Snowflake SnowPro Certification Practice Test

Can Virtual Warehouses be cloned?

1. Yes, they can

2. No, they can't

3. Only for read-only warehouses

4. They can be cloned in certain conditions

The correct answer is: No, they can't

Virtual Warehouses in Snowflake cannot be cloned, which makes the statement about them being unable to be cloned accurate. While other Snowflake objects, such as databases and schemas, can be cloned easily to create duplicates for various use cases (like testing, development, or backup), virtual warehouses operate differently in terms of configuration and resource allocation. Cloning is a feature specific to the structures of data and not to the compute resources that virtual warehouses represent. The architecture of virtual warehouses is focused on processing queries and managing resources, which inherently includes aspects such as performance tuning and concurrency handling, rather than straightforward replication. Therefore, when considering the functionality and purpose of virtual warehouses, it stands to reason that cloning them isn't supported, aligning with the knowledge that Snowflake maintains integrity and configuration fidelity for compute resources.