2024 – Questions And Answers
You own table T1 in schema S1. The schema lives in database D1. In order to
grant read-only permissions to this table to a newly created role, R1, you need
to...
A) Grant USAGE on D1
B) Grant SELECT on D1
C) Grant USAGE on S1
D) Grant SELECT on S1
E) Grant USAGE on T1
F) Grant SELECT on T1 ✔️Ans - A, C and F
Grant USAGE on D1, USAGE on S1 and SELECT on T1
Identify system-defined roles in Snowflake from the roles given:
A) ACCOUNTADMIN
B) SYSADMIN
C) AUDITOR
D) ROLEADMIN
E) SECURITYADMIN
F) PUBLIC ✔️Ans - A, B, E and F
ACCOUNTADMIN, SYSADMIN, SECURITYADMIN and PUBLIC
What are the minimum and the maximum number of clusters in a multi-
cluster warehouse?
A) Min: 1 Max: 99
B) Min: 1 Max: 100
C) Min: 1 Max: 10
D) Min: 1 Max: Unlimited ✔️Ans - C
Min: 1 Max: 10
,True or False, When a virtual warehouse is stared, resized or resumed, the
minimum billing charge is 1 minute. ✔️Ans - True
True or False, It is necessary to stop a virtual warehouse to resize it. ✔️Ans
- False
When a multi-cluster warehouse is suspended, which of the following
Snowflake cache will be purged?
A) Metadata cache
B) Remote disk cache (Result set cache)
C) Local disk cache
D) All of the above ✔️Ans - C
Local Disk cache
Which three of the cloud services providers are supported by Snowflake
architecture:
A) Amazon Web Services (AWS)
B) Google (GCP)
C) HP Virtual Private Cloud
D) Cloud Foundry
E) Microsoft Azure ✔️Ans - A, B and E
AWS, GCP and Microsoft Azure
True or False, After choosing a cloud platform upon account creation you can
change it at any time. ✔️Ans - False
Each snowflake account is hosted on one cloud platform. To change, a new
account must be created.
Which of the following are the key considerations when choosing a specific
region for your Snowflake account?
A) Cost
B) Proximity to the end-users
C) Data sovereignty
, D) Regulatory requirements
E) All of the Above ✔️Ans - E
Cost, Proximity to end-users, Data sovereignty and Regulatory requirements
are all key considerations
Informatica, Matillion, Azure data factory are all examples of _____________
partners of the Snowflake partner ecosystem?
A) Data Management
B) Business Intelligence
C) Data Integration
D) Data Science ✔️Ans - Data Integration
Each of these partners provide extract, transform and load functionalities
Which of the following programming languages are supported in Snowflake to
write User-Defined Functions (UDFs)?
A) SQL
B) Java
C) JavaScript
D) Python ✔️Ans - A and C
SQL and JavaScript are supported for writing UDFs
Which Snowflake edition supports transmitting data in encrypted form over
the network between VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud)
A) All editions
B) Enterprise edition and above
C) Business Critical edition and above
D) All except for the Virtual Private Snowflake edition ✔️Ans - C
Business Critical and above
True or False, More than one clustering key can co-exist in a Snowflake table.
✔️Ans - False