake Warehouses have access to all of a company's data at all times.

(D) Data Marts can improve efficiency but can lead to inaccuracies due to replication.

(E) Snowflake Warehouses can improve efficiency but lead to inaccuracies due to replication.

(F) Snowflake Warehouses can be called Data Marts because they are so similar in design
and purpose.

The following statements have to do with scaling types and their process steps. Mark
18.
each true statement.

(A) Scaling up is a manual process. (e.g. Small to Medium)

(B) Scaling down is a automated process. (e.g. X-Large to Large)

(C) Scaling out is an automated process (e.g. Min clusters to max clusters)

(D) Snapping back is a manual process (e.g. Max clusters to min clusters)

When configuring a Warehouse using a Snowflake edition that has Elastic Data
19. Warehousing enabled, what facets or components will you need to configure that are
not needed in accounts where Elastic Data Warehousing is not enabled. (Choose two)

(A) Scaling Policy

 (B) Minimum and Maximum Servers

(C) Minimum and Maximum Clusters

(D) Auto-Resume

(E) Auto-Suspend

Which of the following options is the best definition of a stage or staging area as it
20.
relates to both real world warehouses and data warehouses?

(A) A place that allows for both formatted and semi-formatted data in long term storage.

(B) A holding area for goods or data that have not yet been input into logistics solutions.

(C) A temporary location where goods or data are kept before movement to more stable
locations.

(D) A place for presenting goods or data to a viewing audience, using a viewer like a
dashboard or report.

Which three objects did we explicitly refer to using the COPY INTO command to load
21.
data on using external stages?

(A) Table

(B) File Format

 (C) View

(D) Schema

(E) Stage

(F) Database

22. Mark each true statement.

(A) Snowflake Stages can be defined as either External or Internal.

(B) Snowflake Stages can be defined as either FTP or SFTP.

(C) External Stages require a cloud storage provider.

(D) FTP Stages require three cloud storage providers.

(E) Cloud storage providers must be linked to internal stage objects.

External Stages require customers to have an account with a cloud storage service
23. provider. Which of the following are available currently or have been announced by
Snowflake as under development?

(A) AWS S3

(B) MS OneDrive
 (C) Google Drive

(D) MS Azure Blob

(E) GCP Buckets

(F) DropBox

To configure an External Stage you need to define the stage object in Snowflake. You
24.
also need two additional components. What are they?

(A) Stage Admin Username

(B) Stage Admin Password

(C) Cloud storage location (e.g. S3 Bucket)

(D) Cloud access credentials (e.g. IAM User and Policy)

(E) Snowflake External Stage Password Authentication Certificate

You create a Sequence in Snowflake with an initial value of 2 and an interval of 3.

25.
Which series of numbers do you expect to see?

(A) 2, 5, 8, 12, 15

(B) 2, 5, 8, 11, 14
 (C) 2, 3, 6, 9, 12

You create a Sequence in Snowflake with an initial value of 1 and an interval of 5.

26.
Which series of numbers do you expect to see?

(A) 5, 10, 15, 20, 25

(B) 1, 5, 10, 15, 20

(C) 1, 6, 11, 16, 21

27. What is the column datatype used for ingesting semi-structured data?

(A) VARCHAR

(B) BINARY

(C) STRING

(D) VARIANT

(E) DATETIME

What data structure types can be ingested into a VARIANT column in a Snowflake
28.
table? (Check all that apply)

(A) ORC
 (B) HADOOP

(C) PARQUET

(D) JSON

(E) XML

(F) AVRO

SQL Statements fall into several categories, including DDL and DML. What does DDL
29.
stand for?

(A) Data Delineation Language

(B) Data Definition Language

(C) Definition Delineation Language

SQL Statements fall into several categories, including DDL and DML. What does DML
30.
stand for?

(A) Data Marketing Language

(B) Delineation Manipulation Language

(C) Data Manipulation Language

31. Which of the following SQL keywords are DDL commands?

(A) CREATE

(B) SELECT

(C) INSERT

(D) ALTER

(E) DROP

32. Which of the following SQL keywords are DML commands?

(A) CREATE

(B) SELECT

(C) INSERT

(D) UPDATE

(E) DROP

(F) ALTER
 We loaded an XML file that included a header entity called . In order to bypass this
33. entity and treat each AUTHOR object as a separate record (loading each into a separate
row), what FILE_FORMAT property did we change?

