ARA-C01 Practice Questions
168 real ARA-C01 exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 2 of 4.
- Question #54Data Modeling and Design
Which data models can be used when modeling tables in a Snowflake environment? (Select THREE).
Data ModelingDimensional ModelingData VaultNormalization - Question #55Architectural Principles and Best Practices
A Snowflake Architect is setting up database replication to support a disaster recovery plan. The primary database has external tables. How should the database be replicated?
Database ReplicationDisaster RecoveryExternal TablesArchitectural Design - Question #56Data Integration and Pipelines
An Architect is integrating an application that needs to read and write data to Snowflake without installing any additional software on the application server. How can this require...
Application IntegrationSQL REST APIClientless AccessData Access - Question #57Data Integration and Pipelines
What transformations are supported in the below SQL statement? (Select THREE). CREATE PIPE ... AS COPY ... FROM (...)
SnowpipeData LoadingCOPY INTOData Transformations - Question #58Performance Optimization
Data is being imported and stored as JSON in a VARIANT column. Query performance was fine, but most recently, poor query performance has been reported. What could be causing this?
Snowflake VARIANTJSON data performanceKey order impactSemi-structured data optimization - Question #59Performance Optimization
What step will im the performance of queries executed against an external table?
External TablesQuery PerformancePartitioningData Pruning - Question #60Snowflake Architecture
Based on the Snowflake object hierarchy, what securable objects belong directly to a Snowflake account? (Select THREE).
Snowflake object hierarchyAccount-level objectsSecurable objectsSnowflake architecture - Question #61Security and Compliance
What is a characteristic of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) as used in Snowflake?
RBACManaged Access SchemasGrants - Question #62Snowflake Architecture
Assuming all Snowflake accounts are using an Enterprise edition or higher, in which development and testing scenarios would be copying of data be required, and zero-copy cloning no...
Zero-copy cloningCross-account data transferData environment managementData transformation - Question #63Security and Compliance
A new user user_01 is created within Snowflake. The following two commands are executed: Command 1-> show grants to user user_01; Command 2 ~> show grants on user user 01; What inf...
Snowflake securityUser managementRole-based access control (RBAC)SHOW GRANTS command - Question #64Data Engineering
Which technique will efficiently ingest and consume semi-structured data for Snowflake data lake workloads?
Semi-structured dataSchema-on-readData ingestionData lake - Question #65Data Governance and Data Sharing
What are characteristics of Dynamic Data Masking? (Select TWO).
Dynamic Data MaskingData MaskingSecurity PoliciesData Governance - Question #66Performance Optimization
What Snowflake system functions are used to view and or monitor the clustering metadata for a table? (Select TWO).
Snowflake functionsTable clusteringClustering metadata - Question #67Data Integration and Pipelines
What is a characteristic of event notifications in Snowpipe?
SnowpipeEvent NotificationsData IngestionPipe Management - Question #68Architectural Principles and Best Practices
An Architect needs to design a Snowflake account and database strategy to store and analyze large amounts of structured and semi-structured data. There are many business units and...
Snowflake Database StrategyData IsolationArchitectural Best PracticesMulti-Department Design - Question #69Data Integration and Pipelines
How can the Snowpipe REST API be used to keep a log of data load history?
SnowpipeREST APIData Load HistoryData Ingestion Monitoring - Question #70Snowflake Architecture
Database DB1 has schema S1 which has one table, T1. DB1 --> S1 --> T1 The retention period of EG1 is set to 10 days. The retention period of s: is set to 20 days. The retention per...
Snowflake Time TravelData RetentionDatabase Objects HierarchyDROP Command - Question #71Data Governance and Data Sharing
A global company needs to securely share its sales and Inventory data with a vendor using a Snowflake account. The company has its Snowflake account In the AWS eu-west 2 Europe (Lo...
