Snowflake Updated SnowPro-Core Exam Questions and Answers by gabriela

An explain plan is beneficial because it allows for the evaluation of how a query will be processed without the need to actually execute the query. This can help in understanding the query’s performance implications and potential bottlenecks without consuming resources that would be used if the query were run

 Data encryption and Time Travel are part of Snowflake’s Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature set that do not require additional configuration. Data encryption is automatically applied to all files stored on internal stages, and Time Travel allows for querying and restoring data without any extra setup

 In Snowflake’s data sharing model, any full Snowflake account can both provide and consume shared data. Additionally, the data consumer pays only for the compute resources used to query the shared data. No actual data is copied or transferred between accounts, and shared data does not take up any storage in a consumer account, so the consumer does not pay for data storage1.

References = Introduction to Secure Data Sharing | Snowflake Documentation

 When a pipe is recreated using the CREATE OR REPLACE PIPE command, the load history of the pipe is reset. This means that Snowpipe will consider all files in the stage as new and will attempt to load them, even if they were loaded previously by the old pipe2.