Exam SnowPro Core topic 1 question 422 discussion

A. Metadata management C. Authentication The cloud services layer in Snowflake provides several important services that are used by other parts of the system. Two of the main services provided by the cloud services layer are: A. Metadata management: The cloud services layer is responsible for managing the metadata that defines the structure and contents of databases and tables in Snowflake, including information about columns, data types, and indexes. C. Authentication: The cloud services layer is responsible for handling user authentication and authorization, ensuring that only authorized users have access to the data and metadata stored in Snowflake. Options B, D, and E refer to other parts of the Snowflake system and are not provided by the cloud services layer. Option B refers to object authorization, which is managed by the security layer in Snowflake. Option D refers to query execution, which is performed by the query processing layer. Option E refers to result caching, which can be performed by the query processing layer and the storage layer in Snowflake.

CLOUD SERVICES LAYER: • Authentication • Infrastructure management • Metadata management • Query parsing and optimization Access control

Result Cache lies in CSL

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Cloud layer is responsible for authentication and metadata mgmt

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/intro-key-concepts.html#cloud-services