Snowflake Certification Guidance Program
Reference Links:
Snowflake University
https://www.snowflakeuniversity.mindtickle.com
I would advise doing all the questions from the Level Up series (skim through some
of the videos if you wish) and the actual Sample Exam (30 questions). Some of the
questions are on the real exam.
Snowflake Documentation
https://docs.snowflake.com/en/
This is the complete reference guide and I recommend to go thru the topics in depth
as listed in this document.
Quizlet
https://quizlet.com/380510774/snowflake-certification-flash-cards
This one took the longest to complete since there are over 200 questions with many
questions similar to the actual exam. Just be careful as there are some answers
which are a little outdated.
Udemy
Course Name: Tackling Snowflake Certification - Practice Questions
This will have 5 practice tests which help to get to know different type of questions
and based on the evaluation, you can focus more on the areas where we need
improvement and go for the same test again (there is no restriction on no. of
attempts).
Snowflake Community
https://community.snowflake.com/
Register to snowflake community for any technical support as we find most of the
answers from Snowflake Support team.
Snowflake Partner Network
https://spn.snowflake.com/s/welcome
Register to SPN so that you will have access to the latest webinars, videos and
Snowflake’s new capability information.
Exam Overview:
This exam covers Snowflake architectural principles and best practices and core aspects of
Snowflake solutions including:
Data Loading/Unloading and transform Data in Snowflake
Scaling Virtual Warehouses for Performance and Concurrency
Utilize Data Sharing
Query Constructs and DDL & DML Operations
Managing and Monitoring Snowflake Accounts, Security
Working with Semi-Structured Data
Snowflake's method for Continuous Data Protection
Pattern:
Number of Questions: 100
Question Types: Multiple Select, Multiple Choice, True/False
Time Limit: 120 minutes
Passing Score: 80% +
Focus Areas:
Snowflake Editions - Standard, Enterprise, Business Critical (Enterprise for Sensitive
Data), VPS (Virtual Private Snowflake)
Snowflake Architecture - Cloud Services, Query Processing, Storage
Snowflake WebUI, SnowSQL
Virtual Warehouses
Micro-partitions, Clustering, Pruning
Multi-Cluster
Scale Up – Manual - Resize
Scale Out – Automatic - Add Clusters
Scaling Policy – Standard, Economy
Caches – Results, Local Disk, Remote
Query Profile
Account Management/Security Management
Authentication - MFA/SSO
RBAC Model - System Roles, Custom Roles, Grants, Permissions
Types of Tables - Temporary, Transient, Permanent
Data Loading/Un-loading
Stages, Streams & Tasks
Snowpipe
Snowflake Stages - Internal/External
File Formats
Stored Procedures
Semi-Structured Data - JSON, AVRO, ORC, Parquet & XML
JSON - Lateral Flatten
User Defined Functions
Zero Copy Cloning - Offset, At or Before Timestamp, Statement
Time Travel Retention Period
Fail Safe
Data Sharing
Data Replication Across Account