Data SharingCross-Cloud SharingSnowflake Configuration - Question #72Accounts and Security
A company wants to Integrate its main enterprise identity provider with federated authentication with Snowflake. The authentication integration has been configured and roles have b...
SCIMUser ProvisioningIdentity Provider IntegrationRole Mapping - Question #73Performance Optimization
An Architect has designed a data pipeline that Is receiving small CSV files from multiple sources. All of the files are landing in one location. Specific files are filtered for loa...
Data LoadingPerformance OptimizationSmall File ProblemVirtual Warehouse - Question #74Data Engineering
A table, EMP_ TBL has three records as shown: The following variables are set for the session: Which SELECT statements will retrieve all three records? (Select TWO).
Session VariablesSQL SyntaxIDENTIFIER FunctionDynamic SQL - Question #75Cost Optimization
A data platform team creates two multi-cluster virtual warehouses with the AUTO_SUSPEND value set to NULL on one. and '0' on the other. What would be the execution behavior of thes...
Virtual WarehousesAUTO_SUSPENDWarehouse ConfigurationCost Management - Question #76Accounts and Security
A user named USER_01 needs access to create a materialized view on a schema EDW. STG_SCHEMA. How can this access be provided?
Access ControlPrivilegesMaterialized ViewsSQL DCL - Question #77Data Governance and Data Sharing
An Architect Is designing a data lake with Snowflake. The company has structured, semi- structured, and unstructured data. The company wants to save the data inside the data lake w...
Unstructured Data SharingSnowflake Data SharingFile URLs - Question #78Data Governance and Data Sharing
Consider the following scenario where a masking policy is applied on the CREDICARDND column of the CREDITCARDINFO table. The masking policy definition Is as follows: Sample data fo...
Masking PoliciesData GovernanceRole-Based Access Control - Question #79Performance Optimization
A company is trying to Ingest 10 TB of CSV data into a Snowflake table using Snowpipe as part of Its migration from a legacy database platform. The records need to be ingested in t...
SnowpipeCOPY INTOError HandlingPerformance Optimization - Question #80Performance Optimization
An Architect is troubleshooting a query with poor performance using the QUERY function. The Architect observes that the COMPILATION_TIME Is greater than the EXECUTION_TIME. What is...
Query PerformanceQuery OptimizationCompilation TimeExecution Time - Question #81Data Engineering
A user is executing the following command sequentially within a timeframe of 10 minutes from start to finish: What would be the output of this query?
CREATE TABLE CLONETime TravelOFFSETDDL - Question #82Data Engineering
A Snowflake Architect Is working with Data Modelers and Table Designers to draft an ELT framework specifically for data loading using Snowpipe. The Table Designers will add a times...
SnowpipeData LoadingTimestamp DefaultsCOPY_HISTORY - Question #83Data Engineering
An Architect needs to automate the daily Import of two files from an external stage into Snowflake. One file has Parquet-formatted data, the other has CSV-formatted data. How shoul...
Data IngestionData PipelinesAutomationSnowflake Scripting - Question #84Performance Optimization
A company has a source system that provides JSON records for various loT operations. The JSON Is loading directly into a persistent table with a variant field. The data Is quickly...
VARIANT data typePerformance tuningData modelingSemi-structured data - Question #85Data Integration and Pipelines
An Architect has a design where files arrive every 10 minutes and are loaded into a primary database table using Snowpipe. A secondary database is refreshed every hour with the lat...
Time TravelData RefreshData PipelinesData Versioning - Question #86Performance Optimization
An Architect for a multi-national transportation company has a system that is used to check the weather conditions along vehicle routes. The data is provided to drivers. The weathe...
Performance OptimizationSearch Optimization ServiceVARIANT Data TypeSemi-structured Data - Question #87Data Engineering
A new table and streams are created with the following commands: CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE LETTERS (ID INT, LETTER STRING) ; CREATE OR REPLACE STREAM STREAM_1 ON TABLE LETTERS; CREAT...
