SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer (DEA-C02) Certification Training Course

Upon completing Accumentum’s SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer (DEA-C02) Certification Training Course, you will be prepared to schedule the official Snowflake DEA-C02 exam ($375 per attempt). The SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer Certification validates advanced knowledge and skills used to apply comprehensive data engineering principles using Snowflake.

Snowflake lists the DEA-C02 exam at 65 questions in 115 minutes. Question types are multiple select, multiple choice and interactive. The exam is offered in English, and you can take it online with a proctor or at a testing center.

The passing score is 750 on a scaled score from 0 to 1000. Snowflake notes that an exam may include unscored items used to gather statistics. They aren't marked, they don't count toward your score, and Snowflake builds in extra time for them.

The published domain weights are 1.0 Data Movement (28%), 2.0 Performance Optimization (19%), 3.0 Storage and Data Protection (14%), 4.0 Data Governance (14%), 5.0 Data Transformation (25%).

Registration is $375 per attempt. Snowflake lists SnowPro Core certification as a prerequisite for this exam.

Data Engineer fits the people who build pipelines into and through Snowflake: data engineers, analytics engineers and platform engineers working on ingestion, streams, transformation and performance. For a pay reference, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the May 2025 median annual wage for database administrators and architects at $126,760. That is a national midpoint, and location, experience and employer all move it. Source: BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook.

Paying on your own? This course is eligible for PathPay, our monthly payment plan. Terms of 3, 4 and 6 months carry no added fee. 9, 12 and 18 month terms add 5%, 10% and 15%. Questions about funding or class dates? Email info@accumentum.net.

Snowflake describes the SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer exam as one that tests your ability to source data from Data Lakes, APIs, and on-premises, transform, replicate, and share data across cloud platforms, design end-to-end near real-time streams, design scalable compute solutions for Data Engineer workloads and evaluate performance metrics. Those are Snowflake's own words, and our lessons are built around each of them.

On the candidate side, Snowflake says: 2 or more years of hands-on experience as a Data Engineer in a production environment. We use that as a gauge when students ask if they're ready.

The $375 fee is the standard U.S. price. Snowflake charges $300 for candidates testing in India, and the fee applies to every attempt, retakes included. Snowflake doesn't offer free retakes or discounted retakes.

Snowflake allows a maximum of four attempts at the same exam within any 12 months. You also have to wait 7 days between attempts, even before your first retake.

Need to move your date? Snowflake allows rescheduling until 24 hours before a test center slot, and until the start time for an online exam, up to four times. A no-show forfeits the fee or voucher, so put the date somewhere you'll see it.

Snowflake delivers exams through Pearson VUE, either online with OnVUE or at a Pearson VUE center. Online, you use your own computer, webcam and a stable connection, and you can't leave for a break. At a center you can step out, though exam time keeps counting. Test aids aren't allowed in either setting. Bring an unexpired government-issued photo ID with a signature that exactly matches the name on your certification account.

Your score report lands in your Pearson VUE candidate account, not the Snowflake portal, and it points to objectives worth reviewing. If you pass, expect an Accredible email with your badge within 5 business days. If you don't, Snowflake suggests using the 7 day wait to work on the areas the report flags.

Snowflake recommends a mix of hands-on experience, expert-led training and self-study for DEA-C02. The items it lists for this exam are Snowflake Data Engineer Training and SnowPro Practice Exam: Data Engineer. Snowflake's practice exams cost $50 and run 65 minutes. They follow the live exam's domain weights, there's no pass or fail, and the report shows where you missed questions. You have 24 hours from purchase to start one, and the timer can't be paused.

Our study plan follows Snowflake's weights so your time goes where the points are. Class opens with domain 1.0, Data Movement, which is 28% of the exam. We then cover Performance Optimization, worth 19%. Then we work through Storage and Data Protection, worth 14%. Next is Data Governance, worth 14%. We close with Data Transformation, worth 25%. Every domain wraps with practice items written to the blueprint, then we go over the misses together.

Renewal works through Snowflake's Continuing Education program. You can renew SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer by completing one eligible Snowflake expert-led course or by earning an equivalent or higher-level SnowPro certification. Either one extends the credential two years from the completion or pass date, and it has to happen on or before your expiration date. Only ILT courses completed after June 9, 2025 count. For this certification, Snowflake lists these certification options: SnowPro Advanced: Administrator, SnowPro Advanced: Architect, SnowPro Advanced: Data Analyst, SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer, SnowPro Advanced: Data Scientist, SnowPro Advanced: Security Engineer and SnowPro Advanced: MLOps Engineer. The eligible ILT courses it lists are Snowflake Advanced, Snowflake Architect, Snowflake Data Engineer, Snowflake Data Engineer II, Snowflake Performance Automation and Tuning (3 Day), Snowflake Python Data Engineering and Snowflake Security Training.

Other SnowPro courses we teach: SnowPro Core, SnowPro Advanced: Administrator, SnowPro Advanced: Architect and SnowPro Specialty: Gen AI. Core is the prerequisite for every Advanced exam, so many students take it first.