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Snowflake Exam ARA-C01 Topic 2 Question 43 Discussion

Actual exam question for Snowflake's ARA-C01 exam
Question #: 43
Topic #: 2
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The Data Engineering team at a large manufacturing company needs to engineer data coming from many sources to support a wide variety of use cases and data consumer requirements which include:

1) Finance and Vendor Management team members who require reporting and visualization

2) Data Science team members who require access to raw data for ML model development

3) Sales team members who require engineered and protected data for data monetization

What Snowflake data modeling approaches will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

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Suggested Answer: C

Effective pruning in Snowflake relies on the organization of data within micro-partitions. By using an ORDER BY clause with clustering keys when loading data into the reporting tables, Snowflake can better organize the data within micro-partitions. This organization allows Snowflake to skip over irrelevant micro-partitions during a query, thus improving query performance and reducing the amount of data scanned12.

Reference =

* Snowflake Documentation on micro-partitions and data clustering2

* Community article on recognizing unsatisfactory pruning and improving it1


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Socorro
3 months ago
Ah, the age-old debate: centralize everything or distribute by use case? I'm leaning towards C and B - keep the raw data separate, but build out those profile-specific databases to make everyone's lives easier.
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Florinda
3 months ago
E is definitely the most elegant solution, but I'm not sure the sales team is going to be thrilled about having to go through the Vault for their data monetization needs. C and B seem like they strike a better balance.
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Cherelle
3 months ago
Haha, I bet the finance team is going to love having to access the raw data in the Data Vault! 'Sorry, can't give you that report, you'll have to dig through the Vault.'
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Lawanda
2 months ago
A: True, but the finance team might not be too happy about having to dig through the Data Vault for their reports.
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An
2 months ago
B: Yeah, but wouldn't it be easier to just consolidate data in the data lake and use external tables for reporting?
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Blair
2 months ago
A: I think option C would be a good approach to align data with specific usage patterns.
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Nada
2 months ago
C) Create a set of profile-specific databases that aligns data with usage patterns.
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Gaston
3 months ago
B) Create a raw database for landing and persisting raw data entering the data pipelines.
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Willodean
3 months ago
A) Consolidate data in the company's data lake and use EXTERNAL TABLES.
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Rosann
3 months ago
D is a tempting choice, but I think that would be too rigid and difficult to manage in the long run. C and B seem like the best balance between flexibility and data governance.
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Brigette
2 months ago
Having profile-specific databases aligned with usage patterns sounds like a good approach.
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Julian
2 months ago
I think C and B would provide the flexibility we need while still maintaining data governance.
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Susy
3 months ago
I agree, D might be too rigid for our diverse data consumer requirements.
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Louis
4 months ago
C and E seem like the most viable options here. Separating the data by usage patterns and having a centralized Data Vault make a lot of sense for this scenario.
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Fatima
4 months ago
I prefer option D. A single star schema in a single database seems more efficient for all consumers.
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Casie
4 months ago
I agree with Gearldine. Having a raw database for raw data and profile-specific databases for different teams makes sense.
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Gearldine
4 months ago
I think options B and C could meet the requirements.
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