Snowflake SnowPro Advanced - Administrator Certification Exam Syllabus

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Snowflake ADA-C01 Exam Summary:

Exam Name
Snowflake SnowPro Advanced - Administrator
Exam Code ADA-C01
Exam Price $375 USD
Duration 115 minutes
Number of Questions 65
Passing Score 750 + Scaled Scoring from 0 - 1000
Recommended Training / Books Administering Snowflake Training
SnowPro Advanced: Administrator Exam Study Guide
SnowPro Practice Exam: Administrator
Schedule Exam PEARSON VUE
Sample Questions Snowflake ADA-C01 Sample Questions
Recommended Practice Snowflake Certified SnowPro Advanced - Administrator Practice Test

Snowflake SnowPro Advanced - Administrator Syllabus:

Section Objectives

Snowflake Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and User Administration : 30-35%

Set up and manage Snowflake authentication. - Establish federated authentication and Single Sign-on (SSO)
  • Implement federated authentication/SSO as it relates to Snowflake
  • Configure an Identity Provider (IdP) for Snowflake
  • Configure, use, and manage federated authentication with Snowflake

- Implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

  • Enroll a Snowflake user in MFA
  • Use MFA with different Snowflake drivers and connectors (such as, Web UI, SnowSQL, JDBC, ODBC, etc.)
  • Monitor users who do not have MFA enabled
  • ​Reset passwords and temporarily disable or permanently remove MFA from a user
- Utilize key pair authentication and perform key pair rotation
  • Create, set up, and configure a Snowflake user for key pair authentication
  • Configure key pair rotation

- Configure and use OAuth protocol options

  • Use OAuth 2.0 in Snowflake
  • Compare Snowflake OAuth to External OAuth
  • Configure Snowflake OAuth for custom clients
  • Configure OAuth for technology providers (such as, Tableau, Looker, Microsoft Power BI, OKTA, Azure AD, etc.)
  • Outline how Snowflake OAuth is impacted by federated authentication, network policies and private connectivity
- Manage passwords and password policies
Set up and manage network and private connectivity. - Establish network policies
  • Configure and manage network policies
  • Describe network policy behavior when both account-level and user-level network policies exist

- Establish private connectivity to Snowflake internal stages

  • Implement and manage cloud provider interfaces and private endpoints for internal stages

- Establish private connectivity to the Snowflake service

  • Implement and manage private connectivity between cloud providers and Snowflake

- Access the Snowflake SQL API
- Use IP address allowed lists and blocked lists for access using network access policies

Set up and manage security administration and authorization. - Use and monitor SCIM
  • Describe SCIM and its use cases as they relate to Snowflake
  • Manage users and groups with SCIM
  • Enable, configure, and manage SCIM integration

- Prevent data exfiltration with PREVENT_UNLOAD_TO_INLINE_URL and REQUIRE_STORAGE_INTEGRATION _FOR_STAGE_CREATION
- Manage service accounts, API integration, and automated authentication (for example, key pair authentication)

Given a set of business requirements, establish access control architecture. - Describe access control framework
  • Discretionary Access Control (DAC)
  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

- Describe the uses for, and hierarchy of, system-defined roles
- Use cases for custom security roles
- Demonstrate key concepts of access control
- Describe the implications of role inheritance when granting or revoking privileges
- Describe the enforcement model
- Demonstrate how to grant access to specific objects within a database that requires privilege inheritance

Given a scenario, create and manage access control. - List and use different privileges available for each object type in Snowflake
- Custom security roles and users (for example, include related SHOW commands)
- Audit user activity history and query activity history across a Snowflake account
Given a scenario, configure access controls. - Use system-defined roles
- Create custom roles
- Use secondary roles
- Implement inheritance and nesting of system-defined roles
- Follow best practices for using and securing the ACCOUNTADMIN role
- Align usage of object access with business functions
- Describe cloned objects and their impact on granted privileges
- Designate additional Administrators in Snowflake
- View granted privileges TO users and roles, and ON objects
- Implement and manage future grants including restrictions and limitations
- Evaluate the various scenarios using warehouse grants (for example, USAGE, OPERATE, MODIFY, MONITOR)
- Implement and manage managed access schemas
- Provide access to a non-account Administrator to monitor billing and usage information
- Manage account-level permissions

