253 practice questions for Snowflake SnowPro Advanced: Architect Certification (ARA-C01), with full explanations.
Every question comes with the correct answer, the reasoning behind it, and a short note on why each wrong option is wrong. Work through it once with the answers, then again with the questions-only copy under exam conditions.
- 253 questions across all four ARA-C01 domains
- Answers and explanations for every question, including the wrong options
- A questions-only PDF for timed practice runs
- Instant delivery by email the moment you check out
- Free monthly updates for as long as the exam is live
- Pass or your money back
An ARA-C01 attempt costs US$375. This pack is US$39, paid once.
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Last updated September 2026 · 253 questions
What makes the ARA-C01 hard
ARA-C01 is the design exam in the SnowPro Advanced track and the one with the most expensive mistakes attached to it: 65 questions in 115 minutes, a scaled pass mark of 750 and a US$375 fee, with an active SnowPro Core required before you can book. Where Core asks what a feature does, Architect asks which combination of features you would choose for an enterprise with several accounts, regions, clouds and compliance regimes, and why the alternatives fall short.
Snowflake Architecture is the largest domain at around 30%: multi-account and multi-region design with organisations, database and account replication, failover groups and business continuity, cross-cloud considerations, Snowgrid, external and Iceberg tables, data lake patterns and choosing between virtual warehouse configurations for mixed workloads. Accounts and Security at around 25% covers the RBAC hierarchy at enterprise scale, custom role design, network policies and private connectivity, authentication with SSO, key pair and OAuth, encryption and Tri-Secret Secure, data governance with masking, row access policies, tags and object tagging, and the account usage views used to audit all of it.
Data Engineering at around 25% covers ingestion architectures with Snowpipe, streams and tasks, change data capture, Snowpark, external functions, data sharing and marketplace design and semi-structured data at scale. Performance Optimization at around 20% covers clustering, search optimisation, materialised tables, warehouse sizing and scaling strategy, query acceleration, caching and cost control. Most questions describe a requirement and four architectures that would all work; the exam wants the one that meets the requirement at the lowest cost or operational burden.
About the exam
ARA-C01 (SnowPro Advanced: Architect Certification) validates the ability to design enterprise Snowflake solutions: architecture across accounts, regions and clouds, accounts and security, data engineering patterns, and performance optimisation. Prerequisite: an active SnowPro Core certification. Snowflake recommends two or more years of hands-on Snowflake architecture experience.
Exam domains
- Accounts and Security: approximately 25%
- Snowflake Architecture: approximately 30%
- Data Engineering: approximately 25%
- Performance Optimization: approximately 20%
Snowflake publishes these weightings as ranges in the exam study guide. 65 multiple-choice and multiple-select questions, 115 minutes, passing score 750 on a 0 to 1000 scale, US$375 per attempt, taken at a Pearson VUE test centre or online proctored, certification valid for two years.
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