(A) PRESERVE SPACE

(B) STRIP OUTER ELEMENT

(C) DISABLE SNOWFLAKE DATA

(D) DISABLE AUTO CONVERT

(E) IGNORE UTF-8 ERROR

Many logical data models refer to entities, attributes, and values. In JSON, and some
34.
other semi-structured types, the word attributes is often replaced with what word?

(A) COLUMNS

(B) ROWS

(C) KEYS

(D) RELATIONSHIPS

A CAST command (symbol) will force a value to be output as a certain datatype. Which
35. of the following code samples will result in the nickname being output using the
VARCHAR datatype?
 (A) SELECT nickname::VARCHAR

(B) SELECT nickname||VARCHAR

(C) SELECT nickname AS VARCHAR

(D) SELECT VARCHAR(nickname)

The FLATTEN command will parse nested entities into separate rows. One version of
36. the FLATTEN command uses a join and the other uses an object keyword. Select the
two words that represent the options used with the FLATTEN command.

(A) LATERAL

(B) SIDEWAYS

(C) TABLE

(D) SCHEMATA

A customer needs to have a preexisting account with AWS or MicroSoft Azure in order
37.
to have a Snowflake account or to use Snowflake?

(A) True

(B) False
 Snowflake tables are logical structures of collections of columns and rows of data
38.
physically stored in Snowflake's FDN files (micro-partitions)

(A) True

(B) False

39. Table are unique database objects in Snowflake?

(A) True

(B) False

40. Federated authentication in Snowflake is complaint with SAML 2.0?

(A) True

(B) False

41. The PUT and GET commands can be executed via the Snowflake UI?

(A) True

(B) False

42. The COPY command is more performant than the INSERT statement?
 (A) True

(B) False

43. Snowflake's security and authentication includes Snowflake Failures alerts?

(A) True

(B) False

Snowflake's security and authentication includes data encryption using Snowflake-

44.
managed keys?

(A) True

(B) False

45. Snowflake supports landing data into bring your own device?

(A) True

(B) False

To help control the usage of credits in Auto-scale mode, Snowflake provides a

46. property, _________________, that determines the scaling policy to use when automatically
starting or shutting down additional clusters. Select the property:

(A) Auto_Scale
 (B) Scaling_policy

(C) Maximum_number_of_server_clusters

(D) Minimum_number of server clusters

(E) None of the above

Compute resources used by Snowflake for data loading jobs can by provide by
47.
hardware provisioned by user directly from cloud providers?

(A) True

(B) False

B-tree type indexes are supported by Snowflake's performance optimizing query

48.
methods?

(A) True

(B) False

One benefit of client-side encryption is that the data is encrypted before loading into
49.
storage layer?

(A) True

(B) False
50. Choosing separate accounts in Snowflake enables users to have:

(A) Different editions of Snowflake and different regions

(B) Billing at the account level

(C) Simpler database object deployment between environments

(D) All of the above

MFA (Multi-factor Authentication) login is desired only for connecting to Snowflake

51.
through the web interface?

(A) True

(B) False

Virtual Warehouse can be configured to auto-suspend after a specific period of

52.
inactivity, or auto-resume as soon as the administrator cancels the auto-suspend?

(A) True

(B) False

Snowflake determines how the data is divided into micro-partitions. Users cannot
53.
create or configure these partitions.

(A) True
 (B) False

If you want to use a column with very high cardinality as a clustering key, we
54. recommend defining the key as an expression on the column, rather than on the
column directly, to reduce the number of distinct values

(A) True

(B) False

55. Deleting all rows in a table is a metadata only?

(A) True

(B) False

Snowflake optimizes the storage for semi-structured data based on the repeating
56.
elements within the semi-structured strings?

(A) True

(B) False

In order to query a table in Snowflake, the user must be granted which privileges at a
57.
minimum (select all that apply):

(A) Grant USAGE on database

 (B) Grant USAGE on schema

(C) Grant Select on table

(D) All of the above

58. What is data skew is when partitions in database become disproportionately-sized?

(A) True

(B) False

There are cases where separate accounts are required such as different editions or
59.
regions?

(A) True

(B) False

60. Snowflake instances in different regions require separate accounts?

(A) True

(B) False