Account Management and Data Governance : 20-25%

Manage organizations and accounts. - Describe the benefits of an organization
- Describe organizational tasks
  • Create and name an organization
  • Name various types of organization accounts
  • Identify what regions are available for a given organization

- Understand account tasks

  • View, create, and list accounts
  • Change account names
  • Enable replication for accounts

- Manage Tri-Secret Secure
- Manage encryption keys in Snowflake

  • Describe how Snowflake encrypts customer data
  • Describe encryption key rotation and periodic rekeying configuration
Manage organizations and access control. - Follow best practices when using the ORGADMIN role
- Compare the differences between ORGADMIN and ACCOUNTADMIN roles
Implement and manage data governance in Snowflake. - Mask column data in Snowflake
  • Implement and manage column-level security using masking policies
  • Use external tokenization to protect Personal Identifiable Information (PII)
    1. Describe the differences between data masking and external tokenization

- Implement and manage row access policies

  • Configure a row access policy on an object
  • Compare row access policies to secure views

- Perform auditing of access history

  • Audit access history details using the access history views

- Use tagging and classification in Snowflake

  • Identify use cases where tagging would be beneficial
  • Implement and manage tagging
  • Implement tag-based masking policies
  • Implement data classification (EXTRACT_SEMANTIC_CATEGORIES, ASSOCIATE_SEMANTIC_CATEGORIES)
Given a scenario, manage account identifiers. - Describe the differences between account names and account locators
- Identify when a given account identifier needs to be used
- Use region IDs and region groups
Given a scenario, manage databases, tables, and views. - Implement Snowflake table structures
- Establish and use temporary and transient tables
- Establish and use external tables
- Implement and manage views, secure views, and materialized views
- Outline table design considerations
- Outline the use cases when cloning is beneficial
- Outline data storage and data retention considerations
Perform queries in Snowflake. - Use Snowflake sequences
- Use persisted query results
- Demonstrate the ability to cancel statements for both a single user as well as for other users
- Use query history filters including client-generated queries and queries executed by user tasks
- Visualize query results with Snowsight
  • Use Snowsight dashboards to monitor activity
  • Share worksheets and dashboards
  • Generate and share Snowsight charts
Given a scenario, stage data in Snowflake. - Stage data files from a local file system
  • Use SnowSQL
  • Use Snowsight

- Create, manage, and maintain Snowflake internal and external stages

  • Data exfiltration, storage integrations, etc.
Given a scenario, manage streams and tasks. - Outline user-managed (virtual-warehouse) tasks and associated use cases
  • Schedule tasks
  • Permissions required for creating and executing tasks
  • Troubleshoot task historical runs

- Outline Snowflake-managed (serverless) tasks and associated use cases
- Outline streams and associated use cases

  • Create, monitor, and consume streams
  • Describe how data retention configuration affects usage of streams

Performance Monitoring and Tuning : 20-25%

Given business requirements, design, manage, and maintain virtual warehouses. - Outline the impact on data loading, and query processing based on warehouse sizes
- Configure warehouse properties (auto-suspend, auto-resume)
- Given a scenario, manage warehouse usage in sessions and size the warehouse accordingly
- Given a scenario, manage a multi-cluster warehouse
  • Describe use cases and benefits
  • Describe, establish, and maintain a scaling policy
  • Monitor multi-cluster warehouses
Monitor Snowflake performance. - Evaluate and interpret Query Profiles to improve performance
  • Describe the components of the Query Profile:
    1. Steps
    2. Operator tree
    3. Operator nodes
    4. Operator types
  • Compare compile versus runtime optimizations
  • Identify/create efficient queries
    1. Articulate the execution path
    2. Use effective joining condition
    3. Perform grouping, sorting, and ordering
  • Troubleshoot common query performance issues
  • If data spilling is present, describe its impact and remediation tactics
  • If data pruning is not occuring, describe its impact and remediation tactics
  • Describe the various timeout parameters
- Use an explain plan
- Compare and contrast different caching techniques available in Snowflake and the impact of caching on performance
  • Resultset cache
  • Local disk (warehouse) cache
    1. What is the impact of warehouse resumption/suspension on local disk cache?
  • Metadata cache
- Implement performance improvements
  • Recommend the use of materialized views
  • Use the search optimization service
  • Create external tables
  • Use data caching
  • Use the query acceleration service
Manage DML locking and concurrency in Snowflake. - Describe DML concurrency considerations
- Follow best practices for DML locking and concurrency
- Monitor transaction activity
  • Abort transactions
Given a scenario, implement resource monitors. - Create, manage, modify, and remove resource monitors based on use cases and business requirements
  • Set up notifications for resource monitors
Interpret and make recommendations for data clustering. - Configure and maintain cluster keys
  • Create and enable cluster keys
    1. Outline a methodology for explicit clustering
  • Use the automatic clustering service
    1. Monitor and assess usage
  • Follow best practices for clustering
    1. Lowest cardinality column first
    2. Fewer columns is generally better
    3. Verify table scan is the problem - otherwise a cluster key will not help

