What is the purpose of item permissions in a workspace?

• A. To grant access to all items within a workspace.
• B. To grant access to specific dashboards within a workspace.
• C. To grant access to individual datasets for downstream consumption.
• D. To grant access to individual warehouses for downstream consumption.

Answer: (D)

Granular sharing of workspace assets through item permissions lets you expose only the exact resource needed by downstream processes. Item permissions control access to a specific item inside a workspace, not the entire workspace, so you can grant access narrowly. In this context, a warehouse is a compute and storage resource that downstream consumers use to run queries or feed pipelines. By granting item permissions to an individual warehouse, you enable those downstream processes to access and use its data without exposing other items like dashboards or datasets. That’s why this option best describes the purpose: it focuses on enabling controlled, downstream consumption of a specific warehouse. Granting access to everything in the workspace would be too broad, dashboards aren’t primarily about downstream data access, and datasets, while shareable, aren’t the example emphasized here.