During a Snowflake trial account, free credits are consumed only when which resources are active?

• A. Virtual warehouses
• B. Data storage
• C. All resources are charged
• D. All components are free

Answer: (A)

Credits in Snowflake come from compute work, not from data stored. Virtual warehouses are the compute engines that run queries and processes; when they are active, Snowflake consumes credits per second of usage. Storage costs are billed separately by the amount of data stored, not by compute credits, so simply keeping data in place doesn’t burn those trial credits. On a Snowflake trial account, you’re given free credits to cover compute, and those credits are only spent when a virtual warehouse is running. If you suspend the warehouse, credits stop being consumed while your data remains intact in storage.