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SnowPro® Core Certification (COF-C03)

2 Courses
2 Hours
Practice exam

Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform that enables organizations to store, query, and share data across multiple cloud providers using a unique multi-cluster, shared-data architecture that separates storage, compute, and cloud services. The **SnowPro® Core Certification** validates practical, hands-on experience with the Snowflake AI Data Cloud across data engineering, analytics, administration, and governance use cases.

This path covers Snowflake's AI Data Cloud architecture and features, account management and data governance, data loading and connectivity, performance optimization and transformation, and data collaboration. This path is based on COF-C03, the current version of the SnowPro Core exam, which launched on February 16, 2026.

This learning path is actively in production. More content will be added to this page as it gets published and becomes available in the library. Planned content includes:

- SnowPro® Core Certification (COF-C03): Snowflake AI Data Cloud Features and Architecture (video course) - SnowPro® Core Certification (COF-C03): Account Management and Data Governance (video course) - SnowPro® Core Certification (COF-C03): Data Loading, Unloading, and Connectivity (video course) - SnowPro® Core Certification (COF-C03): Performance Optimization, Querying, and Transformation (video course) - SnowPro® Core Certification (COF-C03): Data Collaboration (video course)

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What You'll Learn
  • How to use the Snowflake AI Data Cloud architecture, including its multi-cluster, shared-data model and key platform features
  • How to manage Snowflake accounts, virtual warehouses, and implement data governance controls
  • How to load, unload, and transform data in Snowflake and establish connectivity with external tools and services
  • How to monitor, optimize, and tune query performance and execute data transformations using Snowflake's built-in capabilities
  • How to enable data collaboration, sharing, and protection across the Snowflake Data Cloud
Prerequisites
  • Learners should have at least six months of hands-on experience working with the Snowflake platform before attempting the exam. Familiarity with SQL, cloud data concepts, and general database administration practices is strongly recommended. There are no formal certification prerequisites. tTe SnowPro Core is designed for data engineers, database administrators, BI developers, and data analysts who work directly with Snowflake in their day-to-day roles.
Related topics
  • Data Engineering
  • SQL
  • Data Warehousing
  • ELT
  • Snowflake
  • Cloud Data Platform
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