Snowflake SnowPro Advanced: Data Scientist Certification Sample Questions:

1. You are training a Gradient Boosting model within Snowflake using Snowpark Python to predict customer churn. You are using the Hyperopt library for hyperparameter tuning. You want to use the function to find the best hyperparameters. You have defined your objective function, , and the search space, Which of the following is the MOST efficient and correct way to call the function within a Snowpark Python UDF to ensure the Hyperopt trials data is effectively managed and accessible for further analysis within Snowflake?

A) Option C
B) Option B
C) Option D
D) Option A
E) Option E

2. You have a Snowpark DataFrame named 'product_reviews' containing customer reviews for different products. The DataFrame includes columns like 'product_id' , 'review_text' , and 'rating'. You want to perform sentiment analysis on the 'review_text' to identify the overall sentiment towards each product. You decide to use Snowpark for Python to create a user-defined function (UDF) that utilizes a pre-trained sentiment analysis model hosted externally. You need to ensure secure access to this model and efficient execution. Which of the following represents the BEST approach, considering security and performance?

A) Create a Snowpark Pandas UDF that calls the external sentiment analysis API. Use Snowflake secrets management to store the API key and retrieve it within the UDF.
B) Create an external function in Snowflake that calls a serverless function (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Function) that performs the sentiment analysis. Use Snowflake's network policies to restrict access to the serverless function and secrets management to handle API keys.
C) Create an external function in Snowflake that calls a serverless function. Configure the API gateway in front of the serverless function to enforce authentication via Mutual TLS (mTLS) using Snowflake-managed certificates.
D) Create a Java UDF that utilizes a library to call the sentiment analysis API. Pass the API key as a parameter to the UDF each time it is called.
E) Create an inline Python UDF that directly calls the external sentiment analysis API with hardcoded API keys within the UDF code.

3. You are tasked with preparing customer data for a churn prediction model in Snowflake. You have two tables: 'customers' (customer_id, name, signup_date, plan_id) and 'usage' (customer_id, usage_date, data_used_gb). You need to create a Snowpark DataFrame that calculates the total data usage for each customer in the last 30 days and joins it with customer information. However, the 'usage' table contains potentially erroneous entries with negative values, which should be treated as zero. Also, some customers might not have any usage data in the last 30 days, and these customers should be included in the final result with a total data usage of 0. Which of the following Snowpark Python code snippets will correctly achieve this?

A)

B)

C)

D)

E) None of the above

4. You have a table 'PRODUCT SALES in Snowflake with columns: 'PRODUCT (INT), 'SALE_DATE (DATE), 'SALES_AMOUNT (FLOAT), and 'PROMOTION FLAG' (BOOLEAN). You need to perform the following data preparation steps using Snowpark SQLAPI:

A) Creating a new feature representing the percentage change in 'SALES_AMOUNT compared to the previous day for the same 'PRODUCT_ID. Handle the first day of each 'PRODUCT by setting 'SALES_GROWTH' to O.
B) Converting 'SALE_DATE to a quarterly representation (e.g., '2023-QI').
C) Creating a feature that returns 1 if there is a PROMOTION_FLAG of True and SALES_AMOUNT > 1000, and zero otherwise
D) All of the above.
E) Handling missing 'SALES_AMOUNT values by imputing them with the average 'SALES_AMOUNT' for the same 'PRODUCT_ID during the previous month. If there's no data for the previous month, use the overall average for that

5. You have a table in Snowflake named 'CUSTOMER DATA' with columns 'CUSTOMER D', 'PURCHASE AMOUNT', and 'RECENCY'. You want to perform feature scaling on 'PURCHASE AMOUNT' using Min-Max scaling and store the scaled values in a new column named 'SCALED PURCHASE _ AMOUNT'. Which of the following Snowflake SQL code snippets correctly implements this feature scaling? Note: Assume there are no NULL values in PURCHASE AMOUNT and you have privileges to create temporary tables and UDFs if necessary.

A) Option C
B) Option B
C) Option D
D) Option A
E) Option E

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