The following code snippet is executed by a Lightning web component in an environment with more than 2,000 lead records: Which governor limit will likely be exceeded within the Apex transaction?

Executing a SOQL query does not involve DML (Data Manipulation Language) statements, so the limit on the total number of DML statements issued would not be affected.

A single SOQL query, regardless of the number of records it retrieves, only counts as one SOQL query against the limit of 100 SOQL queries issued.

The governor limit for the total number of records retrieved by SOQL queries is 50,000. If the Lightning web component executes an Apex method that performs a SOQL query to fetch all lead records and the environment contains more than 50,000 leads, this limit will be exceeded.

The limit on the total number of records processed as a result of DML statements applies to DML operations (insert, update, delete, upsert), not to SOQL queries.