What is the purpose of the DBA_ROLE in this scenario?

• A. Manage warehouses in the Snowflake account
• B. Manage users and roles
• C. Manage data sharing
• D. Manage network policies

Answer: (A)

Managing compute resources, specifically warehouses, is what the DBA_ROLE is designed for. In Snowflake, warehouses are the separate compute clusters that execute queries, and the DBA_ROLE is used to provision, configure, and monitor these compute resources. This includes creating warehouses, resizing them, starting and stopping them, and setting auto-suspend/auto-resume and monitoring credit consumption. The other tasks—managing users and roles, data sharing, and network policies—are handled by other roles with those targeted privileges (such as security/admin or account admin). So the DBA_ROLE best fits scenarios focused on controlling and optimizing compute power rather than access control, data sharing, or networking.