Snowflake SnowPro-Core Questions Answers

Snowflake’s Time Travel feature is used for both querying historical data in tables and restoring and cloning historical data in databases, schemas, and tables3. It allows users to access historical data within a defined period (1 day by default, up to 90 days for Snowflake Enterprise Edition) and is a key feature for data recovery and management. References: [COF-C02] SnowPro Core Certification Exam Study Guide

Snowflake automatically rotates encryption keys when they are more than 30 days old. Active keys are retired, and new keys are created. This process is part of Snowflake’s comprehensive security measures to ensure data protection and is managed entirely by the Snowflake service without requiring user intervention.

References:

• Understanding Encryption Key Management in Snowflake

 The correct statement to accommodate the request for a marketing co-worker to change the size of their medium virtual warehouse called mktg__WH is to grant the MODIFY privilege on the warehouse to the ROLE MARKETING. This privilege allows the role to change the warehouse size among other properties.

References:

• [COF-C02] SnowPro Core Certification Exam Study Guide
• Snowflake Documentation on Access Control Privileges1

The result set cache in Snowflake is invalidated and no longer available when the underlying data of the query results has changed, ensuring that queries return the most current data. Additionally, the cache expires after 24 hours to maintain the efficiency and accuracy of data retrieval1.