Plan Multi-Account and Cross-Cloud Architectures ARA-C01 Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1foundation · easy

   What is a Snowflake organization?

   • AA type of account used for data sharing
   • BA logical grouping of multiple Snowflake accounts
   • CA collection of databases shared across accounts
   • DA group of users within a single account
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2. 2foundation · easy

   A data platform team is deciding how to structure multiple Snowflake accounts. They want to isolate production workloads from development and testing activities, while also allowing each business unit to manage its own data and costs independently. Which multi-account pattern best meets these requirements?

   • AFunction-based accounts where each account handles a specific workload type, such as ingestion or transformation
   • BEnvironment-based accounts with business-unit-specific resource monitors and databases
   • CBusiness-unit-based accounts with separate warehouses for production and development
   • DA single account with separate databases and resource monitors for each business unit
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4. 3foundation · easy

   Which Snowflake feature allows you to apply the same data classification policy across multiple accounts?

   • ANetwork policies
   • BResource monitors
   • CTag-based masking policies
   • DData sharing
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5. 4application · medium

   A company has a Snowflake account in AWS and needs to share data with a partner who has a Snowflake account in Microsoft Azure. The partner needs to query the data directly and join it with their own data. What is the most efficient way to enable this?

   • ACreate a share from the AWS account and grant it to the partner's Azure account.
   • BReplicate the database to a Snowflake account in Azure and then share it with the partner.
   • CUse Snowpipe to continuously copy the data from the AWS account to the partner's Azure account.
   • DExport the data to a cloud storage bucket in AWS and provide the partner with the credentials to access it.
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6. 5foundation · easy

   What is a key limitation of cross-cloud data sharing in Snowflake?

   • ACross-cloud sharing may incur additional network egress costs.
   • BData can only be shared between accounts in the same cloud platform.
   • CCross-cloud sharing requires a VPN connection between the accounts.
   • DShared data must be replicated to the consumer's cloud before it can be queried.
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