Overview
The SnowPro Advanced: Administrator Certification course is designed for professionals looking to deepen their expertise in Snowflake’s platform administration. This advanced-level course equips learners with the knowledge and skills to manage and optimize Snowflake environments effectively. It covers topics such as security, performance tuning, resource management, and workload optimization, ensuring administrators can deliver robust and secure data solutions tailored to organizational needs.
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of Snowflake architecture and functionalities.
- Completion of the SnowPro Core Certification (recommended).
- Familiarity with database administration and SQL.
Course Outline
- Implementing role-based access control (RBAC).
- Managing data security and encryption.
- Setting up secure data sharing.
- Monitoring and tuning query performance.
- Managing warehouses for optimal cost and efficiency.
- Utilizing auto-scaling and concurrency settings.
- Setting up multi-cluster warehouses.
- Managing workloads using resource monitors.
- Advanced workload isolation techniques.
- Using Snowflake’s Information Schema and Account Usage.
- Implementing logging and alerting for system health.
- Conducting audit trails and activity analysis.
- Leveraging Snowflake’s advanced data governance features.
- Managing lifecycle of objects and data retention policies.
- Integrating Snowflake with third-party tools for administration.