Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification
The SnowPro Core Certification validates a broad working knowledge of Snowflake: the multi-cluster shared-data architecture and editions, account access and security (roles, RBAC, network policies, encryption), performance and virtual warehouses, data loading and unloading, transformations and semi-structured data, and data protection and secure data sharing.
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Start SnowPro Core examSkills measured
Snowflake AI Data Cloud Features and Architecture
24%The three layers (storage, compute, cloud services), editions, micro-partitions and clustering, caches, and connectors and Snowsight.
Account Access and Security
18%Role hierarchy and RBAC, system-defined roles, network policies, MFA and SSO, and encryption and key rotation.
Performance Concepts
12%Virtual warehouse sizing and scaling policies, multi-cluster warehouses, query profile, and search optimization and materialized views.
Data Loading and Unloading
10%Stages, file formats, COPY INTO, Snowpipe, and bulk vs continuous loading.
Data Transformations
20%Querying semi-structured data (VARIANT, FLATTEN), estimation and sampling functions, streams and tasks, and UDFs and stored procedures.
Data Protection and Data Sharing
16%Time Travel and Fail-safe, zero-copy cloning, secure views, Secure Data Sharing, reader accounts, and the Marketplace.