Study SnowPro DEA-C02 Source Ingestion: key concepts, common traps, and exam decision cues.
This chapter is the first Snowflake capability lane. DEA-C02 wants you to pick the ingest pattern that matches the source-arrival behavior instead of forcing every workload through the same pipeline shape.
| Lesson | Focus |
|---|---|
| 1.1 Stages, Formats & COPY INTO | Learn how DEA-C02 frames stage-driven loading, file parsing, and unattended batch ingest. |
| 1.2 Snowpipe, Streaming & Semi-Structured | Learn how the exam chooses between staged-file automation, lower-latency streaming ingest, and semi-structured loading patterns. |
| If the question is really about… | Go first to… |
|---|---|
stages, file formats, COPY INTO, or unattended file loads |
1.1 Stages, Formats & COPY INTO |
| Snowpipe, Snowpipe Streaming, schema drift, or semi-structured ingest | 1.2 Snowpipe, Streaming & Semi-Structured |