SnowPro Advanced Architect Certification Prep (ARA-C01)

Hands-on Snowflake architect course covering best practices, deep dives, and exam-ready practice sets

This course prepares you to master Snowflake Advanced Architect (ARA-C01) skills and architecture principles required to design secure, scalable, high-performance Snowflake platforms in real-world environments.

You will learn through hands-on labs, architecture diagrams, case studies, design patterns, and exam-style questions. The content directly aligns with the Snowflake Advanced Architect exam blueprint and deeply focuses on the following core areas:

Accounts and Security

• Snowflake account structure, federation and organization setup

• RBAC, attribute-based access control, and governance models

• OAuth, SSO, MFA, private connectivity, network policies, authentication and authorization

• Data protection, encryption, masking, tokenization, secure sharing

Snowflake Architecture

• Multi-cluster compute, virtual warehouses, services layer

• Storage design, micro-partitioning, caching strategy, data lifecycle control

• Cross-cloud and hybrid architecture, failover, disaster recovery, replication

• Snowflake workloads: data warehousing, data lake, data sharing, Snowpark

Data Engineering & Pipelines

• Streams, Tasks, Snowpipe, ingestion patterns

• ELT vs ETL in Snowflake, file formats, ingestion architecture

• Data modeling, staging, transformations, time travel and cloning

• External tables, integration with ETL tools and orchestration frameworks

Performance Optimization & Cost Efficiency

• Storage and compute optimization techniques

• Query processing internals and tuning strategies

• Warehouse sizing, scaling strategies, caching, result sets

• Query profile analysis, resource monitors, cost governance

What You Will Gain

Complete Snowflake architect capability and exam readiness
Real-world architecture patterns, best practices, and reference models
Hands-on lab exercises and case-based scenarios
Exam-aligned quizzes, architecture challenges and practice questions
The ability to confidently design enterprise-grade Snowflake solutions