Level 1 - First concepts

Question 1

Which of the following terms is associated with the Compute/Warehouse Layer?

Answer 1

Query Processing

Question 2

Which of the following terms are associated with the Cloud Services Layer?

Answer 2

Query Planning
Query Optimization
Query Compilation

Question 3

Which 3 these terms can be used to refer to the same layer?

Answer 3

Compute Layer
Virtual Warehouse Layer
Query Processing Layer

Question 4

Which of the following are performed by the Cloud Services Layer?

Answer 4

Metadata Management
User Authentication
Metadata Storage
Data Security

Question 5

Which 2 of these terms refer to the same layer?

Answer 5

Cloud Services Layer
Services Layer

Question 6

Which 2 of these terms refer to the same layer?

Answer 6

Data Layer
Storage Layer

Question 7

Which of the following workloads is Snowflake suited for?

Answer 7

Data Engineering
Data Lakes
Data Warehousing
Data Science
Data Applications
Data Sharing and Exchanges

Question 8

Which cloud providers can you choose as the foundation for your Snowflake Data Platform to run on?

Answer 8

Azure
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
AWS

Question 9

What are the four layers of Snowflake’s architecture?

Answer 9

Multi-Cluster Compute
Centralized Storage
Cloud Services
Cloud Agnostic Layer