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SNOWPRO™ ADVANCED:ARCHITECT OVERVIEW
The SnowPro™ Advanced: Architect will validate advanced knowledge and skills to apply comprehensive
architect solutions using Snowflake.
This certification will test the ability to:
Design an end-to-end data flow from source to consumption using the Snowflake data platform.
Design and deploy a data architecture that meets business, security, and compliance requirements.
Select appropriate Snowflake and third-party tools to optimize architecture performance.
Design and deploy a shared data set using the Snowflake Data Marketplace and Data Exchange.
SNOWPRO™ ADVANCED: ARCHITECT CANDIDATE
2+ years of practical experience with Snowflake as an Architect in a production environment.
In these two years, successful candidates would have achieved hands-on expertise with SQL and SQL
analytics, experience building out a complex ETL/ELT pipeline, experience implementing security and
compliance requirements, and working with different data modeling techniques.
Having coding experience outside of SQL and DevOps/DataOps design experience is a plus.
Target Audience:
SNOWPRO ADVANCED: ARCHITECT EXAM
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Solution Architect
Database Architects
System Architect
Senior Consultants
Number of Questions: 65
Unscored Content: Exams may include
unscored items to gather statistical
information for future use. These items are
not identified on the form and do not impact
your score, and additional time is factored
into account for this content.
Question Types: Multiple Select, Multiple
Choice, True/False
Time Limit: 115 minutes
Languages: English
Registration fee: $375 USD
Passing Score: 750 + on Scaled Scoring from
0 - 1000
Delivery Options:
1. Online Proctoring - Webassesor
2. Onsite Kryterion Testing Centers
Prerequisites: SnowPro Core Certified
Click here for information on scheduling your
exam.
EXAM OUTLINE
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This exam guide includes test domains, weightings, and objectives. It is not a comprehensive listing of all
the content that will be presented on this examination. The table below lists the main content domains and
their weighting ranges.
Domain Percentage Range on Exam Questions
1.0 Accounts and Security 25 - 30%
2.0 Snowflake Architecture 20 - 25%
3.0 Data Engineering 15 - 20%
4.0 Performance Optimization 20 - 25%
EXAM TOPICS
1.0 ACCOUNT AND SECURITY
1.1 Design a Snowflake account and database strategy, based on business requirements.
Create and configure Snowflake parameters based on a central account and any additional
accounts.
List the benefits and limitations of one Snowflake account as compared to multiple Snowflake
accounts.
1.2 Design an architecture that meets data security, privacy, compliance, and governance requirements.
Configure Role Based Access Control (RBAC) hierarchy
System roles and associated best practices
Data Access
Data Security
Compliance
1.3 Outline Snowflake security principles and identify use cases where they should be applied.
Encryption
Network security
User, Role, Grants, Provisioning
Authentication
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2.0 SNOWFLAKE ARCHITECTURE
2.1 Outline the benefits and limitations of various data models in a Snowflake environment.
Data models
2.2 Design data sharing solutions, based on different use cases.
Use Cases
Sharing within the same organization/same Snowflake account
Sharing within a cloud region
Sharing across cloud regions
Sharing between different Snowflake accounts
Sharing to a non-Snowflake customer
Sharing Across platforms
Data Marketplace
Data Exchange
Data Sharing Methods
2.3 Create architecture solutions that support Development Lifecycles as well as workload requirements.
Data Lake and Environments
Workloads
Development lifecycle support
2.4 Given a scenario, outline how objects exist within the Snowflake Object hierarchy and how the
hierarchy impacts an architecture.
Roles
Warehouses
Object hierarchy
Database
2.5 Determine the appropriate data recovery solution in Snowflake and how data can be restored
Backup/Recovery
Disaster Recovery
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3.0 DATA ENGINEERING
3.1 Determine the appropriate data loading or data unloading solution to meet business needs.
Data sources
Ingestion of the data
Architecture Changes
Data unloading
3.2 Outline key tools in Snowflake’s ecosystem and how they interact with Snowflake.
Connectors
Kafka
Spark
Python
Drivers
JDBC
ODBC
API endpoints
SnowSQL
3.3 Determine the appropriate data transformation solution to meet business needs.
Materialized Views, Views and Secure Views
Staging layers and tables
Querying semi-structured data
Data processing
Stored Procedures
Streams and Tasks
Functions
External Functions
User-Defined Functions
4.0 PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION
4.1 Outline performance tools, best practices, and appropriate scenarios where they should be applied.
Query profiling
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Virtual Warehouse configuration
Clustering
Search Optimization
Caching
Query rewrite
Query Acceleration
4.2 Troubleshoot performance issues with existing architectures.
JOIN explosions
Warehouse selection (scalomg up as compared to scaling out)
Best practices and optimization techniques
Duplication of data
Monitoring and Alerting
RECOMMENDED TRAINING
We recommend individuals have at least 2 + years of hands-on Snowflake Practitioner experience in an
Architect role prior to attempting this exam. The exam will assess skills through scenario based questions
and real world examples. As preparation for this exam, we recommend a combination of hands-on
experience, instructor-led training and the utilization of self-study assets.
Instructor-Led Course recommended for this exam:
Snowflake Advanced Training
Free Self Study recommended for this exam:
SnowPro Advanced: Architect Study Guide
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