Free SnowPro Core Sample Questions — SnowPro Core

SnowPro Core (SnowPro Core) is a core-level Snowflake certification exam. The blueprint splits the exam across 5 domains, starting with Snowflake Architecture, Virtual Warehouses, Data Movement. On exam day you have 115 minutes, in formats such as multiple-choice. The 20 questions below are free samples written to match that style: answer each one first, then reveal the correct answer and note which topics you miss. The SnowPro Core is rated medium in difficulty, and most candidates prepare with at least 6 months of hands-on experience. Because every answer is revealed in place, you can work through the whole set without leaving this page. Work through all 20 samples before deciding whether to buy the full 1128+ question PDF.

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Question 1

Which statements are correct concerning the leveraging of third-party data from the Snowflake Data Marketplace? (Choose two.)

  • A. Data is live, ready-to-query, and can be personalized
  • B. Data needs to be loaded into a cloud provider as a consumer account
  • C. Data is not available for copying or moving to an individual Snowflake account
  • D. Data is available without copying or moving
  • E. Data transformations are required when combining Data Marketplace datasets with existing data in Snowflake
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Correct Answer:
  • A. Data is live, ready-to-query, and can be personalized
  • D. Data is available without copying or moving
Question 2

What command should be used to move data from a Snowflake database table into one or more files in an external stage?

  • A. GET
  • B. COPY INTO
  • C. PUT
  • D. SHOW
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Correct Answer:
B. COPY INTO
Question 3

A Virtual Warehouse's auto-suspend and auto-resume settings apply to:

  • A. The primary cluster in the Virtual Warehouse
  • B. The entire Virtual Warehouse
  • C. The database the Virtual Warehouse resides in
  • D. The queries currently being run by the Virtual Warehouse
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Correct Answer:
B. The entire Virtual Warehouse
Question 4

What Snowflake objects can be added to a share? (Choose two.)

  • A. Views
  • B. Tables
  • C. Stored procedures
  • D. Streams
  • E. Secure views
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Correct Answer:
  • B. Tables
  • E. Secure views
Question 5

What general guideline does Snowflake recommend when setting the auto-suspension time limit?

  • A. Set tasks for immediate suspension
  • B. Set tasks for suspension after 5 minutes
  • C. Set query warehouses for suspension after 15 minutes
  • D. Set query warehouses for suspension after 30 minutes
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Correct Answer:
B. Set tasks for suspension after 5 minutes
Question 6

What happens to the privileges granted to Snowflake system-defined roles?

  • A. The privileges cannot be revoked
  • B. The privileges can be revoked by an ACCOUNTADMIN
  • C. The privileges can be revoked by an ORGADMIN
  • D. The privileges can be revoked by any user-defined role with appropriate privileges
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Correct Answer:
A. The privileges cannot be revoked
Question 7

What is the name of the SnowSQL file that can store connection information?

  • A. history
  • B. config
  • C. snowsql.cnf
  • D. snowsql.pubkey
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Correct Answer:
B. config
Question 8

What are the recommended steps to address poor SQL query performance due to data spilling? (Choose two.)

  • A. Clone the base table
  • B. Fetch required attributes only
  • C. Use a larger virtual warehouse
  • D. Process the data in smaller batches
  • E. Add another cluster in the virtual warehouse
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Correct Answer:
  • C. Use a larger virtual warehouse
  • D. Process the data in smaller batches
Question 9

Which command will unload data from a table into an external stage?

  • A. PUT
  • B. INSERT
  • C. COPY INTO [location]
  • D. GET
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Correct Answer:
C. COPY INTO [location]
Question 10

What activities can a user with the ORGADMIN role perform? (Choose two.)

  • A. Create INFORMATION_SCHEMA in a database
  • B. View usage information for all accounts in the organization
  • C. Enable database cloning for an account in the organization
  • D. Enable database replication for an account in the organization
  • E. View micro-partition information for all accounts in the organization
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Correct Answer:
  • B. View usage information for all accounts in the organization
  • D. Enable database replication for an account in the organization
Question 11

Snowpark provides libraries for which programming languages? (Choose two.)

  • A. JavaScript
  • B. Python
  • C. Scala
  • D. R
  • E. C++
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Correct Answer:
  • B. Python
  • C. Scala
Question 12

Which actions can be performed using a resource monitor in Snowflake? (Choose two.)

  • A. Monitor the performance of individual queries in real-time
  • B. Automatically allocate more storage space to a virtual warehouse
  • C. Modify the queries being executed within a virtual warehouse
  • D. Suspend a virtual warehouse when its credit usage reaches a defined limit
  • E. Trigger a notification to account administrators when credit usage reaches a specified threshold
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Correct Answer:
  • D. Suspend a virtual warehouse when its credit usage reaches a defined limit
  • E. Trigger a notification to account administrators when credit usage reaches a specified threshold
Question 13

What is Snowflake's general guideline for files used to load data?

  • A. Files can be loaded directly into a table
  • B. Any delimiter is supported: the default is a semicolon
  • C. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is one of the supported semi-structured formats
  • D. For delimited files, the default character set is UTF-8
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Correct Answer:
D. For delimited files, the default character set is UTF-8
Question 14

How many resource monitors can be assigned at the account level?

  • A. 1
  • B. 2
  • C. 3
  • D. 4
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Correct Answer:
A. 1
Question 15

Which chart type is supported in Snowsight for Snowflake users to visualize data with dashboards?

  • A. Area chart
  • B. Box plot
  • C. Heat grid
  • D. Pie chart
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Correct Answer:
C. Heat grid
Question 16

What is used to limit the credit usage of a virtual warehouse within a Snowflake account?

  • A. Load monitor
  • B. Resource monitor
  • C. Query Profile
  • D. Stream
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Correct Answer:
B. Resource monitor
Question 17

A marketing co-worker has requested the ability to change a warehouse size on their medium virtual warehouse called MKTG_WH. Which of the following statements will accommodate this request?

  • A. ALLOW RESIZE ON WAREHOUSE MKTG_WH TO USER MKTG_LEAD;
  • B. GRANT MODIFY ON WAREHOUSE MKTG_WH TO ROLE MARKETING;
  • C. GRANT MODIFY ON WAREHOUSE MKTG_WH TO USER MKTG_LEAD;
  • D. GRANT OPERATE ON WAREHOUSE MKTG_WH TO ROLE MARKET;
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Correct Answer:
B. GRANT MODIFY ON WAREHOUSE MKTG_WH TO ROLE MARKETING;
Question 18

Which activities are managed by Snowflake’s Cloud Services layer? (Choose two.)

  • A. Authentication
  • B. Access delegation
  • C. Data pruning
  • D. Data compression
  • E. Query parsing and optimization
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Correct Answer:
  • A. Authentication
  • E. Query parsing and optimization
Question 19

Which statement accurately describes a characteristic of a materialized view?

  • A. materialized view can query only a single table
  • B. Data accessed through materialized views can be stale
  • C. Materialized view refreshes need to be maintained by the user
  • D. Querying a materialized view is slower than executing a query against the base table of the view
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Correct Answer:
A. materialized view can query only a single table
Question 20

Which DDL/DML operation is allowed on an inbound data share?

  • A. ALTER TABLE
  • B. INSERT INTO
  • C. MERGE
  • D. SELECT
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Correct Answer:
D. SELECT

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