About the Exam

This advanced Snowflake certification is for administrators who manage and operate Snowflake environments. It validates advanced knowledge and skills for applying comprehensive data cloud administrative principles. Passing demonstrates that the candidate can handle Snowflake administration tasks at an advanced level.

Exam Topics

  • Manage and administer Snowflake accounts, data security, and governance20–25%
  • Manage and maintain database objects and virtual warehouses20–25%
  • Perform database monitoring, tuning, and optimization20–25%
  • Perform data sharing and use the Snowflake Marketplace15–20%
  • Implement disaster recovery, perform backups, and replicate data15–20%

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QuestionQ1

Manage and administer Snowflake accounts, data security, and governance

The following commands have been run:

Grant usage on database PROD to role PROD_ANALYST;  
Grant usage on database PROD to role PROD_SUPERVISOR;  
Grant ALL PRIVILEGES on schema PROD.WORKING to role PROD_ANALYST;  
Grant ALL PRIVILEGES on schema PROD.WORKING to role PROD_SUPERVISOR;  
Grant role PROD_ANALYST to user A;  
Grant role PROD_SUPERVISOR to user B;  

What authority does each user have on the WORKING schema?

Explanation

In Snowflake, privileges are granted to roles and inherited by users assigned those roles. Both roles have database USAGE and all schema-level privileges on PROD.WORKING, including the privilege to create tables. Schema privileges do not by themselves grant access to existing tables or tables created by another role.

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QuestionQ2

Manage and administer Snowflake accounts, data security, and governance

Which steps are needed to configure OKTAAPI token integration in Snowflake?

Explanation

A Snowflake SCIM access token for the OKTA_PROVISIONING security integration is generated while using the ACCOUNTADMIN role by calling SYSTEM$GENERATE_SCIM_ACCESS_TOKEN('OKTA_PROVISIONING'). The token remains valid for six months and must be regenerated after it expires.

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QuestionQ3

Manage and administer Snowflake accounts, data security, and governance

Which command can temporarily disable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for the Snowflake username user1 for 24 hours?

Explanation

Snowflake temporarily bypasses MFA through the MINS_TO_BYPASS_MFA user property. Setting it to 1440 grants a 24-hour bypass because 24 hours equals 1,440 minutes.

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QuestionQ4

Manage and maintain database objects and virtual warehouses

A virtual warehouse report_wh is configured with AUTO_RESUME=TRUE and AUTO_SUSPEND=300. A user has been granted the accountant role.

An application using the accountant role must use this warehouse to run financial reports and track the compute credits consumed by the warehouse. What minimum warehouse privileges should be granted to the role to satisfy these requirements?

Choose two
Explanation

The USAGE privilege permits use of a virtual warehouse to execute queries; with auto-resume enabled, submitting a query automatically resumes it. The MONITOR privilege permits viewing warehouse usage statistics, including the information needed to track compute-credit consumption. Neither warehouse-state control nor configuration changes are required.

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QuestionQ5

Manage and administer Snowflake accounts, data security, and governance

A user has enrolled in multi-factor authentication (MFA) to connect to Snowflake. The user tells the Snowflake Administrator that they lost their mobile phone the prior evening.

Which action should the Administrator take to enable the user to sign in to the system without revoking the user’s MFA enrollment?

Explanation

Setting the user’s MINS_TO_BYPASS_MFA property to a limited number of minutes temporarily permits single-factor password authentication while retaining the user’s MFA enrollment. Snowflake documents this setting as the method for temporarily disabling MFA for a locked-out user.

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