Major Update for the SnowPro Certification Exams (Nov 2026)

Throughout the past few years, I wrote a lot about the SnowPro Snowflake certification exams. Here is my journey with passing my own Snowflake exams. And this is a major update about their status, at the end of this year 2026.

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SnowPro Core Certification

This is the fundamental Snowflake certification, and many employers list it as a requirement in their job offers. This is a requirement too for all the Advanced certification exams. It was at some point a requirement for the Specialty exams as well, but I see they removed it.

Snowflake came up with this first COF-C01 certification by Sep 2019. It’s been for a while at $175 US per attempt (cheaper in India, for the past few years). By Feb 2022 they upgraded it to COF-C02. Then to COF-C03 by Feb 2026, introducing scenario-based questions as well.

I paid for mine out of my pocket, just before I’ve been hired by a Snowflake Partner startup company. It was not…