Free Snowflake ARA-R01 Practice Test & Real Exam Questions

Exam Code/Number: ARA-R01
Exam Name/Title: SnowPro Advanced: Architect Recertification Exam
Certification Provider: Snowflake
Corresponding Certification: SnowPro Advanced: Architect

Exam Questions: 163
Updated On: Aug 09, 2026

Question #1

What is a characteristic of event notifications in Snowpipe?

A. The load history is stored In the metadata of the target table.

B. When a pipe Is paused, event messages received for the pipe enter a limited retention period.

C. Notifications identify the cloud storage event and the actual data in the files.

D. Snowflake can process all older notifications when a paused pipe Is resumed.

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Question #2

A user, analyst_user has been granted the analyst_role, and is deploying a SnowSQL script to run as a background service to extract data from Snowflake.
What steps should be taken to allow the IP addresses to be accessed? (Select TWO).

A. USE ROLE SECURITYADMIN;
CREATE OR REPLACE NETWORK POLICY ANALYST_POLICY ALLOWED_IP_LIST =
('10.1.1.20');

B. ALTERROLEANALYST_ROLESETNETWORK_POLICY='ANALYST_POLICY';

C. ALTERUSERANALYSTJJSERSETNETWORK_POLICY='ANALYST_POLICY';

D. USE ROLE USERADMIN;
CREATE OR REPLACE NETWORK POLICY ANALYST_POLICY
ALLOWED_IP_LIST = ('10.1.1.20');

E. ALTERUSERANALYST_USERSETNETWORK_POLICY='10.1.1.20';

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Correct Answer: A,C Vote an answer

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Question #3

A DevOps team has a requirement for recovery of staging tables used in a complex set of data pipelines. The staging tables are all located in the same staging schema. One of the requirements is to have online recovery of data on a rolling 7-day basis.
After setting up the DATA_RETENTION_TIME_IN_DAYS at the database level, certain tables remain unrecoverable past 1 day.
What would cause this to occur? (Choose two.)

A. The tables exceed the 1 TB limit for data recovery.

B. The staging schema has not been setup for MANAGED ACCESS.

C. The DevOps role should be granted ALLOW_RECOVERY privilege on the staging schema.

D. The staging tables are of the TRANSIENT type.

E. The DATA_RETENTION_TIME_IN_DAYS for the staging schema has been set to 1 day.

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Correct Answer: D,E Vote an answer

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Question #4

A company has an external vendor who puts data into Google Cloud Storage. The company's Snowflake account is set up in Azure.
What would be the MOST efficient way to load data from the vendor into Snowflake?

A. Create an external stage on Google Cloud Storage and use the external table to load the data into Snowflake.

B. Copy the data from Google Cloud Storage to Azure Blob storage using external tools and load data from Blob storage to Snowflake.

C. Ask the vendor to create a Snowflake account, load the data into Snowflake and create a data share.

D. Create a Snowflake Account in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ingest data into this account and use data replication to move the data from GCP to Azure.

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Question #5

What built-in Snowflake features make use of the change tracking metadata for a table? (Choose two.)

A. The MERGE command

B. The CHANGES clause

C. The CHANGE_DATA_CAPTURE command

D. A STREAM object

E. The UPSERT command

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Correct Answer: A,D Vote an answer

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Question #6

What is a characteristic of loading data into Snowflake using the Snowflake Connector for Kafka?

A. The Connector only works in Snowflake regions that use AWS infrastructure.

B. Loads using the Connector will have lower latency than Snowpipe and will ingest data in real time.

C. The Connector works with all file formats, including text, JSON, Avro, Ore, Parquet, and XML.

D. The Connector creates and manages its own stage, file format, and pipe objects.

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

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Question #7

An Architect has a VPN_ACCESS_LOGS table in the SECURITY_LOGS schema containing timestamps of the connection and disconnection, username of the user, and summary statistics.
What should the Architect do to enable the Snowflake search optimization service on this table?

A. Assume role with ALL PRIVILEGES including ADD SEARCH OPTIMIZATION in the SECURITY LOGS schema.

B. Assume role with OWNERSHIP on VPN_ACCESS_LOGS and ADD SEARCH OPTIMIZATION in the SECURITY_LOGS schema.

C. Assume role with OWNERSHIP on future tables and ADD SEARCH OPTIMIZATION on the SECURITY_LOGS schema.

D. Assume role with ALL PRIVILEGES on VPN_ACCESS_LOGS and ADD SEARCH OPTIMIZATION in the SECURITY_LOGS schema.

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Correct Answer: B Vote an answer

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Question #8

Which security, governance, and data protection features require, at a MINIMUM, the Business Critical edition of Snowflake? (Choose two.)

A. Federated authentication and SSO

B. AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud private connectivity to Snowflake

C. Periodic rekeying of encrypted data

D. Customer-managed encryption keys through Tri-Secret Secure

E. Extended Time Travel (up to 90 days)

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Correct Answer: B,D Vote an answer

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Question #9

Which of the following are characteristics of Snowflake's parameter hierarchy?

A. Virtual warehouse parameters override user parameters.

B. Schema parameters override account parameters.

C. Table parameters override virtual warehouse parameters.

D. Session parameters override virtual warehouse parameters.

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Question #10

Data is being imported and stored as JSON in a VARIANT column. Query performance was fine, but most recently, poor query performance has been reported.
What could be causing this?

A. The order of the keys in the JSON was changed.

B. The recent data imports contained fewer fields than usual.

C. There were variations in string lengths for the JSON values in the recent data imports.

D. There were JSON nulls in the recent data imports.

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