SnowPro Core Study Guide: Supercharge your career by starting your Snowflake journey

Kick off your learning journey with Snowflake by studying for the SnowPro Core certification! This certification allows you to validate your experience with one of the fastest growing cloud-based data platforms.

This book will form a key part of your preparation for the SnowPro Core certification by explaining the new concepts and terminology Snowflake introduces.

The author has been working with the Snowflake data platform since 2017 and has also supported over 2,500 students in going to the SnowPro Core certification through his Udemy practice exam course. He is therefore well placed to guide you through the unique and innovative features which Snowflake offers.

Allow the author to bring to life the out of the box capabilities offered by Snowflake by providing clear, real-world examples and use cases to back up the theory described throughout the book. This approach helps to solidify the learning concepts in the reader’s mind.

You’ll begin with an overview of Snowflake’s SnowPro core certification before diving into Snowflake’s unique 3-tier architecture. You’ll move on to understand and role virtual warehouses play, before moving onto how to load and unload data in Snowflake, secure and manage data consumer access to the data assets held within Snowflake. Once your data is secured within Snowflake you’ll understand how to share your data seamlessly, before finally, understanding what tools are available to help optimize the performance of your solution.

How this book helps you, the reader:

Review the topics that Snowflake specifically recommends that you study in preparation for the SnowPro Core certification

Get to grips with the different terminology Snowflake uses to describe its capabilities

Understand the breadth and purpose across an array of features which together make up the Snowflake eco-system

Gain an understanding of the certification format and the question types, along with examples to give you the best possible chance of passing the certification

Understand how Snowflake’s unique architecture opens the door to groundbreaking features such as zero-copy cloning, time travel and data sharing.