Aug 23, 2026 Detailed New ARA-C01 Exam Questions for Concept Clearance [Q61-Q78]

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Aug 23, 2026 Detailed New ARA-C01 Exam Questions for Concept Clearance

ARA-C01 Exam Preparation Material with New ARA-C01 Dumps Questions.

Snowflake ARA-C01 Exam Syllabus Topics:

Section	Weight	Objectives
Data Engineering	25%	– Data Loading and Pipelines 1. Snowpipe and tasks 2. Bulk and continuous data loading 3. External stages and file formats 4. Streams and CDC – Data Transformation 1. Semi-structured data processing 2. Data modeling strategies 3. ETL and ELT design
Performance Optimization	20%	– Cost and Resource Optimization 1. Resource monitors 2. Warehouse cost optimization 3. Concurrency scaling – Query Performance 1. Materialized views 2. Caching strategies 3. Query profiling and tuning 4. Search optimization service
Snowflake Architecture	30%	– Storage and Compute Design 1. Micro-partitions and clustering 2. Warehouse sizing and scaling 3. Database and schema design – Platform Architecture Design 1. Cross-region and cross-cloud architecture 2. Data sharing architecture 3. Multi-account strategies 4. Organization and account structure
Accounts and Security	25%	– Governance and Compliance 1. Object ownership and privilege management 2. Encryption and security architecture 3. Data governance strategies – Access Control and Authentication 1. SSO and MFA 2. Data masking and row access policies 3. Network policies 4. Role-based access control

NO.61 Which data models can be used when modeling tables in a Snowflake environment? (Select THREE).

Graph model

Dimensional/Kimball

Data lake

lnmon/3NF

Bayesian hierarchical model

Data vault

Snowflake is a cloud data platform that supports various data models for modeling tables in a Snowflake environment. The data models can be classified into two categories: dimensional and normalized. Dimensional data models are designed to optimize query performance and ease of use for business intelligence and analytics. Normalized data models are designed to reduce data redundancy and ensure data integrity for transactional and operational systems. The following are some of the data models that can be used in Snowflake:
* Dimensional/Kimball: This is a popular dimensional data model that uses a star or snowflake schema to organize data into fact and dimension tables. Fact tables store quantitative measures and foreign keys to dimension tables. Dimension tables store descriptive attributes and hierarchies. A star schema has a single denormalized dimension table for each dimension, while a snowflake schema has multiple normalized dimension tables for each dimension. Snowflake supports both star and snowflake schemas, and allows users to create views and joins to simplify queries.
* Inmon/3NF: This is a common normalized data model that uses a third normal form (3NF) schema to organize data into entities and relationships. 3NF schema eliminates data duplication and ensures data consistency by applying three rules: 1) every column in a table must depend on the primary key, 2) every column in a table must depend on the whole primary key, not a part of it, and 3) every column in a table must depend only on the primary key, not on other columns. Snowflake supports 3NF schema and allows users to create referential integrity constraints and foreign key relationships to enforce data quality.
* Data vault: This is a hybrid data model that combines the best practices of dimensional and normalized data models to create a scalable, flexible, and resilient data warehouse. Data vault schema consists of three types of tables: hubs, links, and satellites. Hubs store business keys and metadata for each entity.
Links store associations and relationships between entities. Satellites store descriptive attributes and historical changes for each entity or relationship. Snowflake supports data vault schema and allows users to leverage its features such as time travel, zero-copy cloning, and secure data sharing to implement data vault methodology.
References: What is Data Modeling? | Snowflake, Snowflake Schema in Data Warehouse Model – GeeksforGeeks, [Data Vault 2.0 Modeling with Snowflake]

NO.62 When does a multi-cluster warehouse shuts down with default scaling policy

Immediately after the query is run

After 2 to 3 consecutive successful checks (performed at 1 minute intervals), which determine whether the load on the least-loaded cluster could be redistributed to the other clusters without spinning up the cluster again.

After 5 to 6 consecutive successful checks (performed at 1 minute intervals), which determine whether the load on the least-loaded cluster could be redistributed to the other clusters without spinning up the cluster again.

NO.63 A company has a Snowflake account named ACCOUNTA in AWS us-east-1 region. The company stores its marketing data in a Snowflake database named MARKET_DB. One of the company’s business partners has an account named PARTNERB in Azure East US 2 region. For marketing purposes the company has agreed to share the database MARKET_DB with the partner account.
Which of the following steps MUST be performed for the account PARTNERB to consume data from the MARKET_DB database?

Create a new account (called AZABC123) in Azure East US 2 region. From account ACCOUNTA create a share of database MARKET_DB, create a new database out of this share locally in AWS us- east-1 region, and replicate this new database to AZABC123 account. Then set up data sharing to the PARTNERB account.

