Snowflake: SnowPro core certification in 100 Hrs
I am having 15+ years IT experience majorly into database and Data warehousing technologies working as Cloud Solution Architect.
With increasing demand of Snowflake and multiple RFPs to worked on snowflake, I decided to appear for snopro certification.
Below are details of study approach:
Snowflake exam guide
Udemy courses
Snowflake documentation and level up series
Hands-on trial account along with courses
Prep Tests
Final Notes
- All details for snopro core exam will be available here:
2. udemy course links
https://www.udemy.com/course/snowflake-masterclass/
https://www.udemy.com/course/snowflake-essentials/
https://udemy.com/course/snowflake-zero-to-hero-masterclass/
Please make sure you create trial accounts (free for 30 days)while doing these courses to try maximum labs and hands-on.
3. Snowflake documentation is most important and critical one. (You might see many answers in practice tests are wrong so need to get confirmed from snowflake documentation).
Learn.snowflake.com has many LEVEL UP series courses.
eg.
Also earn Below badges
4. You can create trial account and try all important features e.g.
sharing
cloning
warehouse creation
resource monitors
Tasks
Streams
Pipes
snowSql
snowCD
UDF
Stored procedures
loading and unloading using put,get,copy
5. prep tests links :
https://www.udemy.com/course/snowflake-snowpro-core-certification-practice-exams/
https://www.udemy.com/course/snowflake-snowpro-core-certification-exam-practice-sets/
https://www.udemy.com/course/snowflake-certification-preparation/
https://www.udemy.com/course/snowpro-core-certification-mock-tests/
whizlabs.com Snowflake 2 practice tests
While going through courses and prep tests, create notes with all important points and revise time to time before giving new practice tests.
some quick recap to questions appeared in exam today:
i.Snowflake Editions for different features
ii.Loading and unloading file types and methods (get/put/copy)
iii.Snowflake layers and its features
iv. Caching types and its functions
v. cloning features
vi. Snowflake ecosystem tools like datarobot,alation,dbt
vii.information schema and account usage
100 hours you can divide into major components
udemy courses : 20–25 hrs
6 prep tests : 20–25 hrs
level up and snowflake documentation : 18–20 Hrs
Snowflake notes creation:4–5 hrs
Trial account and hands on : 20 hrs
Revision : 4–5 Hrs
other readings on internet/Medium article's/cheat sheet : 4–5 hrs
cheat sheet (take printout for quick reference) : https://servian.dev/snowflakes-snowpro-certification-exam-preparation-guide-how-to-pass-in-3-days-5e5baa484c68
Video series by snowflake data hero by Jyoce :