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Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Data Admin Certification Exam

Master Snowflake account administration, security, and cost governance to pass the SnowPro Advanced Data Administrator exam.

★ 4.8 (300 learners) 60 hrs total 3 modules 3 capstones
AWS Microsoft Azure Snowflake
Only 8 seats left · Next batch starts 8 Aug 2026
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60 hrs
of content
3 modules
in curriculum
19 projects
hands-on builds
Advanced
difficulty

Curriculum covers

Frameworks you'll master

3 tools & frameworks
AWS Microsoft Azure Snowflake

Course Curriculum

3 modules · 60 hours · 24 live sessions

Snowflake Core Concepts 6 sessions
  • Snowflake Administration Expertise
  • Handson experience with Snowflake admin activities
  • SnowSQL
  • Troubleshooting Snowflake database issues
  • Configuring warehouses, databases, and other Snowflake objects to meet specific project or organizational requirements
  • Ensuring optimal configuration settings for performance and costefficiency
  • Advanced SQL & Data Modeling
  • Ability to write complex SQL queries
  • Understanding of relational and dimensional modeling
  • User Management and Support
Automation & Deployment Skills 4 sessions
  • Role Management
  • Data Management and Operations
  • Managing Warehouses
  • Databases and Schemas Administration
  • Security & Governance Knowledge
  • Managing Tables
  • Data Loading and Unloading
Cloud & CrossPlatform Experience 14 sessions
  • Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, Azure)
  • Exposure to multiple database technologies (e.g., Teradata, BigQuery, SQL Server, MongoDB)
  • Performance Monitoring and Optimization
  • Query History
  • Optimizing Query Performance
  • Using Materialized Views
  • Warehouse Usage
  • Monitoring the performance of Snowflake environments and executing performance tuning strategies to optimize query ex...
  • Analyzing query performance and optimizing SQL queries and warehouse sizes for efficiency
  • Data Security and Access Control
  • Granting Privileges
  • Revoking Privileges
  • Implementing and managing security measures within Snowflake, including data encryption, access controls, and network...
  • Ensuring compliance with data protection regulations and organizational data governance policies
  • Data Sharing
  • Backup and Disaster Recovery and Restore
  • Creating a Backup
  • Restoring From a Backup
  • Although Snowflake provides automatic backups and failover capabilities, the DBA is responsible for planning and mana...
  • Account Management
  • Storage Management
  • Cost Management
  • Collaboration and Documentation
  • Storage Management
  • Perform data sharing and use the Snowflake Marketplace

After this course, you will

Skills you carry to every job

  • Administer Snowflake accounts, organisations, and multi-cloud environments across AWS and Azure
  • Design and enforce role hierarchies, custom roles, and access control policies using RBAC and DAC
  • Configure resource monitors, warehouse sizing, and scaling policies to control credit consumption
  • Implement data security including dynamic data masking, column-level security, and network policies
  • Set up secure data sharing, reader accounts, and Snowflake Marketplace listings between organisations
  • Perform time travel, fail-safe, and disaster recovery operations with replication and failover
  • Optimise query performance through clustering keys, materialized views, and warehouse tuning
  • Monitor storage usage, query history, and account-level activity for governance and compliance reporting

Hands-on learning

What you'll build

3 industry capstone projects · built from scratch · yours to keep

01

Enterprise Multi-Role Access Control Implementation

Design a complete RBAC model with custom roles, database roles, and a full role hierarchy for a simulated enterprise. Apply dynamic data masking on PII columns and validate that access restrictions are correctly enforced across distinct user groups.

Snowflake AWS
02

Cost Governance Dashboard with Resource Monitors

Configure resource monitors for multiple virtual warehouses across business departments, set credit quotas and alert thresholds, and build a Snowsight monitoring dashboard tracking per-warehouse credit consumption and storage costs over time.

Snowflake Microsoft Azure
03

Cross-Cloud Data Sharing with Reader Accounts

Set up secure data sharing between a Snowflake provider account on AWS and a reader account on Azure. Publish a governed dataset via a Marketplace listing and validate end-to-end consumer access without any data movement or duplication.

Snowflake AWS Microsoft Azure

Plus 16 guided mini-projects across the curriculum — Q&A bots, resume screeners, SQL helpers, and more.

Batch Schedule

⚡ Seats filling fast — only 8 remaining across all batches

Available Batches
Batch Type Schedule Duration Next Start Date Availability
Weekend Sat & Sun, 10am–1pm 10 weeks 8 Aug 2026 Available
Weekday Mon–Fri, 7–9pm 8 weeks 10 Aug 2026 Available
Fast-track Mon–Sun, 6 hours/day 2 weeks 17 Aug 2026 Available

Frequently Asked Questions

What prerequisites are needed before taking this advanced admin course?

You should be comfortable with SnowPro Core topics — Snowflake architecture, virtual warehouses, data loading, and basic SQL. The course builds directly on these fundamentals and is not suitable as a first Snowflake course.

How is the SnowPro Advanced Data Administrator exam structured?

The exam consists of multiple-choice and scenario-based questions covering account management, security and compliance, performance monitoring, data sharing, and cost management. The course curriculum maps directly to all exam domains.

Does the course cover multi-cloud Snowflake deployments?

Yes. Hands-on labs are included for both AWS and Microsoft Azure, covering storage integration, cross-cloud database replication, failover configuration, and network policy setup specific to each cloud provider.

What is the difference between Time Travel and Fail-Safe in Snowflake?

Time Travel lets you query, clone, or restore data within a configurable retention period of up to 90 days on Enterprise edition. Fail-Safe is a non-configurable 7-day recovery window managed exclusively by Snowflake — you cannot directly access fail-safe data yourself.

How do resource monitors help with Snowflake cost control?

Resource monitors track credit consumption for virtual warehouses and can trigger email alerts or automatically suspend a warehouse when defined credit thresholds are reached, preventing runaway costs from long-running or forgotten queries.

Can this course help me manage a production Snowflake environment?

Yes. The course covers real-world admin tasks including user and role management, warehouse sizing, data masking, data sharing, performance tuning, and cost governance that apply directly to operating a live production Snowflake account.

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