Which services does the Snowflake Cloud Services layer manage? (Choose two.)

The correct answer is C. Authentication E. Metadata. Snowflake's architecture has three distinct layers: Storage, Compute (Virtual Warehouses), and Cloud Services. The Cloud Services layer acts as the 'brain' of Snowflake, handling Authentication (C) - verifying user identity and managing login sessions - and Metadata management…

Snowflake Cloud Data Platform Features and Architecture

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ACompute resources
BQuery execution
CAuthentication
DData storage
EMetadata

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B
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C
96% (22)

Explanation

Snowflake's architecture has three distinct layers: Storage, Compute (Virtual Warehouses), and Cloud Services. The Cloud Services layer acts as the 'brain' of Snowflake, handling Authentication (C) - verifying user identity and managing login sessions - and Metadata management (E) - tracking object definitions, statistics, and micro-partition information used for query optimization. Compute resources (A) and query execution (B) belong to the Virtual Warehouse layer, while data storage (D) belongs to the centralized Storage layer.

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