Snowpro Associate Platform · Free Practice Question Easy
Question 3
- A Dashboards
- B Virtual warehouses
- C Metadata
- D Micro-partitions
Reveal correct answer
Correct answer: C
Explanation
✅ Metadata
Explanation:
The Cloud Services layer in Snowflake is responsible for managing and coordinating the overall system. One of its key functions is handling metadata, which includes information about data structures, access patterns, query optimization, and user activity. This layer also manages authentication, infrastructure management, and query parsing and optimization—essentially acting as the brain of the Snowflake architecture.
❌ Why the other options are incorrect?
Dashboards → Incorrect, because dashboards are created in external BI tools (like Tableau or Power BI), not within Snowflake’s architecture layers.
Micro-partitions → Incorrect, as these are part of the Storage layer, where Snowflake automatically organizes data into compressed, columnar micro-partitions.
Virtual warehouses → Incorrect, since these are part of the Compute layer, responsible for executing queries and performing data processing.
For a deeper dive, check out Snowflake’s architecture documentation.
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