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

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

CREATE BACKUP GROUP

CREATE CLONE GROUP

CREATE REPLICATION GROUP

CREATE COPY GROUP

2 / 20

Snowflake's Auto-Failover feature automatically switches to a secondary database in case of failure.

False

True

3 / 20

Data replication in Snowflake enhances data availability.

False

True

4 / 20

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

True

False

5 / 20

Data should be replicated weekly to ensure minimal data loss.

True

False

6 / 20

Transactional consistency ensures data consistency during replication.

False

True

7 / 20

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

True

False

8 / 20

Which command lists all replication groups in a Snowflake account?

LIST REPLICATION GROUPS

VIEW REPLICATION GROUPS

DESCRIBE REPLICATION GROUPS5

SHOW REPLICATION GROUPS

9 / 20

The command to show replication groups is SHOW REPLICATION GROUPS.

False

True

10 / 20

What is the purpose of data failover?

To encrypt data

To ensure data availability in case of failure

To enhance query performance

To reduce storage costs

11 / 20

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

MAIN DATABASE primary_db SECOND DATABASE secondary_db;

PRIMARY BASE primary_db SECONDARY BASE secondary_db;

MAIN BASE primary_db SECOND BASE secondary_db;

PRIMARY DATABASE primary_db SECONDARY DATABASE secondary_db;

12 / 20

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

To improve query performance

To define the maximum acceptable downtime

To reduce storage costs

To encrypt data

13 / 20

Failover ensures data integrity during database outages.

True

False

14 / 20

Auto-Failover can be manually triggered in Snowflake.

False

True

15 / 20

Which feature automatically allows Snowflake to switch to a secondary database in case of failure?

Auto-Resume

Auto-Replication

Auto-Switch

Auto-Failover

16 / 20

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

CREATE REPLICATION GROUP sales_group;

Incorrect syntax

Missing semicolon

No error

Incorrect group name

17 / 20

A failover group is a logical grouping of primary and secondary databases.

True

False

18 / 20

What is the role of the PRIMARY and SECONDARY keywords in replication?

To back up data

To compress data

To specify the primary and secondary databases

To define data security levels

19 / 20

Which command is used to failover to a secondary database in Snowflake?

FAILOVER DATABASE

REPLICATE DATABASE

BACKUP DATABASE

SWITCH DATABASE

20 / 20

What does the term 'RPO' stand for in the context of data replication?

Replication Performance Objective

Replication Point Objective

Recovery Point Objective

Recovery Performance Objective

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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.