From account ACCOUNTA create a share of database MARKET_DB, and create a new database out of this share locally in AWS us-east-1 region. Then make this database the provider and share it with the PARTNERB account.

Create a new account (called AZABC123) in Azure East US 2 region. From account ACCOUNTA replicate the database MARKET_DB to AZABC123 and from this account set up the data sharing to the PARTNERB account.

Create a share of database MARKET_DB, and create a new database out of this share locally in AWS us-east-1 region. Then replicate this database to the partner’s account PARTNERB.

NO.64 A user is executing the following command sequentially within a timeframe of 10 minutes from start to finish:

What would be the output of this query?

Table T_SALES_CLONE successfully created.

Time Travel data is not available for table T_SALES.

The offset -> is not a valid clause in the clone operation.

Syntax error line 1 at position 58 unexpected ‘at’.

NO.65 An Architect needs to ensure that users can upload data from Snowsight into an existing table.
What privileges must be granted? (Select THREE).

Database: USAGE

Database: OWNERSHIP

Schema: CREATE TABLE

Schema: USAGE

Table: SELECT

Table: OWNERSHIP

NO.66 Which Snowflake objects can be used in a data share? (Select TWO).

Standard view

Secure view

Stored procedure

External table

Stream

NO.67 A table for IOT devices that measures water usage is created. The table quickly becomes large and contains more than 2 billion rows.

The general query patterns for the table are:
1. DeviceId, lOT_timestamp and Customerld are frequently used in the filter predicate for the select statement
2. The columns City and DeviceManuf acturer are often retrieved
3. There is often a count on Uniqueld
Which field(s) should be used for the clustering key?

lOT_timestamp

City and DeviceManuf acturer

Deviceld and Customerld

Uniqueld

NO.68 Files arrive in an external stage every 10 seconds from a proprietary system. The files range in size from 500 K to 3 MB. The data must be accessible by dashboards as soon as it arrives.
How can a Snowflake Architect meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of coding? (Choose two.)

Use Snowpipe with auto-ingest.

Use a COPY command with a task.

Use a materialized view on an external table.

Use the COPY INTO command.

Use a combination of a task and a stream.

NO.69 What is a characteristic of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) as used in Snowflake?

Privileges can be granted at the database level and can be inherited by all underlying objects.

A user can use a “super-user” access along with securityadmin to bypass authorization checks and access all databases, schemas, and underlying objects.

A user can create managed access schemas to support future grants and ensure only schema owners can grant privileges to other roles.

A user can create managed access schemas to support current and future grants and ensure only object owners can grant privileges to other roles.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is the Snowflake Access Control Framework that allows privileges to be granted by object owners to roles, and roles, in turn, can be assigned to users to restrict or allow actions to be performed on objects. A characteristic of RBAC as used in Snowflake is:
* Privileges can be granted at the database level and can be inherited by all underlying objects. This means that a role that has a certain privilege on a database, such as CREATE SCHEMA or USAGE, can also perform the same action on any schema, table, view, or other object within that database, unless explicitly revoked. This simplifies the access control management and reduces the number of grants required.
* A user can create managed access schemas to support future grants and ensure only schema owners can grant privileges to other roles. This means that a user can create a schema with the MANAGED ACCESS option, which changes the default behavior of object ownership and privilege granting within the schema. In a managed access schema, object owners lose the ability to grant privileges on their objects to other roles, and only the schema owner or a role with the MANAGE GRANTS privilege can do so. This enhances the security and governance of the schema and its objects.
The other options are not characteristics of RBAC as used in Snowflake:
* A user can use a “super-user” access along with securityadmin to bypass authorization checks and access all databases, schemas, and underlying objects. This is not true, as there is no such thing as a
“super-user” access in Snowflake. The securityadmin role is a predefined role that can manage users and roles, but it does not have any privileges on any database objects by default. To access any object, the securityadmin role must be explicitly granted the appropriate privilege by the object owner or another role with the grant option.
* A user can create managed access schemas to support current and future grants and ensure only object owners can grant privileges to other roles. This is not true, as this contradicts the definition of a managed access schema. In a managed access schema, object owners cannot grant privileges on their objects to other roles, and only the schema owner or a role with the MANAGE GRANTS privilege can do so.
References:
* Overview of Access Control
* A Functional Approach For Snowflake’s Role-Based Access Controls
* Snowflake Role-Based Access Control simplified
* Snowflake RBAC security prefers role inheritance to role composition
* Overview of Snowflake Role Based Access Control

NO.70 An Architect runs the following SQL query:

How can this query be interpreted?

FILEROWS is a stage. FILE_ROW_NUMBER is line number in file.

FILEROWS is the table. FILE_ROW_NUMBER is the line number in the table.

FILEROWS is a file. FILE_ROW_NUMBER is the file format location.

FILERONS is the file format location. FILE_ROW_NUMBER is a stage.

