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 Snowflake Connector for Kafka and Snowpipe are two ingestion methods that can be used to load near real-time data by using the messaging services provided by a cloud provider. Snowflake Connector for Kafka enables you to stream structured and semi-structured data from Apache Kafka topics into Snowflake tables. Snowpipe enables you to load data from files that are continuously added to a cloud storage location, such as Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage. Both methods leverage Snowflake’s micro-partitioning and columnar storage to optimize data ingestion and query performance. Snowflake streams and Spark are not ingestion methods, but rather components of the Snowflake architecture. Snowflake streams provide change data capture (CDC) functionality by tracking data changes in a table. Spark is a distributed computing framework that can be used to process large-scale data and write it to Snowflake using the Snowflake Spark Connector. References:

Snowflake Connector for Kafka

Snowpipe

Snowflake Streams

Snowflake Spark Connector

This question evaluates deep understanding of Snowflake RBAC, managed access schemas, and privilege inheritance, all of which are core SnowPro Architect topics. The schema DEV_TEST_DB.SCHTEST is created WITH MANAGED ACCESS, meaning that only the schema owner (or a higher role in the hierarchy) can grant object privileges such as SELECT on tables within the schema.

The table CURRENCY is created by the role DEV_PROJ_OWN, making it the table owner. As the owner, DEV_PROJ_OWN implicitly has full privileges on the table, including SELECT. Therefore, option B succeeds because the role selecting the data owns the table.

In option A, DEV_PROJ_OWN explicitly grants SELECT on the table to ANALYST_PROJ. Since this grant is performed by the schema/table owner and the role ANALYST_PROJ already has USAGE on both the database and schema, the subsequent SELECT succeeds. This makes A valid.

Option C fails because SYSADMIN does not inherit privileges from DEV_SYSADMIN or DEV_PROJ_OWN; Snowflake role inheritance is directional and not lateral. Option D fails for the same reason—MAPPING_ROLE has no privileges on the database or schema. Option E fails because ACCOUNTADMIN does not automatically bypass RBAC; without explicit USAGE and SELECT, access is denied.

In Snowflake's parameter hierarchy, virtual warehouse parameters take precedence over user parameters. This hierarchy is designed to ensure that settings at the virtual warehouse level, which typically reflect the requirements of a specific workload or set of queries, override the preferences set at the individual user level. This helps maintain consistent performance and resource utilization as specified by the administrators managing the virtual warehouses.