A Snowflake account has activated federated authentication. What will occur when a user with a password that was defined by Snowflake attempts to log in to Snowflake?

Question

Options

• AThe user will be unable to enter a password.
• BThe user will encounter an error, and will not be able to log in.
• CThe user will be able to log into Snowflake successfully.
• DAfter entering the username and password, the user will be redirected to an Identity Provider (IdP)

• A
  88% (35)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  8% (3)

Explanation

When a Snowflake account activates federated authentication (SSO via an Identity Provider), the standard Snowflake login page no longer presents a password input field. Users are instead redirected to the configured IdP for authentication. Because the password field is simply not shown or accessible on the login interface, a user with a Snowflake-native password will be unable to enter that password. This is by design-federated authentication centralizes identity management through the IdP. The user won't encounter a generic error (B), they won't log in successfully with their Snowflake password (C), and the redirect to the IdP (D) happens before any password entry, making password entry impossible rather than a post-entry redirect.

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