SnowPro Advanced Architect Exam Questions and Answers

QUESTION: 9

What are some of the characteristics of result set caches? (Choose three.)

Time Travel queries can be executed against the result set cache.
Snowflake persists the data results for 24 hours.
Each time persisted results for a query are used, a 24-hour retention period is reset.
The data stored in the result cache will contribute to storage costs.
The retention period can be reset for a maximum of 31 days.
The result set cache is not shared between warehouses.

Answer(s): B,C,E

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QUESTION: 10

Which organization-related tasks can be performed by the ORGADMIN role? (Choose three.)

Changing the name of the organization
Creating an account
Viewing a list of organization accounts
Changing the name of an account
Deleting an account
Enabling the replication of a database

Answer(s): B,D,E

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A Data Engineer is designing a near real-time ingestion pipeline for a retail company to ingest event logs into Snowflake to derive insights. A Snowflake Architect is asked to define security best practices to configure access control privileges for the data load for auto-ingest to Snowpipe.

What are the MINIMUM object privileges required for the Snowpipe user to execute Snowpipe?

OWNERSHIP on the named pipe, USAGE on the named stage, target database, and schema, and INSERT and SELECT on the target table
OWNERSHIP on the named pipe, USAGE and READ on the named stage, USAGE on the target database and schema, and INSERT end SELECT on the target table
CREATE on the named pipe, USAGE and READ on the named stage, USAGE on the target database and schema, and INSERT end SELECT on the target table
USAGE on the named pipe, named stage, target database, and schema, and INSERT and SELECT on the target table

Answer(s): B

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QUESTION: 12

The IT Security team has identified that there is an ongoing credential stuffing attack on many of their organization's system.

What is the BEST way to find recent and ongoing login attempts to Snowflake?

Call the LOGIN_HISTORY Information Schema table function.
Query the LOGIN_HISTORY view in the ACCOUNT_USAGE schema in the SNOWFLAKE database.
View the History tab in the Snowflake UI and set up a filter for SQL text that contains the text "LOGIN".
View the Users section in the Account tab in the Snowflake UI and review the last login column.

Answer(s): A

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QUESTION: 13

An Architect has a VPN_ACCESS_LOGS table in the SECURITY_LOGS schema containing timestamps of the connection and disconnection, username of the user, and summary statistics.

What should the Architect do to enable the Snowflake search optimization service on this table?

Assume role with OWNERSHIP on future tables and ADD SEARCH OPTIMIZATION on the SECURITY_LOGS schema.
Assume role with ALL PRIVILEGES including ADD SEARCH OPTIMIZATION in the SECURITY LOGS schema.
Assume role with OWNERSHIP on VPN_ACCESS_LOGS and ADD SEARCH OPTIMIZATION in the SECURITY_LOGS schema.
Assume role with ALL PRIVILEGES on VPN_ACCESS_LOGS and ADD SEARCH OPTIMIZATION in the SECURITY_LOGS schema.

Answer(s): C

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QUESTION: 14

A table contains five columns and it has millions of records. The cardinality distribution of the columns is shown below:

Column C4 and C5 are mostly used by SELECT queries in the GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses.
Whereas columns C1, C2 and C3 are heavily used in filter and join conditions of SELECT queries.

The Architect must design a clustering key for this table to improve the query performance.

Based on Snowflake recommendations, how should the clustering key columns be ordered while defining the multi-column clustering key?

C5, C4, C2
C3, C4, C5
C1, C3, C2
C2, C1, C3

Answer(s): D

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QUESTION: 15

Which security, governance, and data protection features require, at a MINIMUM, the Business Critical edition of Snowflake? (Choose two.)

Extended Time Travel (up to 90 days)
Customer-managed encryption keys through Tri-Secret Secure
Periodic rekeying of encrypted data
AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud private connectivity to Snowflake
Federated authentication and SSO

Answer(s): B,D

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QUESTION: 16

A company wants to deploy its Snowflake accounts inside its corporate network with no visibility on the internet. The company is using a VPN infrastructure and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for its Snowflake users. The company also wants to re-use the login credentials set up for the VDI to eliminate redundancy when managing logins.

What Snowflake functionality should be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Set up replication to allow users to connect from outside the company VPN.
Provision a unique company Tri-Secret Secure key.
Use private connectivity from a cloud provider.
Set up SSO for federated authentication.
Use a proxy Snowflake account outside the VPN, enabling client redirect for user logins.

Answer(s): B,E

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