ADA-C01 Question 488
Single answerAccess the public and internal MarketplaceA Snowflake administrator at a global company is asked to make curated internal datasets available to analysts across multiple business units, while also allowing approved teams to discover third-party data products. The company wants employees to use a single discovery experience, but must ensure that internal listings are only visible to accounts that the provider explicitly allows. Which approach should the administrator take to meet these requirements?
- A
Create shares for internal consumers and instruct users to access third-party data only through direct provider shares, because Snowsight Marketplace cannot present internal and public listings together.
- B
Use the Marketplace in Snowsight: publish the company's datasets as private/internal listings and grant access to specific consumer accounts or organizations, while allowing eligible users to browse public Marketplace listings in the same interface.
- C
Replicate internal datasets into each consumer account and publish them as public listings, because internal listings are only supported for data providers with paid listings.
- D
Enable data exchange for third-party providers and convert all internal datasets into exchange-only listings, because the Marketplace supports only public listings and exchanges, not private internal listings.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The best solution is to use Snowflake Marketplace in Snowsight for both use cases: public Marketplace access for approved users who need to discover third-party data products, and private/internal listings for the company's curated internal datasets. Private listings allow a provider to control which accounts or organizations can discover and access a listing, aligning with the requirement that internal content only be visible to explicitly allowed consumers. This is preferable to ad hoc direct sharing when the business wants a discoverable, catalog-like experience. Snowflake documentation distinguishes public listings from private listings and describes Marketplace access through Snowsight as the central interface for discovering and managing listings. A common misconception is that internal collaboration requires either public publication, replication into each account, or exclusive use of data exchanges; in practice, private listings are designed specifically for controlled internal or partner distribution through the Marketplace experience.
- A. Incorrect.
Incorrect. This suggests that internal and public discovery cannot happen in one experience, which is false. In Snowsight, users can access Marketplace listings, and providers can also create private/internal listings for selected consumers. Direct shares are one distribution method, but they do not satisfy the requirement for a single discovery experience across internal and third-party offerings.
- B. Correct.
Correct. Snowflake Marketplace in Snowsight supports access to public listings and also supports private/internal listings that providers can target to specific accounts or organizations. This meets both requirements: a unified discovery interface and controlled visibility so only explicitly authorized internal consumers can see and access internal listings.
- C. Incorrect.
Incorrect. Replicating datasets into every consumer account is unnecessary and operationally inefficient. Also, publishing internal data as public listings would violate the requirement that visibility be restricted to explicitly authorized consumers. Internal/private listings are designed for this use case without making the data broadly visible.
- D. Incorrect.
Incorrect. This confuses older collaboration patterns with current Marketplace capabilities. Data exchanges are a separate collaboration mechanism, but Marketplace is not limited to public listings only. Snowflake supports private listings for controlled sharing scenarios, so converting everything into exchange-only listings is not required to meet the stated requirements.