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Snowflake SnowPro Advanced: Architect. Practice Exam Questions.

During these last months, we have studied how Snowflake works in detail, along with
some questions to prepare for the Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification. Once you’ve
passed this certification, you might want to go one step beyond and study one of the
Snowflake advanced certifications. To see their difficulty, let’s solve some questions from
the SnowPro Advanced: Architect exam. Let’s start now with the test!

The content from this exam will be the continuation of the Snowflake SnowPro Core
Certification. You can see the whole course at the following link:

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1: What does a response error code of 429 from the insertFiles,

insertReport, or loadHistoryScan API of Snowpipe mean?

1. Failure. PipeName not recognized

2. Failure. Invalid request due to an invalid format or limit exceeded

3. Failure. Request rate limit exceeded

Solution: 3. You can see all the errors from the insertFiles API at the following
link: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/data-load-snowpipe-rest-apis.html

2: What is the purpose of external functions in Snowflake?

1. Call executable code developed, maintained, stored, and executed outside Snowflake.

2. Download executable code maintained outside Snowflake

3. Connect to a repository of functions outside Snowflake

Solution: 1. AWS Lambda and Microsoft Azure Functions are examples of remote
services in external functions. You can see how External Functions work in the following
diagram:

How External Functions work in Snowflake.

3: Select the correct object hierarchy from the following options:

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1. Organization -> Account -> User, Role, Database, Warehouse (at the same level)

2. Organization -> Account -> User, Role, Schema, Warehouse (at the same level)

3. Organization -> Account -> User, Role, Table, Warehouse (at the same level)

4. Organization -> Account -> Database -> Schema -> Table, Schema, Stage (at the
same level)

5. Organization -> Account -> Database -> Schema -> Table, View, Stage (at the same
level)

Solution: 1, 5. You can see the Snowflake hierarchy in the following image:

Snowflake hierarchy (via snowflake.com).

4: Does the VALIDATION_MODE support COPY statements that transform

the data during a load?

1. True

2. False

Solution: 2. If VALIDATION_MODE is specified, the COPY statement returns an

error.

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5: When copying files, there might be errors. What are the options that you
can specify in the COPY INTO clause?

1. ABORT_STATEMENT

2. CONTINUE

3. SKIP_FILE

4. SKIP_FILE_num

5. FINISH

Solution: 1, 2, 3, 4. There is also the option SKIP_FILE_num% that skips the file
when the percentage of error rows in the file exceeds the specified percentage.

6: Can we clone a temporary table into a permanent one?

1. True

2. False

Solution: 2. We can clone a temporary table into another temporary one or another
transient one, but never a permanent one. The same thing happens with transient tables.
We can clone permanent tables into temporary or transient tables thought. You can see
this behavior in the following picture:

Cloning between Snowflake tables.

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7: What command can we use to delete a share from the Snowflake account?

1. DELETE SHARE <myShare>

2. REMOVE SHARE <myShare>

3. DROP SHARE <myShare>

4. ALTER SHARE <myShare> SET REMOVED = True

Solution: 3.

8: What is the function of the insertReport Snowpipe endpoint?

1. Insert reports into a table

2. Insert files into a table

3. Retrieves a report of files submitted via insertFiles whose contents were recently
ingested into a table.

Solution: 3. This endpoint has two limitations thought. The first one is that only the
10,000 most recent events are retained. Another one is that events are retained for a
maximum of 10 minutes. An event occurs when data from a file submitted via insertFiles
has been committed to the table and is available to queries.

9: Can we define a VARIANT column as a cluster key?

1. True

2. False

Solution: 2.

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10: One query takes a lot of time, and you see in the query profiler the
following information. What might be the cause of this?

1. The power of the cloud provider bucket performance is not enough; that’s why the
performance of the query is degraded.

2. The size of the AWS S3 bucket is not sufficient.

3. The amount of memory available for the memory and the local disk of a warehouse
node might not be sufficient to hold intermediate results, making Snowflake use the
remote storage, thus degrading the performance.

Solution: 3. When Snowflake warehouse cannot fit an operation in memory, it starts

spilling (storing) data first to the local disk of a warehouse node and then to remote
storage. As this means extra IO operations, any query requiring spilling will take longer
than a similar query running on similar data capable of fitting the operations in memory.
You can find more information about this problem and how to solve it at the following
link.

11: How many cluster keys can we create for a Snowflake table?

1. One

2. Two

3. A maximum of three or four cluster keys

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4. Unlimited

Solution: 1. You can enable clustering on specific tables by specifying ONE clustering
key for each table. We can only create one cluster key, but we can have several columns
or expressions in that cluster key.

12: You work for a company, and one of your primary providers shares a
Snowflake SHARE with you. Which of the following operations can you do?

1. SELECT * FROM <shared_table> GROUP BY

2. INSERT INTO <shared_table> VALUES

3. DROP TABLE <shared_table>

4. UPDATE <shared_table> SET

5. SELECT * FROM <shared_table> JOIN

Solution: 1, 5. Shared tables are read-only, so you cannot add, update or delete data.

13: Which functions are NOT Context Functions in the Session Context sub-
category?

1. CURRENT_ROLE

2. CURRENT_ACCOUNT

3. CURRENT_SESSION

4. CURRENT_DATE

Solution: 4. CURRENT_DATE is a Context Function from the General Context sub-

category. You can see all the different context functions and the sub-categories at the
following link: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/functions-context.html

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14: What is the output of the command?  SELECT TOP 100 AGE FROM USERS;

1. The TOP 100 grades in ascendent order

2. The TOP 100 grades in descendent order

3. The TOP 100 grades ordered by the creation date of the data

4. Non-deterministic list of 100 grades

Solution: 4. We’d need the ORDER BY clause if we want to generate the other results.

15: Which are the two VARIANT columns each schema has in every
Snowflake table loaded by the Kafka connector?

1. RECORD_CONTENT

2. RECORD_METADATA

3. RECORD_SUMMARY

4. RECORD_ISCORRECT

5. RECORD_PRIVILEGES

Solution: 1, 2. The RECORD_CONTENT column contains the Kafka message, and

RECORD_METADATA is the metadata about the message.

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