Snowflake Updated COF-C02 Exam Questions and Answers by damian

 Once an internal stage is dropped in Snowflake, it cannot be recovered or restored using Time Travel or UNDROP commands. The only option is to recreate the dropped stage

 A Scoped URL permits temporary access to a staged file without the need to grant privileges to the stage or to issue access tokens. It provides a secure way to share access to files stored in Snowflake

The ACCESS_HISTORY view in Snowflake is utilized to support compliance auditing. It provides detailed information on data access within Snowflake, including reads and writes by user queries. This view is essential for regulatory compliance auditing as it offers insights into the usage of tables and columns, and maintains a direct link between the user, the query, and the accessed data1.

References: [COF-C02] SnowPro Core Certification Exam Study Guide

 To validate data unloaded using the COPY INTO command, a Snowflake user can use the VALIDATION_MODE parameter within the SQL statement to test the files for errors without loading them3.