Snowflake DEA-C01 Dumps

The recommendations that apply to this scenario are:

• Ensure that data files are 100-250 MB (or larger) in size compressed: This recommendation will improve Snowpipe performance by reducing the number of files that need to be loaded and increasing the parallelism of loading. Smallerfiles can cause performance degradation or errors due to excessive metadata operations or network latency.
• Verify each value of each unique element stores a single native data type (string or number): This recommendation will improve Snowpipe performance by avoiding data type conversions or errors when loading JSON data into variant columns. Snowflake supports two native data types for JSON elements: string and number. If an element has mixed data types across different files or records, such as string and boolean, Snowflake will either convert them to string or raise an error, depending on the FILE_FORMAT option.
• Create data files that are less than 100 MB and stage them in cloud storage at a sequence greater than once each minute: This recommendation will minimize Snowpipe costs by reducing the number of notifications that need to be sent to Snowpipe for auto-ingestion. Snowpipe charges for notifications based on the number of files per notification and the frequency of notifications. By creating smaller files and staging them at a lower frequency, fewer notifications will be needed.

External functions are Snowflake functions that facilitate access to external API services such as geocoders, data transformation, machine learning models and other custom code. External functions allow users to invoke external services from within SQL queries and pass arguments and receive results as JSON values. External functions require creating an API integration object and an external function object in Snowflake, as well as deploying an external service endpoint that can communicate with Snowflake via HTTPS.

The characteristics of Snowpark Python packages are:

• Third-party packages can be registered as a dependency to the Snowpark session using the session.import() method.
• The SQL command DESCRIBE FUNCTION will list the imported Python packages of the Python User-Defined Function (UDF).
• Querying information_schema.packages will provide a list of supported Python packages and versions.

These characteristics indicate how Snowpark Python packages can be imported, inspected, and verified in Snowflake. The other options are not characteristics of Snowpark Python packages. Option B is incorrect because Python packages can be loaded in both local and remote environments using Snowpark. Option C is incorrect because third-party supported Python packages are not locked down to prevent hitting external endpoints, but rather restricted by network policies and security settings.

The query that will apply the masking policy on the full_name column is ALTER TABLE customer MODIFY COLUMN full_name SET MASKING POLICY name_policy;. This query will modify the full_name column and associate it with the name_policy masking policy, which will mask the first and last names of the customers with asterisks. The other options are incorrect because they do not follow the correct syntax for applying a masking policy on a column. Option B is incorrect because it uses ADD instead of SET, which is not a valid keyword for modifying a column. Option C is incorrect because it tries to apply the masking policy on two columns, first_name and last_name, which are not part of the table structure. Option D is incorrect because it uses commas instead of dots to separate the database, schema, and table names

A stream is a Snowflake object that records the history of changes made to a table. A stream is associated with a specific table at the time of creation, and it cannot be altered to point to a different table later. Therefore, if the source table is renamed, the stream will become stale and will need to be re-created with the new table name. The other options are not correct because:

• TRANSACTIONS _STM will not keep working as expected, as it will lose track of the changes made to the renamed table.
• TRANSACTIONS _STM will not be automatically renamed TRANSACTIONS _RAW_STM, as streams do not inherit the name changes of their source tables.
• Reading from the transactions_stm stream will not succeed for some time after the expected STALE_TIME, as streams do not have a STALE_TIME property.

Adding a date column as a cluster key on the table will improve the query performance by reducing the number of micro-partitions that need to be scanned. Since the table is filtered on a single day, clustering by date will make the query more selective and efficient.

The recommended approach to maximize performance of this query if the Profile shows data spillage is to increase the warehouse size. Data spillage occurs when the query requires more memory than the warehouse can provide and has to spill some intermediate results to disk. This can degrade the query performance by increasing the disk IO time. Increasing the warehouse size can increase the amount of memory available for the query and reduce or eliminate data spillage.

 The file format option that should be used to resolve the error and successfully load all the data into the table is FIELD_OPTIONALLY_ENCLOSED_BY = ‘"’. This option specifies that fields in the file may be enclosed by double quotes, which allows for fields that contain commas or newlines within them. For example, in row 3 of the file, there is a field that contains a comma within double quotes: “Smith Jr., John”. Without specifying this option, Snowflake will treat this field as two separate fields and cause an error due to column count mismatch. By specifying this option, Snowflake will treat this field as one field and load it correctly into the table.

The parameters of the connect function that should be used are client_prefetch_threads and validate_default_parameters. The client_prefetch_threads parameter controls the number of threads used to download query results from Snowflake. Increasing this parameter can improve download performance by parallelizing the download process. The validate_default_parameters parameter controls whether an exception should be raised if the specified database, schema, or warehouse does not exist or is not authorized. Setting this parameter to True can help catch errors early and avoid unexpected results.

A stored procedure that runs with caller’s rights executes with the privileges of the role that calls it. Therefore, if the stored procedure accesses an object that ROLEA does not have access to, such as a table or a view, the stored procedure will fail with an insufficient privileges error. The other options are not correct because:

• A stored procedure can be converted from caller’s rights to owner’s rights by using the ALTER PROCEDURE command with the EXECUTE AS OWNER option.
• A stored procedure that runs with caller’s rights executes in the context (database and schema) of the caller, not the owner.
• ROLEA will be able to see the source code for the stored procedure by using the GET_DDL function or the DESCRIBE command, as long as it has usage privileges on the stored procedure.

