What is on the exam, how it is weighted, and what you need to score to pass — with the full study notes for each of the 5 domains.
The exam is not evenly split. Domain 1 alone is 31% of your score, which is why a flat average across domains is a misleading way to measure whether you are ready.
Verified against the official Snowflake COF-C03 Exam Study Guide (last updated 2026-07-08) — subtopics below follow the guide's own numbering (1.1-1.6). Biggest domain by far — protect your best study time for this one.
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Verified against the official Snowflake COF-C03 Exam Study Guide — follows guide sections 2.1-2.3.
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Verified against the official Snowflake COF-C03 Exam Study Guide — follows guide sections
3.1-3.3. Closest domain to your day job — should be the fastest review, but the exact
options/syntax below are exactly what gets tested (see the official sample question on PURGE).
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Verified against the official Snowflake COF-C03 Exam Study Guide — follows guide sections 4.1-4.4. Streams/Tasks/Dynamic Tables moved to Domain 3 to match the official guide's own filing (they're under "automated data ingestion" there, not performance).
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Verified against the official Snowflake COF-C03 Exam Study Guide — follows guide sections 5.1-5.3. Smallest domain by weight, but note it's where the official guide files Cloning, Time Travel, and Fail-safe (not under Architecture) — don't under-study this section just because it looks small.
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100 questions.
115 minutes, which works out to about 69 seconds per question if you spread the time evenly.
750 out of 1000, on a scaled score.
Snowflake AI Data Cloud Features & Architecture 31%; Account Management & Data Governance 20%; Data Loading, Unloading & Connectivity 18%; Performance Optimization, Querying & Transformation 21%; Data Collaboration 10%.
Yes. It is MIT licensed and open source. You can use the hosted demo without signing up, or run the whole thing yourself with one Docker command.
SnowPro Core Prep scores your readiness using the weights in the table above rather than a flat average, so a domain you have not touched still counts against you. It is free and open source, and you can explore the whole app without creating an account.