SnowPro Associate: Platform Certification Exam Preparation

Who this course is for

• People trying to pass the new SnowPro Associate: Platform certification exam issued recently by Snowflake.

• Anyone trying to quickly get the easiest certification in Snowflake.

• Beginners trying to acquire quickly an entry-level certification in SQL and data warehouses.

• Anyone new to Snowflake AI Data Cloud, trying to learn and understand the basic concepts.

• Entry-level Data Engineers and AI or ML Engineers with no prior knowledge of Snowflake.

• Non-technical managers trying to get faster certified in Snowflake AI Data Cloud with the basic concepts.

• This course may NOT be for you, if you already know Snowflake or are experienced enough in this area.

About your Instructor

• My name is Cristian Scutaru and I’m a world-class expert in Snowflake, former SnowPro SME (Subject Matter Expert) and Snowflake Data Superhero.

• For several years, I helped Snowflake create many of the exam questions out there. Many of the exam questions and answers from the SnowPro exams have been indeed created by me.

• I passed over the years 7 SnowPro exams myself - including this one (with 95%) - all from the first attempt.

• In the last 3-4 years alone, I passed over 40 paid proctored certification exams overall. And I still never failed one, I was lucky so far.

The course also contains TWO high-quality practice test with 65 exam-like questions each

• All questions are closely emulated from those currently found in the actual SnowPro Associate: Platform certification exam.

• All questions are curated and very similar to the actual SnowPro Platform exam questions.

• Both practice exams are limited to 85 minutes, with a passing score of 75%, exactly like for the online unproctored exam.

• All exam questions are rather short and test basic knowledge.

• Detailed explanations with external references for any possible choice, in each practice test question.

• Quiz question types are all multi-choice or multi-select.

Specifics of the real SnowPro Associate: Platform certification exam

• announced on Feb 3rd, 2025

• unproctored! (i.e. no camera, just an online exam with Pearson VUE)

• entry-level and very basic, with no pre-requisites

• 65 questions

• 85 minutes time limit

• 75% passing score

• $100 US fee per attempt

• must renew after 2 years (auto-renewed by passing SnowPro Core)

  
  

What the exam will test you for

• Setup and navigate the Snowflake user interface and Snowflake Notebooks.

• Create database, stages, and use compute resources.

• Load and leverage structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.

• Understand Snowflake roles, and data access management.

• Understand and manage the Snowflake Account structure.

• Call the Snowflake Cortex LLM functions.

What the typical candidate may have

• Recommended 3+ months of knowledge with Snowflake.

• Some very basic knowledge of the SQL language and relational databases.

  
  

Exam domain breakdown (from the Study Guide)

• Interacting with Snowflake and the Architecture - 35%

• Identity and Data Access Management - 15%

• Data Loading and Virtual Warehouses - 40%

• Data Protection and Data Sharing - 10%