DEA-C01 Exam Dumps - SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer Certification Exam

The TABLE function with the FLATTEN function is used to flatten semi-structured data, such as JSON or XML, into a relational format. The TABLE function returns a table expression that can be used in the FROM clause of a query. The TABLE function with the FLATTEN function requires another source in the FROM clause to refer to, such as a table, view, or subquery that contains the semi-structured data. For example:

SELECT t.value:city::string AS city, f.value AS population FROM cities t, TABLE(FLATTEN(input => t.value:population)) f;

In this example, the TABLE function with the FLATTEN function refers to the cities table in the FROM clause, which contains JSON data in a variant column named value. The FLATTEN function flattens the population array within each JSON object and returns a table expression with two columns: key and value. The query then selects the city and population values from the table expression.

This option will meet the requirements of creating a new development database (DEV) as a clone of the permanent production database (PROD) and disabling Fail-safe for all tables. By using the CREATE TRANSIENT DATABASE command, the Data Engineer can create a transient database that does not have Fail-safe enabled by default. Fail-safe is a feature in Snowflake that provides additional protection against data loss by retaining historical data for seven days beyond the time travel retention period. Transient databases do not have Fail-safe enabled, which means that they do not incur additional storage costs for historical data beyond their time travel retention period. By using the CLONE option, the Data Engineer can create an exact copy of the PROD database, including its schemas, tables, views, and other objects.

The IS_ROLE_IN_SESSION function is used to set up column-level masking using a role in the hierarchy of the current user. Column-level masking is a feature in Snowflake that allows users to apply dynamic data masking policies to specific columns based on the roles of the users who access them. The IS_ROLE_IN_SESSION function takes a role name as an argument and returns true if the role is in the current user’s session, or false otherwise. The function can be used in a masking policy expression to determine whether to mask or unmask a column value based on the role of the user. For example:

CREATE OR REPLACE MASKING POLICY email_mask AS (val string) RETURNS string -> CASE WHEN IS_ROLE_IN_SESSION(‘HR’) THEN val ELSE REGEXP_REPLACE(val, ‘(.).(.@.)’, ‘\1****\2’) END;

In this example, the IS_ROLE_IN_SESSION function is used to create a masking policy for an email column. The masking policy returns the original email value if the user has the HR role in their session, or returns a masked email value with asterisks if not.

 The file format option that should be used to resolve the error and successfully load all the data into the table is FIELD_OPTIONALLY_ENCLOSED_BY = ‘"’. This option specifies that fields in the file may be enclosed by double quotes, which allows for fields that contain commas or newlines within them. For example, in row 3 of the file, there is a field that contains a comma within double quotes: “Smith Jr., John”. Without specifying this option, Snowflake will treat this field as two separate fields and cause an error due to column count mismatch. By specifying this option, Snowflake will treat this field as one field and load it correctly into the table.

The recommended approach to maximize performance of this query if the Profile shows data spillage is to increase the warehouse size. Data spillage occurs when the query requires more memory than the warehouse can provide and has to spill some intermediate results to disk. This can degrade the query performance by increasing the disk IO time. Increasing the warehouse size can increase the amount of memory available for the query and reduce or eliminate data spillage.

External stages only from any region, and any cloud provider support external tables. External tables are virtual tables that can query data from files stored in external stages without loading them into Snowflake tables. External stages are references to locations outside of Snowflake, such as Amazon S3 buckets, Azure Blob Storage containers, or Google Cloud Storage buckets. External stages can be created from any region and any cloud provider, as long as they have a valid URL and credentials. The other options are incorrect because internal stages do notsupport external tables. Internal stages are locations within Snowflake that can store files for loading or unloading data. Internal stages can be user stages, table stages, or named stages.

The recommended way to ingest invoice data in PDF format into Snowflake is to create a Java User-Defined Function (UDF) that leverages Java-based PDF parser libraries to parse PDF data into structured data. This option allows for more flexibility and control over how the PDF data is extracted and transformed. The other options are not suitable for ingesting PDF data into Snowflake. Option A and B are incorrect because Snowpipe and COPY INTO commands can only ingest files that are in supported file formats, such as CSV, JSON, XML, etc. PDF files are not supported by Snowflake and will cause errors or unexpected results. Option C is incorrect because external tables can only query files that are in supported file formats as well. PDF files cannot be parsed by external tables and will cause errors or unexpected results.

The characteristics of Snowpark Python packages are:

• Third-party packages can be registered as a dependency to the Snowpark session using the session.import() method.
• The SQL command DESCRIBE FUNCTION will list the imported Python packages of the Python User-Defined Function (UDF).
• Querying information_schema.packages will provide a list of supported Python packages and versions.

These characteristics indicate how Snowpark Python packages can be imported, inspected, and verified in Snowflake. The other options are not characteristics of Snowpark Python packages. Option B is incorrect because Python packages can be loaded in both local and remote environments using Snowpark. Option C is incorrect because third-party supported Python packages are not locked down to prevent hitting external endpoints, but rather restricted by network policies and security settings.