Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Architect ARA-C01 Exam Practice Questions
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Question 1
What built-in Snowflake features make use of the change tracking metadata for a table? (Choose two.)
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Correct answer: C, D. The CHANGES clause; A STREAM object
Snowflake's change tracking metadata is used by STREAM objects, which capture row-level changes (inserts, updates, deletes) for downstream consumption. The CHANGES clause is also a built-in feature that directly queries the change tracking metadata to retrieve historical changes to a table. Both of these features read the table's change tracking metadata to provide change data capture natively in Snowflake, without external tools.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. The MERGE command changes table data but does not read the change tracking metadata; only streams and the CHANGES clause do.
- B. UPSERT is not a native Snowflake command; the MERGE command is used for similar functionality.
- E. CHANGE_DATA_CAPTURE is not a built-in Snowflake command; change tracking is accessed through STREAM objects and the CHANGES clause.
Question 2
When using the Snowflake Connector for Kafka, what data formats are supported for the messages? (Choose two.)
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Correct answer: C, D. Avro; JSON
The Snowflake Connector for Kafka supports Avro and JSON as the primary message data formats. The connector provides converters for these formats and loads each message into a VARIANT column (RECORD_CONTENT), with message metadata in RECORD_METADATA; JSON messages do not need to carry a schema.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. CSV is not supported by the Kafka connector as a message format.
- B. XML is not supported by the Kafka connector for message serialization.
- E. Parquet is not a supported format for the Snowflake Kafka connector; it is primarily used for file-based data storage.
Question 3
At which object type level can the APPLY MASKING POLICY, APPLY ROW ACCESS POLICY and APPLY SESSION POLICY privileges be granted?
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Correct answer: A. Global
The APPLY MASKING POLICY, APPLY ROW ACCESS POLICY, and APPLY SESSION POLICY privileges are granted at the global (account) level only. These are account-wide privileges that control a user's ability to apply policies to any objects within the account, rather than being scoped to specific databases, schemas, or tables.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Database level is not where these policy privileges are granted; they operate at the account level.
- C. Schema level is not the correct scope for these policy-related privileges.
- D. Table level is not where these privileges can be granted; policy application authority is determined at the global level.
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What’s in the Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Architect ARA-C01 pack
- 253 questions across all four ARA-C01 domains
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An ARA-C01 attempt costs US$375. This pack is US$39, paid once.
What makes the ARA-C01 hard
ARA-C01 is the design exam in the SnowPro Advanced track and the one with the most expensive mistakes attached to it: 65 questions in 115 minutes, a scaled pass mark of 750 and a US$375 fee, with an active SnowPro Core required before you can book. Where Core asks what a feature does, Architect asks which combination of features you would choose for an enterprise with several accounts, regions, clouds and compliance regimes, and why the alternatives fall short.
Snowflake Architecture is the largest domain at around 30%: multi-account and multi-region design with organisations, database and account replication, failover groups and business continuity, cross-cloud considerations, Snowgrid, external and Iceberg tables, data lake patterns and choosing between virtual warehouse configurations for mixed workloads. Accounts and Security at around 25% covers the RBAC hierarchy at enterprise scale, custom role design, network policies and private connectivity, authentication with SSO, key pair and OAuth, encryption and Tri-Secret Secure, data governance with masking, row access policies, tags and object tagging, and the account usage views used to audit all of it.
Data Engineering at around 25% covers ingestion architectures with Snowpipe, streams and tasks, change data capture, Snowpark, external functions, data sharing and marketplace design and semi-structured data at scale. Performance Optimization at around 20% covers clustering, search optimisation, materialised tables, warehouse sizing and scaling strategy, query acceleration, caching and cost control. Most questions describe a requirement and four architectures that would all work; the exam wants the one that meets the requirement at the lowest cost or operational burden.
About the exam
ARA-C01 (SnowPro Advanced: Architect Certification) validates the ability to design enterprise Snowflake solutions: architecture across accounts, regions and clouds, accounts and security, data engineering patterns, and performance optimisation. Prerequisite: an active SnowPro Core certification. Snowflake recommends two or more years of hands-on Snowflake architecture experience.
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Rania Conti –
Passed on the first attempt.
Matsumoto Xu –
Passed my ARA-C01