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I just finished watching Karuppu. Sai’s songs were bearable in the film, and the background score worked well in a few scenes(especially the interval). But in other places, especially in the second half, it felt weaker and diminished the mass of the scenes.

Since the film deals with Tamil culture and local gods, I felt SaNa would have been a more fitting choice than Sai. He is especially good at using local instruments and bringing that rooted energy to life. Karnan’s background score is a great example.

Hi all,

I’ve been lurking in this sub for a while, and the previous answers were really helpful during my prep. I wanted to share my study tips and what I did.

Just to be clear, I took COF-C02, not C03, but the underlying principles should still apply. You just have to focus more on Snowflake Cortex AI for O3.

I started with Tom Bailey’s course, but I could not complete it because I started to lose focus. Then my friend gave me the idea to get transcripts of the videos section-wise, organize them into folders, and ask Claude CLI to prepare notes for each topic according to the transcript.

This gave me an insane advantage. First, I didn’t miss any content that was spoken in the video but not covered in the slides. Tom Bailey says many things that are either not in the slides or are only briefly mentioned. I am not saying his slides are bad, but they are structured in a way that is more surface-level and skims through topics.

The advantage of taking notes this way is that you can open a topic in VS Code, open Claude CLI or any assistant, and ask doubts as you study. You can also add those doubts to your notes, prepare quizzes, and create key facts that you need to remember. I also prepared a Quizlet quiz from the notes. I took those quizzes after each section, then created another set of quizzes for each section and took them all at once. This helped me identify topics that I thought I understood but actually needed to review more.

I studied for about a month. Initially, I prepped around 10–20 hours per week, then increased it to about 30 hours during the week before the exam.

After the second set of quizzes, I revised the notes. Then I started with Skillset Pro questions and took all 28 quizzes. You should be able to score above 80–85%, and in some exams, you should be able to get 90%+.

Then I took Chris Garcia’s mock exams. I got only 70% on the first one, which really worsened my mood. But I realized the mock exam was too hard, so I stopped worrying about the scores and treated them as practice. Once I shifted my mindset, I started taking the rest of the five quizzes, and my scores improved from around 70% to 84% on the final quiz.

A couple of days before the exam, I went through all the Skillset Pro and Chris Garcia quizzes. Don’t redo the quizzes; go through them. I noted important points in a notes app. I used Notion and planned to revise it later, but I didn't get a chance. Then I just revised the notes at a surface level before the exam.

I don’t study anything right before the exam because I don’t believe in last-minute revision. So I chilled for half a day and then took my exam.

I also forgot to add one more thing: I took the Snowflake mock exam. I got it for free since my company is a Snowflake partner. This helped me assess the platform and understand how the questions would be structured.

As for the actual exam, some questions felt like pure BS, at least according to me. For example, one question asked what gets created when connecting with Spark for the first time. I had no idea about it.

A few questions were straightforward. For the rest, I was usually able to eliminate two options and then choose between the remaining two. I sped through the questions and completed the first pass in about 40 minutes. Then I took another 40 minutes for a second pass to review the rejected options and my second-choice answers.

Thanks to this community, I was able to choose Tom Bailey’s course, Skillset Pro exams, and Chris Garcia’s exams.

I have been following JK for more than 6 years, used to enjoy his random upload schedule and his being unapologetic. And then the daily upload happened like 1.5 - 2 years back, I was excited initially, videos were fun, but later it became repetitive. I know that he is a YouTuber, so he is trying to survive. I used to enjoy his videos and watch them on repeat while eating, now a days feels even weirder to see the video for the first time. Not sure whether you all are feeling the same.