Snowflake certifications every exam, price and renewal rule
learn.snowflake.com/en/certifications
Exams
11
current
Renew every
2 years
All SnowPro certifications expire two years after award; renew before expiry via the Continuing Education program by earning an equivalent or higher level certification or completing one eligible instructor-led course.
Price per attempt
$175 to $375
$0$1600
Level mix
3 levels
Associate1Professional7Specialty3
Data engineering and analytics 6
SnowPro Core CertificationFor practitioners with hands-on Snowflake experience covering architecture, account and warehouse management, data loading and transformation, performance and data protection.COF-C03 · Associate · 115 min · valid 2 yearsSnowPro Advanced: AdministratorFor administrators who manage Snowflake accounts, security, governance, warehouses, monitoring, data sharing and disaster recovery.ADA-C02 · Professional · 115 min · valid 2 yearsSnowPro Advanced: Data AnalystFor analysts who prepare data, write advanced SQL, perform descriptive, diagnostic and predictive analysis and present results with Snowflake.DAA-C01 · Professional · 115 min · valid 2 yearsSnowPro Advanced: Data EngineerFor data engineers who source, transform, replicate and share data, and design near real-time streams and scalable compute on Snowflake.DEA-C02 · Professional · 115 min · valid 2 yearsSnowPro Specialty: Native AppsFor developers who design, build, deploy and support Snowflake Native Apps, including Marketplace listing and release management.NAS-C02 · Specialty · 85 min · valid 2 yearsSnowPro Specialty: SnowparkFor developers who build Snowpark DataFrame solutions and stored procedures in Snowflake.SPS-C01 · Specialty · 85 min · valid 2 years
AI and machine learning 3
SnowPro Advanced: Data ScientistFor data scientists who prepare data, engineer features, train models and use Gen AI and LLM capabilities in Snowflake.DSA-C03 · Professional · 115 min · valid 2 yearsSnowPro Advanced: MLOps EngineerFor ML engineers who move models from experimentation to production in Snowflake with CI/CD, monitoring, governance and cost management.MLA-C01 · Professional · 115 min · valid 2 yearsSnowPro Specialty: Gen AIFor practitioners who apply Gen AI in Snowflake with Cortex AI features, LLM functions, Snowpark Container Services, Model Registry and document processing.GES-C02 · Specialty · 85 min · valid 2 years
Cloud architecture 1
Cloud security 1
About Snowflake certification
Renewal
All SnowPro certifications expire two years after award; renew before expiry via the Continuing Education program by earning an equivalent or higher level certification or completing one eligible instructor-led course.
Retakes
After a failed attempt you wait seven days before retaking, with at most four retakes of a given exam in 12 months, and every attempt costs the full exam fee.