ARA-R01 Exam Dumps : SnowPro Advanced: Architect Recertification Exam

The most cost-effective way to increase the availability and performance of the reports during peak usage times, while keeping costs under control, is to use a multi-cluster warehouse in auto-scale mode. Option D suggests using a multi-cluster warehouse with 1 size Medium cluster and allowing it to auto-scale between 1 and 4 clusters based on demand. This setup ensures that additional computing resources are available when needed (e.g., during Monday morning peaks) and are scaled down to minimize costs when the demand decreases. This approach optimizes resource utilization and cost by adjusting the compute capacity dynamically, rather than maintaining a larger fixed size or multiple clusters continuously.References: Snowflake's official documentation on managing warehouses and using auto-scaling features.

 This is the correct answer because it allows the company to ingest data from different regions using a storage integration for the external stage. A storage integration is a feature that enables secure and easy access to files in external cloud storage from Snowflake. A storage integration can be used to create an external stage, which is a named location that references the files in the external storage. An external stage can be used to load data into Snowflake tables using the COPY INTO command, or to unload data from Snowflake tables using the COPY INTO LOCATION command. A storage integration can support multiple regions and cloud platforms, as long as the external storage service is compatible with Snowflake12.

References:

• Snowflake Documentation: Storage Integrations
• Snowflake Documentation: External Stages

 The warehouse MY_WH will only be active when there are results in the stream. This is because the task is created based on a stream, which means that the task will only be executed when there are new data in the stream. Additionally, the warehouse is set to auto_suspend - 60, which means that the warehouse will automatically suspend after 60 seconds of inactivity. Therefore, the warehouse will only be active when there are results in the stream. References:

• [CREATE TASK | Snowflake Documentation]
• [Using Streams and Tasks | Snowflake Documentation]
• [CREATE WAREHOUSE | Snowflake Documentation]