Another Certification Achieved: Snowflake Advanced DataEngineer
The Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Data Engineer certification is considered tough. After taking the exam, I understand where the "tough" comes from. It's not so much about the difficulty of the exam as about the vastness of the range of topics covered.
Sometimes, it's difficult to judge what the responsibilities of a data engineer are. On one extreme, a data engineer is nothing but a developer who receives the requirements and implements them in the pipeline. On the other extreme, a data engineer is expected to understand the platform, configure it, design the security, architecture, and automation, while also performing data analysis. In the real world, data engineers usually fall somewhere between the two extremes. The Advanced Data Engineer exam tests the full spectrum, which covers:
Data Movement: ingest data from various formats and load into Snowflake, design data pipelines, build data sharing solutions
Performance Optimization: configure the pipelines for the best performance and troubleshoot queries that perform poorly
Storage and Data...