How many people passed Snowflake certification exams

I was just curious the other day how many people passed the new SnowPro Specialty Snowpark certification exam. It’s like a huge state secret, hard to find :)

However, you may go to the Snowflake Directory and select directly by certification type. Unfortunately, they don’t have the new SnowPro Specialty exams added to that list yet, and you cannot find them by text either. But here is the interesting data related to all the other exams:

• SnowPro Core — 3,582 certifications
• SnowPro Advanced: Data Scientist — 37 certifications
• SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer — 248 certifications
• SnowPro Advanced: Data Analyst — 83 certifications
• SnowPro Advanced: Architect — 483 certifications
• SnowPro Advanced: Administrator — 60 certifications

All this relates to current certifications, not the ones that expired. And you must opt-in to be included in this public directory. I know for a fact a few people who passed certifications, but are not here. However, they’re just a few.

To me, the immediate surprise comes from the very low number of SnowPro certifications in Data Science and Data Analysis. I helped create the Data Analyst certification myself, but few people seemed…