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A resource monitor named MONTHLY_FINANCE_LIMIT has been created and applied to two virtual warehouses (fin_wh1 and fin_wh2) using the following SQL:

Given that the combined total of credits consumed by fin_wh1 and fin_wh2 (including cloud services) has reached 800 credits and both warehouses are suspended, what should the ACCOUNTADMIN execute to allow both warehouses to be resumed? (Select TWO).
Scenario:
Resource Monitor MONTHLY_FINANCE_LIMIT has a credit quota of 1000.
800 credits have been used and warehouses are already suspended.
According to monitor configuration:
At 80%, warehouses are suspended.
At 100%, warehouses would be suspended immediately.
Warehouses cannot resume until the monitor is reset or the quota is increased.
E. SET CREDIT_QUOTA = 1500
Increases the monthly credit limit to 1500.
Since current usage is 800 < 1500, this puts usage below 80%.
This allows resumption of warehouses.
F. RESET
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ALTER RESOURCE MONITOR MONTHLY_FINANCE_LIMIT RESET;
Resets usage to zero for the current period.
Allows warehouses to resume immediately --- same effect as a fresh cycle.
Why Other Options Are Incorrect:
A . / B. ALTER WAREHOUSE ... RESUME
Won't work while the resource monitor is actively suspending the warehouses due to limits.
C . / D. UNSET RESOURCE_MONITOR
You can't remove a resource monitor from a warehouse while it is currently suspended by that same monitor.
You must first reset or adjust the monitor.
G . UNSET RESOURCE_MONITORS
Invalid syntax --- there's no RESOURCE_MONITORS plural keyword.
SnowPro Administrator Reference:
Resource Monitors Overview
ALTER RESOURCE MONITOR
Best Practices for Controlling Warehouse Credit Usage
An Administrator has a user who needs to be able to suspend and resume a task based on the current virtual warehouse load, but this user should not be able to modify the task or start a new run.
What privileges should be granted to the user to meet these requirements? (Select TWO).
If the query matches the definition, will Snowflake always dynamically rewrite the query to use a materialized view?
Snowflake's query optimizer can automatically rewrite queries against the base table or regular views to use the materialized view instead, if the query matches the definition of the materialized view1. However, this is not always guaranteed, as the optimizer might decide against using the materialized view based on various factors, such as the freshness of the data, the size of the result set, the complexity of the query, and the availability of the materialized view2. Therefore, the answer is no, because the optimizer might decide against it.
The ACCOUNTADMIN of Account 123 works with Snowflake Support to set up a Data Exchange. After the exchange is populated with listings from other Snowflake accounts,
what roles in Account 123 are allowed to request and get data?
A large international company with many operating regions requires data to be shared bi-directionally among all offices (head office to regional offices and regional offices among themselves). This company is a Snowflake account holder with European operations deployed in Microsoft Azure (single region) while North American regional offices are using AWS (single region) as their deployment cloud. This setup is required to comply with Personal Identifiable Information (PII) regulations in some of the European countries. The corporate head office is in Europe.
How can this data be shared bi-directionally, while MINIMIZING costs?
According to the Snowflake documentation1, data sharing is a feature that allows sharing selected objects in a database in one account with other accounts in the same organization, without copying or transferring any data. Data sharing is supported across regions and across cloud platforms, but it requires enabling account database replication for both the source and target accounts2. Data replication is a feature that allows replicating objects from a source account to one or more target accounts in the same organization, providing read-only access for the replicated objects. Data replication is also supported across regions and across cloud platforms, but it incurs additional storage costs for the replicated data2. Therefore, the best way to share data bi-directionally among all offices, while minimizing costs, is to use data sharing among offices in the same region, which does not require replication or additional storage, and use replication among offices across the continents, which provides near real-time access to the shared data. Option A is incorrect because using data replication everywhere would increase the costs associated with additional storage and compute resources for the replicated data. Option B is incorrect because using the PUT command to move files to an Amazon S3 bucket and Azure Blobs, and using an external file management application to move files within the corporate VPC, would not leverage the benefits of Snowflake's data sharing and replication features, and would also incur additional costs and complexity for data transfer and synchronization. Option C is incorrect because moving all the Snowflake accounts to a single region would violate the PII regulations in some of the European countries, and would also incur additional costs and complexity for data migration and consolidation.
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