If 3 size Small virtual warehouse is made up of two servers, how many servers make up a Large warehouse?

The correct answer is B. 8. In Snowflake, each size increase in virtual warehouses doubles the number of servers. Therefore, if a size Small virtual warehouse is made up of two servers, a Large warehouse, which is two sizes larger, would be made up of eight servers (2 servers for Small, 4 for Medium, and…

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In Snowflake, each size increase in virtual warehouses doubles the number of servers. Therefore, if a size Small virtual warehouse is made up of two servers, a Large warehouse, which is two sizes larger, would be made up of eight servers (2 servers for Small, 4 for Medium, and 8 for Large). Size specifies the amount of compute resources available per cluster in a warehouse. Snowflake supports the following warehouse sizes: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/warehouses-overview.html

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