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Snowflake ARA-C01 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Snowflake |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | SnowPro Advanced: Architect Certification |
| Exam Number: | ARA-C01 |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 2 years |
| Exam Format: | Multiple Select, Multiple Choice |
| Real Exam Qty: | 65 |
| Exam Duration: | 115 minutes |
| Available Languages: | English, Japanese |
| Passing Score: | 750/1000 |
| Exam Price: | $375 USD |
| Related Certifications: | SnowPro Core Certification |
| Sample Questions: |  |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored or test center delivery through Pearson VUE. |
| Pre Condition: | Candidates must hold an active SnowPro Core Certification. Snowflake recommends 2+ years of hands-on Snowflake architecture experience in production environments. |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://learn.snowflake.com/en/certifications/snowpro-advanced-architect/ |
Snowflake ARA-C01 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: Accounts and Security | 25% | - Access Control and Authentication
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| Topic 2: Snowflake Architecture | 30% | - Storage and Compute Design
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| Topic 3: Performance Optimization | 20% | - Cost and Resource Optimization
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| Topic 4: Data Engineering | 25% | - Data Transformation
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Asked and Answered: The ARA-C01 Exam
The ARA-C01 exam is Snowflake's official route to the SnowPro Advanced Certification certification (Advanced level). For IT professionals building a career, it signals verified skill — the kind of advantage that tips better opportunities your way. It also sits in a family of related credentials: SnowPro Core Certification.
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Candidates must hold an active SnowPro Core Certification. Snowflake recommends 2+ years of hands-on Snowflake architecture experience in production environments. Requirements like these do get updated, so confirm the details on the official exam page — official ARA-C01 exam information — before you spend anything on registration.
Registration runs $375 USD, and the pass mark is 750/1000. Paying by credit card is the standard route — safe and stable for both buyer and seller. And remember the fee is per attempt: a retake costs the same again, which is why candidates drill with the 228 practice questions from ExamCost until their margin is comfortable.
The exam sets 65 questions against 115 minutes on the clock. That pairing punishes hesitation, so train it out: set a per-question budget, flag-and-return instead of freezing, and rehearse full timed sessions in the ExamCost engine until pacing is automatic.
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Expect 4 domains in the Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Architect Certification blueprint, headlined by Snowflake Architecture (30%), Accounts and Security (25%), Data Engineering (25%). Use the weights as your study budget — high-percentage domains earn the most points per hour. The complete outline above has the full breakdown.
Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Architect Certification Sample Questions:
A company is using a Snowflake account in Azure. The account has SAML SSO set up using ADFS as a SCIM identity provider. To validate Private Link connectivity, an Architect performed the following steps:
* Confirmed Private Link URLs are working by logging in with a username/password account
* Verified DNS resolution by running nslookups against Private Link URLs
* Validated connectivity using SnowCD
* Disabled public access using a network policy set to use the company's IP address range However, the following error message is received when using SSO to log into the company account:
IP XX.XXX.XX.XX is not allowed to access snowflake. Contact your local security administrator.
What steps should the Architect take to resolve this error and ensure that the account is accessed using only Private Link? (Choose two.)
- A. Add the IP address in the error message to the allowed list in the network policy.
- B. Alter the Azure security integration to use the Private Link URLs.
- C. Update the configuration of the Azure AD SSO to use the Private Link URLs.
- D. Generate a new SCIM access token using system$generate_scim_access_token and save it to Azure AD.
- E. Open a case with Snowflake Support to authorize the Private Link URLs' access to the account.
Correct Answer: A,C 🗳️
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An Architect is designing Snowflake architecture to support fast Data Analyst reporting. To optimize costs, the virtual warehouse is configured to auto-suspend after 2 minutes of idle time. Queries are run once in the morning after refresh, but later queries run slowly.
Why is this occurring?
- A. The warehouse is not large enough.
- B. When the warehouse was suspended, the cache was dropped.
- C. The warehouse was not created with USE_CACHE = TRUE.
- D. The warehouse was not configured as a multi-cluster warehouse.
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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An Architect has selected the Snowflake Connector for Python to integrate and manipulate Snowflake data using Python to handle large data sets and complex analyses.
Which features should the Architect consider in terms of query execution and data type conversion? (Select TWO).
- A. The Connector converts NUMBER data types to DECIMAL by default.
- B. The Connector supports asynchronous and synchronous queries.
- C. The Connector converts data types to STRING by default.
- D. The Connector converts Snowflake data types to native Python data types by default.
- E. The large queries will require conn.cursor() to execute.
Correct Answer: B,D 🗳️
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The IT Security team has identified that there is an ongoing credential stuffing attack on many of their organization's system.
What is the BEST way to find recent and ongoing login attempts to Snowflake?
- A. Call the LOGIN_HISTORY Information Schema table function.
- B. View the Users section in the Account tab in the Snowflake UI and review the last login column.
- C. View the History tab in the Snowflake UI and set up a filter for SQL text that contains the text
"LOGIN". - D. Query the LOGIN_HISTORY view in the ACCOUNT_USAGE schema in the SNOWFLAKE database.
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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How can the Snowflake context functions be used to help determine whether a user is authorized to see data that has column-level security enforced? (Select TWO).
- A. Set masking policy conditions using invoker_role targeting the executing role in a SQL statement.
- B. Set masking policy conditions using is_role_in_session targeting the role in use for the current account.
- C. Determine if there are ownership privileges on the masking policy that would allow the use of any function.
- D. Assign the accountadmin role to the user who is executing the object.
- E. Set masking policy conditions using current_role targeting the role in use for the current session.
Correct Answer: A,E 🗳️
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