The ways that Company A can share data with Company B are:

• Create a share within Company A’s account and add Company B’s account as a recipient of that share: This is a valid way to share data between different accounts on different cloud platforms and regions. Snowflake supports cross-cloud and cross-region data sharing, which allows users to create shares and grant access to other accounts regardless of their cloud platform or region. However, this option may incur additional costs for network transfer and storage replication.
• Create a separate database within Company A’s account to contain only those data sets they wish to share with Company B Create a share within Company A’saccount and add all the objects within this separate database to the share Add Company B’s account as a recipient of the share: This is also a valid way to share data between different accounts on different cloud platforms and regions. This option is similar to the previous one, except that it uses a separate database to isolate the data sets that need to be shared. This can improve security and manageability of the shared data. The other options are not valid because:
• Create a share within Company A’s account, and create a reader account that is a recipient of the share Grant Company B access to the reader account: This option is not valid because reader accounts are not supported for cross-cloud or cross-region data sharing. Reader accounts are Snowflake accounts that can only consume data from shares created by their provider account. Reader accounts must be on the same cloud platform and region as their provider account.
• Use database replication to replicate Company A’s data into Company B’s account Create a share within Company B’s account and grant users within Company B’s account access to the share: This option is not valid because database replication cannot be used for cross-cloud or cross-region data sharing. Database replication is a feature in Snowflake that allows users to copy databases across accounts within the same cloud platform and region. Database replication cannot copy databases across different cloud platforms or regions.
• Create a new account within Company A’s organization in the same cloud provider and region as Company B’s account Use database replication to replicate Company A’s data to the new account Create a share within the new account and add Company B’s account as a recipient of that share: This option is not valid because it involves creating a new account within Company A’s organization, which may not be feasible or desirable for Company A. Moreover, this option is unnecessary, as Company A can directly share data with Company B without creating an intermediate account.

A characteristic of the use of binding variables in JavaScript stored procedures in Snowflake is that only JavaScript variables of type number, string and sf Date can be bound. Binding variables are a way to pass values from JavaScript variables to SQL statements within a stored procedure. Binding variables can improve the security and performance of the stored procedure by preventing SQL injection attacks and reducing the parsing overhead. However, not all types of JavaScript variables can be bound. Only the primitive types number and string, and the Snowflake-specific type sf Date, can be bound. The other options are incorrect because they do not describe a characteristic of the use of binding variables in JavaScript stored procedures in Snowflake. Option A is incorrect because authenticator is not a type of JavaScript variable, but a parameter of the snowflake.connector.connect function. Option B is incorrect because arrow_number_to_decimal is not a type of JavaScript variable, but a parameter of the snowflake.connector.connect function. Option D is incorrect because users are not restricted from binding JavaScript variables, but encouraged to do so.

This option is the best way to improve the situation, as using a loop construct to run SQL queries for each customer is very inefficient and slow. Instead, the report should be rewritten to use a single SQL query that joins the customer and sales data tables and applies the query parameters as filters. This way, the report can leverage Snowflake’s parallel processing and optimization capabilities and reduce the network overhead and latency.

The result cache is enabled at the session level, which means that repeated queries will return cached results if there is no change in the underlying data or session parameters. However, in this case, the result cache is not relevant because the query uses a specific SEED value for sampling, which makes it deterministic. Therefore, both runs will return the same results regardless of caching.

Creating a DataFrame from a table will start a virtual warehouse because it requires reading data from Snowflake. The other options will not start a virtual warehouse because they either operate on local data or use an existing session to query Snowflake.

The table can be recovered by using the undrop database xyz; command. This command will restore the database that was dropped within the last 14 days, along with all its schemas and tables, including the customer table. The data_retention_time_in_days parameter does not affect this command, as it only applies to time travel queries that reference historical data versions of tables or databases. The other options are not valid ways to recover the table. Option B is incorrect because creating a table as select * from xyz.public.ABC at {offset => -6060248} will not work, as this query will try to access a historical data version of the ABC table that does not exist anymore after dropping the database. Option C is incorrect because creating a table clone xyz.public.ABC at {offset => -360024*3} will not work, as this query will try to clone a historical data version of the ABC table that does not exist anymore after dropping the database. Option D is incorrect because creating a Snowflake Support case to restore the database and table from fail-safe will not work, as fail-safe is only available for disaster recovery scenarios and cannot be accessed by customers.

The step that the Engineer should take to increase the query performance is to increase the size of the virtual warehouse. The Query Profile shows that most of the time was spent on local disk IO, which indicates that the query was reading a lot of data from disk rather than from cache. This could be due to a large amount of data being scanned or a low cache hit ratio. Increasing the size of the virtual warehouse will increase the amount of memory and cache available for the query, which could reduce the disk IO time and improve the query performance. The other options are not likely to increase the query performance significantly. Option A, adding additional virtual warehouses, will not help unless they are used in a multi-cluster warehouse configuration or for concurrent queries. Option C, rewriting the query using Common Table Expressions (CTEs), will not affect the amount of data scanned or cached by the query. Option D, changing the order of the joins and starting with smaller tables first, will not reduce the disk IO time unless it also reduces the amount of data scanned or cached by the query.

This option is the best way to configure the compute resources to support this dashboard. By assigning all queries to a multi-cluster virtual warehouse set to maximized mode, the Data Engineer can ensure that there is enough compute capacity to handle thousands of concurrent queries from different analysts. A multi-cluster virtual warehouse can scale up or down by adding or removing clusters based on the load. A maximized scaling policy ensures that there is always at least one cluster running and that new clusters are added as soon as possible whenneeded. By monitoring the utilization and performance of the virtual warehouse, the Data Engineer can determine the smallest suitable number of clusters that can meet the responsiveness requirement and minimize costs.

An API integration is required when defining an external function in Snowflake. An API integration is a Snowflake object that defines how Snowflake communicates with an externalservice via HTTPS requests and responses. An API integration specifies parameters such as URL, authentication method, encryption settings, request headers, and timeout values. An API integration is used to create an external function object that invokes the external service from within SQL queries.