diff --git a/lib/internal/v8/startup_snapshot.js b/lib/internal/v8/startup_snapshot.js
index 3f51ae5d0f0535..5d88748b1c4719 100644
--- a/lib/internal/v8/startup_snapshot.js
+++ b/lib/internal/v8/startup_snapshot.js
@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ function setDeserializeMainFunction(callback, data) {
 
     // This should be in sync with run_main_module.js until we make that
     // a built-in main function.
-    prepareMainThreadExecution(true);
+    // TODO(joyeecheung): make a copy of argv[0] and insert it as argv[1].
+    prepareMainThreadExecution(false);
     markBootstrapComplete();
     callback(data);
   });
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-snapshot-argv1.js b/test/parallel/test-snapshot-argv1.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..08ec7d905fd98e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-snapshot-argv1.js
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+'use strict';
+
+// This tests snapshot JS API using the example in the docs.
+
+require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const { spawnSync } = require('child_process');
+const tmpdir = require('../common/tmpdir');
+const path = require('path');
+const fs = require('fs');
+
+tmpdir.refresh();
+const blobPath = path.join(tmpdir.path, 'snapshot.blob');
+const code = `
+require('v8').startupSnapshot.setDeserializeMainFunction(() => {
+  console.log(JSON.stringify(process.argv));
+});
+`;
+{
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(tmpdir.path, 'entry.js'), code, 'utf8');
+  const child = spawnSync(process.execPath, [
+    '--snapshot-blob',
+    blobPath,
+    '--build-snapshot',
+    'entry.js',
+  ], {
+    cwd: tmpdir.path
+  });
+  if (child.status !== 0) {
+    console.log(child.stderr.toString());
+    console.log(child.stdout.toString());
+    assert.strictEqual(child.status, 0);
+  }
+  const stats = fs.statSync(path.join(tmpdir.path, 'snapshot.blob'));
+  assert(stats.isFile());
+}
+
+{
+  const child = spawnSync(process.execPath, [
+    '--snapshot-blob',
+    blobPath,
+    'argv1',
+    'argv2',
+  ], {
+    cwd: tmpdir.path,
+    env: {
+      ...process.env,
+    }
+  });
+
+  const stdout = JSON.parse(child.stdout.toString().trim());
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(stdout, [
+    process.execPath,
+    'argv1',
+    'argv2',
+  ]);
+  assert.strictEqual(child.status, 0);
+}