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Question 106

An Architect has chosen to separate their Snowflake Production and QA environments using two separate Snowflake accounts.
The QA account is intended to run and test changes on data and database objects before pushing those changes to the Production account. It is a requirement that all database objects and data in the QA account need to be an exact copy of the database objects, including privileges and data in the Production account on at least a nightly basis.
Which is the LEAST complex approach to use to populate the QA account with the Production account's data and database objects on a nightly basis?

A.1) Create a share in the Production account for each database
2) Share access to the QA account as a Consumer
3) The QA account creates a database directly from each share
4) Create clones of those databases on a nightly basis
5) Run tests directly on those cloned databases

B.1) Create a stage in the Production account
2) Create a stage in the QA account that points to the same external object-storage location
3) Create a task that runs nightly to unload each table in the Production account into the stage
4) Use Snowpipe to populate the QA account

C.1) Enable replication for each database in the Production account
2) Create replica databases in the QA account
3) Create clones of the replica databases on a nightly basis
4) Run tests directly on those cloned databases

D.1) In the Production account, create an external function that connects into the QA account and returns all the data for one specific table
2) Run the external function as part of a stored procedure that loops through each table in the Production account and populates each table in the QA account

Question 107

Which of the below approach results in perfromance improvement through linear scaling of data ingestion workload?

A.Organize data by granular path

B.Split large files into recommended range of 10 MB to 100 MB

C.Resize virtual warehouse

D.All of the above

Question 108

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 every 5 minutes.
Once the loT data is in Snowflake, the company needs up-to-date information from an external vendor to join to the data. This data is then presented to users through a dashboard that shows different levels of aggregation.
The external vendor is a Snowflake customer.
What solution will MINIMIZE complexity and MAXIMIZE performance?

A.1. Create an external table over the JSON data in cloud storage.
2. Create a task that runs every 5 minutes to run a transformation procedure on new data, based on a saved timestamp.
3. Ask the vendor to expose an API so an external function can be used to generate a call to join the data back to the loT data in the transformation procedure.
4. Give the transformed table access to the dashboard tool.
5. Perform the aggregations on the dashboard tool.

B.1. Create an external table over the JSON data in cloud storage.
2. Create a task that runs every 5 minutes to run a transformation procedure on new data based on a saved timestamp.
3. Ask the vendor to create a data share with the required data that can be imported into the company's Snowflake account.
4. Join the vendor's data back to the loT data using a transformation procedure.
5. Create views over the larger dataset to perform the aggregations required by the dashboard.
6. Give the views access to the dashboard tool.

C.1. Create a Snowpipe to bring the JSON data into Snowflake.
2. Use streams and tasks to trigger a transformation procedure when new JSON data arrives.
3. Ask the vendor to expose an API so an external function call can be made to join the vendor's data back to the loT data in a transformation procedure.
4. Create materialized views over the larger dataset to perform the aggregations required by the dashboard.
5. Give the materialized views access to the dashboard tool.

D.1. Create a Snowpipe to bring the JSON data into Snowflake.
2. Use streams and tasks to trigger a transformation procedure when new JSON data arrives.
3. Ask the vendor to create a data share with the required data that is then imported into the Snowflake account.
4. Join the vendor's data back to the loT data in a transformation procedure
5. Create materialized views over the larger dataset to perform the aggregations required by the dashboard.
6. Give the materialized views access to the dashboard tool.

Question 109

What does a Snowflake Architect need to consider when implementing a Snowflake Connector for Kafka?

A.Every Kafka message is in JSON or Avro format.

B.The Kafka connector will create one table and one pipe to ingest data for each topic. If the connector cannot create the table or the pipe it will result in an exception.

C.The default retention time for Kafka topics is 14 days.

D.The Kafka connector supports key pair authentication, OAUTH. and basic authentication (for example, username and password).

Question 110

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?

A.There were JSON nulls in the recent data imports.

B.The order of the keys in the JSON was changed.

C.The recent data imports contained fewer fields than usual.

D.There were variations in string lengths for the JSON values in the recent data imports.

Correct Answer: B,D

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. This could be caused by the following factors:
The order of the keys in the JSON was changed. Snowflake stores semi-structured data internally in a column-like structure for the most common elements, and the remainder in a leftovers-like column. The order of the keys in the JSON affects how Snowflake determines the common elements and how it optimizes the query performance. If the order of the keys in the JSON was changed, Snowflake might have to re-parse the data and re-organize the internal storage, which could result in slower query performance.
There were variations in string lengths for the JSON values in the recent data imports. Non-native values, such as dates and timestamps, are stored as strings when loaded into a VARIANT column. Operations on these values could be slower and also consume more space than when stored in a relational column with the corresponding data type. If there were variations in string lengths for the JSON values in the recent data imports, Snowflake might have to allocate more space and perform more conversions, which could also result in slower query performance.
The other options are not valid causes for poor query performance:
There were JSON nulls in the recent data imports. Snowflake supports two types of null values in semi-structured data: SQL NULL and JSON null. SQL NULL means the value is missing or unknown, while JSON null means the value is explicitly set to null. Snowflake can distinguish between these two types of null values and handle them accordingly. Having JSON nulls in the recent data imports should not affect the query performance significantly.
The recent data imports contained fewer fields than usual. Snowflake can handle semi-structured data with varying schemas and fields. Having fewer fields than usual in the recent data imports should not affect the query performance significantly, as Snowflake can still optimize the data ingestion and query execution based on the existing fields.
Reference:
Considerations for Semi-structured Data Stored in VARIANT
Snowflake Architect Training
Snowflake query performance on unique element in variant column
Snowflake variant performance

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