SnowPro Advanced: Administrator

The SnowPro Advanced: Administrator certification validates expert-level skills in administering and governing Snowflake environments. It covers account management, user and role administration, access control frameworks, Snowflake monitoring, cost governance, and maintaining platform health at enterprise scale.

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What is the SnowPro Advanced: Administrator Certification?

Who Should Take This Course?

Snowflake Administrators managing enterprise accounts
Database Administrators transitioning to Snowflake
Cloud Ops teams managing Snowflake platform operations
Security Engineers implementing Snowflake access controls
Platform Engineers responsible for Snowflake governance

What You Will Learn in the ADM-C01 Course

A comprehensive curriculum covering all exam objectives with hands-on labs and real-world practice.

Account and User Management

Administer Snowflake accounts, users, and organizations.

Snowflake Organization and account management
User provisioning and SCIM integration
Custom roles and role hierarchy design
SSO configuration with Okta and Azure AD

Access Control and Security Administration

Implement comprehensive access control policies.

RBAC best practices and privilege governance
Ownership transfer and object-level access
Network policies and IP restriction management
External tokenization and data classification

Resource and Cost Management

Monitor and optimize Snowflake resource utilization.

Resource monitors configuration and alerting
Warehouse utilization analysis and rightsizing
Account usage views for cost attribution
Snowflake credit management and forecasting

Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Diagnose and resolve operational issues.

Query history analysis and performance troubleshooting
Login history and audit log monitoring
Copy history and pipe status monitoring
Task and stream operational diagnostics

Data Protection and Compliance

Ensure data protection and regulatory compliance.

Time Travel and Fail-safe administration
Dynamic data masking policy management
Data classification and sensitivity labels
Compliance reporting with Account Usage views

Course Prerequisites

Pre-requisites training is free when you purchase the course from ProSupport

SnowPro Core Certification (mandatory)
2+ years of Snowflake administration experience
Understanding of enterprise security and identity management
Experience with SQL and Snowflake account management tools

Exam Information

Everything you need to know about the ADM-C01 certification exam.

Exam Component	Details
Exam Name	SnowPro Advanced: Administrator
Exam Code	ADM-C01
Exam Type	Multiple Choice and Multiple Select
Total Questions	65
Passing Score	750 (out of 1000)
Exam Duration	90 minutes
Language	English
Exam Provider	Snowflake / Kryterion
Exam Focus	Snowflake account administration, security, cost governance, monitoring, and compliance
Exam Registration	Snowflake certification portal (learn.snowflake.com)
Retake Policy	No mandatory waiting period between attempts
Certification Validity	2 years