Answer: Standard policy

The Standard scaling policy (B) is designed to minimize query queuing by proactively starting additional clusters as soon as Snowflake detects queued queries or anticipates insufficient capacity. This ensures queries run without delay. The community discussion strongly supports this with 100% consensus for B, and the official Snowflake documentation confirms Standard policy prioritizes cluster startup to prevent queuing. While there was some confusion about scaling 'mode' vs 'policy' in the discussion, the question specifically asks for the scaling 'policy' that minimizes queuing, making B the correct choice. Economy policy (A) would increase queuing as it waits longer before scaling, Auto-scale mode (C) refers to enabling multi-cluster warehouses rather than the scaling policy itself, and Maximized mode (D) is not a valid Snowflake scaling policy.

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