Snowflake Updated COF-C02 Exam Questions and Answers by eddison

Serverless features in Snowflake are billed based on the time they are used, measured in minutes. The cost is calculated by multiplying the duration of the job by an automatic sizing determined by Snowflake, with a minimum billing increment of one minute. This means that even if a serverless feature is used for less than a minute, it will still be billed for the full minute.

 In Snowflake, both materialized views and transient tables will incur storage charges because they store data. They will also incur compute charges when queries are run against them, as compute resources are used to process the queries. References: [COF-C02] SnowPro Core Certification Exam Study Guide

The feature in Snowflake that allows a user to substitute a randomly generated identifier for sensitive data before loading it into Snowflake is known as External Tokenization. This process helps to secure sensitive data by ensuring that it is not exposed in its original form, thus preventing unauthorized access3.

When publishing a Snowflake Data Marketplace listing into a remote region, it’s important to note that while the listing is replicated into all selected regions automatically, the data itself is not. Therefore, the data must be replicated separately. Additionally, the user must have the ORGADMIN role in at least one account to manage the replication of accounts1.