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Snowflake SnowPro Advanced: Architect (ARA-C01) - 340 Questions

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Practice exam for the Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Architect Certification (ARA-C01). Covers enterprise account strategy and security design, Snowflake architecture including data modeling and disaster recovery, advanced data engineering pipelines, and performance optimization at scale.

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1. A company is deploying Snowflake for the first time and wants to ensure that development, test, and production workloads are completely isolated from each other, including compute resources, data access, and billing. What is the recommended architectural approach?

A Create separate Snowflake accounts for development, test, and production environments ✓ Correct
B Create separate databases within a single Snowflake account for each environment
C Create separate virtual warehouses within a single account, one per environment
D Use resource monitors at the database level to cap spending per environment

2. A healthcare company stores Protected Health Information (PHI) in Snowflake and must comply with HIPAA. The security team wants to ensure that data analysts can query patient records but see only masked SSNs, while the compliance team sees full SSNs. Which Snowflake feature combination achieves this requirement with the least administrative overhead?

A Create a Dynamic Data Masking policy on the SSN column that returns the full value when CURRENT_ROLE() = 'COMPLIANCE_ROLE' and a masked value otherwise, then apply it to the column. ✓ Correct
B Create two separate tables — one with masked SSNs for analysts and one with full SSNs for compliance — and grant SELECT privileges accordingly.
C Apply a Row Access Policy to the patient table that filters rows based on the querying role, limiting analysts to a subset of records.
D Create two secure views on the patient table — one with MASK(SSN) for analysts and one with the raw SSN for compliance — and grant each role access to its respective view.

3. An organization has three business units — Finance, Marketing, and Engineering — each with distinct data governance requirements, separate compliance mandates, and different data residency regulations. The architect must decide on an account strategy. Which approach BEST addresses these requirements?

A Use a single Snowflake account with a separate database per business unit and strict RBAC
B Deploy a dedicated Snowflake account per business unit, each in the appropriate cloud region ✓ Correct
C Use a single account with one schema per business unit and column-level security policies
D Deploy a single account across multiple cloud regions using Snowflake's multi-region feature

4. A Snowflake architect is designing a dynamic data masking policy for a CREDIT_CARD_NUMBER column. The policy must allow the FRAUD_ANALYST role to see the last four digits (e.g., '****-****-****-1234'), the FINANCE_ADMIN role to see the full number, and all other roles to see a fully masked value ('****-****-****-****'). Which SQL expression correctly implements this three-tier conditional masking?

A Use CURRENT_ROLE() = 'FRAUD_ANALYST' to show the last four digits and CURRENT_ROLE() = 'FINANCE_ADMIN' to show the full value, defaulting to full masking.
B Use IS_ROLE_IN_SESSION('FINANCE_ADMIN') to return the full value, IS_ROLE_IN_SESSION('FRAUD_ANALYST') to return CONCAT('****-****-****-', RIGHT(val, 4)), and default to '****-****-****-****'. ✓ Correct
C Create separate masking policies for each role and assign each policy to the column multiple times using ALTER TABLE … ALTER COLUMN.
D Apply a Row Access Policy that returns only the last four digits for FRAUD_ANALYST rows and full values for FINANCE_ADMIN rows.

5. Which Snowflake feature enables two separate Snowflake accounts to securely share live data without copying it, allowing a central data platform account to serve multiple consumer business unit accounts?

A Snowflake database replication with automatic refresh schedules
B External tables pointing to shared cloud object storage
C Snowflake Secure Data Sharing between provider and consumer accounts ✓ Correct
D Cross-account database links configured through Snowflake account parameters

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