What is a responsibility of Snowflake's virtual warehouses?

The correct answer is C. Query execution. Snowflake's architecture separates compute from storage and services. Virtual warehouses are the compute layer - their sole responsibility is executing queries (SELECT, DML, COPY INTO, etc.). They are MPP (massively parallel processing) clusters of compute nodes. The other…

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AInfrastructure management
BMetadata management
CQuery execution
DQuery parsing and optimization
EManagement of the storage layer

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C
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D
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Explanation

Snowflake's architecture separates compute from storage and services. Virtual warehouses are the compute layer - their sole responsibility is executing queries (SELECT, DML, COPY INTO, etc.). They are MPP (massively parallel processing) clusters of compute nodes. The other options belong to different layers: infrastructure management is abstracted by the cloud provider, metadata management and query parsing/optimization are handled by the Cloud Services layer, and the storage layer manages the physical data files. Understanding this three-layer separation (Storage, Compute, Cloud Services) is fundamental to the Snowflake architecture.

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