​SnowPro Core Sample Exam Questions 

 
 
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Which of the following is not a layer in Snowflake's Architecture?
A) Storage
B) Cloud Services
C) Data Catalog
D) Virtual Warehouses

True or false: A table in Snowflake can only be queried using the Virtual Warehouse used to load the data. 
A) True 
B) False 
 
 
Which of the following best describes Snowflake's processing engine? 
A) Leverages Apache Spark
B) Based on Map Reduce
C) A derivative of Presto
D) Native SQL
 
 
True or false: Snowflake offers tools to extract data from source systems.
A) True
B) False

True or false: Virtual Warehouses cannot be resized while queries are running
A) True
B) False

Which of the following statements are true about Snowflake Data sharing? Select all that apply. 
A) Consumers can query shared tables in the same query as their own tables
B) Producers can share data to other databases such as Postgres and MySQL
C) You don't need a Snowflake Virtual Warehouse to query shared data
D) Data Sharing is integrated with role-based access controls

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True or false: Snowflake only works with cloud-based tools.

A) True
B) False

Which type of Data Integration tools leverage Snowflake's scalable compute for data transformation?
Select the best answer.
A) Data Replication
B) ELT
C) ETL
D) Streaming

Which of the following statements apply to Snowflake in terms of security? Select all that apply.
A) Snowflake leverages a role-based access control model
B) Snowflake requires you to configure an IAM user in order to connect to the database
C) All data in Snowflake is encrypted
D) Snowflake can run within a customer's VPC

Which of the following are types of caching use by Snowflake? Select all that apply.
A) Warehouse caching
B) Index Caching
C) Metadata caching
D) Query result caching

True or false: Snowflake caches are automatically invalidated if the underlying data changes.
A) True
B) False

What is the maximum number of consumer accounts that can be added to a Share object?
A) 1
B) Unlimited
C) 10
D) 100

Which of the following are true about the variant data type in Snowflake? Select all that apply.
A) Optimized storage based on repeated elements
B) Stored in a separate file format from structured data
C) Can be queried using JSON path notation
D) Requires a custom mapping for each record type

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Which of the following are true of Multi-Cluster warehouses? Select all that apply.
A) Adds clusters automatically based on query activity
B) Sizes each cluster optimally based on the queries
C) Scales down when query activity slows
D) Multi-cluster warehouses will never auto-suspend

Which of the following are options when creating a Virtual Warehouse? Select all that apply.
A) Auto-suspend
B) Storage Size
C) Auto-resume
D) Server count

True or false: You can point Snowflake at any S3 bucket to directly query the files in that bucket as long
as the files are in Parquet or ORC format.
A) True
B) False

Snowflake supports which of the following file formats for data loading? Select all that apply.
A) Parquet
B) ORC
C) CSV
D) PDF

True or false: A table in Snowflake can contain both a variant columns and a timestamp.
A) True
B) False

Which role in Snowflake allows a user to administer users and manage all database objects?
A) SYSADMIN
B) SECURITYADMIN
C) ACCOUNTADMIN
D) ROOT

True or false: The Query Profiler view is only available for completed queries.
A) True
B) False*

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What is the recommended approach for making a variant column accessible in a BI tool?
A) A predefined mapping
B) A view
C) Leveraging a JSON parser
D) Not possible

Which of the following techniques can be used in Snowflake to improve query performance?
A) Index definition
B) Cluster Keys/Reclustering
C) Distribution Keys
D) Query Hints

True or false: The warehouse cache may be reset if a running warehouse is suspended and then
resumed.
A) True
B) False

What technique does Snowflake use to limit the number of micro-partitions scanned by each query?
A) Indexing
B) Pruning
C) Map Reduce
D) B-Tree

The Snowflake metadata repository contains which of the following? Select all that apply
A) Table definitions
B) References to all of the micropartion files for that table
C) Tracking of all versions of the table data within the data retention window
D) Aggregated data from the table

True or False: When data is staged to a Snowflake internal staging area using the PUT command, the
data is encrypted on the client’s machine.
A) True
B) False

Which transformations are available when using the COPY INTO command to load data files into
Snowflake from a stage? Select all that apply.
A) Filters
B) Aggregates
C) Column data type conversion
D) Column concatenation

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The following factors affect data load rates: (select all that apply)
A) Physical location of the stage
B) RAM on the Virtual Warehouse
C) Gzip compression efficiency
D) Thread size

Which of the following terms best describes Snowflake's database architecture? 

A) Columnar shared nothing
B) Shared disk
C) Multi-cluster shared data
D) Cloud-native shared memory

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