SnowPro Advanced Architect Practice Test

SnowPro Advanced Architect Practice Test practice questions, page 8 of 10, with answer review and explanations.

Question 36

An Architect would like to save quarter-end financial results for the previous six years. Which Snowflake feature can the Architect use to accomplish this?

  1. Search optimization service
  2. Materialized view
  3. Time Travel
  4. Zero-copy cloning
  5. Secure views

Question 37

A company is using a Snowflake account in Azure. The account has SAML SSO set up using ADFS as a SCIM identity provider. To validate Private Link connectivity, an Architect performed the following steps: Confirmed Private Link URLs are working by logging in with a username/password account Verified DNS resolution by running nslookups against Private Link URLs Validated connectivity using SnowCD Disabled public access using a network policy set to use the company’s IP address range However, the following error message is received when using SSO to log into the company account: IP XX.XXX.XX.XX is not allowed to access snowflake. Contact your local security administrator. What steps should the Architect take to resolve this error and ensure that the account is accessed using only Private Link? (Choose two.)

  1. Alter the Azure security integration to use the Private Link URLs.
  2. Add the IP address in the error message to the allowed list in the network policy.
  3. Generate a new SCIM access token using system$generate_scim_access_token and save it to Azure AD.
  4. Update the configuration of the Azure AD SSO to use the Private Link URLs.
  5. Open a case with Snowflake Support to authorize the Private Link URLs’ access to the account.

Question 38

Which steps are recommended best practices for prioritizing cluster keys in Snowflake? (Choose two.)

  1. Choose columns that are frequently used in join predicates.
  2. Choose lower cardinality columns to support clustering keys and cost effectiveness.
  3. Choose TIMESTAMP columns with nanoseconds for the highest number of unique rows.
  4. Choose cluster columns that are most actively used in selective filters.
  5. Choose cluster columns that are actively used in the GROUP BY clauses.

Question 39

Which Snowflake data modeling approach is designed for BI queries?

  1. 3 NF
  2. Star schema
  3. Data Vault
  4. Snowflake schema

Question 40

How is the change of local time due to daylight savings time handled in Snowflake tasks? (Choose two.)

  1. A task scheduled in a UTC-based schedule will have no issues with the time changes.
  2. Task schedules can be designed to follow specified or local time zones to accommodate the time changes.
  3. A task will move to a suspended state during the daylight savings time change.
  4. A frequent task execution schedule like minutes may not cause a problem, but will affect the task history.
  5. A task schedule will follow only the specified time and will fail to handle lost or duplicated hours.