Taking Snowflake’s SnowPro Core Certification (COF-C02)? Here is what you need to know

If you are the one looking to engage yourself in the world of cloud-based data warehousing or you are dealing with massive data on daily basis, then Snowflake might be the right choice for you.

Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing and analytics platform which provides highly scalable and secure solution for storing, managing, and analyzing structured and semi-structured data in real-time. Snowflake technology is a full package of Cloud Native, Data Platform and SaaS Offerings.

To kick off your career in snowflake, all you need to have is Snowflake’s SnowPro Core Certification.

Key Points:

• What is Snowpro Core Certification?
• Exam Layout & Content
• Guide to prepare for Certification
• Snowflake — Free Hands-on
• Practice Question Sets
• Final Examination Tips

What is SnowPro Core Certification?

The SnowPro Core Certification was released in late 2019 and was latest updated on September 6, 2022 . The certification requires basic knowledge and best practices of:

• Data Loading and Transformation in Snowflake
• Virtual Warehouse Performance and Concurrency,
• DDL and DML Queries
• Using Semi-Structured and Unstructured Data
• Cloning and Time Travel
• Data Sharing, and Snowflake Account Structure and Management

It is also one of the prerequisite for all the advanced certification exams.

Exam Layout & Content

The Snowpro Core certification is a 2 hours test consist of total 100 questions. You need to score 750 ( correctly attempt 75 questions) to pass the examination.

The exam syllabus comprises of following domains with estimated percentage distribution in each topics:

Guide to prepare for Certification

Snowflake Official Documentation & SnowPro Core Certification Exam Study Guide are the best sources which highlights concepts that may be covered on Snowflake’s SnowPro? Core Certification exam.

If you are looking for any paid course , I would recommend to go with Tom Bailey’s Ultimate SnowPro Core Certification Course & Exam — 2023 course on Udemy. The course consists of all the latest topics in detailed and structured manner as per the new COF-C02.

It’s a 7 hours on-demand video course along with a Snow Pro exam Mock test (learning with practice). Checkout the course content by Clicking here.

The course key topics are:

1. Snowflake Features & Architecture
2. Account Access & Security
3. Performance Concepts: Virtual Warehouses
4. Query Optimization
5. Data Loading and Unloading
6. Data Transformations
7. Storage, Data Protection & Data Sharing
8. Mock SnowPro Core Exam — A set of 100 questions

Snowflake Free Hands-on Material

Hands on is not mandatory to appear for the exam but instead it will give you a next level of clarity on understanding the concept over theoretical knowledge. Hands-on learning are proof of your progress. Snowflake levarage you with two platforms:

1. Free Trial Account: With Snowflake you can open a Enterprise level trial account which gives you a free credits of $400 for 30 days , wherein you can practice concepts with preparing for Snowpro Core Certification. Isn’t it amazing? We have study material & hands -on platform available for free. :) Thanks to Snowflake!!

To open your free trial account Click here

2. Snowflake Learning Journey path: where they have curated a path which will help you to achieve skill building badges along with SnowPro Core Certification Preparation. Snowflake has everything which you need to achieve your learning goals ;)

PS: Achieving badges along with learning is more fun as you can showcase your skill badges on Social Media. To earn your snowflake Skill badge click here

Practice Question Sets

I have used some of the free online resources to practice the questions for SnowPro Certification exam and some of them ended up being in the actual exam.

Online Websites:

• Exam Topics
• BrainDumps

Quizlet:

• https://quizlet.com/380510774/snowflake-certification-flash-cards/
• https://quizlet.com/481152359/snowflake-snowpro-certification-study-guide-flash-cards/
• https://quizlet.com/380510774/test

These questions covers most of the Certification topics & there is high priority of appearing similar questions in the actual examination.

Final Examination Tips

• The exam is pretty straight forward, just to check your snowflake theoretical knowledge. Unlike other certification exam this did not have any scenario-based questions.
• Most of the question’s answers are covered in Snowflake’s Official documentation.
• Follow the approach of eliminating incorrect answers first.

To get ready for SnowPro certification all you need have is my Snowflake blog ;) To schedule your examination Click here

Original Content Published at :- https://medium.com/@riyukhandelwal/all-you-need-to-know-about-snowflakes-snowpro-core-certification-cof-c02-e994eb78f8f0