Snowflake Data Governance and Compliance: Intermediate-Level Quiz

Data governance and compliance are critical to managing data effectively and meeting regulatory requirements. In Snowflake, these aspects involve understanding and implementing various features and practices to protect data, ensure quality, and comply with legal and regulatory standards. This intermediate-level quiz will test your knowledge and skills in these areas.

1 / 20

What does the USE ROLE command do in Snowflake?

Creates a new role

Grants a role to a user

Switches the current role to the specified role

Deletes a role

2 / 20

Only one user role can access a shared database in Snowflake.

True

False

3 / 20

How can you enforce encryption for all data in a Snowflake account?

Manually encrypting each table

Data is automatically encrypted by Snowflake

Creating an encryption role

Using the ENCRYPTION parameter

4 / 20

Dynamic Data Masking can be applied at the role level in Snowflake.

False

True

5 / 20

How does Snowflake ensure compliance with regulatory requirements?

By enhancing data visualization

By offering built-in compliance features and auditing tools

By providing free storage

By improving query speed

6 / 20

Snowflake automatically complies with HIPAA if all security configurations are enabled.

True

False

7 / 20

Which command is used to grant a role to a user in Snowflake?

CREATE ROLE

ASSIGN ROLE

GRANT ROLE

ENABLE ROLE

8 / 20

Which command shows the access history for a specific table named sales_data?

SELECT * FROM access_history WHERE object_name = 'SALES_DATA';

SELECT * FROM information_schema.access_log WHERE object_name = 'SALES_DATA';

SELECT * FROM table(information_schema.access_history) WHERE object_name = 'SALES_DATA';

SELECT * FROM information_schema.access_history WHERE object_name = 'SALES_DATA';

9 / 20

Snowflake’s Time Travel feature provides a continuous backup of data.

True

False

10 / 20

Snowflake’s secure views feature is useful for restricting access to underlying data.

True

False

11 / 20

What is the role of the SYSADMIN role in Snowflake?

Optimizing query performance

Managing system-level objects

Managing security settings

Granting user access

12 / 20

Which feature in Snowflake helps track data access and usage?

Data Masking

Data Replication

Access History

Virtual Warehouses

13 / 20

Snowflake supports the setup of virtual warehouses for managing different user groups.

True

False

14 / 20

Snowflake uses end-to-end encryption to secure data in transit and at rest.

True

False

15 / 20

Access Control can be defined at the column level in Snowflake.

False

True

16 / 20

Which Snowflake feature helps in managing data retention policies?

Network Policies

Time Travel

Data Masking

Materialized Views

17 / 20

What does PII stand for in the context of data governance?

Personal Identification Information

Primary Information Index

Personally Identifiable Information

Performance Integrity Index

18 / 20

Fail-safe allows for a 7-day data retention, even after Time Travel retention ends.

True

False

19 / 20

When sharing data securely, how does Snowflake ensure compliance?

Sending raw data to the recipient

Sharing links without encryption

Creating duplicate data copies

Encrypting the data

20 / 20

Which role in Snowflake is responsible for managing data governance policies?

SECURITYADMIN

SYSADMIN

USERADMIN

ACCOUNTADMIN

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This intermediate-level quiz evaluates your understanding of Snowflake data governance and compliance features.

This quiz helps reinforce key concepts and practical skills for users who already understand Snowflake basics. It is also suitable for users who want to deepen their data governance and compliance knowledge.

After completing the quiz, users will have a more comprehensive understanding of Snowflake’s governance tools and compliance protocols. It will also help you gain insight into secure data handling practices, which are essential for managing data compliant and securely.

Good luck.