Reg Snowflake advanced certifications - snowflake-cloud-data-platform

I've passed my Snowflake core certification a month ago. Now, I wanna go for advanced certification. My current role is that of an App DBA and I'm more into SQL, PL/SQL, data modeling with App DBA experience.
Which Snowflake advanced certification would best fit for me?
Data Engineer or Architect or Database administration or ?
Please advise!
Also, where can I get the training materials?
Thanks,
Vishal

Here you can find relevant descriptions of the certifications: https://www.snowflake.com/certifications/
I would recommend doing the Architect and not the Data Engineer one, based on your description. The DBA one is not released yet, as far as I know.

The Snowflake SnowPro Advanced certifications are relatively new so online resources are somewhat limited.
A very good resource is this LinkedIn group:
Snowflake SnowPro Certifications Group

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