SNOWPRO ASSOCIATE:

PLATFORM (SOL-C01)
EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Last Updated: February 3, 2025

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EXAM STUDY GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EXAM PREPARATION........................................... 3

SNOWPROⓇ ASSOCIATE: PLATFORM EXAM CONTENT AND FORMAT...... 4
CERTIFICATION OVERVIEW...........................................................................4
EXAM FORMAT FOR PLATFORM CERTIFICATION.......................................4
EXAM DOMAIN AND WEIGHTINGS................................................................4
1.0 Interacting with Snowflake and the Architecture........................................5
2.0 Identity and Data Access Management........................................................6
3.0 Data Loading and Virtual Warehouses.........................................................7
4.0 Data Protection and Data Sharing................................................................ 8
SNOWPROⓇ ASSOCIATE: PLATFORM SAMPLE QUESTIONS.......................9
NEXT STEPS.......................................................................................................10
REGISTERING FOR YOUR EXAM................................................................ 10

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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EXAM PREPARATION

Effective exam preparation requires more than reading and attending a training course. It
involves using a variety of study and training assets to enhance your understanding of the exam
content.

First, let’s review some effective strategies for exam preparation:

1)​ Set a timeline: Schedule your exam and use that date as your target date. Plan
ahead and create a study plan.
2)​ Understand the exam format and content: When reviewing the exam domain
percentages, pay attention to the weightings in each domain and plan your study
time accordingly. Some domains will have more questions than others.
3)​ Study with Snowflake assets: Use the exam outline as a checklist. Identify the
objectives and topics you understand and the objectives you feel like you need
more experience with.
4)​ Take the Snowflake Platform Course.

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SNOWPROⓇ ASSOCIATE: PLATFORM EXAM CONTENT AND
FORMAT

CERTIFICATION OVERVIEW

This exam will validate that a candidate has the knowledge and skills to:

●​ Setup and navigate the Snowflake user interface and Snowflake Notebooks
●​ Create database, stages, and use compute resources
●​ Load and leverage structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
●​ Understand Snowflake roles, and data access management
●​ Understand and manage the Snowflake Account structure
●​ Call the Snowflake Cortex LLM functions

Target Audience:
●​ An individual with 3+ months of knowledge using Snowflake.

EXAM FORMAT FOR PLATFORM CERTIFICATION

Exam Version: SOL-C01

Total Number of Questions: 65
Question Types: Multiple Select, Multiple Choice, Interactive
Time Limit: 85 minutes
Languages: English
Passing Score: 750 + Scaled Scoring from 0 - 1000

EXAM DOMAIN AND WEIGHTINGS

The following table contains the domains and weightings covered on the exam. It is not a
comprehensive listing of all the content that will be presented on the exam.

Domain Domain Weightings

1.0 Interacting with Snowflake and the Architecture 35%

2.0 Identity and Data Access Management 15%

3.0 Data Loading and Virtual Warehouses 40%

4.0 Data Protection and Data Sharing 10%

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 1.0 Interacting with Snowflake and the Architecture

1.1 Outline key features and benefits of

the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. 1.4 Work with Snowflake Notebooks.
●​ Elastic storage ●​ Notebook sessions
●​ Elastic compute ●​ Run code
●​ Snowflake layers ○​ SQL
○​ Python
1.2 Outline the key Snowflake user ○​ Cell execution status
interfaces. ●​ Visualize data using Streamlit
●​ Snowsight ●​ Python variable substitution
●​ Snowflake Notebooks
●​ Worksheets 1.5 Describe Snowflake objects and how
○​ Python they fit into the Snowflake hierarchy.
○​ SQL ●​ Databases
●​ Schemas
1.3 Describe how to use the Snowsight ●​ Tables
user interface. ●​ Views
●​ Data types
●​ Data loading
●​ Query history
●​ Object browsers
○​ Create objects (for example:
databases, schemas, stages)

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 2.0 Identity and Data Access Management

2.1 Define the roles that are used in 2.2 Create a database, explore data,
Snowflake. configure parameters, and transfer
ownership.
●​ Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
●​ Use database objects
○​ Explain role hierarchy
○​ Use the
●​ Role types INFORMATION_SCHEMA
●​ Privileges ○​ Use the PUBLIC SCHEMA
●​ Object access by role ●​ Understand context
●​ Transfer ownership
●​ Create and drop schemas
●​ Run basic SQL commands
○​ EXCLUDE
○​ SELECT *
○​ LIMIT

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 3.0 Data Loading and Virtual Warehouses

3.1 Describe considerations when working 3.3 Create tables in Snowflake and load
with structured and semi-structured data. data into the tables.
●​ Stages ●​ Use Snowsight to identify particular
●​ Loading data tables
○​ Structured data ●​ View the table definition
○​ Semi-structured data ●​ Preview the table data
●​ Querying data ●​ Use INSERT statements to load data
○​ Structured data ●​ Use Snowsight to load data
○​ Semi-structured data ●​ Use COPY INTO <table>
●​ Commands statements
○​ COPY INTO ○​ File format options
○​ INSERT
○​ LIST 3.4 Explain how to work with
unstructured data.
3.2 Explain virtual warehouses. ●​ Directory tables
●​ Standard warehouses compared to ○​ Enable
multi-clustered warehouses ○​ Use of SELECT statements
●​ Warehouse sizing ●​ Use of Pre-signed URLs
●​ Warehouse scaling ○​ Function argument
○​ Scaling in or out
○​ Scaling up or down
3.5 Explain how to use Snowflake Cortex
LLM functions.
●​ PARSE_DOCUMENT function
●​ TRANSLATE function
●​ CLASSIFY_TEXT function
●​ COMPLETE function

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 4.0 Data Protection and Data Sharing

4.1 Outline continuous data protection

with Snowflake. 4.2 Define Snowflake data sharing
●​ Time Travel capabilities.
●​ Cloning ●​ Snowflake Marketplace
○​ Search listings
●​ Data Exchange
○​ Use a private data share

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SNOWPROⓇ ASSOCIATE: PLATFORM SAMPLE QUESTIONS

1.​ What MOST accurately describes Snowflake?

A.​ A data warehouse software

B.​ An ETL tool
C.​ An AI data cloud platform*
D.​ A transactional database

2.​ Which task is performed in the Cloud Services layer in the Snowflake architecture?

A.​ Optimizing SQL queries*

B.​ Scaling warehouses up and down
C.​ Managing user roles
D.​ Optimizing network traffic

3.​ What is the purpose of using the SHOW GRANTS ON SQL command for a specific object?

A.​ To list all users in the account

B.​ To list all roles in the account
C.​ To list all privileges granted on the object*
D.​ To list all databases that have access to the object

4.​ What will occur if a virtual warehouse size is increased from Small to Medium?

A.​ Query scheduling will be optimized.

B.​ Additional user roles will be available in the warehouse.
C.​ Additional micro-partitions will be created in the warehouse.
D.​ The compute capacity will be doubled.*

5.​ What is the PRIMARY purpose for using the PARSE_DOCUMENT function when using a Cortex
LLM?

A.​ To analyze the sentiment of the content in a document

B.​ To extract content from a document*
C.​ To summarize the key points in a document into concise text
D.​ To translate the content of a document from one language to another

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NEXT STEPS

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