The Snowflake ADA-C01 exam, "SnowPro Advanced: Administrator Certification", belongs to the SnowPro Certification and SnowPro Advanced Certification track. It is designed for administrators and professionals who manage Snowflake environments, security, governance, performance, and operational resilience. Earning this certification demonstrates advanced knowledge that is valuable for teams responsible for secure and efficient cloud data platforms.
| # | Exam Topics | Sub-Topics | Approximate Weightage (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snowflake Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and User Administration | User management, role hierarchy, privilege assignment, security best practices | 25% |
| 2 | Account Management and Data Governance | Account settings, governance controls, access oversight, policy alignment | 20% |
| 3 | Performance Monitoring and Tuning | Query performance, warehouse usage, monitoring tools, optimization techniques | 20% |
| 4 | Data Sharing, Data Exchange, and Snowflake Marketplace | Secure sharing, marketplace usage, exchange workflows, data collaboration | 15% |
| 5 | Disaster Recovery, Backup, and Data Replication | Replication setup, backup planning, failover concepts, recovery readiness | 20% |
This exam tests both conceptual understanding and practical administration skills in Snowflake. Candidates must show they can manage security, governance, performance, sharing, and recovery tasks in real-world environments. Success requires more than memorization because the exam focuses on applying Snowflake administration knowledge to operational scenarios.
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It is intended for professionals who administer Snowflake environments and want to validate advanced skills in security, governance, performance, sharing, and recovery.
Yes, it is an advanced-level certification, so it can be challenging if you do not have hands-on Snowflake administration experience and solid exam preparation.
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An Administrator is evaluating a complex query using the EXPLAIN command. The Globalstats operation indicates 500 partitionsAssigned.
The Administrator then runs the query to completion and opens the Query Profile. They notice that the partitions scanned value is 429.
Why might the actual partitions scanned be lower than the estimate from the EXPLAIN output?
The EXPLAIN command returns the logical execution plan for a query, which shows the upper bound estimates for the number of partitions and bytes that might be scanned by the query1. However, these estimates do not account for the runtime optimizations that Snowflake performs to improve the query performance and reduce the resource consumption2. One of these optimizations is join pruning, which eliminates unnecessary partitions from the join inputs based on the join predicates2. This can result in fewer partitions and bytes scanned than the estimates from the EXPLAIN output3. Therefore, the actual partitions scanned value in the Query Profile can be lower than the partitionsAssigned value in the EXPLAIN output4.
An Administrator has a table named SALES_DATA which needs some edits, but the Administrator does not want to change the main table data. The Administrator decides to
make a transient copy of this table and wants the transient table to have all the same permissions as the original table.
How can the Administrator create the transient table so it inherits the same permissions as the original table, and what considerations need to be made concerning the
requirements? (Select TWO).
According to the Snowflake documentation1, the COPY GRANTS option can be used to copy all privileges, except OWNERSHIP, from the existing table to the new transient table. This option also preserves any future grants defined for the object type in the schema. Option A is incorrect because it does not copy any grants from the original table. Option C is incorrect because it does not copy the data from the original table, only the structure and grants. Option E is incorrect because transient tables are not session-based and do not have a Fail-safe period, but they do have a Time Travel retention period2.
1: CREATE TABLE | Snowflake Documentation 2: Working with Temporary and Transient Tables | Snowflake Documentation
A Snowflake Administrator needs to retrieve the list of the schemas deleted within the last two days from the DB1 database.
Which of the following will achieve this?
To retrieve a list of schemas deleted within the last 2 days from the DB1 database, you need a metadata view that includes historical data, including dropped (deleted) objects.
Let's review the options:
B. SNOWFLAKE.ACCOUNT_USAGE.SCHEMATA
This is the correct choice because:
It includes metadata for all schemas, even deleted ones, within the retention period.
It contains a DELETED column and a DELETED_ON timestamp column.
You can filter rows with:
sql
CopyEdit
SELECT *
FROM SNOWFLAKE.ACCOUNT_USAGE.SCHEMATA
WHERE DELETED IS TRUE
AND DELETED_ON >= DATEADD(DAY, -2, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP())
AND CATALOG_NAME = 'DB1';
A. SHOW SCHEMAS IN DATABASE DB1;
Only shows current (active) schemas --- does not include deleted schemas.
C. DB1.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA
Like option A, this view only includes active schemas in the current database.
No info on deleted schemas is retained.
D. SNOWFLAKE.ACCOUNT_USAGE.DATABASES
This metadata view tracks databases, not individual schemas.
SnowPro Administrator Reference:
SNOWFLAKE.ACCOUNT_USAGE.SCHEMATA documentation
Metadata includes both active and deleted schemas (within retention window).
A company enabled replication between accounts and is ready to replicate data across regions in the same cloud service provider.
The primary database object is : PROD_AWS_EAST. Location : AWS_EAST
The secondary database object is : PROD_AWS_WEST. Location : AWS_WEST
What command and account location is needed to refresh the data?
The REFRESH DATABASE command is used to refresh a secondary database with the latest data and metadata from the primary database1. The command must be executed in the target account where the secondary database resides2. Therefore, the answer is A, as the location is AWS_WEST and the command is REFRESH DATABASE PROD_AWS_WEST REFRESH. The other options are incorrect because they either use the wrong location, the wrong command, or the wrong database name.
An Administrator has a warehouse which is intended to have a credit quota set for 3000 for each calendar year. The Administrator needs to create a resource monitor that
will perform the following tasks:
1. At 80% usage notify the account Administrators.
2. At 100% usage suspend the warehouse and notify the account Administrators.
3. At 120% stop all running executions, suspend the warehouse, and notify the account Administrators.
Which SQL command will meet these requirements?
Option B is the correct SQL command to create a resource monitor that meets the requirements. It sets the credit quota to 3000, the frequency to yearly, the start timestamp to January 1, 2022, and the triggers to notify and suspend the warehouse at the specified thresholds. Option A is incorrect because it does not specify the frequency. Option C is incorrect because it does not specify the frequency and it uses notify and suspend instead of suspend and suspend_immediate. Option D is incorrect because it does not specify the start timestamp. For more information about resource monitors, see Working with Resource Monitors and CREATE RESOURCE MONITOR.
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