Snowflake SnowPro Certification
Newest 2026 Actual Questions and
Detailed Answers| Graded A+
What are the 3 Cloud Providers available for Snowflake -
ANSWER-1) AWS - a provider since inception
2) Azure Cloud Platforms - generally available as of Sept. 2018
3) Google Cloud Platform - trialed late 2019
Snowflake is currently the only DW built for the cloud (T/F) -
ANSWER-True
How does Snowflake describe their architecture?
A) Multi-Cluster, Shared Data
B) Single-Cluster, Shared Data - ANSWER-A) Multi-Cluster,
Shared Data
What are the 3 components of Snowflake's architecture (both
the name and descriptor) - ANSWER-1) Storage - Databases
2) Compute - Virtual Warehouses
3) Cloud Services - Front End
What are the Cloud Object Storage options? - ANSWER-1) AWS
S3
2) Azure Blobs
,3) GCP
How are storage costs calculated? - ANSWER-A daily average
of all compressed data storage, including data stored
according to Time Travel retention policy and failsafe
procedures
Which Microsoft and Amazon systems does Compute
leverage? - ANSWER-1) AWS EC2
2) Azure Compute
Compute can't scale out as queries are running (T/F) -
ANSWER-False
Which services does Cloud Services provide? - ANSWER-1)
Security Management
2) Infrastructure Management
3) Metadata Management
4) Query Optimization
Are Snowflake's Storage (DB) and Compute (WH) layers
A) Separate and Independent
B) Together and Dependent - ANSWER-A) Separate and
Independent
In addition to multiple Virtual Warehouses, Multi-Cluster
, means individual Virtual Warehouses can... - ANSWER-Scale
up or down automatically
Multi-Cluster turn off clusters when activity slows down (T/F) -
ANSWER-True
Snowflake uses ANSI-SQL (T/F) - ANSWER-True
What is Snowflake's semi-structured data type called? -
ANSWER-VARIANT
What are the three types of caching in Snowflake? - ANSWER-
1) Warehouse
2) Metadata
3) Results
Snowpipes generally load newest files first (T/F) - ANSWER-
False - Generally loads oldest first
When unloading data, which formats are allowed for export? -
ANSWER-1) Delimited files
2) JSON
3) Parquet
When unloading data, which compression methods are
allowed? - ANSWER-1) Gzip
Newest 2026 Actual Questions and
Detailed Answers| Graded A+
What are the 3 Cloud Providers available for Snowflake -
ANSWER-1) AWS - a provider since inception
2) Azure Cloud Platforms - generally available as of Sept. 2018
3) Google Cloud Platform - trialed late 2019
Snowflake is currently the only DW built for the cloud (T/F) -
ANSWER-True
How does Snowflake describe their architecture?
A) Multi-Cluster, Shared Data
B) Single-Cluster, Shared Data - ANSWER-A) Multi-Cluster,
Shared Data
What are the 3 components of Snowflake's architecture (both
the name and descriptor) - ANSWER-1) Storage - Databases
2) Compute - Virtual Warehouses
3) Cloud Services - Front End
What are the Cloud Object Storage options? - ANSWER-1) AWS
S3
2) Azure Blobs
,3) GCP
How are storage costs calculated? - ANSWER-A daily average
of all compressed data storage, including data stored
according to Time Travel retention policy and failsafe
procedures
Which Microsoft and Amazon systems does Compute
leverage? - ANSWER-1) AWS EC2
2) Azure Compute
Compute can't scale out as queries are running (T/F) -
ANSWER-False
Which services does Cloud Services provide? - ANSWER-1)
Security Management
2) Infrastructure Management
3) Metadata Management
4) Query Optimization
Are Snowflake's Storage (DB) and Compute (WH) layers
A) Separate and Independent
B) Together and Dependent - ANSWER-A) Separate and
Independent
In addition to multiple Virtual Warehouses, Multi-Cluster
, means individual Virtual Warehouses can... - ANSWER-Scale
up or down automatically
Multi-Cluster turn off clusters when activity slows down (T/F) -
ANSWER-True
Snowflake uses ANSI-SQL (T/F) - ANSWER-True
What is Snowflake's semi-structured data type called? -
ANSWER-VARIANT
What are the three types of caching in Snowflake? - ANSWER-
1) Warehouse
2) Metadata
3) Results
Snowpipes generally load newest files first (T/F) - ANSWER-
False - Generally loads oldest first
When unloading data, which formats are allowed for export? -
ANSWER-1) Delimited files
2) JSON
3) Parquet
When unloading data, which compression methods are
allowed? - ANSWER-1) Gzip
