SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer

Pass rate

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SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer Pass Rate

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The score you need to pass the SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer 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.

Passing score
70%
Passing Score: 750 + Scaled Scoring from 0 - 1000 (SnowPro Program Policies: "Snowflake uses a scale of 0-1000 with a passing scaled score of 750.")
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: Data Engineer 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 Movement28%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 28.000000000000004% of the exam, and it has 18 practice questions here.

Data Governance14%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 14.000000000000002% of the exam, and it has 9 practice questions here.

Data Transformation25%

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

Performance Optimization19%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 19% of the exam, and it has 13 practice questions here.

Storage and Data Protection14%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 14.000000000000002% of the exam, and it has 9 practice questions here.

The practical version: the SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer 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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