SnowPro Core Certification — Question 366

Which of the following activities consume virtual warehouse credits in the Snowflake environment? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Caching query results
• B. Running EXPLAIN and SHOW commands
• C. Cloning a database
• D. Running a custom query
• E. Running COPY commands

Correct answer: D, E

Explanation

The correct answers, D and E, represent activities that require compute resources and therefore consume virtual warehouse credits. In contrast, options A, B, and C do not incur credit usage as they do not involve active processing of data.