Snowflake StreamsAppend-Only StreamsChange Data CaptureTRUNCATE TABLE - Question #88Data Engineering
When loading data into a table that captures the load time in a column with a default value of either CURRENT_TIME () or CURRENT_TIMESTAMP () what will occur?
COPY INTODefault ValuesTimestampsData Loading - Question #89Accounts and Security
In a managed access schema, what are characteristics of the roles that can manage object privileges? (Select TWO).
Managed Access SchemasRole-Based Access Control (RBAC)Privilege ManagementSecurity Roles - Question #90Data Governance and Data Sharing
An Architect is designing a data lake with Snowflake. The company has structured, semi- structured, and unstructured data. The company wants to save the data inside the data lake w...
Unstructured DataData SharingScoped URLsSnowflake Stages - Question #91Snowflake Architecture
An Architect is using SnowCD to investigate a connectivity issue. Which system function will provide a list of endpoints that the network must be able to access to use a specific S...
Snowflake Private ConnectivityNetwork EndpointsSystem FunctionsConnectivity Troubleshooting - Question #92Accounts and Security
An Architect with the ORGADMIN role wants to change a Snowflake account from an Enterprise edition to a Business Critical edition. How should this be accomplished?
Account Edition ManagementSnowflake SupportAccount Administration - Question #93Data Governance and Data Sharing
An Architect is implementing a CI/CD process. When attempting to clone a table from a production to a development environment, the cloning operation fails. What could be causing th...
CI/CDTable CloningMasking PolicyData Governance - Question #94Cost Optimization
An Architect needs to design a solution for building environments for development, test, and pre- production, all located in a single Snowflake account. The environments should be...
Zero-copy cloningTransient tablesEnvironment managementCost optimization - Question #95Architectural Principles and Best Practices
Which Snowflake architecture recommendation needs multiple Snowflake accounts for implementation?
Snowflake AccountsEnvironment SeparationArchitectural Best PracticesMulti-account Strategy - Question #96Cost Optimization
A company is designing its serving layer for data that is in cloud storage. Multiple terabytes of the data will be used for reporting. Some data does not have a clear use case but...
External TablesNative TablesCost OptimizationArchitectural Design - Question #97Performance Optimization
A Developer is having a performance issue with a Snowflake query. The query receives up to 10 different values for one parameter and then performs an aggregation over the majority...
Performance OptimizationSearch Optimization ServiceQuery OptimizationCost Optimization - Question #98Security and Compliance
Role A has the following permissions: - USAGE on db1 - USAGE and CREATE VIEW on schemal in db1 - SELECT on tablel in schemal Role B has the following permissions: - USAGE on db2 -...
RolesPermissionsPrimary and Secondary Roles - Question #99Data Integration and Pipelines
What actions are permitted when using the Snowflake SQL REST API? (Select TWO).
Snowflake SQL REST APIAPI IntegrationStored ProceduresQuery Execution - Question #100Architectural Principles and Best Practices
What is the MOST efficient way to design an environment where data retention is not considered critical, and customization needs are to be kept to a minimum?
Transient ObjectsData RetentionDatabase DesignCost Optimization - Question #101Data Modeling and Design
A retailer's enterprise data organization is exploring the use of Data Vault 2.0 to model its data lake solution. A Snowflake Architect has been asked to provide recommendations fo...
Data Vault 2.0Change Data Capture (CDC)Snowflake Data LoadingPoint-in-Time (PIT) Tables - Question #102Data Integration and Pipelines
A company is designing a process for importing a large amount of loT JSON data from cloud storage into Snowflake. New sets of loT data get generated and uploaded approximately ever...
SnowpipeData IngestionNear Real-time ProcessingPerformance Optimization - Question #103Security and Compliance
Which command will create a schema without Fail-safe and will restrict object owners from passing on access to other users?
Schema managementTransient schemaManaged Access schemaAccess control