You are a snowflake architect in an organization. The business team came to to deploy an
use case which requires you to load some data which they can visualize through tableau. Everyday new data comes in and the old data is no longer required.
What type of table you will use in this case to optimize cost
Correct Answer:
A
✑ A transient table is a type of table in Snowflake that does not have a Fail-safe period and can have a Time Travel retention period of either 0 or 1 day. Transient tables are suitable for temporary or intermediate data that can be easily reproduced or replicated1.
✑ A temporary table is a type of table in Snowflake that is automatically dropped when the session ends or the current user logs out. Temporary tables do not incur any storage costs, but they are not visible to other users or sessions2.
✑ A permanent table is a type of table in Snowflake that has a Fail-safe period and a Time Travel retention period of up to 90 days. Permanent tables are suitable for persistent and durable data that needs to be protected from accidental or malicious deletion3.
✑ In this case, the use case requires loading some data that can be visualized through Tableau. The data is updated every day and the old data is no longer required. Therefore, the best type of table to use in this case to optimize cost is a transient table, because it does not incur any Fail-safe costs and it can have a short Time Travel retention period of 0 or 1 day. This way, the data can be loaded and queried by Tableau, and then deleted or overwritten without incurring any unnecessary storage costs.
References: : Transient Tables : Temporary Tables : Understanding & Using Time Travel
A retail company has 2000+ stores spread across the country. Store Managers report that they are having trouble running key reports related to inventory management, sales targets, payroll, and staffing during business hours. The Managers report that performance is poor and time-outs occur frequently.
Currently all reports share the same Snowflake virtual warehouse. How should this situation be addressed? (Select TWO).
Correct Answer:
BC
The best way to address the performance issues and time-outs faced by the Store Manager team is to configure a dedicated virtual warehouse for them and make it multi-clustered. This will allow them to run their reports independently from other workloads and scale up or down the compute resources as needed. A dedicated virtual warehouse will also enable them to apply specific security and access policies for their data. A multi- clustered virtual warehouse will provide high availability and concurrency for their queries and avoid queuing or throttling.
Using a Business Intelligence tool for in-memory computation may improve performance, but it will not solve the underlying issue of insufficient compute resources in the shared virtual warehouse. It will also introduce additional costs and complexity for the data architecture.
Configuring the virtual warehouse to size 4-XL may increase the performance, but it will also increase the cost and may not be optimal for the workload. It will also not address the concurrency and availability issues that may arise from sharing the virtual warehouse with other workloads.
Advising the Store Manager team to defer report execution to off-business hours may reduce the load on the shared virtual warehouse, but it will also reduce the timeliness and usefulness of the reports for the business. It will also not guarantee that the performance issues and time-outs will not occur at other times.
References:
✑ Snowflake Architect Training
✑ Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Architect Certification - Preparation Guide
✑ SnowPro Advanced: Architect Exam Study Guide
Which Snowflake objects can be used in a data share? (Select TWO).
Correct Answer:
BD
https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/data-sharing-intro
What are purposes for creating a storage integration? (Choose three.)
Correct Answer:
BCD
The purpose of creating a storage integration in Snowflake includes:B. Store a generated identity and access management (IAM) entity for an external cloud provider - This helps in managing authentication and authorization with external cloud storage without embedding credentials in Snowflake. It supports various cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP, ensuring that the identity management is streamlined across platforms.C. Support multiple external stages using one single Snowflake object - Storage integrations allow you to set up access configurations that can be reused across multiple external stages, simplifying the management of external data integrations.D. Avoid supplying credentials when creating a stage or when loading or unloading data - By using a storage integration, Snowflake can interact with external storage without the need to continuously manage or expose sensitive credentials, enhancing security and ease of operations.References: Snowflake documentation on storage integrations, found within the SnowPro Advanced: Architect course materials.
Company A would like to share data in Snowflake with Company B. Company B is not on
the same cloud platform as Company A.
What is required to allow data sharing between these two companies?
Correct Answer:
C
According to the SnowPro Advanced: Architect documents and learning resources, the requirement to allow data sharing between two companies that are not on the same cloud platform is to set up data replication to the region and cloud platform where the consumer resides. Data replication is a feature of Snowflake that enables copying databases across accounts in different regions and cloud platforms. Data replication allows data providers to securely share data with data consumers across different regions and cloud platforms by creating a replica database in the consumer??s account. The replica database is read-only and automatically synchronized with the primary database in the provider??s account. Data replication is useful for scenarios where data sharing is not possible or desirable due to latency, compliance, or security reasons1. The other options are incorrect because they are not required or feasible to allow data sharing between two companies that are not on the same cloud platform. Option A is incorrect because creating a pipeline to write shared data to a cloud storage location in the target cloud provider is not a secure or efficient way of sharing data. It would require additional steps to load the data from the cloud storage to the consumer??s account, and it would not leverage the benefits of Snowflake??s data sharing features. Option B is incorrect because ensuring that all views are persisted is not relevant for data sharing across cloud platforms. Views can be shared across cloud platforms as long as they reference objects in the same database. Persisting views is an option to improve the performance of querying views, but it is not required for data sharing2. Option D is incorrect because Company A and Company B do not need to agree to use a single cloud platform. Data sharing is possible across different cloud platforms using data replication or other methods, such as listings or auto- fulfillment3. References: Replicating Databases Across Multiple Accounts | Snowflake Documentation, Persisting Views | Snowflake Documentation, Sharing Data Across Regions and Cloud Platforms | Snowflake Documentation
