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 When the retention period for an object ends in Snowflake, Time Travel on the historical data is dropped ©. This means that the ability to access historical data via Time Travel is no longer available once the retention period has expired2.

Snowpipe via REST API can reference both named internal stages within Snowflake and external stages, such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Microsoft Azure1. This means that Snowpipe is not limited to only external stages as a source for data loading.

References = [COF-C02] SnowPro Core Certification Exam Study Guide, Snowflake Documentation1

The responsibilities of Snowflake’s Cloud Service layer include authentication (A), which ensures secure access to the platform; resource management (B), which involves allocating and managing compute resources; and query parsing and optimization (D), which improves the efficiency and performance of SQL query execution3.

 The GET command is used to download files from a Snowflake stage to a local folder on a client’s machine2.