COF-R02 Exam Information and Outline
Snowflake SnowPro Core Recertification
COF-R02 Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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SnowFlake COF-R02 Snowflake SnowPro Core Recertification
- Domain 1: Snowflake AI Data Cloud Features and Architecture (25%)
- key features of the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
- Elastic storage
- Elastic compute
- Snowflake's three distinct layers
- Cloud partner categories
- Overview of Snowflake editions
- tools and user interfaces.
- Snowsight
- SnowSQL
- Snowflake connectors
- Snowflake drivers
- Snowpark
- SnowCD
- catalog and objects.
- Databases
- Stages
- Schema types
- Table types
- View types
- Data types
- User Defined Functions (UDFs)
- User Defined Table Functions (UDTFs)
- Stored procedures
- Streams
- Tasks
- Pipes
- Shares
- Sequences
- storage concepts.
- Micro-partitions
- Data clustering
- Data storage monitoring
- Domain 2: Account Access and Security (20%)
- security principles.
- Network security and policies
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Federated authentication
- Key pair authentication
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Define the entities and roles that are used in Snowflake.
- Overview of access control
- Access control frameworks
- Access control privileges
- how privileges can be granted and revoked
- Explain role hierarchy and privilege inheritance
- data governance capabilities in Snowflake.
- Accounts
- Organizations
- Secure views
- Secure functions
- Information schemas
- Access history
- Tracking read/write operations
- Overview of row/column-level security
- Object tags
- Domain 3: Performance Concepts (15%)
- Explain the use of the Query Profile.
- Explain plans
- Data spilling
- Use of the data cache
- Micro-partition pruning
- Query history
- Explain virtual warehouse configurations.
- Types of warehouses
- Multi-clustering warehouses
- Scaling policies
- Scaling modes
- Warehouse sizing
- Warehouse settings and access
- virtual warehouse performance tools.
- Monitoring warehouse loads
- Scaling up compared to scaling out
- Resource monitors
- Query acceleration service
- Optimize query performance.
- Describe the use of materialized views
- Use of specific SELECT commands
- Clustering
- Search optimization service
- Persisted query results
- Understanding the impact of different types of caching
- Metadata cache
- Result cache
- Warehouse cache
- Domain 4: Data Loading and Unloading (10%)
- Define concepts and best practices that should be considered when loading data.
- Stages and stage types
- File size and formats
- Folder structures
- Ad hoc/bulk loading
- Snowpipe
- different commands used to load data and when they should be used.
- CREATE STAGE
- CREATE FILE FORMAT
- CREATE PIPE
- CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE
- COPY INTO
- INSERT/INSERT OVERWRITE
- PUT
- VALIDATE
- Define concepts and best practices that should be considered when unloading data.
- File size and formats
- Overview of compression methods
- Empty strings and NULL values
- Unloading to a single file
- Unloading relational tables
- different commands used to unload data and when they should be used.
- GET
- LIST
- COPY INTO
- CREATE STAGE
- CREATE FILE FORMAT
- Domain 5: Data Transformations (20%)
- Explain how to work with standard data.
- Estimation functions
- Sampling
- SAMPLE command
- /TABLESAMPLE command
- Sampling methods
- Fraction-based
- Fixed-size
- Supported function types
- System functions
- Table functions
- External functions
- User-Defined Functions (UDFs)
- Stored procedures
- Streams
- Tasks
- Explain how to work with semi-structured data.
- Supported data formats, data types, and sizes
- VARIANT column
- Flattening the nested structure
- FLATTEN command
- LATERAL FLATTEN command
- Semi-structured data functions
- ARRAY/OBJECT creation and manipulation
- Extracting values
- Type predicates
- Explain how to work with unstructured data.
- Define and use directory tables
- SQL file functions
- Types of URLs available to access files
- the purpose of User-Defined Functions (UDFs) for data analysis
- Domain 6: Data Protection and Data Sharing (10%)
- Continuous Data Protection with Snowflake.
- Time Travel
- Fail-safe
- Data encryption
- Cloning
- Replication
- data sharing capabilities.
- Account types
- Snowflake Marketplace
- Data Exchange
- Access control options
- DDL commands to create and manage shares
- Privileges required for working with shares
- Secure Data Sharing (for example, Direct Share, Listing)