Answer: False

The correct answer is False. In Snowflake's SSO configuration using federated authentication, the Identity Provider (IdP) does not send actual user credentials to Snowflake. Instead, the IdP authenticates the user and sends a SAML response containing authentication assertions to Snowflake, which then authorizes the session. Snowflake documentation and the community discussion (with 85% selecting B and multiple comments explaining the authentication flow) confirm that credentials remain with the IdP, and only authentication tokens are exchanged, not the actual usernames and passwords being 'loaded' into Snowflake.

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