Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification Study Guide

AppendixAnswers to the Review Questions

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

1. A, B, E.  Snowflake provides four editions. Each edition builds on the features and capabilities of the previous edition. The four editions are:
   • Standard
   • Enterprise
   • Business Critical
   • Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS)
2. B.  The Enterprise edition provides all the capabilities of the Standard edition but adds 90 days of Time Travel, multi-cluster virtual warehouses, materialized views, dynamic data masking, and external data tokenization.
3. B.  The Standard edition of Snowflake provides only one day of Time Travel capability. Starting with the Enterprise edition, 90 days of Time Travel is available.
4. B.  The Enterprise edition provides all the capabilities of the Standard edition but adds dynamic data masking, 90 days of Time Travel, multi-cluster virtual warehouses, materialized views, and external data tokenization.
5. A.  Data sharing capabilities are available starting with the Standard edition.
6. A, C, D.  Snowflake is supported on three public cloud platforms:
   • Amazon Web Services
   • Microsoft Azure
   • Google Cloud Platform
7. A.  Data replication is available in the Standard edition.
8. B.  Search optimization is available starting with the Enterprise edition.

Chapter 2: Snowflake Architecture

1. C.  Snowflake uses a hybrid architecture approach in which the data is stored on a shared-data storage layer but multiple compute clusters can simultaneously perform processing on that data. The architecture is often ...