NO.71 You have created a table as below
CREATE TABLE SNOWFLAKE_BLOG(BLOG_ID NUMBER, BLOG_CONTENT VARCHAR,BLOG_AUTHOR VARCHAR,BLOG_CREATE_DATE TIMESTAMP );
Now you want to cluster it by BLOG_AUTHOR and BLOG_CREATE_DATE.
Which command below will you choose?

ALTER TABLE SNOWFLAKE_BLOG CLUSTER BY (BLOG_AUTHOR)

ALTER TABLE SNOWFLAKE_BLOG CLUSTER BY (BLOG_AUTHOR, BLOG_CREATE_DATE);

ALTER TABLE SNOWFLAKE_BLOG CLUSTER BY (BLOG_CREATE_DATE);

NO.72 The following statements have been executed successfully:
USE ROLE SYSADMIN;
CREATE OR REPLACE DATABASE DEV_TEST_DB;
CREATE OR REPLACE SCHEMA DEV_TEST_DB.SCHTEST WITH MANAGED ACCESS;
GRANT USAGE ON DATABASE DEV_TEST_DB TO ROLE DEV_PROJ_OWN;
GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA DEV_TEST_DB.SCHTEST TO ROLE DEV_PROJ_OWN;
GRANT USAGE ON DATABASE DEV_TEST_DB TO ROLE ANALYST_PROJ;
GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA DEV_TEST_DB.SCHTEST TO ROLE ANALYST_PROJ;
GRANT CREATE TABLE ON SCHEMA DEV_TEST_DB.SCHTEST TO ROLE DEV_PROJ_OWN;
USE ROLE DEV_PROJ_OWN;
CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE DEV_TEST_DB.SCHTEST.CURRENCY (
COUNTRY VARCHAR(255),
CURRENCY_NAME VARCHAR(255),
ISO_CURRENCY_CODE VARCHAR(15),
CURRENCY_CD NUMBER(38,0),
MINOR_UNIT VARCHAR(255),
WITHDRAWAL_DATE VARCHAR(255)
);
The role hierarchy is as follows (simplified from the diagram):
* ACCOUNTADMIN## DEV_SYSADMIN## DEV_PROJ_OWN## ANALYST_PROJ
Separately:
* ACCOUNTADMIN## SYSADMIN## MAPPING_ROLE
Which statements will return the records from the table
DEV_TEST_DB.SCHTEST.CURRENCY? (Select TWO)

USE ROLE DEV_PROJ_OWN;
GRANT SELECT ON DEV_TEST_DB.SCHTEST.CURRENCY TO ROLE ANALYST_PROJ;
USE ROLE ANALYST_PROJ;
SELECT * FROM DEV_TEST_DB.SCHTEST.CURRENCY;

USE ROLE DEV_PROJ_OWN;
SELECT * FROM DEV_TEST_DB.SCHTEST.CURRENCY;

USE ROLE SYSADMIN;
SELECT * FROM DEV_TEST_DB.SCHTEST.CURRENCY;

USE ROLE MAPPING_ROLE;
SELECT * FROM DEV_TEST_DB.SCHTEST.CURRENCY;

USE ROLE ACCOUNTADMIN;
SELECT * FROM DEV_TEST_DB.SCHTEST.CURRENCY;

NO.73 An Architect needs to allow a user to create a database from an inbound share.
To meet this requirement, the user’s role must have which privileges? (Choose two.)

IMPORT SHARE;

IMPORT PRIVILEGES;

CREATE DATABASE;

CREATE SHARE;

IMPORT DATABASE;

NO.74 An Architect would like to save quarter-end financial results for the previous six years.
Which Snowflake feature can the Architect use to accomplish this?

Search optimization service

Materialized view

Time Travel

Zero-copy cloning

Secure views

NO.75 A company needs to have the following features available in its Snowflake account:
1. Support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
2. A minimum of 2 months of Time Travel availability
3. Database replication in between different regions
4. Native support for JDBC and ODBC
5. Customer-managed encryption keys using Tri-Secret Secure
6. Support for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)
In order to provide all the listed services, what is the MINIMUM Snowflake edition that should be selected during account creation?

Standard

Enterprise

Business Critical

Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS)

NO.76 Cloud services can help in pruning even if the columns are variant columns.

TRUE

FALSE

NO.77 A user has activated primary and secondary roles for a session.
What operation is the user prohibited from using as part of SQL actions in Snowflake using the secondary role?

Insert

Create

Delete

Truncate

NO.78 An Architect runs the following SQL query:

How can this query be interpreted?

FILEROWS is a stage. FILE_ROW_NUMBER is line number in file.

FILEROWS is the table. FILE_ROW_NUMBER is the line number in the table.

FILEROWS is a file. FILE_ROW_NUMBER is the file format location.

FILERONS is the file format location. FILE_ROW_NUMBER is a stage.