Snowflake Data Replication and Failover Strategies: Intermediate-Level Quiz

Understanding data replication and failover strategies is essential for ensuring data availability and business continuity in Snowflake. This intermediate-level quiz covers general concepts, practical applications, and true/false questions to help you deepen your knowledge and apply these strategies effectively.

1 / 20

Auto-Failover can be manually triggered in Snowflake.

False

True

2 / 20

The command to show replication groups is SHOW REPLICATION GROUPS.

True

False

3 / 20

Which command lists all replication groups in a Snowflake account?

SHOW REPLICATION GROUPS

DESCRIBE REPLICATION GROUPS5

VIEW REPLICATION GROUPS

LIST REPLICATION GROUPS

4 / 20

Which statement creates a new replication group named "sales_rep_group"?

CREATE REPLICATION GROUP sales_rep_group;

CREATE CLONE GROUP sales_rep_group;

CREATE BACKUP GROUP sales_rep_group;

CREATE COPY GROUP sales_rep_group;

5 / 20

Which command is used to create a replication group in Snowflake?

CREATE REPLICATION GROUP

CREATE BACKUP GROUP

CREATE CLONE GROUP

CREATE COPY GROUP

6 / 20

Replication groups can be removed using the DROP REPLICATION GROUP command.

False

True

7 / 20

Which of the will you use to define the primary and secondary databases in a replication group?

PRIMARY BASE primary_db SECONDARY BASE secondary_db;

PRIMARY DATABASE primary_db SECONDARY DATABASE secondary_db;

MAIN DATABASE primary_db SECOND DATABASE secondary_db;

MAIN BASE primary_db SECOND BASE secondary_db;

8 / 20

How often should data be replicated to ensure minimal data loss?

Annually

Weekly

Monthly

Continuously

9 / 20

Identify the error in the following SQL code for creating a replication group:

CREATE REPLICATION GROUP sales_group;

Incorrect group name

No error

Missing semicolon

Incorrect syntax

10 / 20

Transactional consistency ensures data consistency during replication.

True

False

11 / 20

How does Snowflake achieve data consistency during replication?

By creating indexes

Through transactional consistency

By compressing data

By using encryption

12 / 20

Which command removes a replication group in Snowflake?

DROP REPLICATION GROUP

DELETE REPLICATION GROUP

CLEAR REPLICATION GROUP

REMOVE REPLICATION GROUP

13 / 20

What is the primary objective of a Recovery Time Objective (RTO)?

To reduce storage costs

To improve query performance

To define the maximum acceptable downtime

To encrypt data

14 / 20

Failover ensures data integrity during database outages.

False

True

15 / 20

What is the primary benefit of data replication?

Reduced storage costs

Improved query performance

Enhanced data availability

Simplified data modeling

16 / 20

Failover is used to switch to a secondary database in case of primary database failure.

False

True

17 / 20

Data replication in Snowflake enhances data availability.

False

True

18 / 20

Which command shows the status of all replication groups in the current session?

LIST REPLICATION GROUPS;

DESCRIBE REPLICATION GROUPS;

VIEW REPLICATION GROUPS;

SHOW REPLICATION GROUPS;

19 / 20

The command to create a replication group is CREATE CLONE GROUP

True

False

20 / 20

What is a failover group in Snowflake?

A logical grouping of primary and secondary databases

A set of data streams

A user-defined function

An encrypted data backup

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Data availability and business continuity are critical components of any data management strategy. Snowflake data replication and failover strategies feature to help achieve these goals.

This intermediate-level quiz focuses on Snowflake’s data replication and failover strategies. Hence, this quiz covers everything from general concepts to practical applications and true/false questions.

Take this quiz to understand how to create replication groups and perform failovers. You will also gain insights into optimizing your Snowflake implementation for high availability and data resilience.

Good luck.