SnowPro Advanced: Architect

Pass rate

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SnowPro Advanced: Architect Pass Rate

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The score you need to pass the SnowPro Advanced: Architect certification exam, what the cut score actually means, and how to read your mock results against it.

70% to pass
65 questions
2/10 difficulty

The number you need to hit

Published cut score for this certification.

Our pass-mark benchmark
70%
Not published by Snowflake
Margin
30%
room for wrong answers, on a flat mock
Wrong answers allowed
20
out of 65 questions

Pass score vs pass rate

Two different numbers that get mixed up constantly.

Pass score (cut score)

The scaled score the vendor publishes. For the SnowPro Advanced: Architect it is 70%. This is the number you can actually prepare against, and it is the one that decides your result on exam day.

Pass rate (percentage of candidates)

The share of candidates who pass. Snowflake generally does not publish this for individual exams, and the numbers you find online usually come from candidate self-reported surveys. We would rather tell you nothing than tell you a figure we cannot source.

Where you lose points

The exam is not scored flat. Each domain carries its own weight, so a domain where you lose everything can sink a score that looks fine on paper.

Data Engineering25%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 25% of the exam, and it has 16 practice questions here.

Accounts & Security25%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 25% of the exam, and it has 16 practice questions here.

Snowflake Architecture30%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 30% of the exam, and it has 20 practice questions here.

Performance Optimization20%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 20% of the exam, and it has 13 practice questions here.

About these numbers: Snowflake does not publish a numeric cut score for the SnowPro Advanced: Architect, so the figure above is Certilum's own benchmark rather than an official threshold. We would rather show you that than present an invented percentage as fact.

The practical version: the SnowPro Advanced: Architect is not passed by knowing most of the content. It is passed by being strong in the domains that carry weight, and by not leaving one of them empty.

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