Snowflake Updated COF-C02 Exam Questions and Answers by safaa

The Snowflake PUT command is used to upload files from a local file system to Snowflake stages, specifically the user stage, table stage, and internal named stage. These stages are where the data files are temporarily stored before being loaded into Snowflake tables

 The kind of Snowflake table that stores file-level metadata for each file in a stage is a directory table. A directory table is an implicit object layered on a stage and stores file-level metadata about the data files in the stage3.

Pruning in Snowflake refers to the process of filtering or disregarding micro-partitions that are not needed to satisfy the conditions of a query. This optimization technique helps reduce the amount of data scanned, thereby improving query performance

A Snowflake Data Exchange allows groups of accounts to share data privately among the accounts (B), and it supports bidirectional sharing, meaning an account can be both a provider and a consumer of data (E). This facilitates secure and governed data collaboration within a selected group3.