SnowPro Advanced: Administrator — Question 12

What are benefits of creating and maintaining resource monitors in Snowflake? (Choose three.)

Answer options

• A. The cost of running a resource monitor is only 10% of a credit, per day of operation.
• B. Multiple resource monitors can be applied to a single virtual warehouse.
• C. Resource monitors add no additional load to virtual warehouse compute.
• D. Multiple triggers can be configured across various virtual warehouse thresholds.
• E. Resource monitor governance is tightly controlled and monitors can only be created by the ACCOUNTADMIN role or users with the CREATE MONITOR privilege.
• F. Resource monitors can be applied to more than one virtual warehouse.

Correct answer: B, D, F

Explanation

The correct answers are B, D, and F because they accurately describe the capabilities and advantages of resource monitors in Snowflake. Option A is incorrect as it misrepresents the cost, C is wrong because resource monitors can have indirect effects, and E is inaccurate because while the ACCOUNTADMIN role has the authority, it is not the only role possible for creation.