- Describe micro-partitions, their benefits, and their impact
- Retrieve clustering information (depth, ratio, and histogram)

Manage costs and pricing. - Manage organization costs
  • Describe the differences between account_usage and organization_usage
  • Monitor accounts and usage on the organization level
    1. Use the ORGANIZATION_USAGE schema in the SNOWFLAKE shared database
  • Monitor and calculate data transfer costs
  • Monitor and calculate data replication costs

- Forecast and monitor costs and pricing

  • Enable resource monitor notifications
  • Determine when warehouses should be suspended or resumed based on cost and pricing

- Describe the use cases for the account_usage and information_schema

  • Views available from the information_schema
  • Latency and data retention considerations

- Monitor and calculate data storage usage/credit
- Monitor and calculate warehouse usage/credits

  • Demonstrate cost saving strategies
  • Use resource monitors

- Describe how Snowflake credits are consumed by the cloud services layer (such as Snowpipe, materialized views, and automatic clustering
- Apply techniques for cost optimization

Data Sharing, Data Exchange, and Snowflake Marketplace : 10-15%

Manage and implement data sharing. - Given a scenario, implement sharing solutions and impacts
  • Types of sharing (such as one to one/one to many, private exchange, Snowflake Marketplace)
  • Sharing among different editions of Snowflake
  • Sharing cross-regions or cross-clouds
    1. The role of replications
    2. Cross-cloud auto fulfillment for listings
  • Configure data sharing programmatically
    1. Share different types of data objects including secure functions
    2. Describe the role of context functions in data sharing
- Manage data providers and consumers
  • Create, manage, and maintain an outbound data share
  • Share objects securely in a data share (for example, what type to use)
  • Use secure objects to share data
    1. Secure views
    2. Secure User-defined Functions (UDFs)
  • Create, manage and maintain readers accounts
    1. Create user and role for access
    2. Create resource monitors
    3. Create objects
    4. Determine if there is a need to store data (CREATE DATABASE)
  • Import, manage, and maintain inbound data shares
Use the Data Exchange.
- Manage administration and membership
- Access the Data Exchange
- Outline the process of becoming a data provider
  • Create, edit, or delete provider profiles
- Manage data listings
  • Publish, edit, unpublish, or republish data listings
Use the Snowflake Marketplace. - Access the Snowflake Marketplace to browse listing
  • Request access to a Snowflake Marketplace listing (as a consumer)

- Request that new data or a data provider be added to the Snowflake Marketplace

  • Create and manage data provider profiles
  • Create, submit, manage, and modify a data listing

- Manage listing requests

  • View and manage pending listing requests

- Manage data listings
- Monitor data sharing usage

Disaster Recovery, Backup, and Data Replication : 10-15%

Manage data replication. - Describe the differences between primary and secondary databases
- Replicate database objects
- Replicate account-level objects
- Manage access controls
- Perform database replication
- Enable scheduled replication
- Outline the database replication processes with respect to the different Snowflake editions
  • Replicate data to a lower Snowflake edition

- Describe the limitations of database replications
- Outline the implications of database replications (for example, billing
- Outline database replications considerations for:

  • Automatic clustering
  • Materialized views
  • External tables
  • Policies (masking and row access)
  • Table streams
  • Tasks
  • Stages (internal and external)
  • Access controls
  • Historical usage data
  • Tags
  • Pipes
  • Cloned objects

- Perform replication across multiple accounts
- Outline the impact of failing-over databases across multiple accounts
- Redirect client connections in case of fail-over
- Design and implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans

  • What is database failover or failback?
  • Awareness of cost implications

- Implement backup best practices in Snowflake

Given a scenario, manage Snowflake Time Travel and Fail-safe. - Data retention periods
- Enable and/or disable
- Query historical data
- Restore dropped objects
- Snowflake edition implications
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