Snowflake Exam ARA-R01 Topic 3 Question 31 Discussion

Actual exam question for Snowflake's ARA-R01 exam

Question #: 31
Topic #: 3

An Architect needs to grant a group of ORDER_ADMIN users the ability to clean old data in an ORDERS table (deleting all records older than 5 years), without granting any privileges on the table. The group's manager (ORDER_MANAGER) has full DELETE privileges on the table.

How can the ORDER_ADMIN role be enabled to perform this data cleanup, without needing the DELETE privilege held by the ORDER_MANAGER role?

ACreate a stored procedure that runs with caller's rights, including the appropriate '> 5 years' business logic, and grant USAGE on this procedure to ORDER_ADMIN. The ORDER_MANAGER role owns the procedure.

BCreate a stored procedure that can be run using both caller's and owner's rights (allowing the user to specify which rights are used during execution), and grant USAGE on this procedure to ORDER_ADMIN. The ORDER_MANAGER role owns the procedure.

CCreate a stored procedure that runs with owner's rights, including the appropriate '> 5 years' business logic, and grant USAGE on this procedure to ORDER_ADMIN. The ORDER_MANAGER role owns the procedure.

DThis scenario would actually not be possible in Snowflake -- any user performing a DELETE on a table requires the DELETE privilege to be granted to the role they are using.

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Suggested Answer: C

This is the correct answer because it allows the ORDER_ADMIN role to perform the data cleanup without needing the DELETE privilege on the ORDERS table. A stored procedure is a feature that allows scheduling and executing SQL statements or stored procedures in Snowflake. A stored procedure can run with either the caller's rights or the owner's rights. A caller's rights stored procedure runs with the privileges of the role that called the stored procedure, while an owner's rights stored procedure runs with the privileges of the role that created the stored procedure. By creating a stored procedure that runs with owner's rights, the ORDER_MANAGER role can delegate the specific task of deleting old data to the ORDER_ADMIN role, without granting the ORDER_ADMIN role more general privileges on the ORDERS table. The stored procedure must include the appropriate business logic to delete only the records older than 5 years, and the ORDER_MANAGER role must grant the USAGE privilege on the stored procedure to the ORDER_ADMIN role.The ORDER_ADMIN role can then execute the stored procedure to perform the data cleanup12.

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by Renay at Apr 04, 2025, 01:38 AM

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I think option A is the best choice. It allows ORDER_ADMIN to clean old data without needing DELETE privilege.

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