Snowflake SnowPro Advanced: Administrator (ADA-C02) Lessons
24 lessons, one per exam-guide subdomain, in the order the guide teaches them. Every claim is cited to the official documentation.
Domain 1: Snowflake Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and User Administration
7 lessons · 31% of the exam
1.1ORGADMIN, GLOBALORGADMIN and ACCOUNTADMIN: Use Cases and Best Practices
Subdomain 1.1: Manage administrative roles
2 pages · 23 min read
1.2Snowflake Access Control Models and System-Defined Roles
Subdomain 1.2: Given a set of business requirements, design access control framework
2 pages · 20 min read
1.3Snowflake Privileges by Object Type and SHOW Commands for Roles, Users and Grants
Subdomain 1.3: Given a scenario, create and manage access control.
2 pages · 17 min read
1.4Securing ACCOUNTADMIN and Designing Custom, Database and Secondary Roles
Subdomain 1.4: Given a scenario, fine-tune access controls.
2 pages · 19 min read
1.5Snowflake SSO, User Types, Passwords and MFA
Subdomain 1.5: Set up and manage Snowflake authentication.
3 pages · 34 min read
1.6Snowflake Network Rules and Network Policy Precedence
Subdomain 1.6: Set up and manage network and private connectivity.
2 pages · 22 min read
1.7SCIM Provisioning in Snowflake: Integrations, Provisioner Roles and Monitoring
Subdomain 1.7: Set up and manage security administration and authorization.
2 pages · 21 min read
Domain 2: Account Management and Data Governance
3 lessons · 18% of the exam
2.1Snowflake Organizations and Account Management
Subdomain 2.1: Manage organizations and accounts.
2 pages · 23 min read
2.2Snowflake Masking, External Tokenization and Row Access Policies
Subdomain 2.2: Implement and manage data governance in Snowflake.
2 pages · 30 min read
2.3Snowflake Account Identifiers: Account Names, Locators, Region IDs and Region Groups
Subdomain 2.3: Given a scenario, manage account identifiers.
18 min read
Domain 3: Data and Object Management
5 lessons · 15% of the exam
3.1Snowflake Warehouse Sizing, Auto-Suspend and Session Warehouses
Subdomain 3.1: Given business requirements, design, manage, and maintain virtual warehouses.
2 pages · 24 min read
3.2Snowflake Table Types, Table Design, and Cloning
Subdomain 3.2: Given a scenario, manage databases, tables, and views.
2 pages · 21 min read
3.3Snowflake Storage Integrations, External Stages and Exfiltration Controls
Subdomain 3.3: Given a scenario, stage data in Snowflake.
2 pages · 21 min read
3.4Snowflake Tasks: Serverless vs User-Managed, Configuring and Scheduling
Subdomain 3.4: Given a scenario, manage tasks.
2 pages · 25 min read
3.5Snowflake Sequences, Persisted Query Results, and Cancelling Statements
Subdomain 3.5: Perform queries in Snowflake .
2 pages · 24 min read
Domain 4: Performance Monitoring and Tuning
5 lessons · 20% of the exam
4.1Snowflake Query Profile, EXPLAIN Plans and Troubleshooting Slow Queries
Subdomain 4.1: Monitor and analyze Snowflake performance.
2 pages · 37 min read
4.2Snowflake DML Locking, Transactions and Concurrency
Subdomain 4.2: Manage DML locking and concurrency in Snowflake.
2 pages · 25 min read
4.3Snowflake Resource Monitors and Cost Dashboards
Subdomain 4.3: Given a scenario, implement resource monitors.
19 min read
4.4Snowflake Event Tables and Telemetry Levels
Subdomain 4.4: Enable and manage logging and tracing.
2 pages · 23 min read
4.5Snowflake Cost Visibility: Usage Views, Storage, Serverless and AI Credits
Subdomain 4.5: Manage and optimize costs.
2 pages · 28 min read
Domain 5: Data Sharing and Snowflake Marketplace
2 lessons · 7% of the exam
5.1Snowflake Secure Data Sharing: Outbound Shares, Secure Objects and Cross-Region Delivery
Subdomain 5.1: Implement and manage data sharing.
2 pages · 25 min read
5.2Snowflake Marketplace Providers: Access, Requirements and Provider Profiles
Subdomain 5.2: Implement and manage the Snowflake Marketplace
2 pages · 19 min read
Domain 6: Disaster Recovery, Backup, and Data Replication
2 lessons · 9% of the exam
6.1Snowflake Replication Groups and Failover Groups: Editions, Objects, and Access Control
Subdomain 6.1: Manage data replication.
2 pages · 23 min read
6.2Time Travel Retention Periods, Editions and Fail-safe
Subdomain 6.2: Given a scenario, manage Snowflake Time Travel and Fail-safe.
2 pages · 21 min read