In Snowflake, compute resources waiting to shut down are considered to be in which mode?

• A. Running
• B. Quiesce
• C. Suspended
• D. Idle

Answer: (B)

In Snowflake, quiescing is the transitional mode used when a warehouse is being shut down. When a suspend is initiated or auto-suspend kicks in, the warehouse enters this state to gracefully finish any active queries while rejecting new ones. Only after all current work completes does it move to a fully suspended state. This is why compute resources waiting to shut down are described as being in quiesce mode. Running means actively processing queries, idle means no current work but not necessarily in the shutdown process, and suspended means the warehouse is already stopped and not handling any queries.