At what levels can a resource monitor be configured? (Select TWO).

The correct answer is A. Account E. Virtual warehouse. Snowflake resource monitors track credit usage and can trigger notifications or suspend warehouses when credit thresholds are reached. They can be configured at exactly two levels: the Account level (A), where a single monitor governs total credit consumption across all…

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AAccount
BDatabase
COrganization
DSchema
EVirtual warehouse

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A
90% (27)
B
7% (2)
C
3% (1)

Explanation

Snowflake resource monitors track credit usage and can trigger notifications or suspend warehouses when credit thresholds are reached. They can be configured at exactly two levels: the Account level (A), where a single monitor governs total credit consumption across all warehouses in the account, and the Virtual Warehouse level (E), where a monitor is assigned to one or more specific warehouses to enforce per-warehouse credit limits. Resource monitors cannot be set at the Database (B), Organization (C), or Schema (D) levels - these are data organization constructs, not compute resource constructs. This distinction is important for cost governance in Snowflake.

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